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Christina Aguilera showed off her slimmed down figure in a sexy black outfit at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday.

Country star Faith Hill has brushed off rumors that she's set to join the judging panel on America's The X-Factor. Speculation over who will replace the outgoing Britney Spears and Antonio 'L.A.' Reid has been heating up as the talent show's production date for the new season approaches, and although former Destiny's Child star Kelly Rowland and ... (more)

Pitbull 's song "Feel This Moment" has been the de facto theme song for ABC's Dancing with the Stars this season, so it's no surprise that the rapper will be appearing on the show's big finale on Tuesday night.

The result of Miguel's stage dive was similar to WWE superstar Zack Ryder's finishing move, the "Rough Ryder." While performing his hit song "Adorn" at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, Miguel attempted to jump from one stage platform to the other.

Not sure what that means? Well, check out the top five moments from Sunday night's 2013 Billboard Music Awards: The R & B singer accidentally landed on a woman in the mosh pit during a performance of his hit song "Adorn." He was attempting a jump that went wrong.

The blasting horns sampled from The Chi-Lites' "Are You My Woman " ring out, the sound of a jangling cymbal being taken for a walk sizzles under the infectiously catchy purr of "uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh- oh no no." The 808 laced drums crack and pop as if they're frying under the hot Texas summer sun.

Superstar Prince joined a party of nine, including his three bodyguards, for late-night eats at Society Cafe in Steve Wynn 's Encore.

Nicki Minaj, who is set to perform with Lil Wayne, won the first award for top rap artist, beating out Drake, Flo Rida, Pitbull and Psy.

Kanye West returned to SNL tonight, in anticipation of his new record "Yeezus," confounding his audience with a pair of thrilling, proto-punk-sounding tracks called "Black Skinhead" and "New Slaves". The first performance featured West giving some primal screams and chanting lyrics over a pulsing tribal beat and Suicide-like electro-rock punk ... (more)

In the Coen brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis," Justin Timberlake sings music set to a very different beat than "Suit and Tie." Timberlake plays a bearded pop folkie in the film, which was to premiere Sunday night at the Cannes Film Festival, about the music scene of early 1960s Greenwich Village.

Although the only two folks confirmed to be returning to the X Factor judges panel for the reality competition's upcoming third season are Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato , it appears that this will all change on Monday afternoon - as that's when the two latest recruits will be announced! We start x factor auditions in charleston on Tuesday.

The 'Next To Me' singer originally studied neuroscience before her music career took off and although she is thrilled with how things have turned out, she hasn't ruled out combining the two fields in the future.

Seattle duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis have joined several other artists in supporting the Nature Conservancy's "All Hands on Earth," a worldwide movement that encourages people to take small steps to take care of the planet.

F amous fam ily, sort of: British singer Emeli Sande got her first taste of fame when she and her parents moved from her mother's native England to the rural town of Aberdeenshire in northern Scotland.

A crime scene technician, right, searches a purse at the scene of a homicide near the intersection of 12th and Peralta Streets on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, in Oakland, Calif.

'The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.' Daisy Buchanan from 'The Great Gatsby' gets to be reincarnated on the film's soundtrack under the guise of artists such as Beyonce, Lana Del Ray, Sia and Florence Welch.

Star-studded collaborations are on tap for Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards, airing live on ABC from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Email: smccauley@mondotunes.com Website: http://www.mondotunes.com The musician known as HDot has released her newest official single, titled, 'I Am Me.' The song is a dancehall anthem with a hip hop heart that features HDot at her finest.

The Sugarhill Gang's disputes with Sugar Hill Records over identity theft and unpaid royalties are the subject of a new documentary.

The NBC singing contest said Friday that Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green will return for "The Voice" Season 5, joining Adam Levine and Blake Shelton.