Lady Gaga (born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta; March 28, 1986) is an American recording artist. She began performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side. She soon signed with Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records, upon its establishment in 2007. During her early time at Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists and captured the attention of Akon, who recognized her vocal abilities, and had her also sign to his own label, Kon Live Distribution.

Her debut album, The Fame, was released on August 19, 2008. In addition to receiving generally positive reviews, it reached number-one in Canada, Austria, Germany, and Ireland and topped the Billboard Top Electronic Albums chart. Its first two singles, "Just Dance" and "Poker Face", co-written and co-produced with RedOne, became international number-one hits, topping the Hot 100 in the United States as well as other countries. The album later earned a total of six Grammy Award nominations and won awards for Best Electronic/Dance Album and Best Dance Recording. In early 2009, after having opened for New Kids on the Block and the Pussycat Dolls, she embarked on her first headlining tour, The Fame Ball Tour. By the fourth quarter of 2009, she released her second studio album The Fame Monster, with the global chart-topping lead single "Bad Romance", as well as having embarked on her second headlining tour of the year, The Monster Ball Tour.

Lady Gaga is inspired by glam rock musicians such as David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, as well as pop music artists such as Madonna and Michael Jackson. She has also stated fashion is a source of inspiration for her songwriting and performances.^[1] To date, she has sold over ten million albums and over thirty-five million singles worldwide.^[2][3]

Taylor Alison Swift (lahir 13 Desember 1989; umur 20 tahun) adalah seorang penyanyi berkebangsaan Amerika Serikat. Dia merilis lagu pertamanya yang berjudul "Tim McGraw", dari album pertamanya yang juga berjudul Taylor Swift, yang telah menjadi multi-platinum dan disertifikasi 4x Platinum di US. Pada tanggal 11 November 2008, ia merilis album keduanya yang berjudul Fearless, yang penjualannya meroket, dan telah disertifikasi 6x Platinum dari RIAA. Fearless pun menduduki posisi pertama Billboard 200 untuk 11 minggu, adalah minggu terbanyak dibandingkan dengan album-album lainnya dekade ini. Swift dinamakan Billboard sebagai "Artist of the Year" untuk tahun 2009.

Pada Februari 2010, ia mendapatkan 8 nominasi Grammy Awards dan mendapatkan 4 diantaranya, antara lain Album of the Year dan Best Country Album untuk Fearless, serta Best Female Country Vocal Performance dan Best Country Song untuk "White Horse". Ia juga dinominasikan sebagai Best New Artist tahun 2008 lalu (lolos pada Amy Winehouse), dan dinominasikan untuk 4 kategori lain, yaitu Record of the Year, Song of the Year, dan Best Female Pop Vocal Performance untuk "You Belong with Me" dan Best Pop Collaborations with Vocal untuk "Breathe", bersama Colbie Caillat. Sejauh ini, ia sudah menjual rekaman sebanyak 15 juta kopi diseluruh dunia.

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Between "acting" gigs, Ashton Kutcher occasionally promotes social media enterprises by throwing the weight of his celebrity behind them. Previously he helped make Twitter. Now it's location-based network Foursquare. Except this time he stands to make a mint.

Word has it a handful of major venture capital firms including Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures and Redpoint Ventures are in a bidding war to invest money for the service, which combines mapping users locations with gameplaying elements (and which all the kids at SXSW, Kutcher included, were using). Because people will believe anything as long as a celebrity talks about it (see: diets, pharmaceuticals, everything else in the world), Foursquare may now be valued at up to $80 million. And one of the people who stands to gain most is Ashton Kutcher, an early angel investor in the company.

Kutcher's adoption of Twitter didn't pay off for him. This time around things may be different. If the injection of funds ends up propelling the service to a big exit—as these big-name VC investors are hoping—Kutcher will undoubtedly be better remembered for his savvy tech investing than his forgettable roles on-camera.

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Oliver Sykes

Without shriek-happy, wickedly stylish lead singer Oliver Sykes at the microphone, English metal vandals Bring Me the Horizon would still be loud, brash and infectious. But, if Oliver did not exist, not quite as large a mob of berserkers would be crashing the stage at Bring Me the Horizon's invariably tumultuous public performances. Rumor says that Oli has a straight-edge past, but there's a very long, ragged and littered road that leads back to it.