• Justin Bieber Named Highest Earning Entertainer Under 30, Beating One Direction, Taylor Swift

    Even though the last year or so has been a PR nightmare for Justin Bieber, that does not mean his career is in the tubes. According to "Forbes," Bieber is the highest earning entertainer under 30 for 2014, bringing in $80 million "thanks mostly to cash from the tail end of his last world tour."At 20, Bieber is also the youngest person on the list.Coming in at second place is One Direction, who have collectively brought in $75 million, while the queen of New York City Taylor Swift comes in third with $64 million — it helps that she released the only platinum album of 2014.Of the 10 entries on the list, nine are musicians, with the sole exception being Academy Award-winner Jennifer Lawrence, who comes in at seventh place with $34 million.

  • New 'Jurassic World' Trailer Features John Williams Theme from 'Jurassic Park' and Other Similarities from Original [WATCH]

    Millennials rejoice: The new trailer for "Jurassic World" is here and it gives a few shout-outs to the original "Jurassic Park," which came out in 1993. The trailer features the career-hot Chris Pratt in the leading role, a futuristic park and a genetically modified dinosaur because the regular ones were getting boring. Thankfully, the original movie's presence is undeniable in the trailer, "Billboard" notes.OK, so the plot is technically different in that the "Park" is now a "World" and things seem to be peaceful. That all changes when Bryce Dallas Howard's ("The Help" and "50/50") character reveals that scientists have been messing around with dinosaur genetics in order to create a super monster — silly scientists! Pratt is reminiscent of Sam Neill in the original, if only because of his nerdy vest and unfortunate predicament.Other similarities from the trailer include two children heading to the amusement park sans parents, the mosquito with dino DNA that started the whole franchise and the epic John Williams theme music. Head to the 1:50 mark to here the spine-tingling piano version of the theme. There is no sign of any villainous Wayne Knight character, though.

  • Rick Ross Shares Music Video for 'Hood Billionaire' Title Track [WATCH]

    Rick Ross's most recent studio album, "Hood Billionaire," was released yesterday, Nov. 24, and today the Florida rapper has shared the music video for the album's title track, which you can check out below. Not that much happens in the video: Ross raps at the camera, flaunts some cash in a dark room and is occasionally interrupted by a few quick shots of the streets — it is not clear what streets exactly — as well as some real-life footage of Ross sitting courtside at a Miami Heat game.But what makes the video unusual is that is it peculiarly bookended by short promos for "Hood Billionaire" and the upcoming fourth installment of Maybach Records's Self Made compilation series, as well as some shout-outs to rappers Stalley, Meek Mill and even some advertisements for Wing Stop and Luc Belaire wine.It feels like you are watching the video in a movie theater — a crappy movie theater, but still. Since this is not a particularly hooky track — or even a star-studded one, since Ross appears on his own — it seems as if this video was made as more of an advertisement for the album as a whole rather than just for this one song.You can check out Rick Ross's music video for "Hood Billionaire" here:

  • AC/DC Special SiriusXM Channel Goes Live November 26 in Advance of 'Rock or Bust' Release

    AC/DC will be the next act to get its own, temporary SiriusXM channel. AC/DC Radio will air tomorrow, Nov. 26, through Sunday, Dec. 7, on Channel 25. Midway through the exclusive run, the band's new album, "Rock or Bust," will be released Dec. 2, and the station will be playing cuts from it, the band's back catalog and tunes usually heard on the Classic Rewind rock channel, Blabbermouth noted.A conversation with frontman Brian Johnson and legendary axeman Angus Young will air Thursday, Nov. 27, at 12 p.m. The Town Hall installment will have the boys answering questions about their career from a SiriusXM audience of die-hard fans. It will be moderated by producer Brendan O'Brien, who worked on "Rock or Bust" and 2008's "Black Ice." Visit the Town Hall website for more information.AC/DC dropped music videos for "Play Ball" and the title track recently, and fans can stream the new album over at iTunes in advance of its release.

