Big News: Christina Aguilera shoots promo clip for The Voice

Hoping to rework that reality TV show magic that has done wonders to Jennifer Lopez' career, Christina Aguilera is pinning her hopes on The Voice, a competition that will focus on raw talent. While the judges on Idol are being Mr and Miss Softies, I'm hoping Christina, Adam Levine (of Maroon 5), Blake Shelton and Cee Lo Green, who make up The Voice' judging panel, will be able to bring some much-needed negativity (ironically).

In a new promo clip, Aguilera is shown relaxed, comfortable, and able to poke fun at herself messing up the lyrics of the National Anthem at the Superbowl. Hmmmm. I'm kind of intrigued now. I'd like to see how this show pans out.

Big News: Jennifer Hudson will open the Grammys alongside many others for an Aretha Franklin tribute!

A superstar line-up that includes Jennifer Hudson, Christina Aguilera, Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine, Martina McBride and gospel singer Yolanda Adams are confirmed to open the Grammys with an Aretha Franklin tribute of five songs. They will open with Natural Woman, before each took on their own Aretha tune. During the rehearsal, Christina was first with Ain’t No Way, Martina sang Until You Come Back to Me next, then Florence followed with Think.

Jennifer took on Respect and Yolanda finished things up with Spirit in the Dark. The ladies then all closed with the Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves.

MTV was there to interview Jennifer for a bit and she said that "Rehearsals are going, and went, very well. It’s a lot of fun, and just being amongst the other ladies and being around some of my favorite artists, and then tributing Aretha Franklin, it’s just like surreal. And it’s a moment you just have to take in and enjoy it, and I’m like on cloud nine just in that moment."

When it came to song selection, Jennifer mentions that they were chosen for them. "I know that had to be the hardest job because Aretha has like catalogues of music. And I remember when they asked me to submit a list and I’m like, 'Oh my God! Where do I start?'"

Check out the video below. These ladies are going *slides into a Randy Jackson-esque claim* "to blow it out the box".

MTV Shows

Christina Aguilera - Bound To You Studio Performance

Christina Aguilera shouldn't despair right now - her flick Burlesque is doing marginally well, and picked up two Golden Globe nominations (one of them was for her contribution to the soundtrack Bound To You). After that nomination, Sony Pictures has released a brand new in studio performance of the track. We can all see Aguilera's voice is detiorating, but she has a beautiful tone when she's not oversinging. Plus, if she picks up that Golden Globe, Aguilera may be heading into her fifth album era with a couple of accolades and a successful film under her name.

Christina Aguilera - The X Factor Final

Rihanna wasn't the only superstar The X Factor (UK) brought in to duet with one of the finalists. Joining Rihanna was Burlesque star Christina Aguilera who did a duet with Rebecca Ferguson (whom I'm rooting for), performed Beautiful together. We could all tell Rebecca was starstruck and couldn't properly perform the song but hey, not everyone can go from wannabe popstar to sharing the stage with someone like Christina Aguilera.

After that, Aguilera performed Express from the Burlesque flick. It's nice to see Aguilera landing big stages, promoting Burlesque the way Bionic should've been promoted. Singing the crap out of that song, Aguilera did a similar performance on the AMAs, and sure she's gotten a little more meat on her bones, but I don't care. Girl's still got a great voice.

Christina Aguilera - Burlesque + Beautiful live on Dancing With The Stars

After a fabulous performance at the American Music Awards, Burlesque star Christina Aguilera has been everywhere performing songs from the soundtrack, promoting her upcoming flick. Aguilera has been on top of her game with all the Burlesque performances lately, nailing every single one of those performances. Aguilera was on Dancing With The Stars to perform Burlesque and got her Beyonce on and nailed that performance. She then followed it up with Beautiful, one of her biggest hits to date. Vocally, it was fine, but you can tell that her voice is detiorating with age. It's not exactly really bad but that wasn't her best vocal performance of Beautiful and her high notes aren't as glorious as they used to be. But she still outsings almost all her contemporaries right now so no complaining.

