R. Kelly

By Robbie Daw Since the release of I Dreamed A Dream over a month ago, silver-tongued song vixen Susan Boyle has held steady in her perch atop the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and warded off other high profile new releases from Alicia Keys, Chris Brown, Rihanna, R. Kelly and Adam Lambert.

By Robbie Daw 1. Susan Boyle, I Dreamed A Dream 2. Andrea Bocelli, My Christmas 3. Taylor Swift, Fearless 4. R. Kelly, Untitled *new* 5. Lady Gaga, The Fame 6. Carrie Underwood, Play On 7. Norah Jones, The Fall 8. Michael Jackson, This Is It 9. Various, The Twilight Saga: New Moon 10. Michael Buble, Crazy Love

By Robbie Daw Billboard is projecting that the battle for the peak position on next week’s Top 200 Albums chart is between the current #1, Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream, and Andrea Bocelli’s encroaching My Christmas, which has been lodged at #2 for the past three weeks. Each is said to possibly sell upw...

By Robbie Daw Who’d have thought that a “YouTube sensation” would wind up with the best sales week of 2009? When all was said and done, Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream ended up selling 701,000 copies last week, reports Billboard. Needless to say, it debuted at #1 on the trade publication’s Top 200 Albums c...

By Maura The show kicked off with Kells covering Kanye West’s “Flashing Lights” and led into a blistering medley of his hits from over the years, including the still-irresistible “I’m A Flirt” and the hip-shaking “Hotel,” while he and former Public Announcement associate Andre “Giant” Boykin...

By Maura Haven’t done one of these in a while, and I figure the night that I’m about to run out to the R. Kelly show in New York (yessss) is as good a time as any to do so. Also, I am currently in something of a (relative) listening rut, alternating between the Shakira record, my “2009 awesomeness” playlist...

By Maura R. Kelly has released the remix of his sex-as-chart-topper single “Number One,” which features T-Pain and Keyshia Cole, and lest you think that T-Pain was totally giving up on digitally manipulating his voice for the purpose of topping the charts, the new track is an AutoTune-drenched a...

By Maura For only $2,000–or best offer, so get bidding!–a custom-made bar at R. Kelly’s now-former house can be yours. And by “Looney Tunes Bar” I don’t mean “featured in a video in the ‘Trapped In The Closet’ series”–I mean cartoon-themed, so Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, and Jessica Rabbi...

By Maura Johnston Perhaps unsurprisingly, Kelly was found not guilty on all 14 counts of child pornography, thanks in large part to the murky origins of the tape at the center of the case; the tape, which one witness claimed was just one of dozens Kelly used to carry around in a duffel bag, was sent to Chicago S...

By Anthony Miccio Just A Little While" Call On Me" Janet Jackson - Because Of Love [YouTube] Janet Jackson - Twenty Foreplay [YouTube] Janet Jackson - Every Time [YouTube] Janet Jackson - Just A Little While [YouTube] Janet Jackson feat. Nelly - Call On Me [YouTube] Janet Jackson - The Knowledge [YouTube]

By Maura Johnston • "Since 2002, Kelly has released seven albums, including a joint record with Jay-Z. He is due to release another album sometime this year. While it remains to be seen how many copies it will sell, it is clear that, as always, this latest scandal won't affect Kelly's popularity." [Nkesa Mumbi...

By Anthony Miccio Q. How many girls you think he's done that to? Q. How can you say she's 14 there? Three witnesses say their relative is not the girl on tape [Chicago Sun-Times] Lisa's fiance solicited payoff, Exhibit 95 says [Chicago Sun-Times] He likes them when they are ripe . . .' [Chicago Sun-Times]

By Maura Johnston Chicago Sun-Times music writer Jim DeRogatis did not show up at a Cook County court this morning to testify in the R. Kelly trial, despite a judge ordering his appearance and questioning on what he did with the sex tape at the heart of the trial between the time he acquired it and the time he han...

By Dan Gibson Earlier this month, I posted about my difficulty enjoying the work of R. Kelly in the light of his "alleged" sexual misconduct. Now that I've finally listened to the first single from his new album (the brilliantly titled 12 Play: Fourth Quarter), "Hairbraider," I'm speculating that my mo...

By Dan Gibson If you want the lurid "urinating in the mouth" details, you'll have to go to Wyman's site, because frankly, it seems too early to be posting anything of that sort. Nonetheless, I found myself wondering what revelation would finally push me over the edge with Kells. Fortunately or unfortuna...

By jharv An unflashy example of years of studio time paying off with yet one more effortless take on a known R&B quantity's house style, "I'm A Flirt" is one of those songs that I never would have pegged as a high-placer on a year-end list until I noticed I was getting the same springtime serotoni...

By Maura Johnston TOP FIVE HIP-HOP VIDEOS 05. Fat Joe ft. Lil Wayne, Baby, T.I., R Kelly, and Rick Ross, "Make It Rain (Remix)" 04. T.I., "Big Things Poppin'" 03. MIMS, "This Is Why I'm Hot" 02. Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, "Crank That" 01. Jim Jones ft. T.I., Lil Wayne, Diddy, Juelz Santana, Young Dro, and Baby, "We Fly High (Remix)"

By Andy Beta Across the Universe does note the seeming cultural clashes in the beginning of the film, jumping between idyllic American sock hops in white satin and the grimy black-leather drinking spots of Liverpool, showing that both worlds are united through music. When "Let it Be" plays during a r...