Whitney Houston has every reason to feel like a “Million Dollar Bill.” The pop diva’s new album enters the charts at No. 1, becoming the biggest first-week sales of her career and the best-selling first week by a female artist this year.


Houston’s first album in seven years, I Look to You, debuts with 304,801 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. This is her fourth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200. Outside the U.S., she holds the No. 1 spot in Canada, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland.

These numbers are Houston’s best opening sales week since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991. Her previous best first week was in 2002 with Just Whitney (205,000). I Look to You is also the singer’s first No. 1 since The Bodyguard soundtrack spent 20 weeks at No. 1 in 1993.

Elsewhere on the charts, Trey Songz’s Ready has the second-biggest debut of the week, landing at No. 3 with 131,000, while Pitbull’s Rebelution makes it way in at No. 8 with 41,000.

Jeweled gloves fall from the sky in this tribute promo for Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards, which promises “a tribute like no other to a performer like no other.” If this doesn’t make you want to watch, we don’t know what will. So Janet &Co. is scheduled to open!!!!!!!

Jay-Z sits down with Dave-Z on Wednesday’s “Late Show with David Letterman.” Jigga plays it cool with a few awkward moments, like when the Mrs. is brought up, and limits his answers to five words or less.

While Janet Jackson honors her late brother at the VMAs in New York, more than 20 musical acts will remember the King of Pop in Austria later this month.


Chris Brown, Mary J. Blige, Akon, Natalie Cole, and Sister Sledge will be among the performers at a tribute to Michael Jackson to be held at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna on September 26, according to Billboard.

Jackson’s mother and children will travel overseas for the event, being called The Tribute, which was announced Tuesday by Jermaine Jackson and the show’s producer, Georg Kindel.

Among the songs on the set list are “Man in the Mirror,” “Billie Jean,” “Smooth Criminal,” and “Thriller.” The Tribute will feature the band from Jackson’s “This Is It” shows that were planned before his death. Jermaine Jackson will sing a virtual duet with his late brother and all the performers will join together for “We Are the World” and “Heal the World” during the finale.

Additional artists will be announced in the coming days. Half the tickets, priced between $91 and $745, have been sold.

If there ever was a reason to watch this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, this is it. Janet Jackson will reportedly perform a tribute to her late brother at Sunday’s show.


According to TMZ, Ms. Jackson has been rehearsing for a Michael Jackson tribute to air live on the VMAs this Sunday, September 13, at 9 p.m. EST.

The youngest Jackson’s homage to her big brother is being choreographed in part by Frank Gatson Jr. (Beyoncé) and Travis Payne (Michael Jackson) and is said to feature 20 backup dancers.

Some rehearsals have lasted as long as 15 hours a day, reveals Kriyss Grant, one of the dancers involved. “There won’t be a dry eye in the house,” he says.

Other performers set to take the stage at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall include Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Green Day, and Pink.

Wade Robson posted the following message on his MySpace bulletin yesterday, which read:

WADE ROBSON, MIA MICHAELS, BRIAN FRIEDMAN, CRIS JUDD, TRAVIS PAYNE, TINA LANDON, DAVE SCOTT, TYCE DIORIO, JERRY SLAUGHTER, LAURIE ANN GIBSON & GIL DULDULAO ARE PERFORMING WITH JANET JACKSON ON THE MTV VMA AWARDS ON SEPTEMBER 13TH IN TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL JACKSON.

Lady Gaga and Dr. Dre appeared in Berlin, Germany, for the launch of Monster Cable’s Heartbeats by Lady Gaga headphones at Tube Station on Monday (Sept. 7)

Don't be surprised to see a new famous face courtside at Los Angeles Lakers games next season. Reality TV star Khloe Kardashian and the team's forward Lamar Odom are now a couple, PEOPLE has confirmed.

"They're very, very happy," the Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami star's sister, Kim Kardashian, tells PEOPLE. "They've been together a few weeks, and are literally inseparable. Khloe thinks he's amazing and makes her laugh and smile constantly."

