The Day in Pop Digest for 3/23/11: (Billboard) Rapper Ja Rule pleaded guilty on Tuesday (March 22) to failing to file tax returns and promised to pay more than $1 million in back taxes and penalties more(Jam!) Rihanna's Loud tour is struggling to make some noise in the U.S. - the singer has reportedly been urged to axe concerts due to poor ticket sales. more
(Billboard) Just two weeks after performing with the Black Eyed Peas on "American Idol," will.i.am will return to the Fox TV show to perform his song from the 20th Century Fox animated film, "Rio." more
(FMQB) Over the weekend, Lady Gaga tweeted that her new album, Born This Way, was nearly complete. "In Nebraska, finishing up record today," she wrote. "I'm so proud of the album: I keep dancing+drinking: metal/techno rock journey of a woman on the run." more
(Billboard) Matthew Morrison is set to duet with Gwyneth Paltrow on his self-titled solo album, out May 10. more
(FMQB) Kelly Clarkson has already said that her next album is coming out in September and now songwriter Claude Kelly is revealing that fans will hear some fun, up-tempo tracks once the album drops. more
(Billboard) Contrary to several media reports, Rebecca Black is not netting hundreds of thousands of dollars from the more than 33 million YouTube views of her uber-viral video "Friday" or its digital sales. The 13-year-old is netting roughly $24,900 per week from track sales of her surprise hit song more
Check out this week's "AV Undercover" video where Baths - aka Will Wiesenfeld - covers LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends" here
Check out Sugarland and Little Big Town performing their newest collaboration, Madonna's "Like A Prayer" on The Incredible Machine tour stop in Bloomington, IL on March 18th here
(Billboard) According to a statement from En Vogue's rep, Dawn Robinson is still a part of female R&B group En Vogue, but in a diminished capacity. more
(BBC) Loleatta Holloway, best known for her vocals which were sampled on Black Box's 1989 hit Ride On Time, dies at the age of 64. more
(BBC) A movie is made on the space station that tries to show what Yuri Gagarin might have seen on his historic first flight around the Earth in 1961. more
(BBC) Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes is to write a mini-series about the sinking of the Titanic, to air next year on ITV1 more
(Billboard) Despite earlier rumors that Cher would be doing a country album, the timeless singer is instead heading in the opposite direction -- with her dance record standby more
