Country artist Luke Bryan released his fourth studio album Crash My Party.

Here is a video of his performance of “That’s My Kind of Night” this week on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Bryan also explained why he is turning down tv offers at this time.

Another Country artist Chris Young was hospitalized with a leg infection this week. He is thankfully out of intensive care and recovering.

In other news, Robin Thicke filed a law suit to protect his hit “Blurred Lines” from Marvin Gayes’ family who claims it sounds familiar to one of their songs.

Katy Perry and Lady Gaga both hurried with early single releases due to music leaks.

Here is the lyric video for Perry’s “Roar” with emoticon overload.

Gaga told fans to ignore Perez Hilton who knocked her new single.

She also cleared the air in an interview with Ryan Seacrest about the media created feud between herself and Perry.

Justin Timberlake will be a guest performer as well as an award recipient at the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards. Timberlake is set to receive the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.

Paul McCartney may gain rights back to Beatles the were partially owned by the Michael Jackson estate.

Meanwhile Jackson’s song Slave to the Rhythm is taking on a new life in Justin Bieber’s new remix.

Here is a lyric video for the catchy song:

Finally, the Civil Wars album topped the Billboard charts this week even though they will not be touring together as their personal war continues.