Khloe, 25, and her new beau were spotted nightclubbing in L.A. this week. Odom, 29, a native of Queens, N.Y., has appeared in pro skater Rob Dydrek's MTV show Fantasy Factory, as well as the Busta Rhymes and Linkin Park video "We Made It." This summer he signed a $30 million, four-year deal with the Lakers.

Their budding relationship was first reported by Hollyscoop.

In real life Rumer Willis has a great relationship with her parents Demi Moore and Bruce Willis – but she'd like the chance see what their family dynamics are like onscreen.

"You know I'd really love that," Willis, 21, said Thursday night at the Los Angeles premiere for her new movie, Sorority Row. "I think it would be really fun to able to play an opposing character, so we'll see how that works out."

After all Wills says she's watched her parents' careers as a model of success. "I want to take my acting as far as I can," she says. "I think one of the best things in my life is that I got to see at a young age what I wanted to be."

In the meantime, the actress, who will appear on 90210, says she's getting plenty of support from her folks.

"They're just so unbelievably supportive of me and that's all I could ever ask for," she says.

As for her boyfriend, actor Micah Alberti, he seems to have overcome Bruce Willis' famously protective stance toward his daughters. Rumer says things between her and her beau are going "fantastic."

Chris Brown may be back on the music scene sooner than expected.


The 20-year-old pop star revealed on Twitter that he recently finished recording his third album Graffiti. “GRAFFITI!!!! COMIN SOON…. JUST FINISHED IT…HANDS DOWN … MY BEST ALBUM… THATS ALL IMA GIVE AWAY RIGHT NOW,” he wrote.

Brown also announced in a Tinychat session with fans that “Transformer” featuring Lil Wayne will be the project’s first single. The two previously collaborated on “Gimme That” off his self-titled debut album. The song could surface as soon as the next couple weeks, according to him.

On Sunday, he told his followers, “I HONESTLY DONT THINK THE GAME IS READY FOR THE RECORDZ I GOT COMING OFF THE NEW ALBUM…. (not tryna be cocky)!!!!lol.”

Jive Records has yet to confirm an official release date for Graffiti.

Teri Hatcher and a friend were recently discussing what would be on her "bucket list," a list of things to do before she dies.

So what's on it? "I want to learn to play a couple of songs on the guitar. I want to learn a few of those fancy dances from one of those Dancing with the Stars teachers. And I want to run a triathlon," the Desperate Housewives star tells PEOPLE.

The timing was perfect for Hatcher, when her show's parent company Disney asked her to lead a team in this year's Nautica Malibu Triathlon on Sept. 13. In addition to checking off an activity from her bucket list, 44-year-old Hatcher is also raising money to benefit the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

While many artists were influenced by the genius of Michael Jackson, R&B star R. Kelly had the pleasure of creating one of the King of Pop's biggest hits, 'You Are Not Alone.'

The platinum-selling single was the first record to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 when it bowed in August of 1995.

After their previous success, it's no wonder Jackson was eager to work with Kelly again on his upcoming album before his death.

"I recorded five joints for Michael Jackson," Kelly said, as we sat in the intimate recording studio nestled in the basement of his Chicago mansion. "This studio here is where Michael recorded. And we had been talking on the phone about his new album, and I was going to finish what Michael was doing at the time. We're going to get it out though. Michael liked the way I would try to sing the songs just like him."

But before he concentrates on releasing the unfinished Jackson tunes, the 42-year-old R&B crooner is anticipating his own new CD, 'Untitled,' slated to drop Oct. 13.

After 20 years in the music business, Kelly has seen a lot of artists come and go. It's for that reason, the Chicago native said, that he doesn't concern himself with the newcomers in the business who look to challenge him and take his spot as the "King of R&B."

