Kat Graham, the multi-talented star of the CW’s The Vampire Diaries, is going to paint pop sexy with ”Put Your Graffiti On Me”, her first single for A&M/Octone Records. The label is proud to announce the actress, singer, dancer and songwriter’s signing to its esteemed roster, and this partnership is about to kick off with a big bang!

Produced by Australian duo Twice as Nice [50 Cent, Pete Wentz], ”Put Your Graffiti On Me” slides from a propulsive stomp, snappy beats, and spray-paint can shaking sound into a hypnotic hook from Graham.

“Put Your Graffiti On Me” is sassy, seductive street pop with attitude and allure to spare. The song’s music video will be debuting soon, and it will also be available on iTunes and other digital retailers in the near future. Her name is about to be “tagged” everywhere.

“I wanted to come out swinging,” says Graham of the song. “I wanted my introduction to be strong and in your face. Even though the song is about tagging and art, there’s a sexual connotation. By being tagged, you’re allowing yourself to be owned in a sensual way. It’s a bit tongue-in-cheek as well. The song basically says, ‘If you want it, come and get it’. There’s no mistake about the kind of artist I am.”

There’s no mistaking the singer’s talent either. Her persona extends from the screen to studio and beyond. A born performer, she’s been starring as Bonnie Bennett on the hit television show The Vampire Diaries since 2009, and she’s appeared in films ranging from Honey 2 to The Roommate. Most importantly, she’s got the swagger to light up any stage, and she’ll be turning heads everywhere as part of A&M/Octone.

About joining the label’s family, she says, “Signing to A&M/Octone was always a dream of mine. I’ve been trying to get signed since I was 14-years-old. I wanted to be like Janet Jackson. She was the only artist I knew who came from television like I have and sung and danced. Coincidentally, she was signed to A&M. C.E.O. and President of A&M/Octone James Diener is really my hero.

He’s giving me a chance to show the world what I have. Everybody has been so supportive and behind the song. They see my vision. They let me be creative and do me.” Diener echoes her excitement adding, “The first time I heard KAT, I felt something very special. She’s going to blossom into a major star, and it’s an honor to be on this road with her. This is going to be an incredible creative partnership.”

It’s Kat Graham ’s time. She’s going to put her graffiti on You.

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This February, Bud Light – the official beer sponsor of the NFL – is taking up residence in downtown Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVI with the return of the Bud Light Hotel.

Beginning Thursday, Feb. 2, Bud Light will transform a 180-room downtown Indianapolis hotel (105 S. Meridian Street) into the premier destination for Super Bowl week entertainment. In addition to hosting exclusive parties from EA SPORTS and Playboy, the Bud Light Hotel will host a special concert featuring 50 Cent, Lil Jon and Bud Light-sponsored artist Pitbull the night before the Super Bowl and a special afternoon concert featuring the Barenaked Ladies before the game. The full Bud Light Hotel line-up of events includes:

• Thursday, Feb. 2 – EA SPORTS Madden Bowl XVIII (invitation only)
• Friday, Feb. 3 – The Playboy Party (invitation only)
• Saturday, Feb. 4 – 50 Cent, Lil Jon and Pitbull (doors open at 8 p.m.)
• Sunday, Feb. 5 – Barenaked Ladies (doors open at 2 p.m.)

Tickets for the Saturday and Sunday concerts are available throughout the Indianapolis metropolitan area, and more information can be found at www.BudLightHotel.com. Bud Light has also partnered with Yahoo! as the exclusive live broadcast partner of the Saturday night concert, ensuring fans across the country will be able to enjoy the Bud Light Hotel experience the night before Super Bowl XLVI.

The concert will be broadcast live on omg! from Yahoo!, the No.1 celebrity news site reaching more than 31 million fans per month at http://omg.yahoo.com/super-bowl-party-central and available on Yahoo! Screen (http://Screen.Yahoo.com), Yahoo!’s newly launched video destination.

“Bud Light Hotel has steadily become the epicenter of the entertainment during Super Bowl week, and we don’t know of any place in Indy where people can find a better, more diverse line-up of good times,” said Mike Sundet, senior director, Bud Light. ”And through our partnership with Yahoo!, we’ll liven up the Saturday night of music fans everywhere with the concert event of Super Bowl week.”

“The Bud Light Hotel concert has already become a signature Super Bowl week event that fans look forward to and now can experience this incredible line-up on Yahoo!,” said Ken Fuchs, VP, Yahoo! Media Network. “We are thrilled to be bringing this fantastic event exclusively to our 80 million music and sports fans around the country.”

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According to Love Our Children USA, bullying is one of the most persistent problems in America’s schools today.

It usually affects to 12-13 years old teenagers and it’s related to a physical or psychic mistreat witch, in some cases, even causes suicide.

