Did you catch John Mayer on TODAY this morning? The guitar-strumming musician dropped by the morning show Thursday to perform a pair of tracks from his current fourth album, Battle Studies

Beyonce did something very un-Knowles-like while playing the famed 02 Arena in London Monday night. The “Sasha Fierce” star stunned fans and onlookers by stage-diving into a screaming audience of concertgoers as she belted out the lyrics to her charttopping ballad “Halo!”

Britney Spears says read my lips: it’s for the fans!

Brit has a message for critics of her first tour of Australia after it was reported that fans walked out of the pop star’s Australian performance last weekend, describing it as boring, stiff, and filled with lip-synching.

“I hear there is a lot of controversy in the media about my show,” Spears said in a statement this week. “Some reporters have said they love it and some don’t. I came to Australia for my fans.”

Britney, 27, is rebuilding her career after a high profile meltdown in 2008.

Britney Spears is “extremely upset” by false reports fans walked out of her concert in Australia on Friday, branding the show “boring” and “stiff.” Australian media report claim that fans walked out of the first of Spears’ 14 Australian performances — which kicked off in Perth last week — after Britney capped off a weak performance with lip-synching.

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Jonas Brothers fans in Switzerland will have to wait a little while longer to catch their favorite boy band.

The trio pulled out of a concert in Zurich, Switzerland on Saturday night, after Nick, 17, fell “ill with an upper respiratory infection of the nose and throat.” The Jo Bros announced the cancellation on their Twitter page, writing that Nick was sick and “the doctor has advised that he not speak or sing.”
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The heat is on Down Under. The Australian government is stepping into a lip-synching scandal erupting over portions of Britney Spears’ Perth concert tour. The Minister for Fair Trading is demanding a disclaimer, which states that part of the show is pre-recorded, be placed on all tickets sold to see Britney.

Britney performed to over 17,000 fans at the Perth Burswood Dome last night, but thousands of disgruntled fans — some having paid up to $1,500 per ticket — reportedly stormed out of the Australian debut of The Circus concert, infuriated by the pop singer’s “appalling” performance on stage. Read the rest of this entry »

Britney’s in Sydney — Take cover!

Britney Spears and her entire “Circus Tour” touched down in Australia Thursday morning.

“Longest flight ever but we had a great time,” Britney Tweeted early Thursday. “Really cool plane and the V staff took great care of us. So excited to be here!”

The pop tart will take the stage in nearby Perth for the first of 15 concerts Down Under on Friday. Tickets are going for up to $1,360 for her shows.

Britney’s Australian “Circus” crewreportedly consists of 225 crewmembers, 45 band members and dancers, and 15 circus performers – plus 150 local workers that are hired in each city that the show plays.

To the surprise of absolutely no one, tickets for Chris Brown’s upcoming Fan Appreciation Tour aren’t selling very well.

Will Breezy be able to put his attack on Rihanna behind him and save his career or will his lady-beating meltdown haunt him “Forever?”
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YouTube’s webcast of U2’s live concert from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California last Sunday was watched by nearly 10 million people, the video site’s largest streaming event ever.

The full 2 1/2-hour concert is available on YouTube. The rebroadcast video has been watched by more than 1.1 million viewers.

Chris Maxcy, head of music partnerships at YouTube, called the event “a big win” for the site.

The Man still had “it.” The highly anticipated Michael Jackson concert documentary This Is It has already set a record!

The Sony film grossed an estimated $2.2 million at the North American box office during Tuesday night’s limited theater release, Variety reports. This is a record for a Tuesday October release.

On Wednesday, This Is It opened in 3,500 theaters and IMAX screens nationwide, in addition to thousands more overseas.