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Beyoncé Knowles gave “Extra’s” AJ Calloway backstage access to her final concert in Trinidad, for the I Am… Sasha Fierce world tour. He caught all the raw moments, talked future babies and her plans for the next few months.
The singer shared a list of things she now wants to accomplish during her break. She told AJ that she’s not going back to work until everything is checked off her list!
Items on her to-do list include “learning to paint and cook, and to do Broadway shows and museums. And learn just to be at home and just watch television.”
Beyoncé and rapper/producer hubby Jay-Z have been married for almost two years, and while there are no immediate plans for a baby, she does say, “Eventually. When it happens it happens… I definitely want a family. I’m too close to my mother, I have the best mother, you know. I can only hope the relationship I have with my mother, I can have with my kids whenever I decided to have them.”
AJ asked if Jay-Z also wanted kids, to which Beyoncé replied, “You gotta ask Jay.”
For more with Beyoncé tune-in to “Extra” tonight and Friday.
Beyonce may be a very public superstar, but the singer has kept her relationship with husband Jay-Z quiet – until the Grammy Awards on Sunday night.
“I’d love to thank my family for all their love and support including my husband,” she said at the time, as the hip-hop mogul sat, surprised, in the audience.
“He was shocked!” Beyonce told Access. “He was just like, ‘What did you say?’”
And the singer added that she couldn’t believe it herself.
“I was just like, ‘What did I just do? No, I didn’t just say that,’” she said, explaining that the outburst came in the heat of the moment.
“I was so happy, I could’ve said anything,” she said of taking the stage for her win for Female Pop Vocal – her sixth Grammy of the night, a record for a female artist. “That’s why I ran off the stage.”
She also took home a top honor with Song of the Year for “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It),” a songwriting category.
So what did Jay-Z say back?
“He said you have six Grammys and you smell good,” she laughed.
The singer was wearing her new scent, Beyonce Heat, for which she recently filmed a steamy ad – and the perfume is already a big hit.
“This morning I woke up and they told me the fragrance is the number one fragrance in America,” Beyonce told Access. “I had absolutely no idea.”
And filming the spot may have taken some double-stick tape to keep her dress in place, but the singer added that it wasn’t all hard work.
“It was my birthday when we filmed the video,” she said. “We had fun. They brought out cake and candles.”
The singer won six Grammy Awards on Sunday, setting a new record for the number of prizes won by a female in one night. She is reportedly keen to ensure her music keeps getting better, and thinks the US rock band could help her experiment with a new sound.
The 28-year-old star approached Nathan, Caleb, Jared and Matthew Followill at a Grammy after-party and is said to have spent the whole night discussing ideas for new songs.
“Beyonce looked stunning and was chatting to virtually every major star on hand,” an onlooker told British newspaper The Daily Mirror. “She kissed Kings of Leon on their cheeks and congratulated them on winning an award for Use Somebody.
“They were chatting for ages. She knows how huge they are in the UK and loves their album. She was scouting for people to collaborate with and has been talking about doing something different with a rock band. Kings of Leon would be perfect.”
Iconic superstar Beyonce, took home six Grammy® Awards, including “Song of the Year” (for “Single Ladies”), breaking the record for most Grammy® Awards won by a female artist in a single year, while bringing her career Grammy® total up to 16 (13 as a solo artist and 3 with Destiny’s Child.) Beyonce, who tied the record with ten nominations for a female artist in a single year with The Fugees’ star, Lauryn Hill, took home honors in the following categories:
Song of the Year (”Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”)
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (”Halo”)
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (”Single Ladies”)
Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance (”At Last”)
Best R&B Song (”Single Ladies”)
Best Contemporary R&B Album (I AM… SASHA FIERCE)
Five of Beyonce’s wins are for her multi-platinum album, I AM…SASHA FIERCE, and one win honors the performer’s work on the Cadillac Records soundtrack for her rendition of the Etta James hit, “At Last.”
With eight Grammy® Awards, legendary pop icon, Michael Jackson and world renowned guitarist and visionary, Carlos Santana, share the record for most Grammy® Awards won by a male artist in one night.
