Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Ashanti performed at the 2008 J&R MusicFest on August 23, 2008.  at City Hall Park in New York City on August 21, 2008.  Electronics superstore J&R Musicworld sponsors the annual live outdoor concert event.  Ashanti’s  fourth studio album, The Declaration is in stores now.

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Ashanti “Foolish” video J&R MusicFest 2008 August 23, 2008



Ashanti “Rock Wit U” and “Happy” video J&R MusicFest 2008 August 23, 2008

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Video & Photos: J&R Musicfest 2008 Ashanti 8-23-08

Madonna kicked off her Sticky and Sweet World Tour in Cardiff, Wales at The Millennium Stadium on August 23, 2008.

“Queen of pop” Madonna entered the stage on a throne on Saturday as she kicked off her world tour, and defied her age with athletic dance routines before tens of thousands of screaming fans.

The U.S. singer, who turned 50 a week ago, opened her “Sticky & Sweet” tour at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, with “Candy Shop”. She wore a black leotard-style outfit designed by fashion house Givenchy and black, knee-length boots.

For her second number, “Beat Goes On”, Madonna drove along the stage catwalk in a white car from which she emerged wearing a white top hat.

U.S. rappers Pharrell Williams and Kanye West, who featured on Madonna’s latest chart-topping album “Hard Candy”, appeared in video clips, as did Britney Spears.

Madonna will be hoping to shatter her own record for the highest-grossing tour ever by a female artist and prove that the musical master of reinvention still has what it takes to pull in crowds young and old.

“It was so charismatic,” said Paul, from the Welsh city of Newport, after the show. “I don’t believe she’s 50. She’s more like 30.”

“I think she’s amazing,” added Morgan, a young girl from Cardiff. “I want to be that way when I turn 50.”

During the show Madonna played around 20 songs which spanned a career of nearly three decades, including “Like A Prayer”, “Into The Groove” and “Hung Up”.

The concert moved from a homage to 1920s art deco to the early 1980s music scene in New York, the city where, according to online biographies, Madonna moved in 1977 to pursue a career in dance with just $35 in her pocket.

Promoters Live Nation, who recently signed Madonna to a 10-year deal reported to be worth $120 million, said Madonna and her band clocked up 653 hours of rehearsal time before launching “Sticky & Sweet”.

The tour comprises some 50 dates and is due to wrap up in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on December 18.

As of Thursday, roughly half the tour venues had yet to sell out including Cardiff, although Live Nation announced in June that the tour was on target to gross more than $250 million.

Guinness World Records list Madonna as the world’s most successful female recording artist of all time and she has sold around 200 million albums. The Sunday Times estimates Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie’s fortune at around $600 million.

Source: Madonna defies age as world tour kicks off

As Madonna kicked off her international “Sticky and Sweet” tour Saturday night, she took a none-too subtle swipe at the presumptive Republican nominee for U.S. president.

Amid a four-act show at Cardiff’s packed Millennium Stadium, a video interlude carried images of destruction, global warming, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, Zimbabwe’s authoritarian President Robert Mugabe _ and U.S. Senator John McCain. Another sequence, shown later, pictured slain Beatle John Lennon, followed by climate activist Al Gore, Mahatma Gandhi and finally McCain’s Democratic rival Barack Obama.

Source: Madonna’s “Sticky And Sweet” Tour: Madonna Slams McCain During Show

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Click for video: Madonna - Die Another Day (Live Sticky & Sweet Tour) Cardiff / Opening Night August 23, 2008

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Video & Photos: Madonna Sticky and Sweet Tour Kicks off in Wales 8-23-08

Danity Kane and Donnie Klang made appearances on MTV TRL, on August 21, 2008, promoting the new season of Sean Diddy Combs’ MTV series Making the Band 4 Season 3.  In addition to discussing Making the Band, Danity Kane members talked about their new clothing line, Danity Kane for Dollhouse Jeans and Aubrey O’Day discussed her new role in the Broadway musical Hairspray.

Aubrey O’Day, Aundrea Fimbres, Dawn Angelique Richard, Shannon Bex, and Wanita Woodgette comprise the girl group which was established in 2005 on the third installment of MTV’s Making the Band.  Danity Kane’s sophomore album Welcome to the Dollhouse was released in March, 2008 and debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart.

Donnie Klang, a Making the Band 4 winner, was awarded a solo contract with Bad Boy Records. His debut album Just a Rolling Stone will be released on September 2, 2008.

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Video & Photos: Danity Kane and Donnie Klang on MTV TRL 8-21-08