ContactMusic — Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber and Taio Cruz were the early winners of Billboard Music Awards prizes in Las Vegas on Sunday (22May11). Country star Swift picked up the night's first trophy after she was named Album Artist of the Year and Bieber then.... more info

Mjsbigblog — I'll be live-blogging the Billboard Music Awards 2011 tonight. Kris Allen's "Live Like We're Dying" is nominated for Top Christian Song, but probably won't be aired live. I'll post the complete list of winners as soon as it's available.Cee Lo Green,... more info

ContactMusic — Taio Cruz is planning to record "dubstep and rock" tracks. The 'Higher' hitmaker is keen to develop as an artist and embrace new genres, although for his forthcoming third album, 'Black and Leather', he's not changed his already... more info

Pop Justice — We have been getting slowly obsessed with Cascada's 'San Francisco'. Not because it's any good - it is, of course*, utter drivel - but because of the shamelessness of its Katyperryisms. 8xA6AWzy3vk 'San Francisco' will be released twelve months aft... more info

NME — All join Sunday Times’ annual list of the UK’s richest musicians more info

Guardian Music — From the Black Eyed Peas to Taio Cruz, much recent pop looks to Ibiza for inspiration. And yet for all the hands-in-the-air moments, this music is completely divorced from its original contextThe other day we were driving in the car, listening to one... more info

Pop Crunch — Rihanna, The Black Eyed Peas, Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, and Taio Cruz make up the first wave of performers set to take the stage at the newly-revived Billboard [...] more info

Guardian Music — SBTRKT feat Sampha Living Like I Do (Young Turks) Trends dictate that to be a cool blog-band today you must a) Be super-anonymous and b) Have a disregard for vowels: both tests that this mask-wearing Londoner passes. Here, SBTRKT programs the beats a... more info

ContactMusic — R&B star Taio Cruz has launched a competition to discover a talented songwriter and vowed to perform the winner's track on the finale of U. S. reality TV show American Idol. The Dynamite hitmaker has written the opening lines to a tune and h... more info

Guardian Music — Lady Gaga's rounding up the Monsters, and Rihanna got her fans joining the Navy. Meanwhile, Pixie Lott is all about the CrazycatsFollowing pop stars on Twitter is clearly a brilliant way to pass the time. How else are we supposed to know that Craig D... more info