Coldplay and Rihanna take the Grammy Stage

With a single tweet, Rihanna has gotten everyone even more excited about the Grammy Awards: "My friends @ColdPlay and I will be sharing the stage for a performance at this years Annual Grammy Awards!"

For the first time ever, Rihanna and Coldplay will perform "Princess of China" to a live audience. She followed her initial tweet with this one: "WE reached 2BILLION views on @youtube !!! THANK U!!! I'm in a great mood, and I got some GREAT NEWS!!! PRINCESS OF CHINA #GRAMMYS2012."

Chris Martin, Coldplay's frontman has said: "Our new record is sort of a story; it's not quite a musical, but it's dangerously close. There's a bit of a love-story thread, so we really needed someone to sing even higher than me. [It's] hard, but very possible. You need to be a female really. So, in like a dream scenario, we had a song that I'd secretly kind of written to see if Rihanna would want to sing it. And then the rest of the band wanted to keep it, so we came up with the idea of asking her to sing it with us, and, to our great surprise, she said okay."

As we get closer to the awards night, more performers will be revealed. But we gotta say, this one leaves us very thrilled!

2012 Oscar nominees announced!

So today was the day! The full list of Oscar nominees was announced to the world - but more importantly, to Hollywood. This will be the 84th annual Academy Awards organised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The big night is on th 26th of Feb 2012 .

Some of the biggie's on the list:

Best Motion Picture of the Year:
War Horse, The Artist, Moneyball, The Descendants, The Tree of Life, Midnight in Paris, The Help, Hugo, Extremely loud & Incredibly Close.

Best Actress
Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs, Viola Davis, The Help, Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady, Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn.

Best Actor
George Clooney, The Descendants, Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Jean Dujardin, The Artist, Brad Pitt, Moneyball, Demian Bichir, A Better Life.

LL Cool J to host Grammys

According to the Recording Academy, singer/actor (and two-time Grammy award winner himself) LL Cool J is dubbed to be the 'first official host of the Grammy Awards in seven years'. fancy that.

“I will always have fond memories of my first Grammy Awards and to now be hosting the Grammy show, in the company of so many other incredible artists, is a dream come true,”   he said.

The last time there was a host for the show, it was in 2005 when Queen Latifah took the stage.

The shows is going to be a goodie, with performances by performances, including country singers Jason Aldean and Taylor Swift, pop singer Kelly Clarkson, rockers The Foo Fighters, R&B singer Bruno Mars and first-time performer, rapper Nicki Minaj.

The 54th annual Grammy Awards will be held on February 12 in Los Angeles,.

American Idol not up to it's usual standards

Now hitting it's 11th season, American Idol not living up to it's usual standards and is starting off by a 18% drop in viewers. Between the age group of 18 - 49 years old, Nielsen's reported a staggering 27% drop in figures.

Fox TV still maintain that the 2 hour season premiere show was still the most-watched show on US TV on Wednesday with 26.2 million viewers tuning in to see it all begin and welcome new judges Steven Tyler and JLo.

It looks like The X Factor might be more competition than they can handle?

Taylor Swift's heartbreak on next album

Country singer sensation Taylor Swift says her new album is about tear, heartbreak and more tears - or as she puts it, "absolute crash-and-burn heartbreak". Sounds... cheerful?

Being all of 22-year-old Taylor chatted to the Vogue team about her 'warning signs' as she calls them - she will be gracing the cover of Vogue's February issue that'll be on the shelves soon!

According to TimesLive, her "red flag" list for any potential love include: If a guy falls in love with her based on her Wikipedia page, is threatened that she needs security, puts her down or is obsessed with privacy, they're not for her.

‘Diva’ fly named after Beyoncé

When you think of Beyoncé, you do not associate that with flies. Well, maybe now you will. Times Live has reported that an Australian scientist has name a fly after the singer, because the species has a golden lower abdomen.

Bryan Lessard, a researcher from a government institute said he paid tribute to Beyoncé’s bum because the colour of the insect’s bottom made it a “diva of flies”.

The fly has been dubbed Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae. "It was the unique dense golden hairs on the fly's abdomen that led me to name this fly in honour of the performer Beyoncé as well as giving me the chance to demonstrate the fun side of taxonomy -- the naming of species.”

Beyoncé bring Blue Ivy into the world....

Music superstars Beyoncé and Jay-Z welcomed their baby girl, Blue Ivy Carter into the world on Saturday night. After speculation of Beyoncé faking the pregnancy,  the event was dubbed to be the one of the biggest celebrity births in years in the news!

A source told the Houston Chronicle that "Blue" is a tribute to Jay-Z's favourite colour and hugely successful "Blueprint" album franchise, while "Ivy" represents the roman numeral IV for 4.

With The Twitterverse alive with celebs and fans alike sharing their glad feelings, little Blue Ivy has had quite a start into the word!