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Kanye West has backed out of a scheduled performance on NBC's "Today" show after getting upset with how his interview with host Matt Lauer this week was handled. West's record company confirmed the cancellation to "Today" on Friday after the rapper said on his Twitter account that he wouldn't perform. He was scheduled to appear Nov. 26, part of a promotion drive for his new disc, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy," which is being released Nov. 22.

Lil Wayne already has four children with four different women. Now he's learned he might have fathered a fifth.

Amid the deluge of holiday music that comes in November and December, Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas II You and Susan Boyle’s The Gift are poised to make all those other seasonal crooners sound like off-key carolers.

Jim Morrison died in Paris in 1971 while his appeal against the conviction was pending. The charismatic but unpredictable lead singer of American rock band The Doors could be about to receive a posthumous pardon almost 40 years after being convicted of exposing himself on stage.

He may have died a year and a half ago, but Michael Jackson is still climbing the pop charts. Last night, a posthumous release that s sure to be a hit was posted on the late King of Pop website....

Taylor Swift fans have spoken - more than a million times. The country pop superstar sold more than 1 million copies of her new album "Speak Now" to debut at the top of the Billboard album chart this week.

Randy Travis and Wife Divorce, Country singer Randy Travis and his wife-manager Elizabeth Travis have made their divorce final.

Randy Travis and his manager wife Elizabeth Travis finalized their divorce Friday after 19 years of marriage, The Associated Press reports.

The superstar singer confirmed on NBC's "Today" show Thursday that she and husband Nick Cannon are expecting their first child. Carey says the baby is due in the spring.

Billy Ray Cyrus and wife Tish are ending their 17-year marriage. The parents of teen sensation Miley Cyrus have filed for divorce. In a statement released Wednesday, the pair said it was a "very difficult time for our family."