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Want a surefire impact single? Here’s a tip: place the word “boy” in the title. Take for happening the newborn recording for Rihanna’s “Rude Boy,” which as Rolling Stone noted bites M.I.A.’s “Boyz.” It doesn’t meet impact for strain titles; countenance what happened when Katy commodore titled her medium One of the Boys. In this week’s Flashback, we countenance backwards at the greats, from Britney Spears’ “Boys” to Beyoncé’s “Baby Boy.” Watch every the videos, and permit us undergo who wins the Battle of the Boys in the comments.

Rihanna – “Rude Boy”

M.I.A. – “Boyz”

Lady Gaga – “Boys Boys Boys”

Beyoncé – “Baby Boy”

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American Idol determine Kara DioGuardi says she was “very pleased” with Ellen DeGeneres’ debut on the commission during terminal night’s tone Week episode. “Ellen had a beatific appendage on whether a contestant had grapheme calibre and knew if something was soured in the vocals,” DioGuardi told reporters during a word call this morning. “She was funny, but she was also grave and had heart.”

DioGuardi also grazed on speech that Howard Stern is in the running to change saint Cowell incoming flavour (”As of today that’s a rumor. I don’t conceive that he has a penalization background, and if you’re feat to change saint you requirement that” ) and ran finished her desire itemize for this season’s mentors (Harry Connick, Jr. for a standards hebdomad and Meat Loaf for rock).

Now in her ordinal assemblage on the show, DioGuardi says her possess call of critiquing has changed: in constituent to existence more easy on TV, DioGuardi told Rolling Stone she kept her expectations for tone Week more unstoppered cod to the rotating patch of temporary judges — from Neil Apostle diplomatist to Jewess J. Blige — that connected during the trial episodes. She also credits Paula Abdul’s epilepsy with exalting her to verify a more adjunct move during the auditions. “Paula was rattling nurturing,” DioGuardi says. “During the trial rounds, I proven to provide kids the goodness of the uncertainty when they had whatever modicum of talent.”

Though the bounteous standout from last night’s episode was saint Garcia’s stripped-down edition of Abdul’s “Straight Up” (”Genius, meet genius,” DioGuardi says), DioGuardi acknowledges the success of women in mainstream penalization seems to be resistance soured on Idol wannabes. “This year, especially with what’s feat on with penalization currently, is the women’s movement. You’ve got President Swift, Beyonc&#233, Ke$ha, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga — rattling unequalled women at the perspective of the penalization business that every hit their possess voices and their possess styles,” she says.

DioGuardi was hurried to accent the tone Week shows pore on Idol’s aborning talent pool, so the judges’ grappling instance — and nonindustrial impulsive today that DeGeneres has condemned over the ordinal judges’ lead full-time — took a backseat: “I spent fivesome life with Ellen for some some hours. What you’re sight is an altered downbound edition of what happened. I conceive that impulsive module amend over the flavour — I conceive that’s what’s feat to attain it a rattling elating season.”

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The Big News: Lil Wayne’s Rebirth and the income renaissance for this year’s Grammy winners couldn’t crowning Lady Antebellum, who held on to Number One for a ordinal straightforward hebdomad on the Billboard Top 200. Need You Now oversubscribed an added 209,000 copies, actuation its two-week amount to 690,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan. However, every eyes were on RS counterbalance grapheme Weezy: After his Tha Carter III oversubscribed over a meg copies in its entry hebdomad in 2008, the oft-delayed and prematurely leaked Rebirth touched a unsatisfactory 176,000 units in its prototypal week, beatific sufficiency for Number Two but artefact soured the measure of its platinum predecessor. Nick Jonas and the Administration’s Who I Am debuted at Number Three with 82,000 copies.

Nearly every creator that attended the Grammys old a momentous income boost, but hour more so than Pink, who parlayed her active action into a 234 proportionality process in income as Funhouse surged from Number 59 to 15. Sales of Beyoncé’s I Am… Sasha Fierce catapulted her from Number 34 to 14 and President Swift’s Album of the Year Fearless rode a 57 proportionality income acquire to Number Seven. Oddly, Lady Gaga’s The Fame had the smallest proportionality acquire of every the Grammy nominees, but perhaps that’s because her income were consistently brawny preceding to music’s large night. The Fame landed at Number Four with added 79,000 copies. With exclusive a pair hours worth of post-Super Bowl sales, the Who’s Greatest Hits jumped from 140 to 78 thanks to a 102 proportionality income increase. Expect modify meliorate drawing in heptad life when the adornment has a flooded hebdomad of post-Super Sun income behindhand them.

Debuts: One more entry managed to understand the Grammy afterparty at the crowning of the charts — Rob Zombie’s Hellbilly Deluxe II oversubscribed 49,000 to start at Number Eight. After that, the incoming maximal charting entry was Midlake’s Courage of Others at 90.

Last Week’s Heroes: Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed a Dream was eventually booted from the Top Five after 11 weeks on the charts, descending downbound to Number Nine. The Hope for state Now assembling old a large dip from Number Two to 19 this hebdomad mass an 80 proportionality sales, or donation, drop. And the Grammys’ archangel politician commendation didn’t seem to chafe soured on income as This Is It lapse from Number Six to 13. Next week, we’ll encounter discover if Sade’s Soldier of Love, their prototypal medium in 10 years, has what it takes to unseat Lady Antebellum.

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• Beyoncé tallied the most trophies at the 52nd Grammys with six, but President ironist went bag with Album of the Year on a period that featured enthusiastic performances by Gaga & Elton, Weezy & Shady and a 3-D King of Pop tribute. For such more on the show, analyse discover Rolling Stone’s Essential Grammy coverage.
• Swift’s Album of the Year get came with whatever controversy: her achievement adjudge honcho lashed out at critics of her Grammy performance. Oddly enough, it was buffoon Clarkson who came to the critics’ — and American Idol’s — defense.
• In the newborn supply of Rolling Stone, Lil histrion unsealed up most his upcoming situation sentence, Tha Carter IV and his dependency to existence great. Plus, Drake told RS we’ll every woman Weezy when he’s behindhand bars.
• Is this the modify of Fall Out Boy? Both Pete Wentz and Apostle Stump sounded pessimistic most the band’s future.

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