On February 2, Beyonce is launching her first ever fragrance, Beyonce Heat. The Renaissance woman will celebrate the debut of her fragrance at Macy’s Herald Square in New York City by meeting the first 500 customers to purchase the exclusive Beyonce Heat 3-piece fragrance set.
Beyonce recently extended her 2009 “I AM…” World Tour to South America for a series of live concerts beginning Thursday, February 4, 2010 at Parque Planeta in Florianopolis, Brazil. The two-week run will end in the Caribbean on the island of Trinidad on Thursday, February 18, 2010
I’ve collected/will be collecting little tidbits mentioning Beyonce’s record-breaking night from the 2010 Grammys and putting them in this post. Just a little something for the fans!
Beyoncé broke a record and Michael Jackson’s kids broke a few hearts at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night.
Beyoncé took home six Grammys, including Song of the Year for “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” and pop vocal performance of the year for “Halo,” to set a Grammy record for most awards won by a female artist on one show.
On a night dominated by a range of divas, Beyoncé went the route of classic pop elegance and scored for three different songs: “Halo” and “Single Ladies,” which dominated radio charts last year, and “At Last,” which won the Grammy for best traditional R&B performance. – NYDailyNews
It was a night of pure GRAMMY gold for R&B songstress Beyoncé, who picked up six wins, a record for a female artrist, at the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards, including Song Of The Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Song, and Best Contemporary R&B Album.
Beyoncé, the field-leader with 10 GRAMMY nominations, took total command of the stage to open her performance. After parading down the aisle with a SWAT team of dancers, she launched fiercely into “If I Were A Boy,” at one point dropping to one knee in front of a crowd of fist-pumping fans, before segueing into a version of Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know.” If she is known largely as a pop/R&B diva, that’s due to change as Beyoncé proved she can not only belt, she can also rock. – Grammy Blog
Beyoncé gave a powerful performance of “Halo” during Friday’s (January 22) “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief” telethon.
Performing from London, the songstress was accompanied by Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, who performed with his band earlier in the night, on the piano for an acoustic rendition. Beyoncé injected Haiti into her lyrics: “Haiti, we can see your halo/ You know you’re my saving grace,” she sang. “You’re everything I need and more, it’s written all over your face/ Haiti, we can see your halo/ I pray you won’t fade away.”
The emotional track is from her 2009 LP, I Am … Sasha Fierce. B is one of a long line of participants for the telethon, including her husband, Jay-Z, who performed later with Rihanna and U2.
Learn more about what you can do to help with earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti, and for more information, see Think MTV. Visit HopeForHaitiNow.org or call (877) 99-HAITI to make a donation now.
iTunes customers can exclusively pre-order the “Hope for Haiti Now” full-performance album ($7.99) and the full two-hour video telecast ($1.99). Pre-orders will be delivered in the days following the telethon. Individual audio performances will also be available for purchase and download for 99 cents each in the days following the telethon. Apple, the record labels and the artists will donate their share of the proceeds to Haiti relief funds managed by “Hope for Haiti Now” charities, including the Red Cross and Wyclef’s Yele Haiti foundation. Performances will also be available for purchase in the days following the event through Amazon’s MP3 service and Rhapsody, through distribution provided by INgrooves.
Jay-Z’s wife Beyonce and Coldplay were also due to play during the London section.
The stars arrived at Covent Garden club The Hospital to rehearse and record their performances.
Beyonce said: “It’s brilliant, such a fantastic idea. I’m so excited to be here.
“It’s such a tragic situation and we should all do what we can to help.”
Coldplay’s Chris Martin, 32, said: “I visited Haiti with Oxfam a few years ago. It’s a country of extreme poverty and brutal living conditions. Most people in Port-au-Prince live in tin shacks.
Beyoncé has been added to the bill for the “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief” telethon, airing Friday at 8 p.m. ET/PT, upping the star wattage for the already massive event.
The singer will join husband Jay-Z, Rihanna and U2’s Bono and The Edge in London to help raise funds for Haiti in the wake of last week’s devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake. Justin Timberlake, Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, Mary J. Blige and more artists will also perform during the two-hour telecast.
