Luxury department store Barneys is teaming up with flamboyant pop singer Lady Gaga for a Christmas holiday campaign and window display called “Gaga’s Workshop.”

Barneys said on Monday it would turn over an entire floor of its flagship Madison Ave, New York, store to the pop singer’s interpretation of Santa’s Workshop, as well as dedicating its 2011 holiday window display to the Gaga theme.

Small limited edition gift items created by the “Born This Way” singer and Nicola Formichetti will also be available for sale, while signature artwork will be featured on Barneys holiday shopping bags and packaging.

Barneys New York chief executive Mark Lee said it would be the largest and most encompassing holiday theme ever mounted by the upscale fashion retailer.

“As a New York city landmark, we wanted to celebrate Lady Gaga as a fellow New Yorker and amazing talent,” Lee said in a statement.
Known as much for her bizarre outfits as her string of hit records and music awards, Lady Gaga, 25, was born Stefani Germanotta and raised in New York City.

Barneys said it would donate 25 percent of all the items featured in Gaga’s Workshop to a charity of the singer’s choice.

Sexy superstar singer Shakira has joined Justin Bieber, and Lady Gaga by scoring over 1 billion views on YouTube.

The hitmaker hit the milestone on Tuesday and thanked her online fans for their support.

She says, “Thank you all for this magnificent news. A billion views!! Incredible! I’m celebrating!! I’m really happy to hear the news. One billion views around the world is an unthinkable number and more than I could ever have dreamed of.”

The pop star picked up two awards, International Female Artist Of The Year and International Song Of The Year for her hit single “Waka Waka” at the NRJ awards in Paris recently.

Congrats! She’s got some powerful hips y’all.

The American Idol contestant that went country, Kellie Pickler, has gotten married. Her label, BNA Records, says in a statement that she wed songwriter Kyle Jacobs on New Year’s Day. They held a small ceremony on a private island in the Caribbean.

Pickler finished in the top six on “American Idol” in 2005. Her songs include the top 10 hit she co-wrote with Taylor Swift, “Best Days of Your Life,” as well as “Red High Heels,” “Don’t You Know You’re Beautiful,” and her most recent single, “Makin’ Me Fall in Love Again.”

We wish them well! Hopefully she doesn’t get bigger breast implants.

iTunes’ top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending Aug. 30, 2010:
Singles:
1. “Teenage Dream,” Katy Perry
2. “Dynamite,” Taio Cruz
3. “Just the Way You Are,” Bruno Mars
4. “Love the Way You Lie,” Eminem
5. “I Like It,” Enrique Iglesias
6. “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love,” Usher
7. “Just a Dream,” Nelly
8. “Magic (feat. Rivers Cuomo),” B.o.B
9. “Take It Off,” Ke$ha
10. “Erase Me (feat. Kanye West),” Kid Cudi
Albums:
1. “Teenage Dream,” Katy Perry

2. “Recovery,” Eminem
3. “Burning the Day,” Randy Rogers Band
4. “Back to Me,” Fantasia
5. “Sigh No More,” Mumford & Sons
6. “Versus,” Usher
7. “All Delighted People,” Sufjan Stevens
8. “Harmony,” Never Shout Never
9. “God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise,” The Pariah Dogs, Ray LaMontagne
10. “Zombie,” The Devil Wears Prada

iTunes’ top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending Aug. 16, 2010:
Singles:
1. “Love the Way You Lie,” Eminem
2. “Dynamite,” Taio Cruz
3. “Teenage Dream,” Katy Perry
4. “I Like It,” Enrique Iglesias
5. “Mine,” Taylor Swift
6. “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love,” Usher
7. “Magic (feat. Rivers Cuomo),” B.o.B
8. “Cooler Than Me,” Mike Posner
9. “California Gurls (feat. Snoop Dogg),” Katy Perry
10. “Ridin’ Solo,” Jason Derulo
Albums:
1. “Recovery,” Eminem
2. “The Suburbs,” Arcade Fire

3. “31 Minutes to Takeoff,” Mike Posner
4. “Sigh No More,” Mumford & Sons
5. “Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture),” Various Artists
6. “All About Tonight,” Blake Shelton
7. “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack),” Various Artists
8. “Step Up 3D (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack),” Various Artists
9. “Order of the Black,” Black Label Society
10. “You Get What You Give,” Zac Brown Band

Katy Perry continued to promote her new album and latest single this morning when she appeared on Australian morning television show Sunrise to perform a mini-concert for her Aussie fans. She performed her latest single “Teenage Dream.”

This performance on Sunrise makes up a little bit for her Teen Choice Awards performance, but the blue-haired hottie has learned from her mistakes and managed to deliver some great vocals during renditions of her hits “Teenage Dream”, “California Gurls” and “Hot ‘n’ Cold”.

Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream album hits stores soon, but some feel that it’s not soon enough!

Watch the performance below!

The RIAA have now confirmed that Britney Spears has officially sold over 100 million records.

Britney Spears’s amazing sales first began in the late nineties, when her debut album “…Baby One More Time“ went Diamond and sold around 28 million copies worldwide. Her next effort “Oops… I Did It Again” was also certified Diamond and sold 20 million copies in total, putting Britney close to 50 million albums sold off her first two releases alone.

Billboard ranked Britney as the biggest selling female artist of the past decade, the best selling teenager in history, one of the highest selling female artists of all time.

Do you think Christina Aguilera is jealous? You bet she is!

Katie Price performed her new single “Free To Love Again” on GMTV.

If you watch the video you will see half naked male dancers and Katie Price wearing a jacket made of human hair!

Watch Katie Price’s live performance below!

Usher’s latest music video for his latest R&B single “There Goes My Baby” has just been released!

The sultry slow-jam is one of the standout tracks from Usher’s 900k-selling Raymond Vs. Raymond album, and has turned out to be quite a hit on the charts, so far reaching #2 on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart and #34 on the Hot 100.

Watch Usher do what he does best in his music videos…..walk around shirtless.

Check out the music video below!

The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers just released the music video for his debut solo single “Crossfire.”

In the music video Brandon is captured and tortured, and oscar winning actress Charlize Theron takes the role at the heroine that saves him.

‘Crossfire’ is taken from the forthcoming album ‘Flamingo’, which is out 6th September (UK) and 14th September (US).

Do you think “Crossfire” is a strong enough single to jump start Brandon Flower’s solo career?