Leighton Meester discusses new album

Leighton Meester discussed her upcoming album with digitalspy.co.uk recently and claimed the album to be influenced by Ke$ha and Black Eyed Peas. Here's what she had to say in full:

"You can start from square one and really build a song from whatever your heart desires," she told Popeater. That's the most fulfilling. I just want it to be good. I want people to get a sense of me through my music."
Discussing her new LP, Meester cited Ke$ha's 'Tik Tok' and Black-Eyed Peas hit 'I Got A Feeling' as major influences on its sound.
She said: "[The songs] make you feel like you don't have to worry about tomorrow."

Meester's debut album is expected to be released this summer.

Black Eyed Peas knock Ke$ha off the #1 spot.

Ke$ha's reign on the US Charts is officially over - as of today. The "TiK ToK" singer has been at #1 for 9 weeks - since Christmas in fact! The Peas' new single "Imma Be" managed to kick off Ke$ha from the #1 spot, claiming their 3rd #1, after "Boom Boom Pow" and "I Gotta Feeling".

Black Eyed Peas - Rock That Body (Video Preview)

Check out this mini preview of the Black Eyed Peas new video for "Rock That Body".

Fergie on the set of new Black Eyed Peas video...

Here's the first picture to emerge from the set of the Black Eyed Peas new music video for "Imma Be". The song is already smashing the US charts, and with Fergie look SO hot in the image above - the song will only go up and up when the video is finally released.

Thanks to rap-up.com for the image!

Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway (Music Video)

Here's Black Eyed Peas AMAZING new video for "Meet Me Halfway".

Black Eyed Peas prep new album.

It's been a slow week for music news, but here's some details about the upcoming B.E.P. album from Digitalspy.co.uk --

Black Eyed Peas have confirmed details of their fifth studio album The E.N.D.

The record, which is the hip-hop collective's first since 2005's Monkey Business, will be released in June on Interscope.

It will be preceded by the lead single 'Boom Boom Pow', according to Billboard.

will.i.am, Apl.de.ap, Taboo and Fergie are currently plotting an international tour to promote the disc.

Speaking about the album's sound, will.i.am said: "[There will] be a lot of dance stuff, real melodic, electronic, soulful. We call it, like, electric static funk, something like that."