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Posted: 07 Mar 2012 08:09 PM PST


'Idol' Top 13 Night: Battle Of The Sexes
For years, "American Idol" has been a boys' game (we've had four male winners in a row, and last season, the first controversial five eliminations were all female contestants, among them shocker Pia Toscano). These developments have of course led irate viewers to wonder how the show could be "fixed" so that the girls would [...]

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 05:52 PM PST


Week Ending March 4, 2012. Songs: The Song That TV Made Famous
"We Are Young" by fun. featuring Janelle Monae jumps to #1 in its 11th week on the Hot 100. The song received two tremendous boosts from high-profile TV shows. It was featured on Glee on Dec. 6 and was used in a TV commercial on the Super Bowl on Feb.

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 03:36 PM PST


In Memory of the MTV 1980s
Back in the 1980s, before they discovered the joys of young people living together in various cities, in Winnebagos and on the Jersey Shore, MTV played music videos -- all the time. They even advertised it as 24 hours around the clock. Reading through I Want My MTV, a recent book by Craig Marks and [...]

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 02:51 PM PST


Paul McDonald & Nikki Reed Rub Their Perfect Marriage in Our Faces with New Music Video
Paul McDonald and Nikki Reed broke a million "American Idol" and "Twilight" fans' hearts back in October when they got married after a whirlwind romance, and since then they've spent most of their time in the spotlight reminding all those jealous fans just how very, very blissfully wedded they are.

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 01:20 PM PST


Snackin' With Sarah Sellers: 'Idol' Top 13 Viewing Nosh
Diehard "American Idol" viewers will remember Sarah Sellers as the geek-chic food blogger who made it to Hollywood Week last year. (Watch her Season 10 audition here.)  Sarah has since continued her food-blogging, and has been cooking up scrumptious snack suggestions for any "Idol" viewing party and posting them here in Reality Rocks each week.

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 09:30 AM PST


Week Ending March 4, 2012. Albums: Something To Remember Her By
Three Whitney Houston albums crowd the top 10 on The Billboard 200. Houston is one of just six artists to have three or more of the 10 best-selling albums in the U.S. since August 1963, when Billboard merged separate mono and stereo charts into one comprehensive listing. (Coincidentally, that was also the month that Houston [...]