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….

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.

After all of the work, success and shenanigans that have landed her at the top of a gang of Forbes “Highest Paid” list, Lady Gaga is finally ready to settle down.

And out of all the houses and all of the places where her money could take her, she’s reportedly settled on this $1.7 Million in Lititz, Pennsylvania. Don’t feel bad: we had to Google it too. It’s about an hour and a half outside of Philly.

The 6,000 square foot, four bedroom, five bath house was built in 2006 and is decked out an indoor kitchen and and outdoor kitchen, a media room, a workout room and sunroom and sits on almost half an acre of land. That’s a cottage by Hollyweird standards.

Flip through the numbers and check out Gaga’s regular rich girl house.

Oh Christmas Tree! We’re pretty sure this isn’t the only tree Snoop will spend time with this holiday. In the spirit of the season we’re sharing a few snapshots of our favorite celebrities and their Christmas trees over the years.

Keep clicking for a lil holiday cheer…

Forbes has compiled their list of the top earning women in music for 2011, and we bet you will be surprised at who is on this list…

Have a look.

Gaga is right… the nurse on the right has nice cakes!

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Poor Thang! Nobody loves Lady Gaga… Or at least that’s the story this broad is trying to sell in the January issue of Vanity Fair:

Lady Gaga gets candid with Vanity Fair about her history with relationships: “I have never felt truly cherished by a lover. I have an inability to know what happiness feels like with a man,” the singer tells contributing editor Lisa Robinson. “I say this honestly, and this is my new thing as of the past year: when I fight with someone I’m in a relationship with, I think, What would my fans think if they knew this was happening? How would they feel about my work and about me as a female if they knew I was allowing this to go on? And then I get out.”

Will her rumored romance with Vampire Diaries actor Taylor Kinney be a departure from this disappointing history? “I have this effect on people where it starts out good. Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.” But her creativity is the one thing she says she will not compromise on, no matter the cost to her romantic life. “Perhaps it’s a whose-d**k-is-bigger contest. If I go to the piano and write a quick song and play it back, they are angry with how fast and effortless it is. That’s who I am, and I don’t apologize for it. But it’s a hideous place to be in when someone that you love has convinced you that you will never be good enough for anyone. I had a man say to me, ‘You will die alone in a house bigger than you know, with all your money and hit records, and you will die alone.’” In these dark moments, Gaga tells Robinson, she has found meaning in her work: “Even though I know it sounds a bit Hallmark, whenever I [was] in that kind of stressful, worthless moment, I would think, I’ll show you.’” Gaga continues, “I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.”

Gaga says the weird thing is, after she’s left a few people, they’ve asked her to marry them. “How f**kin’ romantic, you a***ole. Sure, pop a ring on my finger and make it all better. I can buy myself a f**kin’ ring.”

Robinson spends time on the set of Lady Gaga’s most raw and personal video to date, “Marry the Night.” It is “autobiographical,” according to Gaga, and required the grueling task of “getting ready to relive the worst day of my life.” She has never talked about it before. Prior to filming a hospital scene in which Gaga, appearing bruised and drugged up, is wheeled on a gurney into a women’s clinic, she asks Robinson and a few others in her trailer how far she should go with the re-enactment; she decides to commit to it fully.

“It’s chaotic and sad. But I don’t want it to be safe,” she says.

SMH… the way this broad has prolly been “yay’d up” we’re surprised she can feel anything at all. Anyway, we thought Gaga was a switch hitter, you mean she can’t find no love even when she is smashing both teams??? Maybe if she took the drama down a notch she’d do better.

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