Ruben Studdard's new R&B album due out
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Ruben Studdard returns to R&amp;B with his third album, set for release Sept. 26. The album's title, "The Return," signifies his coming back to the mainstream after recording the 2004 gospel album, "I Need an Angel," Studdard said in a statement released Monday by J Records.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Patti Smith has revealed additional details about her next album, which, as previously reported will be an all-covers collection.
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New releases from Chamillionaire, Gloria Estefan, Thurston Moore, Motion City Soundtrack and Mary Gauthier.
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Kenny Chesney has christened his  next studio album &quot;Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates,&quot; for which a  release date has yet to be announced.
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Veteran crooner Tony Bennett will release his next studio album, "The Art of Romance," Nov. 9 via RPM Records/Columbia Records.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Beck's new studio album, "Guero,"  will be released as planned on March 29, despite an unmixed  version of the set hitting the Internet last weekend.
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Janet Jackson's boyfriend, record  producer Jermaine Dupri, has been appointed president of urban  music at Island Records, sources said on Tuesday. A formal  announcement from Universal Music Group is expected Wednesday.
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"American Idol" season five champ  Taylor Hicks will tackle songs written by Bryan Adams, Rob  Thomas and Marvin Gaye on his upcoming self-titled effort.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Hitmaking hip-hop producer Timbaland  ("Shock Value") has announced a deal with Verizon Wireless to  make the first "mobile album," which will be exclusively  available to subscribers of V Cast, Verizon's mobile  entertainment service.
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A "new" album of Beatles music mixed by their legendary producer George Martin and described as a new "way of reliving the whole Beatles musical lifespan", will be released in November.
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Taylor Hicks, below, the 2006 winner of âAmerican Idol,â has followed Ruben Studdard, the 2003 winner, out the door of J Records, The Associated Press reported. âTaylor is going to record on his own for the next album,â said Liz Morentin, a public relations representative for J, a label within Sony-BMG. Mr. Studdard left his contract with the label late last year but remains under contract with 19 Entertainment, a company managed by Simon Fuller, creator of âIdol.â Mr. Studdardâs last album, âThe Return,â sold only 236,000 copies. Mr. Hicksâs self-titled album, released in December 2006, reached No. 2 on the Billboard chart and sold 699,000 copies, failing to reach the million mark achieved by the debuts of previous âIdolâ winners, Nielsen SounScan reported.
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Can we get a hey ya! OutKast is finally coming out with a new   album.
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Mariah Carey has dubbed her next  album "E=MC2," and will release it April 15; the R&B-leaning  first single "Touch My Body" hit U.S. radio outlets this week.
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This will be the singer's third marriage.
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New releases from Korn, Chamillionaire, Trey Anastasio and Mick Turner/Tren Brothers.
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Talk about bad timing. At the start of a media blitz to support her new album, "A Public Affair," Jessica Simpson is on vocal rest.
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The only way to get a copy of Yael  Naim's song "New Soul," which is prominently featured in the  new Mac Air ad, is to buy it on iTunes. Alternatively,  consumers could purchase a physical copy of Naim's self-titled  album if they happen to be in France, where it was released in  October by label Tot ou Tard.