  • Sleigh Bells Share Music Video for Tink Collaboration 'That Did It' [WATCH]

    Brooklyn noise pop duo Sleigh Bells have shared the music video for their Tink collaboration "That Did It," which you can check out below. The Grant Singer-directed clip features Sleigh Bells singer Alexis Krauss grooving along to the track with Tink in what looks like a mansion with a bunch of motionless people just hanging around. Sleigh Bells guitarist Derek E. Miller does not make an appearance, though he does get a brief shout-out during one of his guitar fills.You can check out the music video for Sleigh Bells and Tink's "That Did It" here:

  • Jake Owen Shares Emotional 'What We Ain't Got' Music Video [WATCH]

    Country star Jake Owen has shared the music video for his latest single "What We Ain't Got," which you can check out below. The highly emotional video is pretty bare bones and features Owen singing the song while the camera focuses on several people who have overcome or are overcoming some sort of adversity, including a cancer patient, a prisoner and a paraplegic.According to "The Boot," most of the people who appear in the video are not actors and are actually suffering from the afflictions they are portraying."I think it was just important to have real people and real scenarios in this song to help with the message of it," Owen says of the video.One of the people who appears in the video — the first person to appear after Owen — is the song's writer Travis Meadows, who wrote the song about his own troubled life.

  • Salt-N-Pepa Reunite with 'Push It' in Geico Commercial [WATCH]

    There are few tracks that have stood the test of time since the 1980s like Salt-N-Pepa's iconic "Push It." Even today, you will hear the instantly recognizable, spacey '80s synths carrying through the mix just about everywhere. Now insurance company GEICO has decided to call on the brilliance of the classic "Push It" for a new commercial.To make things even better, GEICO managed to get Salt-N-Pepa to be in the commercial themselves and perform the songs to a variety of different situations that required people to push things, via CNBC.The trio follows individuals onto an elevator, telling a woman to push a button; into a prenatal exercise class, imploring a woman to push it — though maybe not yet; and then onto a dummy sled, coaching football players to once again push it. The commercial could have at least plugged in the turntables or hooked them up in some way to seem less like a plastic prop, though that is getting picky with such a great commercial.

  • Joni Mitchell Halts Biopic About Her Career Starring Taylor Swift

    If you were looking forward to that Joni Mitchell/Carole King/Carly Simon biopic "Girls Like Us," then today, Nov. 25, you are out of luck. In an interview with "The Sunday Times," via "NME," Joni Mitchell revealed that she has pulled the plug on the project, citing the casting of Taylor Swift as one of the primary reasons."I squelched that!" Mitchell admitted. "I said to the producer, 'All you've got is a girl with high cheekbones.' It's just a lot of gossip, you don't have the great scenes.""There's a lot of nonsense about me in books," Mitchell went on to say, "assumptions, assumptions, assumptions."The now-halted film was based on the book "Girls Like Us" by Sheila Weller, which followed the rise of Mitchell and her singer-songwriter contemporaries Carly Simon and Carole King during the 1970s. Swift was cast as Mitchell back in 2012, with "Mad Men's" Jessica Pare cast as Simon and "The Newsroom's" Alison Pill cast as King.

  • Beyoncé Posts Visual Album To VEVO Including Music Video For "Haunted" [WATCH]

    It has been almost a year since Beyoncé released her surprise self-titled audio-visual album. The effort has finally made its way to Spotify, and music videos have now been uploaded to VEVO — the latest being the track "Haunted," which soundtracks the trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey. Todd Tourso served as the creative director for the visual, which was directed by Swedish film and music director Jonas Åkerlend.

  • One Direction Surpass One Billion Spotify Streams: New Album 'Four' Helps Band Join the Likes of Eminem, Katy Perry

    Even without Taylor Swift, it seems like Spotify and the artists that stream their music are doing just fine - especially One Direction. Today (Nov. 25), it was announced that the "Night Changes" band is the newest act in the service's history to exceed one billion plays. Following the release of its latest album FOUR, 1D join the likes of Eminem, Rihanna, Coldplay and Katy Perry in the one billion-plus club.

  • First Authorized Kurt Cobain Biopic Coming to HBO, Executive Produced By Daughter Frances Bean Cobain

    HBO has announced the released of the first fully authorized documentary on the late Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain. Titled Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. Although other Cobain and Nirvana films have been made in the past, this upcoming documentary is the first to be made with full cooperation of Cobain's family. Oscar-nominee Brett Morgen (Crossfire Hurricane, On the Ropes) wrote, directed, and produced the project and was given access to Cobain's entire personal and family archives, Rolling Stone reports.
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