George Clooney, who helped organize the event with MTV Networks, will helm the proceedings in Los Angeles, while Wyclef Jean and CNN’s Anderson Cooper will join in from New York and Haiti, respectively.
A number of notable acts have confirmed their participation for the telethon, which will air commercial-free across MTV, VH1, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, the CW, HBO, CMT, PBS, TNT, Showtime, Comedy Central, Bravo, E! Entertainment Network, National Geographic Channel, Oxygen, G4, Centric, Current TV, Fuse, MLB Network, Epix, Palladia, SoapNet, Style, Discovery Health and Planet Green. Canada’s CTV, CBC Television, Global Television and MuchMusic also will air “Hope for Haiti,” as will BET International, CNN International, National Geographic and MTV Networks International, making the event available in 640 million homes worldwide.
Facebook and Twitter are the official social-media partners for the telethon. All donations will benefit Oxfam America, Partners in Health, Red Cross, UNICEF and Wyclef’s Yele Haiti foundation. The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund and United Nations World Food Programme will also benefit from the telethon’s efforts, as aid will be split evenly among each organization’s relief programs for the ravaged island.
Expected highlights from the telecast include U2’s Bono and The Edge joining Jay-Z and Rihanna in London for a one-of-a-kind performance. Kid Rock, Keith Urban and Sheryl Crow are among those who will appear in Los Angeles, and Springsteen, Blige and Shakira are set to take part in the New York portion of the show.
All the performances and collaborations will be available for download on iTunes for 99 cents on Saturday.
In a new commercial set to premiere on Nickelodeon, Beyoncé will be seen playing Style Savvy, a video game that turns players into managers of a virtual boutique.
“Fashion is something I’ve been familiar with my whole life,” she says in an interview before the shoot. So when Nintendo tapped her to represent its product, she was happy to oblige.
Introduced last November for the portable Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi systems, the game allows aspiring entrepreneurs to choose from 16 fictional designer labels, each with a different style and price point, and more than 10,000 items. The goal is to accommodate customers’ budgets and needs, then use the accumulated cash to restock your stores, bearing in mind such factors as seasonal changes.
“It can teach young girls a sense of business and of responsibility,” Beyoncé says. “You have to be a good listener and pay attention to what the customers want. It also teaches you about fashion, using terms that fashion people use, like ‘asymmetrical.’ ”
As part of its arrangement with Beyoncé, Nintendo plans to introduce five items from her Deréonline early this year. (Five items from Charlotte Ronson’s fall 2009 collection are currently available for download.)
“It will be fun,” she says. “The clothes in the game are great, so cute and detailed, and there’s always something new. It’s like playing dress-up, only with digital technology instead of dolls.”
Up to four players can hook up wirelessly for a runway contest. Beyoncé took part in one such competition with a few friends, “and they told me I still have a long way to go. So I guess I have to keep working at it.”
Beyonce’s New Year’s resolution is at once ambitious and surprising. The multitasking superstar, who was seemingly everywhere in 2009, hopes to spend a good chunk of 2010 not working.
“It’s definitely time to take a break, to recharge my batteries,” says Beyoncé, 28. “I’d like to take about six months and not go into the studio. I need to just live life, to be inspired by things again.”
Not that Beyoncé won’t be visible in the coming months. Just a few days before Christmas, she’s in Long Island City, shooting a pair of commercials for the Nintendo video game Style Savvy, which is introducing items from Deréon, a casual lifestyle extension of the House of Deréon line that Beyoncé created with longtime fashion adviser Tina Knowles— also her mom. The spots will air on Nickelodeon in March, in the week before the Kids’ Choice Awards and during the show.
Before that, of course, Beyoncé will perform on the Grammy Awards broadcast Jan. 31 on CBS, where she’s up for 10 trophies, more than any other artist, including album, record and song of the year. The last is for her slamming manifesto Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), one of 2009’s most ubiquitous singles (3.5 million downloads sold) and its most-streamed video. The album, I Am … Sasha Fierce, has sold 2.7 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
“I still haven’t really digested it yet,” Beyoncé says. The Grammy nominations were announced Dec. 2, two days before her spouse and fellow pop icon Jay-Z turned 40. “I was focused so much on my husband’s birthday — I threw a big party — that I didn’t really think about it. But it’s really an honor.” Continue reading Beyonce Poised to Take a Break in 2010…
Not only are Taylor Swift and Beyoncé nominated for a slew of Grammy Awards next month, but the pop superstars were just announced to play the big show on January 31.
