Beyonce Surprises Fans with New Album on iTunes

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Talk about ending 2013 with a BANG!
Hustling on the Mrs. Carter tour while on a vegan diet and while Mr. Carter is grindin' on his Magna Carta Tour....Bey continues to slay the competition. Well, she technically bodied the competition.
Thursday night (PST), the Grown Woman singer dropped her highly anticipated album... The self-titled VISUAL album with NO promotion....NO warning. Just a little teaser on Instagram.
The album contains 14 tracks and 17 videos- whaaaat?!

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Yup, you no longer have to wait for your favorite song's video to appear. It's already there.
Bey fans were highly emotional and ecstatic over the release.
The album features a major who's-who including: Jay Z, Drake and Frank Ocean and Blue Ivy. Justin Timberlake co-wrote the songs "Rocket" and "Partition," and Pharrell, Timbaland, Ryan Tedder, Miguel and Sia also co-wrote tracks.
Talk about an All-Star collaboration! 
Cop the album here for $15.99

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Peep some of the visuals:

Katy Perry's Teasers for "Roar"

Okay, enough with the teasers already!
Can it be August 12th yet because I cannot wait to hear Katy Perry's new song Roar.
The anticipation from these teasers is killing me!
I think having teasers for fans is an amazing marketing tool artists have been using lately.
Roar is the new single off of Perry's upcoming album Prism, which is due out in October.
From the looks of these short videos, Perry is saying goodbye to her Cotton-Candyland phase and entering back to her roots Circa 2007-8!

Jay-Z Announces New Album "Magna Carta Holy Grail"

For those of you watching the NBA Finals Sunday night, you most likely caught the commercial that Jay-Z will be releasing his 12th studio album this summer!
For those of you who missed it:


Makes sense, considering he'll be kicking off the Legends tour with Justin Timberlake this summer too.
What makes this album unique is that Jay will be teaming up with Samsun to promote the album.
Hov is such a marketing genius!
According to the New York Times:
"... the company is giving away a million copies to its cellphone subscribers as a promotion.
Jay-Z, the Brooklyn rapper, announced the deal with a three-minute commercial during halftime of the NBA finals on Sunday night. The album, “Magna Carta Holy Grail,” will come out on July 7, but it will be made available free three days earlier to Samsung subscribers through a mobile application."

20/20 Experience to be Released into Two Parts

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Say what?!
Justin Timberlake revealed at this album release party on Monday that "The news that this is only the first half of the album, that's true. That's all I'm gonna say!"
This follows up the rumors after ?uestlove from The Roots revealed that Timberlake will be releasing a second album coming in the Fall. According to MTV.com, "Spoiler alert," he wrote on the Okayplayer.com message boards. "20/20 Vol. 2 comes out in Nov. 10 songs now ... 10 songs later = 20 vision." 

This makes total sense, since J.T's album only has 10 songs on it, well.....+2 if you buy the album from Target.

Man, just give me the ENTIRE album so I'm ready for Legends this summer!!!