"If you a true King, you don't get into challenges," he offered, pausing from playing his keyboard for emphasis. "I don't get into the challenges anymore. I've passed that. You know, it's like Muhammad Ali. You get to a certain status in your life, and you don't have to throw another punch. You are who you are, and people are pretty much going to recognize that if you walk that way. It's like, what is an elephant going do when an ant or a fly lands on him? You know what I'm saying? You not gonna go out your way to swat an ant. These guys got some growing up to do. I'm past that. That's something that maybe I would have answered 20 years ago."

The three-time Grammy winner, who has won everything from Grammys to Billboard Awards, penned the title track for Whitney Houston's new CD, 'I Look to You.'

"Whitney, that's like my sister. We get into it all the time, but she didn't understand the process, and Toni Braxton didn't understand the process. You have to talk about them and crack on them. I'm a mama jokes specialist. Sometimes you got to get to cracking and ribbing on people to let them know how real yo ass is and how ghetto you is," he said.
Kelly then re-enacted his conversation in the studio with Houston.
Kelly: Now say this. [Begins playing keyboard and singing Houston's 'I Look to You'] "As I lay me down..."
Then mimicking Houston's voice, he said, "What the f-k you mean say that? That's all you got?"
Kelly: "Hell yeah, that's all I got! But just say that for right now. You gonna have to trust me some [continues singing 'I Look to You']. Then now when it all starts to come together halfway through the song, now yo ass wants to believe me! Yeah whatever."

Kelly said he admonished Houston, urging her to get herself together before returning to the studio, because he wanted her in mint condition when they cut his songs.
"I told her to go get clean and refreshed, and sing my song like 'I'll Will Always Love You,' and we gonna be alright," he laughed.


The singer wasn't laughing, though, when it came to producing the soundtrack for the movie 'Life.' Kelly confessed that he begrudgingly gave up his song 'Fortunate' for that CD.

"I hated giving 'Fortunate' to Maxwell! But I'm not selfish," he giggled, before adding, "Just say catalog!"
Having written hits for the likes of Celine Dion, Kirk Franklin, the Isley Brothers, Britney Spears, Charlie Wilson and Ruben Studdard, Kelly confessed there is only one other artist he's itching to get into the studio with.


"I want to get in with Stevie Wonder, man," he shared. "I want to get in with Stevie because Stevie continues my legacy, and then I can continue his legacy. And then Stevie, of course, he's done so many hits. It's like sometimes it's hard to get with somebody else that's going to continue your legacy. It was pretty hard for me, and I understand I got to go to Atlanta to work with these new and younger producers and stuff if I want to stay current. I realize that I got something to give them, too. I got something to feed to them, but I got to realize they can feed me, too. So it's hard to let your ego down, and you've written so many hits for yourself and did everything -- keyboard, production, everything yourself. It's hard to all of a sudden say, 'Hold on, Kells.' So I think it was pretty hard for Stevie to just say, 'Oh, wait a minute. I got to do this with another younger guy.'"

Kelly said he originally wrote his song 'Happy People' for Wonder, who passed on recording it. The track ultimately ended up on Kelly's 'Happy People/U Saved Me' double CD.

For the first time that I could remember, Kelly acknowledged his challenges with reading and writing while we talked in the studio.

"I have to be honest. The reason I don't write down lyrics to songs is because I don't spell too well," he addressed.
After being asked what song from his massive catalog was his favorite, Kelly broke into an a capella rendition of his sexually charged '12 Play' before concluding: "I had all three of my kids off that record."

Here is R. Keri On Kimmel

R. Kelly and Keri Hilson (aka R. Keri) performed “Number One” for the first time together on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Kellz also did “Supa Man High” from his Untitled album in the pre-taped segment, which aired on Thursday’s show. Shout out to Sabrina & Ebony!!! I see ya ladies!!!

t's a boy for Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel. The couple welcomed a son, Walker Diggs, on Wednesday, the couple's reps confirm to DIDNTINVITEME.

"Mother, father and son are all doing well," the reps said in a statement.

