Debuting Three years ago with the his album “Lockep Up:”., Akon the #1 Hip Hop R&B Rapper has not looked back. This year he was chosen as the Billboard’s top artist award.

The singer’s “Konvicted” album, released in November 2006, may not have reached No. 1 on The Billboard 200, but its steady performance aided Akon’s rise to the top of the pop heap. “Konvicted” spent its first 30 weeks lodged in the top 30 of The Billboard 200 after its bow at No. 2. u While Akon ends the  year at No. 1 on the Top Artists recap, “Konvicted” ranks just behind Daughtry’s self-titled album at the peak of the Top Billboard 200 tally.

Akon is also a heavyweight champion on the Billboard Hot 100 songs recap , where he earns six placing on the tally: as a guest on Gwen Stefani’s “The Sweet Escape” (No. 3), T-
Pain’s “Bartender” (No. 33) and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s “I Tried” (No. 58), and with three of his own songs, “I Wanna Love You” (No. 8, featuring Snoop Dogg), “Don’t Matter” (No. 11) and “Smack That” (No. 15, featuring Eminem). For his updated biography you can simply visit http://www.idolme.com/artist/akon.html which provides an in-depth analysis of his life.

During his tenure in the show biz Akon kept busy himself with other top artists like Timbaland, 50Cent, etc. The Jive singer was frankly inescapable on The Billboard Hot 100 in 2007, notching numerous solo hits as well as smashes with the likes of Beyoncé, 50 Cent and Timbaland.

Website Parisexposed.com has reportedly got its hands on some personal material belonging to Paris Hilton after a storage unit auctioned them off and they are putting more footage online.

The site got this stuff at the auction when she could not keep up with the repayments, Thesun.co.uk reported. (more…)

Angelina Jolie’s head peers out from luminous, turquoise water in a dark cavern littered with decaying bodies and skeletons.

She is moving slowly toward her prey. Trailing Jolie is a long, thin, twisting gold tail.

“I love my tail,” Jolie laughs during an interview in Los Angeles recently. The water scene is the first time audiences of her new, ground-breaking digitally-enhanced live action film, Beowulf, see Jolie’s face. (more…)

No celebrity is more poised to make a dramatic comeback than troubled pop superstar Britney Spears. Things have got so bad for the singer lately, both professionally and personally, that there is only one way to go from here - up.

As Spears attempts a comeback with her just released album “Blackout”, all eyes are on her to see how she redeems herself. Britney’s slide down to shame has been long and dramatic and sometimes hilarious. She shaved her head, abused drugs, divorced Kevin Federline and lost custody of her children to him, displayed her behind not wearing underwear, and was responsible for one of the worst and most embarrassing performances by a superstar when she sang at the MTV Video Music Awards recently. (more…)

Atonement star Keira Knightley has been named film actress of the year at the Variety Club Showbiz Awards in London.

The 22-year-old said she was “so honoured” to be praised by such an “extraordinary organisation”, with her win on the back of an Oscar nomination for her role as Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice and critical acclaim for her work in Joe Wright’s Atonement. (more…)

‘Star Wars’ beauty Natalie Portman has topped a list for the 20 most stylish women in tinsel town.The list was complied by In Style magazine, which choose the actress because “she exhibits unwavering faith in the cut and quality of a great dress.”

Coming in close on her heels was Drew Barrymore, who beat best pal Cameron Diaz to the second spot. (more…)

R&B singer Beyonce Knowles has revealed that blaming her clothes for the tumbles she takes wouldn’t be fair because she is used to taking a spill every now and then.

The 26-year-old singer, who slipped and fell during a concert in Orlando in July, said that she her clothes are not responsible for her falls. (more…)

Recently Joss Stone had introduced her new album but the people of Britain didn’t like it. It may be because earlier in the year joss was criticized for her confused American ascent at the British award and even though she insisted it was just because she’d been so busy and surrounded by Americans and not a rejection of her heritage, she feels her home country has now turned its collective back on her.

She said recently: “It’s funny because the only country that hasn’t liked my album is my own. It’s just like, ‘Well, thanks guys!’” (more…)

The ‘Dirty’ singer - who is six months pregnant with her first child with husband Jordan Bratman - admitted it is difficult to avoid temptation but is very aware of the consequences of her actions.

She said: “Sometimes I wish I could go out to a party or a club and just be able to be free, but there’s a consequence with the temptation - you know you’ll feel it the next day when you wake up. There are too many things I have to accomplish.” (more…)

The Oscar-winning actress and her French-Canadian supermodel boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry, are expecting a baby boy, according to her friends.

“She’s so excited,” a source told PageSix. “She says she’s never been happier than now, when she’s pregnant.” (more…)