Since then, both artists have released new albums, but to polarized results. Rihanna managed to crack the top 10 of Billboard magazine’s Hot 100 with “Russian Roulette,” “Hard” and “Rude Boy,” while Brown barely made a dent with “I Can Transform Ya” and “Crawl.”

As the publication’s Artist of the Year for 2008, Breezy should be able to bend the charts at will, something he seemingly did ever since stepping onto the scene in 2005 with his debut single, “Run It.”

That power is quickly slipping from his grasp, as he made a plea to his fans for some help. In an audio message posted on SayNow.com, Brown basically says he’s still being blacklisted from radio, despite his many (many) apologies and his good behavior obtained by serving his sentence.

But the fans don’t seem to be turning out, buying fewer albums and not calling in to request for his songs. Could the lack of support lead Chris into an early retirement? We asked the Predicto Mobile community and 75% of voting players say that he WON’T quit the music-and-performing game.

“Chris has already been through a lot and just because he is going through a tough [time] doesn’t mean he is going to quit doing something,” says member “ztnc3168.”

“He will keep trying to make a comeback,” says “thbn2341.”

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The red-hot country trio of Charles Kelley, Dave Haywood and Hillary Scott just scored their first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 album chart, Need You Now.

With the initial success of their sophomore effort, attention is turning back to the album’s title track. “Need You Now” peaked at No. 5 on Billboard’s Hot 100 back in November of 2009, but the group recently introduced the song to non-country music fans during a performance at the Grammys on Sunday.

The nationwide audience has responded quite positively to Lady Antebellum, pushing the single to the No. 1 position on iTunes over the last few days.

With its pop appeal and ear-pleasing melodies, will “Need You Now” be able to power past acts such as Ke$ha, Lady GaGa, Taylor Swift and Young Money to claim the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100? Despite its performance thus far, only 37% of Predicto Mobile players say yes!

Read what voters had to say about the song’s chart-topping potential!

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The Minneapolis native has been soaring up the charts since the 1970s with such recognizable hits as “1999,” “Little Red Corvette” and “When Doves Cry.” As a talented musician, he’s inspired a generation of artists with his sometimes raunchy but always funky melodies.

Will lightning strike now that it’s 2010? His Purpleness recently recorded a song called “Purple and Gold,” an unofficial fight song for his hometown Minnesota Vikings. The football team is set to take on the New Orleans Saints on Sunday for the title of NFC Champion. Whoever wins this matchup goes on to the Super Bowl.

The song — which sounds a little more like a prep school fight song than one made for gridiron gladiators — has been making the rounds on the Internet. His Majesty was also seen at last week’s game, where the Vikings knocked the Cowboys out of contention.

The coincidence between Prince’s color of choice and that of the Vikings is uncanny, but will his choice of lyrics rally the Vikings to adopt his composition as the team’s official fight song? 59% of voting Predicto Mobile members say yes!

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While everyone everywhere was running at such a crazily high speed, Taylor Swift went another way, slowly but surely winning people’s hearts. Already, at the tender age of 20, she has achieved more than 20 Top 40 hit songs, an MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video and hosted Saturday Night Live. She even picked up the distinction of being chosen as Entertainer of the Year by the Associated Press. She’s also the official celebrity spokesperson of the National Hockey League, along with being the cover girl of a slew of magazines. Not a bad way to close out the decade, wouldn’t you think?

The party doesn’t end there, either! Taylor Swift has been nominated to win no less than the prestigious Album of the Year award at the Grammy Awards on January 31. It comes hand-in-hand with nods for Best Country Album, Song of the Year,  Best Female Vocal Performance for “You Belong with Me” and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for her song “Breathe” with Colbie Calliat.

To many fans, this is no surprise: her second album, Fearless, has been simply dominant on the charts, going straight to No. 1 and staying on track to be one of the most downloaded albums ever. Fearless is also a critics’ darling, hailed by connoisseurs and casual fans alike. It ended the year as the best-selling album, beating back stiff challenges from artists such as Susan Boyle, who finished second, and the late great Michael Jackson, who finished third according to Billboard.

So will Taylor Swift ride it to the end with a Grammy in tow? She’ll have to stand up to the competition there, and stiff it will be. The Album of the Year award is also being chased by Lady GaGa for smash hit The Fame, Dave Matthews Band’s Big Whisky and The Groogrux King, the Black Eyed Peas techno-inspired hip-hop opus The E.N.D. and R&B diva Beyoncé’s I Am … Sasha Fierce.

Jokes of Kanye West interrupting her to laud Beyonce again aside, the Predicto Mobile community has spoken and come away with Taylor being the favorite to win, with 78% of the vote saying that yes, she will win Album of the Year.

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The Grammys, music’s biggest night, will take place on Sunday, January 31. While a number of prominent musicians are on the performance roster, few are as showstopping as Beyoncé and Lady GaGa.

Beyoncé has done everything from being lowered to the stage while hanging upside down to bringing out an entourage of ladies to punctuate her pivots and poses.

GaGa, on the other hand, has integrated fake blood, piano playing and a ball and chain into her repertoire.

What if the two combined their power of performance into one massive one musical mash-up?

It’s not out of the realm of possibility. The two teamed up for a pair of songs from their most recent albums, “Telephone” (from GaGa’s) and “Video Phone” (from Beyoncé’s), with the latter receiving the video treatment.

