Justin Bieber and Bruno Mars have both been officially added to one of the hottest tickets of the year: the 2012 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which will go down in December. Justin and Bruno will be both hitting the stage, along with Rihanna. [PopCrush]
Is Mumford & Sons more popular than Justin Bieber? If you go by the numbers, you would have to say yes. The indie band’s sophomore album, Babel, has scored the biggest numbers for a debut album this year. The album sold 600,000 in its first week, almost double the amount Justin Bieber’s Believe album (374,000) sold. [Billboard]
Say it ain’t so! Recently, Universal Music Group and EMI Group merged together. It looks like one of the casualities of this merger will be the iconic Now That’s What I Call Music series, which has been making teenie boppers dance since 1983. [SPIN]
Last Saturday, while performing at the Global Citizen Festival, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl told the crowd: “This is it, man. We don’t have any [shows] after this,” adding fuel to the fire that the iconic group was breaking up. Well, according to Dave, the break up rumors are false. However, the band will be going on hiatus. Dave released a statement saying that they will take an extended break but that he “can’t give up this band.” [NME]
Keyshia Cole‘s new album, Woman to Woman, will drop on November 20th. Check out the album’s defiant-sounding second single “Trust and Believe.” [Rap-Up]