Christina Aguilera - Express live @ AMAs 2010

Popping up everywhere to promote her latest upcoming flick Burlesque, Christina Aguilera took to the American Music Awards to perform Express from the official soundtrack. Of course, Aguilera was vocally as on point as ever, and her look harks back to the Back to Basics era. Even though her stage props/set-up wasn't as ginormous as some of the other stars on the AMAs, Aguilera made the most of what she got and basically slayed that performance.

Christina Aguilera on Ellen

Christina Aguilera continues promotion for her first role on the big screen Burlesque. Aguilera chatted with Ellen about being festive (again), life as a single mother (again), and her son Max (again). But Ellen and her audience sing a birthday song for the songstress who turns 30 this December.

And things get even better. Aguilera slayed Something's Got A Hold On Me which is on the Burlesque soundtrack and it takes her back to where she's best: soul-meets-classics-meets-pop.

Christina Aguilera on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno

Christina's BAAAAACKK! I know I said this with Bionic but I think Burlesque could really seal the deal for the struggling singer who's lost a bit of her popularity releasing Bionic. After that, she went through a very public divorce, becoming a single mum, suffering from serious media backlash etc. Her life is finally getting back on track and she seems genuinely happy now. Check out Part 1 of the interview above and Part 2 of the interview along with a performance from the Burlesque soundtrack called Bound To You.

Big News: Christina Aguilera returns to the studio

Like every good popstar with an album labelled as a 'flop', Christina Aguilera is ready to move on. The music star has a new movie Burlesque coming out, but it's been a rough past couple months for her following her highly publicised divorce with ex-husband, suffering media backlash with fourth studio album Bionic which is her least successful record, selling less than a million copies worldwide, and is the UK's lowest selling #1 album in chart history. Ever. Bummer.

But the singer's recent interview with InStyle shows that she's ready to move on. The songstress says that the next album will be "introspective" and have "a different vibe" and that "I think now we're back to going a little deeper, in the vein where I recorded my Stripped record, which was very personal and more introspective."

But I hope Aguilera can write a couple of songs her own, we know how well that did for Taylor Swift.. Can't wait.

2011: Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake (rumoured), and now Christina Aguilera?! BRING IT ON.

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Billboard Update

Eminem and Rihanna's humongous collaboration on Love The Way You Lie are still at #1 on the Hot 100 this week. Katy Perry's second single Teenage Dream, as I predicted, has moved up this week to #5 while first single California Gurls has moved up one spot to #3. Taylor Swift's new single Mine has dropped to #8 this week after debuting at #3 last week. Jason DeRulo continues to round out the top 10 with Ridin' Solo holding at #10 this week. Ke$ha has entered Top 20 territory with her latest single Take It Off making a move up to #20 this week. OneRepublic sits just outside the Top 40 with Secrets moving up 10 spots to #41 this week. Adam Lambert's latest single If I Had You hits a new peak of #42. Sara Bareilles' latest single King of Anything rebounds up to #53 up from #64 last week. Katy Perry will release singles to iTunes in anticipation for second album Teenage Dream and last week's track Circle The Drain makes a debut at #58. Rihanna's latest single as a solo artist Rockstar 101 makes a move up to #64 this week while Miranda Cosgrove's Kissin' U makes a move up to #69 this week. Ne-Yo's Champagne Life and Fantasia's Bittersweet both hit new peaks at #75 and #79 respectively. Starting to think there could be a resurgence in R&B after this dance/pop craze is over. Daaughtry's latest single September makes a move up to #91 this week.

Eminem has returned to the top spot of the Billboard 200 albums chart while the Camp Rock 2 soundtrack makes a debut at #3. Miley Cyrus' latest album Can't Be Tamed falls to #40 this week. Selena Gomez & The Scene's debut album Kiss N Tell stay at #55 this week. Thanks to the success of Love The Way You Lie and Rockstar 101, despite not even shifting a million units, Rihanna's latest album Rated R moves up to #65 from #89. Katy Perry's debut album One of the Boys is also moving up, this week to #79 up from #90 last week. In its 10th week, Christina Aguilera's latest album Bionic falls a spot to #84. Sara Bareilles' debut album Little Voice has re-entered the chart at #96 thanks to the success of King of Anything, her latest single taken from sophomore album Kalaidescope Heart to be released in September.