Along with Swift and Beyoncé, the Black Eyed Peas, Lady Antebellum and Maxwell are among the first acts announced as performers at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards, which airs live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on CBS. Additional performers and presenters are set to be announced in the coming weeks.
Beyoncé received 10 nominations, competing against Swift in categories like Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Country act Lady Antebellum have two nominations. Meanwhile, the Black Eyed Peas and Maxwell are up for six awards each.
- MTV.com
Beyonce’s mother, Tina Knowles, has filed for divorce from the pop diva’s father and manager, Mathew Knowles. Tina Knowles began legal proceedings Nov. 11, according to documents filed with the Harris County Court Clerk. She launched the House of Dereon clothing line with Beyonce in 2006.
“The decision to end our marriage is an amicable one. We remain friends, parents, and business partners,” the couple said in a statement provided to The Associated Press on Friday. “If anyone is expecting an ugly messy fight, they will be sadly disappointed. We ask for your respect of our privacy as we handle this matter.”
The divorce filing came about a month after Mathew Knowles was named in a paternity suit. Los Angeles resident Alexsandra Wright claims in the lawsuit that he is the father of her unborn child.
Tina and Mathew Knowles wed in 1980. In addition to 27-year-old Beyonce, they have another daughter, 23-year-old singer Solange.
We’ve spent the year tallying album sales figures and reviewing Hot 100 song rankings. Now, at the end of 2009’s road, look back at the 20 artists who traveled further and faster up the charts than all the others.
These twenty stars were the best performers on the Hot 100 and the Billboard 200 over the course of the chart year, from Nov. 2008 through Nov. 2009.
- Billboard
02).Beyonce
As Kanye West infamously pointed out at the 2009 VMAs, Beyonce made one of the best videos of all-time. “Out of all my videos, (”Single Ladies”) was the least expensive and took the least amount of time, and it ended up being the most iconic,” Billboard’s 2009 Woman of the Year reflects. “But once we got on the set, it was like, wait a minute. This is something special.” Not only did the ubiquitous clip inspire thousands of YouTube imitations, it also helped push her “I Am… Sasha Fierce” album to last over a year on the Billboard 200 chart.
HOT 100 ARTISTS
#3 Beyoncé
HOT 100 SONGS
#8 Single Ladies
#24 Halo
#48 If I Were A Boy
#66 Sweet Dreams
#82 Diva
HOT RADIO SONGS
#11 Single Ladies
#25 Halo
#53 Sweet Dreams
#69 If I Were A Boy
#75 Diva
#96 Ego
Here are lots more rankings/charts of Beyonce as this decacde comes to a close:
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Bruce Springsteen: Artifacts from the legend’s career.
Radiohead: Thom Yorke and Co.’s evolution.
Kanye West: Check out the MC’s most ambitious show.
Beyoncé: Live shots from Sasha Fierce’s tour opener.
Arcade Fire: A timeline of the troupe’s live shots.
M.I.A.: The global party starter’s wildest looks.
Jack White: The many guises of rock’s multitasker.
U2: Three decades of the world’s biggest band.
Beyoncé’s videography — from her Destiny’s Child days right up to her latest solo CD — plays like a case study in bootylicious fantasy fulfillment. Whether slithering through the jungle as a scantily clad castaway in ”Survivor,” strutting through a concrete landscape in high heels and Daisy Dukes during ”Crazy in Love,” or cutting a now legendary black-and-white image in her ”Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” leotard, B’s heat has been so relentless over the past decade, you almost wonder if she’s at least partially responsible for global climate change. And then when you factor in her sexy turns in films like Austin Powers in Goldmember, Dreamgirls, and Obsessed, it makes a strong case for keeping Miss Knowles away from the polar ice caps.
