Will.i.am

press release

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) will present the BMI President’s Award to will.i.am during the organization’s annual Urban Awards ceremony Friday, September 10. Staged at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, the invitation-only event salutes the creators and publishers of the most-performed urban songs of the previous year. BMI President & CEO Del Bryant will [...]

news.yahoo

The new Michael Jackson album is expected by the end of the year, culled from unreleased material in his vaults. But Jackson collaborator and Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am is vehemently opposed to the idea. “I don’t think that should ever come out. That’s bad,” he said. “He was a perfectionist and he wouldn’t have [...]

abcnews.go

Sitting in an Athens hotel room on a humid summer day in early July, Will.i.am recalls the days when he and his fellow members of the Black Eyed Peas made a collective $150 per show — and were ecstatic about it. “We would jump up and down because we got paid, even though it meant [...]

press release

iTunes’ top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending May 10, 2010:
Singles:
1. “Not Afraid,” Eminem
2. “OMG (feat. will.i.am),” Usher
3. “My First Kiss (feat. Ke$ha),” 3OH!3
4. “Airplanes (feat. Hayley Williams of Paramore),” B.o.B.
5. “Total Eclipse of the Heart (feat. Jonathan Groff),” Glee Cast
6. “Your Love Is My Drug,” Ke$ha
7. “Young Forever (feat. Mr. [...]

huffingtonpost

When two struggling families appeared as guests on The Oprah Winfrey Show to talk about the home foreclosures they were facing, they had no idea a surprise guest would make their problems disappear.
The Eller family and the Allgood family shared their stories with Oprah and explained how the national recession took its toll on them. [...]

harlemloves

Will.i.am was at Chirp, Twitter’s first conference recently and had some very interesting things to say about the music industry. “Right now, the companies responsible for content (in the music industry) haven’t accepted the new way of distributing stuff because there is no way to monetise it.”
“Twitter [...]

cnn

William J. Adams (born March 15, 1975), better known by his stage name will.i.am (pronounced [wɪlaɪˈam], will-eye-AM), is an American rapper, songwriter, singer, actor, and producer. Will.i.am rose to fame as frontman and founder of the hit hip hop and pop soul group The Black Eyed Peas, with pop singer Fergie, and rappers Taboo and [...]

ANN SANNER
Associated Press

Sheryl Crow, will.i.am, Herbie Hancock and other entertainers are asking Congress to force radio stations to pay them when their music is broadcast.
The musicians appeared Tuesday on Capitol Hill on behalf of the musicFirst Coalition to push legislation that would require radio stations to pay them royalties for when their songs are played.
Satellite [...]

He may have one of the strongest artistic legacies in pop-music history, but Bob Dylan is no stranger to appearing in commercials or cosigning dubious dreadlocked rappers. Still, this is pretty gross: Come Sunday night, we may be confronted with the image of Bob Dylan singing about Pepsi alongside Will.I.Am in a Super [...]

YouTube is broadcasting its first major live event this Saturday featuring a number of music and video stars that are popular on the site. Musicians like Kate Perry (OK, we’re using the term musician loosely), Akon, Joe Satriani and Wil.i.am are joined by internet video phenoms like the Mythbusters. More @ YouTube Live….
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