The battering topic, unfortunately, is in the top of the list of parent’s and teacher’s worries and all kind of artists are getting involved with it.
50 Cent is one of those artists who, writing, fights against this issue.

Bullying is the main topic of his next novel, titled “Playground”,  a semi-autobiographical novel that analyze how a kid becomes a bully.
With his third novel, 50 Cent is willing to discourage bullying and make a guide for his teenage son and other adolescents.

He’s childhood will serve to contextualise a problem that, according to National Institutes of Health, affects to 1 of every 4 kids in the US.
Remember: the release is scheduled in January of 2012. We will se if, as MTV sais, this new book hits the shelves.

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Rapper 50 Cent,  real name Curtis Jackson is certainly a jack of all trades.  The mogul a jack of all tradesjack of all trades jack of all trades who became famous for singing about violence and drugs, well-known for his song, “In the Club” jack of all tradeswill be picking up his pen and paper and writing. This time he will be targeting teenagers by writing about bullying and attempting to prevent bullying in schools in his new book, “Playground.”

According to his publisher the book will make its debut in stores in January.

“I had a strong desire to write Playground because I wanted to explore how a kid becomes a bully,” the rapper said about the proposed book. “I drew on events from my own childhood and adolescence, but was excited to see the story take on its own life. This book would have been very helpful for me growing up and now that I have a teenage son, it is my goal that this will have a positive influence on all teenagers.”

The book will tell the tale about what will happen to a 13-year-old bully who has to face the consequences of his actions, RollingStone reports.

50 Cent is already familiar with the world of books; he published a memoir titled, From Pieces to Weight, in 2005 about his crack dealing days and co-wrote a self-help book called, The 50th Law, in 2008 with established writer, Robert Greene. Playground will be 50 Cent’s debut as a novelist.

Kidshealth.org reports, thousands of teens every day wake up afraid to go to school. Bullying is a problem that affects millions of students, and it has everyone worried, not just the kids on its receiving end,” Bullying has always been a problem and today with the advancement of technology it provides bullies’ more options to bully. “Bullying is when a person is picked on over and over again by an individual or group with more power, either in terms of physical strength or social standing.” 50 Cent’s book couldn’t come at a better time.

50 Cent was born on July 6, 1976 in Queens, New York and has had 5 albums
Get Rich Or Die Tryin, Bulletproof, The Massacre, Curtis, and Before I self Destruct.

50 Cent toped Forbes’ List as one of the richest rappers in 2008.

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There is no doubt in denying that Lady Gaga knows what hooks her fans in, so when it came time for her to promote her newest album, she pulled out all the stops.

As a reward for her shameless self-promotion, her newest album, Born This Way, had the highest ranking first week album sales in the past six years: 1.11 million copies of her new album were sold in its first week of distribution.

“Whenever an album sells so much in one week, people ask if it’s an indication of something broader,” said Keith Caulfield, Billboard‘s associate director of charts/retail. “She is a true pop superstar, ostensibly the biggest in the past three years. Every single is a hit. Every video is a water-cooler moment. All eyes are on Gaga.”

Lady Gaga is the first person to reach the million mark since Taylor Swift, who sold a million copies of her newest album Speak Now in its first week of distribution in November 2010. She is the only person to have actually sold over a million copies since 2005, when 50 Cent’s The Massacre sold 1.14 million.

Whether it was arriving to an awards show in an egg, dancing around in a latex outfit, having a threesome with Justin Timberlake and Andy Samburg in a Saturday Night Live short or going on morning and late-night talk shows, she was able to gain an astounding amount of publicity. Google Chrome even featured an ad that was all about the Mother Monster.

It probably didn’t hurt that she sold the whole album on Amazon for 99 cents, either. Amazon frequently offers deals on new and hit albums by selling them for $2.99. An average album costs between eight and 12 dollars on the website. There was such a response to the sale that the Amazon servers slowed.

“We saw extraordinary response — far above what we expected,” says Amazon spokeswoman Cat Griffin. “We’ve never seen this much interest in one album in such a short period.”

Ean Mering of Pomegranate, a digital media network agency, said a low-price strategy could have future benefits.

“This pricing approach will prove to be a great case study,” said Mering. “This is good move that could open up Gaga to audiences who would not previously have purchased a $7.99 record.”

“Amazon’s promotion was a great way to catch people who might have turned to other means (like cloud systems or illegal downloads) to listen to the new album,” said Alicia Dennis, music editor for interactive pop-culture magazine Zimbio.com.

Dennis, however, thinks this is just “an anomaly” and could not be easily reproduced by other artists in the music industry.

“This kind of promotion could definitely boost sales for other artists, but they’d have to have Lady Gaga’s hype working for them as well, and no one does hype like Lady Gaga.”

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