Someone is sour graping as a chick who left the country band Sugarland three years ago wants her cut of the profits now that the band’s latest album is sitting in a comfy spot on the Billboard charts. Kristen Hall is asking for $1.5 million from her former band mates Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush. She claims in a suit that they haven’t paid out her share of the agreement to share the loot. Sugarland also has a multi-platinum album but Kristen hasn’t done so well on her own. She’s just jealous that Sugarland has made it huge and that their latest album ‘Love on the Inside’ is number one on the Billboard charts.

Katy Perry has dethroned Coldplay to take over the spot for the number one song in America. According to Billboard, her infectious ‘I Kissed a Girl’ bumped Coldplay’s ‘Viva La Vida’ at the top of the US singles chart. The song has already been #1 in Canada and is likely to follow suit in other countries once it’s released in Europe in the late summer or early fall. Industry experts have said that Katy should be able to hold on to the top spot for a bit too as her song continues to sell well and is getting tons of airplay. Katy’s debut album ‘One of the Boys’ has also debuted on the Top 10 of the Billboard charts this week. Congratulations!

The Jonas Brothers have taken over the cover of the new issue of Billboard. In their interview, they talked about their new album, writing songs and even Jonas mania. Of the new album, they spoke of the singles being reminiscent of Maroon 5, Justin Timberlake and even early Weezer. Joe talked about writing the songs saying “Pretty much we were writing all these songs when we were on tour, and we didn’t have time to go into a studio and record. There’s a lot of time when you’re on the tour bus where there’s a lot of waiting around. We have like four hours in each day where we could really do something.” Nick adds his experience saying “When we’re writing together, we’re really open to each other’s ideas, which I think is really important when you’re writing songs. No one can be closed-minded, because then nothing is going to work. For us, it’s really just one of our passions. It’s kind of our roots.”

Rihanna proves that she’s the new Princess of Pop as her latest single ‘Take a Bow’ had an opening week of 267,000 digital downloads which puts the track at the number one spot on the Hot Digital Songs chart in the US. Rihanna also made a huge rise to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 by jumping from #53 to #1. She has made the second highest jump in Billboard history with the highest going to Maroon 5 with ‘Makes Me Wonder’ which jumped from #64 to #1 last year. Rihanna also has 2 of the top 3 opening-week downloads in history. She was surpassed by Mariah Carey’s ‘Touch My Body’ with 286,000 downloads last month which beat Rihanna’s ‘Umbrella’ with 277,000. At the rate she’s going, Rihanna will be beating out Mariah soon.

Madonna fans are celebrating a lot more than Mariah Carey fans are but here’s a reason for both sets of fans to celebrate. Once the latest Billboard Hot 100 singles chart gets released on Wednesday, both divas will have new milestones attached to their names. The divas are set to break 2 records set by Elvis Presley. Mariah’s ‘Touch My Body’ is expected to be #1 thanks to digital downloads. It will be her 18th #1 which will surpass Elvis’s record. Madonna’s ‘4 Minutes (To Save the World) will also jump into the Top 10 this week which will surpass Elvis as the artist with most Top 10 hits. Madonna will have her 37th Top 10 hit. Congratulations to both!

If her two singles being only good enough didn’t give you enough of a clue of how sucky she would be, then maybe finding out that Nicole Scherzinger’s new album has been pushed back again should clue you in.

The front woman of the Pussycat Dolls’ solo debut was met with two big bombs of singles releases. ‘Whatever You Like’ failed to get any speed and ‘Baby Love’ didn’t even make it to the Top 100.

The CD was originally supposed to be released on October 6th and was then pushed back to November 6th. Then it was said to be released on November 20th. But now, her label Interscope says that it won’t come out until some time in 2008. Ouch!

Carrie Underwood has put rumours her ex is now dating Britney Spears behind her by claiming the top spot on the new albums chart. It’s a great week for country music on the Billboard 200 – the top three albums are all debuts from country acts. I personally think that she and Kelly Clarkson are the two best things to have come out of America Idol reality show. The others are good too and I am not going to name the others who are bad and who are good because you never know the ones we often are most critical they are the ones who most of then not come out trumps and we have to eat our words. Carrie is the one for the future and despite everyone thinking that she is not made for the toughness of the music industry and that she should be sitting at home chewing on her nails she has been successful and will continue to be much to the despair of her rivals.

Billboard Group editorial director Tamara Conniff says the country star was chosen for the honor because of her wide success in music, television, movies and publishing.

“Reba is an inspiration to women everywhere and we are delighted to be presenting her with this award,” Conniff said.

McEntire, 53, has a new album of duets coming out next week that pairs her with artists such as Justin Timberlake, Don Henley, Kelly Clarkson, Kenny Chesney, Carole King and Faith Hill.

“I am thrilled to be selected as Woman of the Year by Billboard,” McEntire said in a statement. “Although my career has taken me to TV, film and Broadway, music is and always will be my first love. I am touched to be embraced in such a warm way.”

McEntire grew up on a cattle ranch in Oklahoma, where her father, Clark McEntire, was a champion calf roper.

After being discovered by cowboy singer Red Steagall in 1974, she struggled through the late ’70s to build a singing career in Nashville. She scored her first major hit in 1980 with “(You Lift Me Up) to Heaven.” Her other No. 1 hits include “Little Rock” and “What Am I Gonna Do About You.”