My music taste has changed quite a lot since my last blog on last.fm. I've began to fall in love with rap and hip-hop music more and more over the last few years. One person in particular for me who has stood out was Kid Cudi. After hearing the mixtape A Kid Named Cudi I instantly fell in love with his lyricism and honesty on his records.

The production on that mixtape was phenomenal in itself too. Since that mixtape i've come across a lot of other artists who I have grown to love also, but only recently I…

The Saturdays performed their very first festival show last Saturday at the Oxegen Festival in Ireland. They were undoubtedly the surprise act of the whole weekend when 14000 fans packed out the Heineken Green Spheres Tent to watch the 5 girls perform their set. It seems as though the girls would have drawn an even bigger crowd had their been room as they had to eventually close all entrances to the tent in a bid to stop overcrowding which led to some people being forced to listen from outside.

The girls performed a fantastic set which included the hit singles,…

I bought The Saturdays debut album 'Chasing Lights' today, and all I can say is 'Woah!'.

Every single song on the album is fantastic. An album full of electro-pop gems, each of which would be a secure choice as a third single. Every song has a catchy hook, with rememberable chorus's, which is exactly what you want on a pop album.

Highlights of the album would definitly be:

Work (10/10)
Set Me Off (10/10)
Keep Her (10/10)
If This Is Love (10/10)
Up (10/10)

Anyone who likes The Saturdays even just a tiny little bit, buy this album because you…

The last 12 Months have no doubt been the most successful of Chris's career. From 3 Top 10 Hits on the US Billboard Hot 100 Chart, to various other successful chart positions around the world.

However, Chris Brown's popularity has grown imensely in Ireland over the last 12 Months. It didn't start off all that good though. Both 'Wall To Wall' and 'Kiss Kiss' failed to make a huge impact on the Irish Singles Chart peaking outside the top 30, therefore leaving his album 'Exclusive' to stall outside the top 70. This lead me to think Brown didn't have a…

Ok, so they're already starting to cook up quite a storm across the UK and Ireland, but will The Saturdays live up to the hype?

Their leading debut single 'If This Is Love' is one of the best pop songs i've heard over the last 12 months, and I think the reason is because it doesn't have Timbaland style beats that so many artists have or have tried to replicate. Being one one of the first acts to release an alternative to the pop/rnb genre is going to give them a hige boost in my opinion.

So far The Saturdays…

After her brief chart success back in 2004 with her singles '1980' and 'Free', and her Top 40 critically acclaimed album 'the 18th day', Estelle is back and better then ever before!

After appearing in John Legend's music video for 'Save Room' she befriended the majorly successful artist, and was signed to his record label, through Atlantic Records.

Estelle began work on her 2nd studio album in late 2006 and has been working on it since. The album which is tipped to be one of the biggest R&B records of the year has production credits from Huge Producers such as…

Nicole Scherzinger - Baby Love

Brilliant song, amazing production both vocally and musically. However, had a shockingly poor chart performance.

Due to the poor chart performance of both 'Whatever U Like' & 'Baby Love', Nicole's Debut album has been put back yet again, until June this year. Nicole has stated that "If the album is not released in June, it won't be released at all". The album recently underwent some track changes, substituting two songs to make way for one more upbeat song, and new single 'Puakenikini' produced by Akon.

Although the song is quite good, I can't see it…

I recently discovered a new British Girl Group called Sunshyne, and because they were so unbelievable, I decided they deserved a journal entry for everyone to see.

The band consists of four girls, Tanya & Tisha (former members of 'The 411'), and Steph and Nuala.

They have numerous songs you can listen to on there MySpace Page

I personally believe that this group has the potential to be very successful, and I can see them doing very well in the UK & Ireland, & Europe. However, I can't see them storming up the charts in the US, but I could…

Here's a list of albums that I think are worthy of being called The Best Albums Of 2007!!

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Britney Spears - Blackout
Leona Lewis - Spirit
Amerie - Because I Love It
Girls Aloud - Tangled Up
50 Cent - Curtis
Kanye West - Graduation
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad
Beyoncé - B'Day Deluxe Edition
Kate Nash - Made Of Bricks
Sugababes - Change
Kelly Rowland - Ms.Kelly
Spice Girls - Greatest Hits
Robyn - Robyn
Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare

I got Leona's debut album 'Spirit' last Friday, and have listened to it intensively over the past week. I have decided that it definately is one of the best albums to be released this year.

From the astonishing 'Bleeding Love' to the fantastic 'A Moment Like This', the album sounds of brilliance.

Highlights of the album are:

Bleeding Love 10/10
Homeless 10/10
Whatever It Takes 10/10
Take A Bow 10/10
Better In Time 10/10

My advice to you, if you're not one of the like 400000 people who already have the album, definately go buy it.

Leona Lewis