Singers Robin Thicke and Rihanna can say this year was full of happiness in their successful music careers. Robin recalls a time where he when Lost Without U were indeed a hit song– as two well known celebrities told him beforehand long before its release. Rihanna, on the hand, immediately didn’t believe Umbrella is such a catchy song after hearing a brief recording of it .

GQ Magazine has an interesting interview on these two from Rihanna’s finding her signature look to Robin turning down offers he did refuse.

Click here to read the article.

Pictures from GQ

By the way, I had to say Robin looks stiff like a Ken doll in the ’spanking’ picture. And I wonder if Rihanna rethink her decision of taking those type of pics with Robin.

Robin Thicke, Rihanna, GQ Magazine

Congratulations to Robin Thicke as he won Breakthrough Artist of the Year Vibe Award! Other winners included are Beyonce who was honored at the ceremony and received two awards for R&B Artist of the Year and Vstyle Award for her fashion sense.

T-Pain- Song of the Year (Buy U a Drank)

Rhianna- Video of the Year (Umbrella)

Timbaland- Producer of the Year

Lil Wayne- Hip Hop Artist of the Year

Kanye West- Mixtape of the Year (Tell Me Nothing

Shop Boyz- Ringtone of the Year (Party like a Rockstar)

Fabolous- Best Collaboration (Make Me Better)

Jay-Z- Vibe Props

Will Smith- VHollywood (honors the success of artists who surpasses their excellence beyond music)

One of the many celebrities making an appearance at the show are, Alicia Keys, Keyshia Coles, Wyclef Jean, Dallas Austin, Nelly, Common, Snoop Dogg Big Boi, Farnsworth Bentley, Q Tip and Rodney Jerkins

The VH1 Soul Presents: Vibe Awards will be aired tonight 9pm on VH1Soul and hosted by rapper, Eve. The special will repeat on Monday (10pm) November, 19 on VH1.

Robin Thicke, Beyonce, T-Pain, Rhianna, Timbaland, Kanye West, Eve

Push is directed by Lee Daniel , who produced the movies, Monster’s Ball and the Woodsman. “Push is “as important to me as ‘Roots,’ and I’m honored that Sapphire entrusted me with her book,” said Daniels.

Daniels recently finished the production of the film Tennessee, starring Mariah Carey .

Paula Patton, Mo’Nique, Lenny Kravtiz, Lee Daniel, Mariah Carey

As stated in my previous post, Robin Thicke will be continuing his tour this fall in the U.S. The month-long tour will be starting on Nov. 11 in Englewood, CO. After his performance in Colorado, he will make his way to the east coast and finally ending the tour in California on December 13.

Here are the additional tour dates below.

November 2007

11 Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre
13 Indianapolis, IN - The Vogue
14 Milwaukee, WI - The Rave
15 Saint Louis, MO - The Pageant
19 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
25 Chicago, IL - Park West
26 Grand Rapids, MI - Intersection
28 New York, NY - Webster Hall

December 2007
1 Atlanta, GA - Center Stage Theatre
2 Charlotte, NC - Amos’ Southend
4 Orlando, FL - The Club at Firestone
5 Miami, FL - Pawn Shop Lounge
9 Los Angeles, CA - Avalon Hollywood
13 Long Beach, CA - Vault 350

Robin Thicke, tour

Lately Robin Thicke has been with his Evolution Tour nationwide and overseas. But Robin isn’t going to stop not just yet. For the UK fans out there, the singer will be doing more shows in London later this year. Here are few of the dates:

December 17 2007 in Birmingham, UK at the Carling Academy Birmingham
December 18 2007 in Manchester, UK at Manchester Academy
December 20 2007 in London UK at Indigo 2

also

In November a concert will be held in Saint Louis, MO on the 15th at The Pageant and another in Minneapolis, MO on the 19th at First Avenue

Tickets are on sale right now. Find out more information at TicketsNow.

Source: Pollstar

Robin Thicke, Evolution Tour, TicketsNow

Beyoncé Knowles and Justin Timberlake are the frontrunners at this year’s American Music Awards.
The superstar singers have both been nominated for three prizes at the 35th prestigious music awards, announced Tuesday.

Timberlake is up for male artist in the Pop/Rock section, while his album ‘FutureSex/Lovesounds’ features in both the Pop/Rock and Soul/Rhythm and Blues categories.

Beyoncé could be crowned female artist in both the Pop/Rock and Soul/Rhythm and Blues sections, while her album ‘B’Day’ features on the Rhythm and Blues shortlist.

Linkin Park and Daughtry, the band fronted by former ‘American Idol’ contestant Chris Daughtry, also received three nominations.

