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I Got You (3:05) breakdown far earlier. -KM Producer: NV Writers: K. Thompson, S. ROCK Thompson, J. Sellers, P Jenkins THEORY OF A Publishers: various DEADMAN Stoney Creek Records Lowlife (3:10) Thompson Square's last single, "Are You Gonna Kiss Me Producer: Howard Benson DJ KHALED

or Not ?," hit No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs Writer: Theory of a FEATURING chart earlier this year after a 36 -week climb, and helped Deadman DRAKE, RICK make this twosome one of the breakout country acts of Publishers: Warner/ ROSS & LIL 2011. Husband and wife team Keifer and Shawna Chappell/Robot of the WAYNE Thompson continue to build momentum with "I Got Century (BM!) I'm on One (5:17) You," an energetic follow -up that could become a sum- Roadrunner Producers: T- Minus, mertime hit. The track, which focuses on true relation- In advance of its fourth full - N Shebib ship bliss, not only boasts a driving melody and wholly length, "The Truth Is ...," Writers: various engaging vocals from the duo, it also begins its chart Canadian rock band Theory Publishers: various climb as Thompson Square gets ready to support Jason of a Deadman has rolled out We the Best/Cash Aldean on his summer tour. As the pair tries to reach the "Lowlife," a glorification of Money/Universal same summit as "Kiss Me," "I Got You" has all the ingre- tastelessness that plays like a Motown/UMRG dients to be its next chart -topping hit. -DEP trashier version of Nickel - DJ Khaled has be- back's "Rockstar." Although come the master of the track is sonically little not rapping on or ELECTRONIC /DANCE choly vocal even arrives. more than sterilized radio - producing songs FEDDE LE GRAND, Meanwhile, Dutch DJ Fedde rock fare, this ode to white - where he gets top SULTAN & NED Le Grand and Montreal -based trash life is awash in public in- billing. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing -the Terror Squad DJ- turned -hip -hop SHEPARD progressive house specialists toxication, drug dealing and impresario has the clout to unite rap's biggest names for blockbuster clinics in braggado- FEATURING MITCH Sultan & Ned Shepard bring misogyny -like an episode of cio. "I'm on One," the first single from the upcoming "We the Best Forever," is no excep- CROWN their respective funk and "Cops" set to music. "I got a tion, with the presence of Drake, Rick Ross and a zonked -out Lil Wayne allowing Khaled Running (Festival Mix) shimmer to the proceedings. beer -stained T- shirt, looking to excuse himself and let these titans run wild. Over a sticky, slinky synth and a beat that (8:23) "Lord, I've been running so like Joe Dirt /Something rises and falls almost arbitrarily, Drake croons before impressively spitting, Ross lets loose Producers: Fedde Le Grand, long /Running from change," about me's just not right," with his husky growl, and Wayne somehow exhibits his superiority while sounding indif- Sultan, Ned Shepard croons Crown, backed by a frontman Tyler Connolly ferent. Despite Khaled's outlandish personality, it's hard not to love him for unleashing Writers: various faraway piano and a tense sings. Unfortunately, when he tracks like "I'm on One." -JB Publishers: various high hat that hint at the drop follows up with, "You can't Flamingo Recordings to come. "Running" is a little change something you don't Some dance tracks flash their trance, with its foggy chords; understand," Connolly is ulti- anthems are salutes to excess Deadman have seemingly set however, the pop singer has epic scale from the first kick a little electro, with a muted mately a bit misguided. Al- and shirked responsibilities, their sights on the lowest released "Right There," the drum, and the dancefloor- synth whir in the drop; and a though a slew of great rock the members of Theory of a common denominator, and third single from solo album ready "Running" is one such little house, by virtue of hav- it's not a flattering angle. -EL "Killer Love" that features bomb, with three minutes of ing a traditionally melodic straightforward lyrics and a tantalizing buildup before vocal..The aptly titled "Festi- POP colorful vocal performance singer Mitch Crown's melan- val Mix" takes a shorter path NICOLE from Scherzinger. After 50 SCHERZINGER Cent opens the track by rap- FEATURING 50 ping about morning romance, JASON DERÜLO CENT Scherzinger sensually croons Don't Wanna Go Home (3:25) Right There (4:22) in response, "Me like the way Producers: The Fliptones Producer: Jim Jonsin that you hold my body /Me Writers: various Writers: various like the way that you touch Publishers: various Publishers: various my body," as a slow drumbeat Beluga Heights /Warner Bros. lnterscope pulses in the background. The How does a song like Harry Belafonte's U.S. audiences will be seeing song's Caribbean style, un- "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" suddenly become a radio Nicole Scherzinger a whole heard in Scherzinger's Pussy- staple in 2011? After producer Bangladesh sampled the clas- lot more this fall when the for- cat Dolls output, reminds the sic tune for Lil Wayne's "6 Foot 7 Foot," Jason Derülo mer Pussycat Doll joins Simon listener of Rihanna's influence returns with a new single that pumps Belafonte's hook full Cowell as a judge on "The X on pop music and serves as a of electro -pop steroids. Unfortunately, the Miami singer's Factor." In the meantime, nice touch. -AK use of the "Day -O" lyrics (as well as a sample of Robin S' "Show Me Love ") doesn't transform its blueprint into an 1p[0:1pnV MAN 01 aP]I 14-1 inventive new product, as Derülo did with Imogen Heap's EDITED BY MITCHELL PETERS All albums commercially available Say." Instead, "Hide and Seek" on breakout single "Whatcha (ALBUMS) AND JASON in the United States are eligible. Derülo is relegated to singing club -ready platitudes over a LIPSHUTZ (SINGLES) Send album review copies to Mitchell Peters at Billboard, 5055 familiar backing track, which sounds stale in the listener's CONTRIBUTORS: Jem Aswad, Wilshire Blvd., Sixth Floor, Los Gallo, Alisa ear. Derülo and production duo the Fliptones have proved Jon Blistein, Phil Angeles, CA 90036 and singles Kolenovic, Jessica Letkemann, Wanna Go Home" review copies to Jason Lipshutz their unique talents before, but "Don't Jason Lipshutz, Evan Lucy, Jillian at Billboard, 770 Broadway, silences their skills and opts to recycle past hits in head - Mapes, Kerri Mason, Gail Mitchell, Seventh Floor, New York, N.Y. Deborah Evans Price, Mikael scratching ways. -JL 10003, or to the writers in the Wood appropriate bureaus.

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