The Broadway belters announced the pregnancy in March, later sharing that the baby was a boy.

Although they had a few names in mind, Diggs said they were waiting to make a final decision.

"We have a couple [names] in the running," the Private Practice star explained. "But part of us wants to see what he hits us with when we see him. We'll see what he looks like."

Walker is the first child for Menzel and Diggs, who are both 38 and met on the 1996 Broadway production of Rent. They wed in January 2003.

What's the blueprint for keeping your wedding a secret? Just ask Jay-Z – Oprah did.

"Late planning!" he tells Winfrey in an interview for the October issue of O magazine.

Although his marriage to Beyoncé last year wasn't a complete secret – the couple created a buzz when they took out a marriage license days before their private ceremony – he says "very few" people knew about it.

"The sad part is that we offended some," Jay-Z, 39, admits of the last-minute event. But, "people who love you understand," he says. "Because at the end of the day, it's your day."

The rapper – set to release The Blueprint 3 Sept. 11 – also opened up about his weekly date with his lovely wife. "There's a great pizza spot we go to every Sunday. It's our tradition. It's a small place in Brooklyn, you can bring your own wine, and there are candles there," he says. "It's a nice date."

After a failed fashion show on season one of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Housewife Sheree Whitfield is headed to New York Fashion Week to silence all the critics and take on the big catwalk. The budding designer of She by Sheree will be debuting her “sexy chic”-inspired collection, which she describes as “any fashion conscious woman’s dream: colorful, form fitting, powerful and definitely international.” In true Housewives form, Whitfield promises the September 13th show will be chock-full of fabulous designs and even more drama! We can’t wait to see who turns up in the front row.

Trey Songz has hooked up with famed photographer Maya Guez on these great photos. Trey really shows everyone out there how to really work the camera and these should've been promos included on his album, "Ready," in stores now.


Trey Songz sits down with New York's Angie Martinez for a little one-on-one. The interview was cool, kept me entertained and check out Trey's short acapella of one of my favs off his album, "Neighbors Know My Name" towards the end. "Ready" in stores now.

They came for an intimate ceremony for a superstar: Lisa Marie Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, Macaulay Culkin, Chris Tucker and Mila Kunis arrived at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Calif., on Thursday for the funeral for Michael Jackson.

On a hot Southern California night, the skies still smoky from mountain brush fires, the famous friends joined Jackson’s family, including his parents, brothers and sisters and three children, to say goodbye.


As Jackson’s backup dancers served as ushers, his brothers, wearing black armbands and a sequined glove on one hand, carried his flower-covered casket out of the hearse and placed it before about 200 mourners on a stage decorated with white lilies and white roses – a private, intimate gathering in contrast to the thousands who attended Jackson’s internationally telecast memorial service at Los Angeles’ Staples Center.

A Crown for a King
Jackson’s three children then placed a crown on their father’s coffin to mark his place as the King of Pop.

After a prayer by Pastor Lucius Smith and a gospel sung by Gladys Knight, Clifton Davis performed the Jackson 5 song he wrote, “Never Can Say Goodbye.” Jackson’s father Joseph and the Rev. Al Sharpton addressed the mourners, as did close friends and family.

After the ceremony, the brothers carried the casket to the Grand Mausoleum, where at 9:43 p.m. Jackson entered his final resting place.

Afterwards, his family issued statement to "once again thank all of Michael Jackson’s fans around the world for their generous outpouring of support during this terribly difficult time. Their expressions of love for Michael and his music have sustained the Jackson Family."

Famous Neighbors
The entertainer, who died June 25 at age 50, is interred near Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow and Red Skelton. The building is patterned on 13th Century Italian architecture, with the walls and floors of each crypt constructed of reinforced concrete.

The Jackson family provided live video images of the ceremony up to the removal of the casket from the hearse. After that, television stations carried images from news helicopters hovering over a 3,000-foot minimum altitude imposed by authorities during the funeral.

