Tina Files for Divorce from Mathew

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.

READY TO CATCH THE FEVER – BEYONCE’S 1ST FRAGRANCE!

Beyonce just launched her very first personal fragrance – HEAT! Just a few minutes ago, her team launched READY TO CATCH THE FEVER where you can hear a brand new version of “Fever” sung by the Queen herself and watch an exclusive preview commercial (you can see it below as well). HEAT will launch in EARLY 2010! More information will be added to this post or in new ones as news comes. Are you ready to catch the fever?

Official Billboard 2009 Year End Charts

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

BILLBOARD 200 ARTIST
#3 Beyoncé

BILLBOARD 200
#2 Beyoncé I am…Sasha Fierce
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More Decade-End Charts/Rankings!

Here are lots more rankings/charts of Beyonce as this decacde comes to a close:

The Voices:
Artists of the Decade
Bruce Springsteen, M.I.A. and six other artists who defined the 2000s.

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.

- Rolling Stone

Radio Songs Artist
Beyonce ranks #1 as the artist with the most airplay this decade on Billboard.com!

EW: Beyonce is a Hottie of the Decade

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.

EW: Beyonce is the #2 Entertainer of the 2000s

Looking back over the past decade — a span in which she’s stepped away from Destiny’s Child to become a megasuccessful solo artist, landed her first leading film roles, married the planet’s biggest hip-hop star — Beyoncé, 28, cherishes one memory above all others: the night she sang the Etta James classic ”At Last” at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball in Washington, D.C., last January. ”I don’t usually watch my performances, but I have looked at this one over and over,” the 10-time Grammy winner tells EW. ”I just want to relive that moment. It was history and it was really magical.” For millions of fans around the world, those words could describe practically any time Beyoncé enters the spotlight. She’s the ultimate diva: a superhuman force of nature, casting powerful spells with her high notes and hip shakes. —Simon Vozick-Levinson

Beyonce is the 2nd Artist with the Most #1’s this Decade

Beyonce logged the most visits to the penthouse of Billboard’s main singles chart, the Hot 100, during the first decade of the 21st century. The No. 1 veterans here have been ranked by how many chart-toppers they score.

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Beyonce
No. 1 songs (peak date in parenthesis):
“Crazy In Love” w/ Jay-Z(7/12/2003);
“Baby Boy” w/ Sean Paul (10/4/2003);
“Check On It” w/ Slim Thug (2/4/2006);
“Irreplacable” (12/16/2006);
“Single Ladies” (12/13/2008).

Rolling Stone’s Best Songs of the Decade

60. “Irreplaceable”
That acoustic guitar surge, courtesy of songwriter Ne-Yo, gives Miss B the courage to throw a no-good boyfriend out of the house. Yet another reason to love Beyoncé: at 13 letters, this was the longest one-word song title ever to hit Number One, breaking the 12-letter record set by “Superstition.”

50. “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)”
With a helping hand from The-Dream and Tricky Stewart, Beyoncé issued her definitive statement for ladies stuck in limbo with a dude who can’t commit. The swinging beat was irresistible, the video was jiggletastic, and the message was clear: Get it together, fellas.

03. “Crazy In Love”
The horns weren’t a hook. They were a herald: Pop’s new queen had arrived. Beyoncé’s debut solo smash, powered by that sampled Chi-Lites brass blast, announced her liberation from Destiny’s Child and established her MO: She’d best the competition by doing everything sassier, bigger, crazier.

I Am… Tour #15 Tour of the Year

Beyonce’s I Am… Tour is the #15 Tour of the Year according to Billboard. Here are the stats:

Total Gross: $57,138,765 Number of Shows: 57
Total Attendance: 697,093 Number of Sell-Outs: 25

Setlist Essential: “Single Ladies”

I Am… Yours Hit #1!

I’m sorry I didn’t post this last week, but I Am… Yours hit #1! This is fantastic, but who doubted it would?

Who’s Justin Bieber’s Celebrity Crush?

Rising star Justin Bieber has already stolen the hearts of tweens across the country, but the 15-year-old pop sensation reveals to OK! that Grammy winner BeyonceKnowles is the one who makes his own heart throb.

“My celebrity crush is Beyonce,” Bieber confesses to OK! after hitting the stage with the youngest ever American Idol winner Jordin Sparks at Z100’s Jingle Ball on Friday, “She’s amazing.”

The adorable pop artists even jokes about his new found infatuation telling reporters at Madison Square Gardenthat, “My favorite candy is Beyonce.”

But, given the large gap in age and the fact that Beyonce, 28, is happily married to rapper Jay Z, Justin may have to settle for someone closer in age.

Luckily, Bieber knows exactly what he wants in a woman when the time is right.

“I look for a girl who has a nice smile, and pretty eyes, and a girl that can make me laugh, because I love to laugh,” the singer, wearing a walking cast after tripping on stage a few weeks prior with Taylor Swift in London, opens up to reporters.

Justin, who sings about love in his new hit single “One Less Lonely Girl,” released his debut album My World with the help of R&B mentor, Usher, in November.

Behind the Scenes of “Video Phone”

Beyonce Tops with TEN 2010 Grammy Award Nominations!

Nominations for the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced tonight by The Recording Academy and reflected an eclectic mix of the best and brightest over the past year in music, as determined by the voting members of The Academy.

Beyoncé topped the nominations with 10, Taylor Swift garnered eight, and the Black Eyed Peas, Maxwell, and Kanye West each earned six nods. David Guetta, Jay-Z and Lady Gaga received five each; and Colbie Caillat, Michael Giacchino, Kings Of Leon, John Newton, RedOne, Bruce Springsteen, T-Pain, and Keith Urban each received four nominations.

Beyonce is nominated in the following categories:

• Album of the Year – I Am… Sasha Fierce
• Record of the Year – Halo
• 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 (Put a Ring On It)
• Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance – At Last
• Best R&B Song – Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)
• Best Contemporary R&B Album – I Am… Sasha Fierce
• Best Rap/Sung Collaboration – Ego Featuring Kanye West
• Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media – Once in a Lifetime
View the complete list of nominees here.

CONGRATULATIONS, BEYONCE!! She made an incredible album and these nominations show it!

Beyonce: Artist of the Decade

It was 10 years ago that Beyoncé Knowles announced herself to the world, with the Destiny’s Child hit Independent Women. Since then the 28-year-old singerhas made the decade’s best single, delivered the greatest live show on earth, sung for President Obama and emerged as our last true star.

Why Beyoncé? Why this stunning 28-year-old singer/performer/actress/businesswoman from Texas now married to one of the decade’s other biggest stars, and worth something like $87m a year to boot, and not, well, take your pick…? Because she made not one but two of the decade’s greatest singles, with Crazy in Love and Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), not to mention her hits with Destiny’s Child; and this was the decade when singles – particularly R&B singles – regained their status as pop’s favourite medium. (But her three solo albums? Pretty fabulous, too.)

Because at a time when the ubiquity of TV talent shows put the onus on those who could cut it live more than ever, she and not any superannuated rock star was arguably the greatest live performer of the past 10 years.
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