Linkin Park’s ‘Minutes to Midnight’ will fight it out with Daughtry’s self-titled debut release for Pop/Rock Album.

Linkin Park could also collect the award for best Band, duo or group in the Pop/Rock genre.

Daughtry face stiff competition from Norah Jones and John Mayer in the Adult/Contemporary category.

The band will battle it out with the Plain White T’s and ‘Lost Without U’ star Robin Thicke to be named New artist in the Breakthrough section. Nominees were initially selected based on their record sales, then whittled down after 15,000 members of the US public were asked to pick their top three artists in each section.

Celine Dion, Fergie, Rihanna and Daughtry are all set to perform at the prestigious awards ceremony in the new L.A. Live venue in Los Angeles on November 18.

The event will hosted by comedian Jimmy Kimmel.

Source: Az Central

The 2007 American Music Awards press conference is set on Tuesday October 9, at the Beverly Hills Hotel Sunset Ballroom– announcements will be made 9:30am PST.

from BusinessWire.com

WHO: Participants include Jimmy Kimmel, host of the 2007 American
Music Awards; Robin Thicke, writer/producer/singer; Larry
Klein, producer of the 2007 American Music Awards; Terry
Bateman, Chief Executive Officer of dick clark productions,
inc.

MORE: Nominations for the 2007 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS will be
announced for awards presented in a total of 20 categories,
including Pop/Rock, Country, Soul/Rhythm & Blues, Rap/Hip
Hop, Latin Music, Alternative Music, Contemporary
Inspirational and Adult Contemporary categories.

Winners will be announced Sunday, November 18, at the NOKIA
Theatre L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles, during the 2007
AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS presentations ceremony, which will be
broadcast live on ABC and is produced by dick clark
productions, inc.

American Music Awards, Jimmy Kimmel, Robin Thicke, dick clark

After the commercial success of his sophomore album, Robin Thicke has already planned on creating a third one, MTV Canada reported. Thicke tells MTV about his need of a break from writing and his excitement over the new album in the works.

I have a vault of music, and I half about half a new album that I’m excited about. Besides that I realize that I been writing songs for about fourteen year’s straight. And I would really like to take a couple months off of not writing songs. I just want to take a break for a few months.

For the past summer, the singer has been an opening act at the Beyonce Experience Tour. Recently he played a few shows overseas but will be back in the U.S for a concert Saturday in Atlantic City New Jersey.

After all the promoting and touring, Robin definitely deserves a much needed rest.

As I forgot to mention, E! news announced that today is the one-year anniversary of the release of the CD, The Evolution of Robin Thicke! A great album by the way, that truly shown the talent and art of this musicial genius.

Robin Thicke, MTV Canada, Beyonce Experience Tour, E!, The Evolution of Robin Thicke

Robin Thicke has taken off to a good start since The Evolution of Robin Thicke released last year. Apparently the artists he recently collaborated with has a quite few hassles– 50 Cent pushed his album, ‘Curtis’ back twice, a major outrage with the release of his video, Follow My Lead (were unbeknownst to him) and selling less albums than his competitor, Chicago rapper Kanye West. Now Eve’s anticipated album, Here I Am is facing the same problem (except videos is not secretly linked out to the public without her knowledge, of course). Eve talks about her delayed album in this Billboard article.

Eve’s new album, Here I Am, has been pushed back once again, and is now due in 2008. The first single from the CD, “Tambourine,” has already been spinning on the radio for a while, and a new track, “Give It to Me” featuring Sean Paul, has been at radio for several weeks. It was previously reported that Robin Thicke, T.I. and Dr. Dre all contributed to Eve’s new work. “I wrote this album after a breakup,” Eve told Billboard in June. “So it’s very ‘Look who’s single’ and flirty. I wanted to make a happy, good summer album that you can play when you’re getting ready for the club.” Here I Am will be Eve’s first album since 2002’s Eve-olution.

On one of her tracks, Eve’s song Fantasy features Robin– the two performed the song together at a show in New York in August. The single is yet to be released.

Source: Billboard

Robin Thicke, Eve, Here I Am

Some people are never happy. Soul singer Robin Thicke sang with Pharrell at the Mobos, then had dinner with Naomi Campbell - but he wants more.

The Lost Without U singer, 30, enjoyed a sell-out gig at London’s Koko club on Monday.

But when we bumped into him afterwards, he told us: “You’ve made it when the crowd start throwing their panties at you on stage.

“That didn’t happen tonight, but hopefully next time!”

Does his wife know?

Source: Mirror UK

Mirror UK, Robin Thicke, Pharrell, Naomi Campbell