Will the pair partner up for a one-off rendition of the chart-topping hit at the Grammys? According to the Predicto Mobile community, 86% of voting members say yes!

“It would b a great show starter,” says member “argn4583.”

“They’re gonna steal the show with their performance,” says “cayl7288,” who voted yes.

“I like both of them and I don’t think they would like to perform that song,” says “ksvy0943.”

“I want them to do individual songs,” says “lddy9339.”

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The puck-ish stars of ‘Big Time Rush’ — Kendall, Logan, James and Carlos — are melting hearts on the new Nickelodeon series about four hockey players who set out to become teen idols. They gave us a power play of pop predictions, including their take on Adam Lambert, this year’s Grammy Awards and what the future may hold for the members of that “other” boy band, the Jonas Brothers. Plus, find out which celeb crushes the four hotties are harboring in this interview exclusive!

Check out Episode 57 of Predicto TV now!

Early last year, Lady GaGa announced her interest in designing her own clothing line, which would promote her unique style and would cater mostly to the teen audience. She expressed genuine enthusiasm in the project, saying she couldn’t wait to do her own line within the next year. Well, it is now “next year” and we are all wondering what has become of her little fashion project.

Many are of the opinion that it is a definite possibility that Lady GaGa will launch her own fashion line. She already has a large degree of creative license in her own personal and performance clothing style. The fact that she continues to design her own clothing and accessories means that she has an immense drive to create and express herself, not only through music, but also through what she wears. Whether or not she is as enthusiastic at sharing her style with others now as she was last year remains to be seen.

There is also the question as to whether or not Lady GaGa’s fashion will fly among today’s trend-savvy teens. After two extremely successful album releases, we are confident about Lady GaGa’s influence in the music industry. Some say the release of her clothing line will rock the very foundations of modern fashion. Others say her fashion sense is simply too eccentric to be developed into a mainstream fashion line. Even some fans of Lady GaGa admit that — as much as they love her music and admire her bold sense of style — they are not quite sure whether they can wear clothes the way Lady GaGa does.

But we’re not asking about the Lady GaGa’s line’s potential for success. We are asking how soon it will be released.

Currently, 72% of the Predicto community has voted yes, we just might be seeing a “House of GaGa” sometime soon, whereas 28% disagree.

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Which makes Andy Samberg’s nomination (as part of the comedy trio Lonely Island) for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration even weirder. How has a goofy actor from SNL broken into a category that features rap heavyweights like Jay-Z, Kanye and T.I.?

It helps that “I’m On A Boat” isn’t his first foray into critically acclaimed song parodies. It may seemed to have debuted ages ago (it was only 2005) but “Lazy Sunday“ was an online smash that helped define YouTube as the destination for must-see video clips. This song also reminds us that once upon a time, people were really excited about seeing the Chronicles of Narnia.

Samberg and his Lonely Island cohorts have been churning out the catchy Yankovic-eque tunes ever since. “Lazy Sunday” was a viral hit, but “Dick in a Box” won him and Justin Timberlake Emmy awards.

Who would have imagined that a Color Me Badd impression would wow the world, and then spawn an equally successful sequel with “Motherlover“, featuring cameos by A-listers Susan Sarandon and Patricia Clarkson?

But to be honest, we think that Jake Gyllenhaal’s one-second appearance in “I Ran So Far Away” was the best of the lot. And for a song dedicated to a highly controversial world leader, it’s oddly romantic.

Then there’s “Jizz in My Pants.” Yep, the title says it all. And just recently, Samberg teamed up with Rihanna on “Shy Ronnie”, which is worthwhile just to hear Rihanna sing in disgust, “He’s pissed his pants.”

And of course, there’s his Grammy-nominated hit “I’m On A Boat”, a pitch-perfect parody of rap video excess, with its obnoxious use of Auto-Tune and a gratuitous T.I. appearance.

So can a catchy but fake rap song beat out the real thing? The Predicto Mobile community believes that Samberg and his Lonely Island friends will be go home empty-handed on Grammy night, with 66% predicting they’ll lose the prize. As SNL’s Debbie Downer would say, wah wah.

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50 would like to add another artist to his roster of musical buddies: the one and only Susan Boyle!

The Scottish singer took the Internet by storm with her audition on Britain’s Got Talent. She recently released her debut album, which sold more than 700,000 copies in the United States alone. Not bad for someone who was an unknown just last year.

50 clearly wants to hop on the success express train that Boyle is conducting, but is he talented enough to score a duet with the Simon Cowell protégé? 53% of voting Predicto Mobile members say yes!

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Besides being voted runner-up on season eight of the hit show and coming out in (and scoring the cover of) Rolling Stone, Glambert has caused quite the stir with his performance at last week’s American Music Awards. The stage show featured Adam kissing a male keyboardist, simulating oral sex with a dancer and finishing it all by flipping off the audience at in the venue and at home.

ABC, the network which aired the AMAs, soon canceled Adam’s scheduled performance on Good Morning America, and just pulled his upcoming appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.

While he’s a bane to ABC, he was soon scooped up by CBS’ Early Show and has replaced his sit-down with Kimmel for one with Jay Leno on his primetime program.

The controversial contender seems to be a lightning rod for attention from his fans and curious spectators. Will that draw be enough to secure a performance spot for him on another network’s New Year’s Eve special? 68% of voting Predicto Mobile members say yes!

“Maybe on Fox,” says member “thbn2341.”

“He committed career suicide,” says “Genemoney.”

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