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Album: The Love album Band: Westlife Release date: 20 Nov 2006		"The Rose" is a pop song written by Amanda McBroom and featured in the 1979 movie The Rose, in which it was performed by Bette Midler. Midler hit #3 on the U.S. pop charts with her version, which was certified as a gold single. Since then it has been covered by a variety of artists. In the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite the song was featured in a deliberately mediocre dance by the "Happy Hands Club." A Japanese translation of the song titled "Ai wa Hana, Kimi wa Sono Tane" ("Love is a Flower, You are the Seed") was the ending theme of Studio Ghibli's 1991 anime feature Omohide Poro Poro ("Only Yesterday"), performed by Miyako Harumi. LeAnn Rimes' 1997 album You Light Up My Life includes "The Rose" as one of the tracks. Track listing: The Rose (originally sang by Bette Midler) -> preview \| lyric \| music video Total Eclipse of My Heart (orginally sang by Bonnie Tyler) All out of love feat. Delta Goodrem (originally by Air Supply) -> preview \| lyric You Light up My Life (originally by Lasey Cisyk but Debby Boone made it a hit) Easy (by The Commodores) You Are So Beautiful (To me) (Originally by Billy Preston, made popular by Joe Cocker) Have you Ever Been in Love (originaly by Leo Sayer) Love can Build a Bridge (originally by The Judds) The Dance (originally by Garth Brooks) All or Nothing (originally by O-Town) You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling (originally by The Righteous Brothers)

Album: Right Where You Want Me Artist: Jesse McCartney Featured songs: Right Where you Want Me		Right Where You Want Me will be Jesse McCartney's second studio album, released on the Hollywood Records label. The video for the lead single, also titled "Right Where You Want Me" has recently been filmed. It is available on his official site. The album release date has been confirmed by Hollywood Records for September 19, 2006. Track song listing: Right Where You Want Me Just So You Know Blow Your Mind Right Back In The Water Anybody Tell Her Just Go Can't Let You Go We Can Go Anywhere Feelin' You Invincible Daddy's Little Girl

Album: B'day Artist: Beyonce Featured songs: Deja Vu Ring The Alarm		Personnel include: Beyonce (vocals); Jay-Z (rap vocals). Beyonce had little to prove on her second solo outing, B''DAY, having already demonstrated her taste, (solo) vocal prowess, and sparkling star quality on her first post-Destiny''s Child release in 2003. Nevertheless, the singer and her crack team of producers and collaborators (R&B''s finest, including the Neptunes, Swizz Beats, and Rich Harrison) have come up with a collection that''s at least equal to her previous triumphs, and that shows off an almost angry intensity only hinted at on earlier releases. The club hit "Deja Vu," with an extended rap from boyfriend/producer Jay-Z, boasts an addictive bass line that contrasts dramatically with Beyonce''s emotive upper register. The haunting "Ring the Alarm" is a multilayered melodrama built around a dizzying minor-key hook that relies on Beyonce''s vocal dexterity and newfound fire. Despite the appealing bravado of most of the tracks on B-DAY, the most memorable song is the beautiful lovelorn ballad "Irreplaceable," on which a wounded Beyonce protesteth too much about an errant lover''s dispensability. Her nuanced and soul-deep performance suggests the tearful hurt lying at the center of all that anger.

Featured song: Show Stopper		Danity Kane: D. Woods, Aubrey, Dawn, Shannon, Aundrea. Recording information: Circle House, Miami, Florida (2006). A pop/R&B quintet formed by Sean Combs (a.k.a. Diddy) for the MAKING THE BAND reality TV show, Danity Kane unveiled its Bad Boy Entertainment debut in late summer of 2006. Leading off with the frenetic, club-ready single "Show Stopper," Dawn, Aubrey, Aundrea, D. Woods, and Shannon easily display enough sensuality and confidence to position themselves for competition in the pop-diva big leagues.

Album: Back to basic Artisit: Christina Aguilera Featured songs: Ain't No Other Man		Christina Aguilera seemed intent on constantly reinventing herself over the course of her first several albums, and it''s hard not to be impressed by her leaps from teen-pop sensation (1999 self-titled debut) to raunchy, sexually precocious R&B singer (2002''s STRIPPED) to blues and jazz-steeped diva on 2006''s BACK TO BASICS. With its smoky torch songs, occasional big-band arrangements, and allusions to seminal divas like Billie Holiday and Etta James, the ambitious double disc casts Aguilera in the soft, romantic light of vintage soul crooners. Yet BACK TO BASICS is undeniably modern. In fact, the first disc, assisted by the hand of the always-stellar trackmaster DJ Premiere, thumps alongside any club bangers of the early 2000s. Aguilera''s dirty-girl persona is still present here, but she''s dressed up and fitted into better songs and productions. The nostalgia-hued vibe of the second disc--with the singer playing the breathy chanteuse--provides a perfect complement to the first, so that the album as a whole reveals an artist of increasing range, skill, and creative maturity.