Jackson’s estate will pay for the small but expensive funeral, which took place under heavy security. "The expenses will be extraordinary, but Michael Jackson was extraordinary," Jeryll Cohen, an attorney for the singer's estate, said Wednesday at a hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court dealing with the funeral costs.

Jackson's brother Marlon has said that Michael's three children have each written letters to their father that will lie with him alongside one of his signature white gloves. The notes by Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and Blanket, 7, read: "Daddy, we love you, we miss you.’

Funeral Tweets
Sharpton sent Twitter messages from the funeral, saying that before the family arrived he was speaking with Thomas Messereau, who successfully defended Jackson against child molestation charges.

"What MJ went through was so unfair, yet he succeeded," Sharpton Tweeted. "In the end, he was the biggest artist ever. He faced the headwinds but he made it."

Didntinviteme.com EXCLUSIVELY reveal that Whitney Houston will be premiering not one, but TWO new videos in the coming weeks.

The video for 'I Look To You' is set to debut September 10th. While the clip for 'Million Dollar Bill' will be unveiled on September 16th.

In other Whitney news, we have received confirmed word that she will be performing 'I Didn't Know My Own Strength' on The Oprah Winfrey Show - at the personal request of Oprah herself.

Also, a televised special is being considered by Whitney's team for later this year.

In a recent interview with Spanish magazine, MUST Mag, Kelly Rowland revealed a few interesting details about her as yet untitled 3rd solo album. Peep some of the main points (credit to lenor1 over at DC3 Forever!):

- Kelly has been working on her new album with Jim Jonsin (Lil Wayne - Lollipop, Beyonce - Radio, Sweet Dreams, Pitbull) she says he has a very good understanding of dance music and understands where she wants to go with her music

- She has also worked with Rico Love (Michelle Williams - Unexpected, Beyoncé)

- She has also worked with Rob Allen (Rihanna - Disturbia) and Claude Kelly

- She definitely wants to tour with the next album and is making sure that is one of her priorities and that her next album will be a success!

- She says she is very happy with her new manager Jeff Rabhan and that he knows the music industry very well!

- She wants to do more movies and recently went to a few castings

- also currently producing a television program and is intending to launch a line of luggage!

- She is currently in the studio working on her next album

- she has NOT signed a new record label yet

First Lourdes and now Rocco! Looks like Madonna has not just one but two talented dancers taking after her.

Just days after her 12-year-old daughter's backflipping and break-dancing skills were debuted on the "Celebration" video, Madonna's son Rocco took the stage at the final night of her "Sticky and Sweet" tour in Tel Aviv, Israel.

While Paul Oakenfold deejayed the opening set, the 9-year-old busted out some fancy footwork and spin moves. He was also spotted jumping up and down and singing along in the deejay booth for Madonna's performance of "Music."

Can't wait to see if David and Mercy explode on to the scene soon!

Chris Brown may have support from his peers in the music industry, but it doesn’t look like he will be reappearing on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” anytime soon. The talk-show host has some advice for the 20-year-old pop star.


In March, Oprah aired a show about domestic abuse, which she dedicated to “the Rihannas of the world.” “It makes me so sad,” she said on the program. “Love doesn’t hurt. If a man hits you once, he will hit you again.”

When asked what he thought of Oprah’s comments, Brown recently told PEOPLE magazine, “I commend Oprah on being like, ‘This is a problem,’ but it was a slap in my face. I did a lot of stuff for her, like going to Africa and performing for her school. She could have been more helpful, like, ‘Okay, I’m going to help both of these people out.’”

Oprah responded in a statement to TMZ: “Oprah is very appreciative that Chris Brown performed at her school, but she takes domestic abuse very seriously. She hopes he gets the counseling he needs.”

Who would have thought a day of baby shopping could be so emotional?

Kim Kardashian hit Bel-Bambini boutique last week in West Hollywood with her pregnant sister Kourtney, only to battle a host of feelings – starting with frustration at not knowing what sex her sister's baby will be.

