Studio Cut

NY, NY – Britney Spears’ highly anticipated seventh studio album Femme Fatale is confirmed to be released on March 29^th.

The “Hold It Against Me” video directed by Jonas Åkerlund will premiere on VEVO and will air simultaneously in its entirety on MTV right before a new episode of the network’s top-rated Jersey Shore and on MTV.com at 9:56 PM EST on February 17^th. Special teasers for the “Hold It Against Me” (ß Click to view) video have been airing on Britney.com, and will continue to air up to the premiere.

About VEVO:

VEVO is the leading premium music video and entertainment service with 1.7 billion worldwide streams and over 60 million unique visitors in the U.S. and Canada each month. Ranked by comScore as the #1 Music platform on the web, VEVO syndicates its programming to additional internet destination sites, including AOL, BET, CBS Interactive Music Group (including Last.fm), Univision and, through a special partnership, VEVO on YouTube, expanding the platform’s reach across the worldwide web.VEVO received the prestigious Advertising Age Media Vanguard Award for Online Video Platform Launch of the Year.

About MTV:

MTV is the world’s premier youth entertainment brand.   With a global reach of more than a half-billion households, MTV is the cultural home of the millennial generation, music fans and artists, and a pioneer in creating innovative programming for young people.  MTV reflects and creates pop culture with its Emmy®, Grammy® and Peabody® award-winning content built around compelling storytelling, music discovery and activism across TV, online and mobile.  MTV’s sibling networks MTV2 and mtvU each deliver unparalleled customized content for young males, music fans and college students, and its online hub MTV.com is the leading destination for music, news and pop culture.  MTV is part of MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), one of the world’s leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms.  For more information, go to www.mtvpress.com.

New York, NY – Britney Spears announces her seventh studio album is titled Femme Fatale. The iconic global superstar’s title Femme Fatale is a tribute to bold, empowered, confident, elusive, fun, flirty women and men.  It’s not a conceptual album, Spears is letting the music speak for itself. She’s worked hard on it for two years and she considers it to be her “best album to date,” true to where she is now personally and professionally.

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Sony Music releases the 2011 GRAMMY® Nominees album, the 17th edition of the best-selling series, which highlights artists and songs nominated for the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards®.

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FIRST SINGLE “WHERE YOU AT,” PRODUCED BY R. KELLY, SERVICE TO RADIO JANUARY 24

I REMEMBER ME AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER AT WWW.JENNIFERHUDSON.COM ON JANUARY 24

[New York, NY – January 20, 2011] – Grammy and Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson will release her highly anticipated sophomore album I Remember Me on March 22 on Arista Records.  The album’s first single, “Where You At,” written and produced by R. Kelly, will be serviced to radio on January 24 (a 30-second snippet can be heard now atwww.jenniferhudson.com).   The album is available for pre-order starting today on Jennifer’s website and purchasers will receive an exclusive early download of the debut single “Where You At” the week of January 24^th.

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The long wait is over.

PUPIL, with guitarist and frontman Ely Buendia, lead guitarist Yan Yuzon, bassist Dok Sergio and drummer Wendell Garcia, shake up the neighbourhood of established notions yet again with its newest album, Limiters of the Infinity Pool.

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The King of Pop showed once again that his music knows no borders as the Sony Music/Epic Records release MICHAEL – the first album in nine years of new Michael Jackson tracks. Get his new album at Astroplus, Astrovision, Odyssey and O Music for a chance to win a 16GB Apple iPad with Michael Jackson imagery.     Other prizes at stake are Sony Ericsson Spiro mobile phone and a Sony NWZ-S540 Walkman.

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Opera Belles, a new all female classical/ cross-over group, signs a record and management contract with multi-national label Sony Music. The group is composed of 3 classically trained young women namely Lara Maigue, Jam Mayoralgo and Allison Gonzales and will release their debut album soon. Present during the contract signing are: (seated) Gonzales, talent manager Karla Gutierrez, Mayoralgo, Sony Music Managing Director Rudy Tee and Maigue (standing) album producer Paulo Zarate, Sony Music Marketing Manager Mario Joson, Artist & Repertoire Director Vic Valenciano and Sales & Marketing Director Narciso Chan.

Sony Music Entertainment releases the soundtrack of the romantic comedy “Going The Distance” which stars Drew Barrymore and Justin Long. It features the song “If You Run” by The Boxer Rebellion where they also appeared.

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