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Billboard breaks down the top 100 people making it rain in the music biz:

Rankings were determined by a combination of key factors including market share, exclusive Billboard chart data/boxscore information, and revenue. A team of 15 top Billboard editors then analyzed the value of these metrics to produce the final results. The list is U.S. based. As well, the Power 100 puts a premium on the top decision makers at each company. So, for example, the strong position of Interscope’s Jimmy Iovine’s is an argument against a high position for the number-two at that company, Steve Berman, who still makes the list.

The list boasts six artists, each of whom cracked the business ranking for specific reasons. “We couldn’t weigh the power of an artist’s fanbase against the power an executive has, or this would have simply been an artist list,” says Bill Werde, Billboard’s editorial director. “Our Moneymakers list is our artist list. But certain artists were able to break through to the Power 100 based purely on their business success or innovations.”

Artists on the Power 100 include Jay-Z and Beyonce as a power couple, Taylor Swift, U2, Jon Bon Jovi and Lady Gaga.

Check out a few standouts who made the list….

Okay so we’ve heard it all. A white male lecturer who teaches women’s studies has a college course on BeyBey:

Beyoncé is known as a performer, fashion designer, Jay-Z’s missus, and arguably the most famous new mom in the world. But should she also be considered a social change agent? Kevin Allred, a doctoral student and lecturer in Rutgers’ Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, where he teaches “Politicizing Beyoncé,” thinks so – though, he says, the artist may not be “political” in the traditional sense of the word.

“This isn’t a course about Beyoncé’s political engagement or how many times she performed during President Obama’s inauguration weekend,” he says. Rather, the performer’s music and career are used as lenses to explore American race, gender, and sexual politics. Allred pairs Beyoncé’s music videos and lyrics with readings from the Black feminist canon, including the writings of bell hooks, Alice Walker, and even abolitionist Sojourner Truth.

“Politicizing Beyoncé” emerged from Allred’s four semesters teaching Women’s Studies 101 at Rutgers, during which he and his students, both male and female, often discussed the thin line Beyoncé walks as a sex kitten-cum-girl power role model.

“She certainly pushes boundaries,” Allred says. “While other artists are simply releasing music, she’s creating a grand narrative around her life, her career, and her persona.”

Course topics include the extent of Beyoncé’s control over her own aesthetic, whether her often half-naked body is empowered or stereotypical, and her more racy performances as her alter ego, “Sasha Fierce.” In-class discussions often lead to other vocalists, including Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Lady Gaga, and contemporary musicians who embrace the soul singing tradition like Adele and the late Amy Winehouse.

More academics are beginning to explore race, gender, and sexual politics through popular culture and bring such discourse into their classrooms. Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson offers a similar course, “The Sociology of Hip-Hop: The Theodicy of Jay-Z,” on Beyoncé’s rapper husband.

Allred welcomes conversation about the course, particularly from those who question the relevance of intellectual study of pop stars. “It’s important to shift students away from simply being consumers of media toward thinking more critically about what they’re engaging on a regular basis,” he says. “When students don’t respond to theory or dense readings, it’s often easier to see things play out in the world around them.”

Thoughts???

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So much for Lady Gaga and the rest of the “Born This Way” movement, in a recent interview Cynthia Nixon admits she’s not really biologically attracted to her mannish ginger.

The 45-year-old Sex and the City star, who is engaged to her longtime partner, Christine Marinoni, opened up to the New York Times about how she chooses to be gay — a viewpoint that goes against the grain of belief for many within the gay community.

“I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line ‘I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, and gay is better.’ And they tried to get me to change it, because they said it implies that homosexuality can be a choice. And for me, it is a choice,” she said. “I understand that for many people it’s not, but for me it’s a choice, and you don’t get to define my gayness for me. A certain section of our community is very concerned that it not be seen as a choice, because if it’s a choice, then we could opt out. I say it doesn’t matter if we flew here or we swam here, it matters that we are here and we are one group and let us stop trying to make a litmus test for who is considered gay and who is not.

“Why can’t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we’re just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I don’t think that they should define the terms of the debate. I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didn’t realize I was gay, which I find really
offensive. I find it offensive to me, but I also find it offensive to all the men I’ve been out with.”

Nixon was previously involved with her old college sweetheart, Daniel Mozes, and the couple has two children together — Samantha, 15, and Charlie, 9. They split in 2003 and the actress went public with her romance with 44-year-old Marinoni, a year later.

With the help of a male friend, Christine gave birth to the couple’s first child together last February, a baby boy, named Max Ellington Nixon-Marinoni.

The Huffington Post reports that America Blog writer John Aravosis is amongst those displeased by Nixon’s “choice” of words.

“It’s not a ‘choice,’ unless you consider my opting to date a guy with brown hair versus a guy with blonde hair a ‘choice,’” he writes. “It’s only a choice among flavors I already like… every religious right hatemonger is now going to quote this woman every single time they want to deny us our civil rights.”

BDR and GLAAD are probably blowing up this lady’s phone right now, trying to educate her on the damage words like “choice” can have on other gay people’s psyche.

Seriously though — is this THAT big of a deal? Isn’t it possible that some people are “born” gay while others have the option of swinging either way. Ain’t that what the Kinsey scale was all about?

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We’ll drink to that…

Although she may have been working herself to the verge of a nervous breakdown, Rihanna’s efforts are not in vain. Yesterday, Rih-Rih broke another record by becoming the first female artist to break the 2 billion (yes, “billion” with a “b”) views mark on the video-hosting site VEVO. The closest person to her is Lady Gaga with 1.8 billion looky-loos, and of course pop-prince Justin Bieber leads all artist with 2.3 billion views. Earlier this month the piff-puffin’ Bajan goddess was crowned the highest-selling digital artist of all-time.

Congrats beyotch!

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Nicki, Nicki, Nick, tsk, tsk, tsk…

After posting Nicki Minaj’s new Lil Kim diss video “Stupid Hoe”, we realized that there were a LOT of similarities between the colorful clip, and several other pop-star videos in recent memory.

Take a look at the pic below and tell us if you see what we see…

Looks to us like Lady Gaga, Rihanna, and UK singer Jessie J all have a bone to pick with the freaky, face-making’, MC AND the video director Hype Williams!

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If you’re waiting for bad luck today, you might not be the only person.

It takes a good bit of luck to reach fame and wealth. Maybe that’s why these stars are so superstitious. After reading this list go ahead and tell us if you have any superstitions that you just HAVE to follow.

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