The MoMo Show

Everyone knows about Justin Bieber‘s sudden raise to success, with help of his founder and project manager Usher.  With all the hype around the kid, to add to the every growing media attention, Snoop Dogg has revealed that he thinks Justin Bieber is ‘cool’. A source told us that the rapper is going head-to-head with Bieber in this week’s Billboard Abum chart and Snoop has said he has ‘no problem’ battling with the 16-year old.

Bieber has released his second album “My World 2.0” whilst Snoop is hoping to hit the top spot with his 11^th studio LP More Malice. Talking about the competition, Snoop said: “I don’t have no problem with that. That’s what the industry was made on.”

Snoop continued: “I wish him luck and success, hopefully his record will do what it’s supposed to do.”. Bieber has been promoting his new album like a madman, and has high hopes for new US single “U Smile”. The Baby singer said of his latest efforts: “The song is amazing. We really love the song, so we decided to cut it. It’s really amazing.”

With all fairness, it’s time (yes, even me!) to stop in one way or another “hating” on “JB”. It’s clear that Justin Bieber has got a strong team working behind him, with songs being written by hit makers Ne-yo and The Dream we can finally see that the Island Def Jam music group has finally got a successful project for 2010 – but that’s at a huge cost! (isn’t that right Mariah and Rihanna!? – well at least the kid can sing)

With Usher making his new come back to the music industry ( and his ex-wife), he’s is set to release his sixth studio album ‘Raymond vs Raymond’ on March 29th!

While a number of songs have been rolled out thus far – some billed as ‘traditional singles’ and others ‘buzz’ singles, we have received word from the the singer’s label confirming that ‘OMG’ will serve as ‘Raymond vs Raymond’s’ first International release. (yay! thank god it’s not “Papers”, that died out like VHS!). The 30 year old Usher, echoed the news on Twitter a few hours ago, announcing that he is shooting the video with Black Eyed Peas front-man will.i.am – who produced and features on the song.

Of course I’m excited for this entire release, however – with the entire Billboard charts edging into this European Dance music vide, R&B is going to struggle and that means R&B artists will need to drop the hardcore R&B beats for their tracks to become slightly Air Play friendly. With Usher the brand being continuously strong and till this date Usher has never a commercial failure during his music career. Although, after receiving a few samples of the new album i’m confident that the singles lined will chart, however with Ke$sha, Rihanna and Justin Bieber pushing their new music around his release date could see some problems for the new single “OMG” to listen (more…)

So while everyone is jumping on this kid like crazy (and i mean CRAZY!), lets take a few minutes to remind ourselves who this Justin kid is!

He was discovered on YouTube by Scooter Braun, who later became his manager. Braun flew Bieber to Atlanta, to consult with Usher and soon signed a record deal with Island Records, where he began his professional career. His first album “My World” didn’t preform well on the Billboard charts in the first three opening weeks, however later on the album was certified platinum (oh goodie!).

I’m not going to say i’m hating on this kid! but being 15 and singing some of these songs i’m slightly disturbed! Although Bieber’s main target audience are young teenagers, that doesn’t stop Island Records from putting Usher, Drake and Ludacris (oh my!). But for his fan’s MoMo has confirmed there will be a world tour, and more details will be released by the Island Def Jam Music Group