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Rihanna has broken yet another record, she has now become the most viewed female recording artist on YouTube. Lady Gaga was formerly the most viewed female artist, in 2011 she attracted over 3,000,000 viewers daily. Her views grew after her single Talk That Talk was released.  Her single 'We Found Love' attracted over 100 million views.

How would you fancy performing in Space? Top music mogul Simon Cowell has come up with the idea of his next winning contestant to perform their song in Space. It may sound rather far fetched but he has been thinking of a way how to get the next winner of his show Britain's Got Talent to enter space.

The aging actor Liam Neeson who played the star role in hit film taken does not know any Rihanna songs it was revealed to UK newspaper The Sun. Although Neesen is set to star alongside singer Rihanna in his next film Battleship. The film is set to be released later this year.

Latest news emerging is that Katy Perry is to sign a deal with the people behind the highly successful game The Sims. This new move will mean that Katy will become a Sim and be seen on all the latest adverts and branding of the computer game.

The UK official chart company have named the best selling rock artists of 2011. Coldplay got the best sellers spot with a whopping 410,000 copies of hit single 'Paradise' and over 900,000 copies of their album Mylo Xyloto. Second most popular was Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds which came in respectively- Selling around half a million copies of his latest album, giving a promising come back.

Rihanna is back in the limelight for something once more slightly controversial, as apparently pictures emerge of her smoking what looks like marijuana. The female singing sensation has once again surprised fans and the public. This time whilst on a break in Hawaii

The rapper 50 Cent has once again taken to Twitter to pour out his heart. He recently stated that he does not think he has much longer to live. Although he has stated he is not suicidal, he thinks that his time is nearly up.

It has been reported this week that Cheryl Cole and global superstar Rihanna will be meeting in Los Angeles this week to record a single together.  It was reported by the Daily Star this Sunday that the Girls Aloud singer who originally hails from Newcastle will be collaborating with the 'Umberella' star this week in an LA studio.

Rapper Jay-Z has vowed to clean up his act since the birth of his baby girl Blue Ivy Carter.  The music mogul and rapper revealed that he would no longer be using the word 'bitch' in his lyrics. The turnaround was revealed in a poem the rapper recently penned.

Rapper Jay-Z and songtress Beyonce Knowles' baby Blue Ivy is barely a week old and she is already the subject of ongoing controversy. The name Blue Ivy has been scrutinised over the Internet, in particular on Twitter.  One of the main theories was that the name Blue stands for 'Born Living Under Evil.' It has also been stated that the name Ivy is there simply to mean 'Illuminati's Very Youngest' or 'Illuminati's Victorious Youth.'

Rapper/songstress Nicki Minaj has now flown past Eminem and beaten his record of having more Twitter followers than any other Hip-hop artist on Twitter. They both have a phenomenal amount of Twitter followers with both having more than 8 million followers each.  From January 10 2012 Nicki Minaj has 8,289,708 followers.  Eminem has 8,267,835 followers.  Billboard reported on January 4 that Eminem was no longer the most followed Hip-hop artist on Twitter.

Facebook has taken it to the next level and introduced a new ticketing app.  The idea behind the app is to alert users about events and allow the user to purchase the ticket through the app without having to leave Facebook.  The app also alerts users friends when one of their friends has bought a ticket for an event.

Stats have shown that Android is much more popular than iOS for app users. However, iOS still attracts more developers than Android does. A recent study has shown that Android has 53 percent of the entire market share in the USA. This compares to 29 percent for iOS.

There are many music apps out there but one music app for guitar lovers that should be up there with the best of them is Dave Mustaine Guitar Prodigy. This app is good for anyone who loves heavy metal guitar. However, it was originally created for lovers of the heavy metal band Megadeth. Dave Mustaine is the lead singer as well as guitarist. There is another app which is available for all guitar lovers which is Rock Prodigy. You can learn how to play various Megadeth songs.

Technology experts have said that Spotify can never really make a profit. Due to the fact that there is such a high cost for music licensing. It has been estimated that they lose just over eight dollars for each free user. There are more than seven million users on Spotify. Although there does not seem to be much scope for turning a profit with such sites, this has not stopped a new service coming on to the scene. There is a new music subscription service out there now called rara.com.

In recent years there has been a trend for underground bands playing in each others living rooms. A brand new start up company has launched to try and facilitate the process for bands playing in each others front rooms. Slowbizz aims to make the whole process more organised and to make it easier for bands to get in touch with each other to organize events in their homes. The company is aiming to introduce a social network and a web application to make the whole thing a reality.

The Beatles have been well known in recent years for their point blank refusal to move with the times and sell their music on the Internet. However, they have just recently introduced a brand new app called The Beatles: Yellow Submarine.  Although the new is being seen as an app and not an iBook, it is being sold in the iBook section of the app store.

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has launched a brand new app for New York City Visitors. She recently unveiled a brand new mobile app through her website Goop.com. The new app is aimed at people who visit New York City and want to find cool and interesting places to go to. She stated that it is like seeing New York City through the eyes of a trusted friend.

Google is set to acquire the company Clever Sense. The company first came to prominence when they created the app Alfred. Which provides information on local music venues, nightclubs, restaurants and bars within your local area. The mobile application became highly successful and has seen Clever Sense become one of the ones to watch in Silicon Valley, which is very well known for breeding highly successful start up companies that attract thousands of venture capitalists every year.