David Guetta closes the Hot 100′s top tier this week, as “Turn Me On,” featuring Nicki Minaj, flies 25-10. The song zooms 21-7 on Digital Songs (137,000, up 43%) and climbs 39-31 on Radio Songs (38 million, up 26%). With the ascent, Guetta collects his fourth Hot 100 top 10 and Minaj her fifth.

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It’s about time! All Access has just the official first single from the upcoming Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded album, “Va Va Voom”. Nicki shot the music video for VVV just a few days before Christmas.

Va Va Voom will hit rhythmic radio airwaves on February 7.

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Iggy Azalea adds to the feeding frenzy with her venomous remix to Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded single “Roman in Moscow.” The 21-year-old Aussie femcee fires a rapid round of shots at her haters over the stinging cut.

“All you do is dream like you was Christina Mili/ I’m sorry Nicki, but these hoes disrespecting hard/ Had to address the nonsense, here’s a postcard,” raps the much-buzzed-about blonde.

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Madonna was recently on ABC News Nightline, talking about various things, including kissing Nicki for her birthday! Skip to the 3:29 mark.

“I did [kiss her], but it was her birthday! I just gave her a birthday kiss. No tongue, who said tongue?” Madonna said. “She has lovely lips.”

Fans might not know Pop and Oak by name, but they damn sure know their beats. Trey Songz’s “Unusual,” Big Sean and Kanye West’s “Marvin & Chardonnay” and, of course, Nicki Minaj’s 2010 single “Your Love” are just a few of the duo’s hits.

Now they’re up for a Grammy thanks to their work on Nicki’s Pink Friday, which is nominated in the Best Rap Album category.

Pop, a Philadelphia native, and his production partner, Oak, who hails from Istanbul, Turkey, have been working as a duo since 2008, back when they first produced “Your Love” for a then-emerging Minaj. ” ‘Your Love’ was a song that didn’t make Beam Me Up Scotty, the mixtape,” Pop told Mixtape Daily.

Nicki was super-critical of her performance on the song, but after it eventually leaked at the top of 2010, there was no stopping it — well, there was one little obstacle to clear. The original leaked version featured a sample of Annie Lennox’s 1995 version of “No More I Love You’s,” but after the U.K. singer wouldn’t clear the sample, Pop and Oak had to come up with an alternative.

“They didn’t let us clear the sample, so the version that leaked wasn’t the version that got on the radio. We ended up re-creating it,” Oak said.

The duo redid the sample a little too well, it seemed. Even after the switch-up, Lennox’s lawyers continued to reach out, thinking Nicki’s new version of “Your Love” still incorporated the sample. “They thought what they were hearing on the radio was still the master,” Oak said.

“Annie Lennox thought she was hearing herself, which was fly as hell,” Pop added.

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Some of America’s biggest stars are invading the BRIT Awards. Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, and Jay-Z and Kanye West have been announced as nominees at Britain’s prestigious awards show.

Four-time Grammy nominee Nicki Minaj is up for International Breakthrough Act, vying against Aloe Blacc, Bon Iver, Foster the People, and Lana Del Rey.

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