"I found that really hard," Kim wrote on her blog. "I just wanted to shop for pink or blue, haha! I want Kourt and Scott to find out already!!"

But that was nothing compared to the sudden stirring of Kim's maternal instincts.

"I want a baby!!!!" she writes. "OK, so maybe not right now, but I can't wait to be an aunt!"

Immediately after his late-night fight with Rihanna over Grammy weekend, Chris Brown knew what he had to do: Tell his mother.

"I went to my mom and I was upset," says Brown, who was raised by his mother, Joyce Hawkins, in the small town of Tappahannock, Va., where they both still live a few doors down from each other. "I told my mom what happened and just broke down. I was disappointed in myself and I felt like I had let my mom down."

For Hawkins, herself a victim of domestic abuse, Brown's confessional still haunts her. "It was the most painful moment in my life to hear him tell me that," she tells PEOPLE. "I just sighed and was like, 'What in the world happened?' And you know he started talking, but I could see the pain in his face and how hurt he was while he was trying to tell me. It wasn't easy for him to do."

Hawkins, who avoided watching TV in the wake of the incident, had strong words for her son. "I explained to him that in no way [was] what he did right or acceptable," she says of Brown's assault of Rihanna in his rented Lamborghini on Feb. 8. "And I just explained to him that if something of this magnitude ever happened again, what he should do – walk away from any situation and never involve yourself like that ever again."

Even so, Brown's behavior was a shock. "I've never seen any violence in Chris, ever. There was never a history of violence." Hawkins says of her son, who has no prior criminal record, "He’s always been my little angel."

As Brown begins serving his sentence, Hawkins says the ordeal over the last seven months has taken a toll. "He's dealt with it, but it hasn't been easy," she says, before adding that her heart also goes out to Rihanna. "I love her. She's like a daughter. She became family to us. She's spent Christmas with us and for the last two years."

The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Zolciak is the latest celebrity to pose for the NOH8 Campaign, a photo project and silent protest against California’s Proposition 8, which passed on Election Day, amending the state’s constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
The “Tardy for the Party” singer, whose single was released Tuesday, tweeted, “the noh8 campaign shoot was hot. and I am topless!!! Just to cause a stir to make people pay attention!”
Pete and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, Lisa Ling, Meghan McCain, Isaiah Washington are just a few of the other celebrities who have posed for the campaign.

It was ladies’ night on Monday (Aug. 31) at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in New York City where Richgirl performed at the Power Live concert with Monica and Teairra Mari. One lucky guy got more than he bargained for when Teairra gave him a show he won’t soon forget. Witness it below. (P.S. Ms Mari as much as you hate on Ri-Ri, you don't see her on her knees at a "Club Show" HowUDoin'

After a brief hiatus from the music industry, Monica is back in the spotlight with an intimate, provocative docu-drama that takes a look at her day-to-day world in the new original BET series.

MONICA: STILL STANDING premieres Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 10 ET/ 9C.

In this series, Monica will open her heart and life to viewers every week and take them on her personal journey of survival and enlightenment. Viewers will have the chance to experience the many facets of Monica’s life as she balances family, deals with her own body and health challenges, creates her fifth album and tackles the hardest job of all – being a full-time mother of two young sons.

“It was very scary stepping into the type of situation that would expose me and my life,” said Monica. “But I think that there are so many kids now that are aspiring to do exactly what I’ve done and I felt like that was worth me putting myself on the line so they would really understand what it’s like to try and juggle both a music career and personal life.”

Even with all of the success in her entertainment career as the youngest R&B recording act in history to have two consecutive chart-topping hits, and as an actress, Monica’s life has not been without its challenges. But with the spiritual guidance of her parents, family and fiancée, she has withstood the storms of life and is still standing today. Strong, poised and vivacious, Monica wants to show viewers and fans that anything is possible once you have set your mind to do it.