In anticipation of the impending Beyonce promo overload that we’re all blatantly going to be subjected to in the coming days/weeks – let us quickly post this back-to-back with her last announcement and move on. Reports surfaced last week that Beyonce and Andre 3000 would record a cover version of Amy Winehouse’s iconic ‘Back to Black’ (single) for Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming new film ‘The Great Gatsby’ starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The films soundtrack (curated by Jay-Z) will also feature new music from Jay, Coco O (Quadron), Q-Tip, The xx, Lana Del Rey, Florence + the Machine and more. You can hear short previews of some of the songs (including ‘Back to Black) in the just-released trailer up top. You can also check out the full OST tracklist after the jump.

A moment for Lurhmann & DiCaprio’s reunion also.

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Bey’s hyped up big announcement yesterday has turned out to be a bit of an anti-climax. Instead of revealing her new single (in full), a music video and/or album details, she’s released a new… Pepsi commercial. There has to be more coming, surely? Most excitingly however is that the new advert does preview more of that new single we heard yesterday. Produced by Timbaland ‘Grown Woman’ is reported to be the first single taken off Beyonce’s upcoming 5th album, expected later this year.

Beyonce’s got something cooking. Having stirred (needless) controversy among listeners with her ‘Bow Down/I Been On’ buzz single and remix, King B looks ready to announce something big tomorrow which she’s announced via a new promo video that carries the message “4/4/2013, 9AM EDT, #BeyHereNow”. The clip seems to feature that Sasha Fierce glove again (… lets hope she leaves that alone) but more excitingly also airs a whole 3 seconds of what sounds like could be massive new song. New single? Album details? We’ll find out tomorrow (2am UK time).

Sidenote: rather incredible to think that she’s already sold out an entire world tour before even announcing a new single and/or album. Cray.

Urgh.

Prince reloads the f*ck out of his 1984 Purple Rain classic ‘Lets Go Crazy’ and continues to embrace the internet (yay!) by releasing it for all to consume and obsess over. The new version is a result of fonky “rehearsals” sessions with his band and sees the much loved uptempo transformed into a slowed down, burning blues number built around epic guitar riffs and huge explosions of distorted instrumentation… Course Prince messes it right up with new reenergised vocals too. Urgh.

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The homies over at PMR sent us the new remix of Jessie Ware’s ‘Wildest Moments’ featuring A$AP Rocky a couple weeks back, sadly we were sworn to secrecy. But  fear not because here it is, the second of two bonus tracks that will feature on the U.S release of Ware’s debut album Devotion. The remix will do exactly what it needs to do – excite the U.S market (not that they’re not already, Jessie’s already performed a string of sold-out shows in the States) and like the awesome ‘Imagine It Was Us’ produced by Julio Bashmore will work as a dope addition to the LP.

According to recent interviews Chris Brown channeled a lot of Michael Jackson, Sam Cooke and Stevie Wonder during the recording sessions for his forthcoming album X. I’d love to know what he was listening to when he was on that Guetta wave… I digress. MJ’s influence on Breezy’s career has been obvious from day one and while to an extent that’s cool and completely understandable – it is a bit worrying now. Despite great (albeit surprising) production from Diplo and a strong melody/vocal performance from Brown, ‘Fine China’ fails to demonstrate any originality, a fact that unfortunately ruins the entire experience. Also a sentiment not lost on his cringe new video either.

We’ve all come to know Chris Brown the ‘singer and dancer’, but will we ever meet Chris Brown the ‘artist’? I’m not convinced.

Winter may have shit all over Spring this week but there’s no shortage of sunshine on Toro Y Moi’s new single ‘Never Matter’. The song is one of the many, many highlights across Toro’s recently released Anything in Return album. The 80′s flavoured uptempo has warm funk synths with fuzzy blemishes and is accompanied by a fetching flea-market based video that should hopefully help brighten up your day.

It’s been 16 years since Shola Ama released ‘You Might Need Somebody’ from her debut album Much Love. A lot has happened since then and a lot has changed, a comeback after all this time (Ama did release a couple albums after her debut but none ignited much commercial success – although her second album did give us ‘Imagine’ or more importantly it’s garage remix) would always be risky and would no doubt raise a few sceptical eyebrows (mine included). But to Ama’s credit she’s avoided the usual cheap faux-garage, dance-floor-filler routine and hit back with a rather voluminous slow-jam. ‘Boyfriend’ is a sensual number that sees the singer battling temptations which she subsequently fights off by reminding herself “Sho don’t f*ck this up, I got a boyfriend”…

‘Boyfriend’ won’t change your life but it is reassuring to know that unlike many of her former contemporaries Shola Ama seems to have an ear to the ground and is conscious enough to create new tracks that sound relevant and feel contextually right. Plus, I’ve been in love with this lady since year 7 times, so just have a listen…

Justin Timberlake has scored his third UK #1 album with The 20/20 Experience after selling over 109,000 copies in it’s first week – a feat that subsequently knocked pop icon David Bowie off the top spot. The singers third album, his first in over 6 years, had already spawned a number 1 selling single in the UK with ‘Mirrors’ and looks set to sell even more copies on these shores in the coming weeks.

Furthermore JT is set to debut with massive first week numbers in America too. While initial reports suggested the album could sell between 500-700,000 copies, reports today suggest they could exceed those and possibly sell between 900-950,000, maybe even a million. This would easily make The 20/20 Experience one of this years biggest releases and one of the fastest selling of the decade. It’ll also mark Justin’s biggest first week solo sales to date.

… And lets not forget the biggest first week sales of all time came from Timberlake’s former band who sold over 2 million copies of their No Strings Attached album in it’s debut week.

After a massively successful year in the UK and across Europe with her critically acclaimed debut album Devotion, Jessie Ware is now preparing it’s U.S release (April 16th). To launch the album stateside the LP will feature two additional bonus tracks – one is an upcoming remix of ‘Wildest Dreams’ featuring A$AP Rocky and the other is ‘Imagine It Was Us’ produced by frequent collaborator Julio Bashmore. By far the most uptempo record on the album ‘Imagine It Was Us’ is a fabulous disco number with an infectious bassline and seductive vocals from Miss Ware and plays as a great addition to an already excellent album.