411 Mania — Lionel Richie takes second place... more info

Perez Hilton — 357,943 COPIES SOLD!! In the first week! In it's first week MDNA has easily punished Madonna's last effort Hard Candy — which sold about 280,000 — and she has taken down almost all over her diva competition! Beyonce's last effort sold 317,000 cop... more info

ContactMusic — Madonna Lady Gaga Michael Jackson and The Beatles have been named among the All-Time 100 Fashion Icons by Time magazine editors The extensive list features the most influential fashion icons since 1923 the year the publication was born and is split..... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Babs better watch her back. With the stellar chart debut of Madonna's "MDNA," the Material Girl is closing in on Barbra Streisand's record of nine chart-topping albums. Her "MDNA" will debut at No. 1 atop the U.S. pop charts Wednesday morning, having... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — Nicki Minaj spoke to Sway and Devi Dev about her evolution, her different layers, not caring what people think about her anymore, 2 Chainz’s work ethic, the Madonna kiss, M.I.A flipping off the camera at the Super Bowl, her performance at the Gramm... more info

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Spinner.com — Filed under: News Today, Oh Boy! Taylor Hill, FilmMagic The Washington Post called out Bruce Springsteen for having a teleprompter onstage, and E Street guitarist Nils Lofgren sets the record straight. Find out the Boss' reason for the prompter ... more info

Kings of A&R — Lionel Richie, sold 200,000 copies of his “Tuskegee” album, his best debut in 20 years. Madonna‘s “MDNA” album is expected be the number 1 album in the country this week – the final numbers will come in later today. Unlike Lionel Richie, ... more info

Mjsbigblog — With 54.02% reporting in, Madonna has herself another number one album (her 8th). “MDNA” is her first album of new music since 2008 (“Hard Candy” – 280K in its 1st week) and here she proves that a flopped first single doesn’t spell certa... more info

Pop Justice — If you woke up this morning hoping that today would bring a video for Ronika's out-next-Monday new single 'Automatic', and that the video would continue her VHS-graded 'aesthetic', and that it would feature Ronika standing around a bit with her hand ... more info