Beyonce has had a whiff of the sweet smell of success – $3 million worth of her Beyonce Heat fragrance has been sold since its launch last month.
The R&B superstar unveiled plans for her own scent in December and it went on sale at U.S. department store Macy’s in February.
Fans clamoured to purchase the fragrance, which features “notes of red vanilla orchid, magnolia, neroli and blush peach”, and it quickly became America’s top-selling beauty counter product.
The fragrance’s popularity continues to soar – Macy’s CEO Terry Lungren has revealed sales have reached a staggering $3 million in its first few weeks of release.
Industry publication Women’s Wear Daily reports with 70,000 bottles of Beyonce Heat flew off store shelves on the first day.
An executive at MTV has denied the network has banned Lady Gaga and Beyonce’s racy new video for Telephone.
The nine-and-a-half minute long promo has caused a stir online, attracting more than 12 million viewers in the three days after it debuted on YouTube.com.
The video shows the Poker Face hitmaker being taken into a women-only prison, where she is abused by inmates and stripped naked by two female guards.
Gaga even refers to rumours she has both male and female sex organs – by pixelating her genitalia in the raunchy footage.
It was reported by CNN.com that bosses at MTV had decided to ban the video because of concerns over its sexual content, as they did with the promo for Madonna’s 1990 hit Justify My Love.
However, MTV’s manager of programming, Tuma Basa, has hit back at the reports.
In a post on his Twitter.com page, he writes, “The reports are false… the video’s been airing since Friday morning on MTV.”
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The fans may have been there to watch the game, but all eyes were on the celebrity couple in the front row.
Basketball fans Beyoncé and Jay-Z put on a rare public show of affection as they enjoyed the match in Dallas.
Sitting closely side by side the usually reserved couple laughed and joked together at the NBA game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks.
The discreet couple have been married for two years and together since 2002, but to say they keep a low-profile is something of an understatement.
Their demanding lives drag them all over the world – last week Jay-Z was at the Brits while Beyonce was performing in Trinidad – but they love a trip to the Lakers.
Although they frequently collaborate on music projects, Beyoncé has said that not publicly discussing their relationship has helped them.
But while Beyoncé, 28, may remain tight-lipped about her relationship, her feelings about her husband seem crystal clear.
Jay-Z, 40, recently broke his silence about his wife in an interview with Jonathan Ross.
When asked if he watches the Single Ladies star’s performances, he said: ‘She’s a magnificent performer. I steal routines from her. She steals from me.’
And when asked if she had performed the now famous Single Ladies dance for him he joked: ‘I actually created that dance too – that was me again. I wouldn’t really tell anyone but you asked. I wouldn’t want to make myself seem more important.’
It’s a very long way from their pampered lifestyles in Hollywood.
Alicia Keys and Beyoncé stepped out of their air conditioned limousines to film a music video in a series of impoverished Brazilian shanty towns yesterday.
The pair duet on Keys’ Put It In A Love Song, from her recently released album The Element Of Freedom.
Surrounded by improvised buildings, washing lines and inquisitive children, the divas gave their best pouting performances.
Alicia looked every inch the star in a long white transparent dress over a bathing suit, with her curly hair loose around her shoulders.
She filmed her scenes on the roof of a house in the shadow of Christ The Redeemer in the shanty town of Morro Santa Marta in Rio De Janeiro.
She earlier filmed one segment in Rio’s Dona Marta slum.
It became renowned worldwide after Michael Jackson went there to film the 1996 video They Don’t Care About Us.
Meanwhile Beyoncé wore a green and blue playsuit as she filmed in the Praca Maua square.
And Brazilian television showed the pair singing together in the shantytown of Morro da Conceicao.
It’s the first time the pair have collaborated despite being friends for quite some time.
Alicia is also close with Beyoncé’s husband Jay-Z, and the pair worked together on the 2009 hit Empire State Of Mind.
Alicia told MTV recently: ‘Her and I together was like re-united sisters.
‘Most people get in the studio and don’t get a chance to really collaborate but we were in one room having a ball.’
‘The energy was incredible. Big up to [producer] Swizz Beatz who worked on the track – it was unreal.’
Alicia also said she’s keen for more collaborations.
She says: ‘I would like to work with the Kings Of Leon [and] I like Dizzee Rascal.’
Earlier this morning, Beyonce revealed her favorite new TV show to TODAY’s Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb. Get your fists pumping, cuz Bey Bey finds MTV’s “Jersey Shore” hilarious. She also talks about how she stays grounded with help from her family and her husband and then jokes around about her figure looking similar to her new perfume bottle (she says both are heavy on the bottom)!
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Beyoncé, R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, actress and model and newly awarded Grammy winner is again partnering with Nintendo, this time, on Style Savvy, a new fashion video game for the portable Nintendo DSi that is grabbing the attention of fashionistas worldwide.
Viewers will be treated to a behind-the-scene look at Beyoncé shooting two commercials for the game, both scheduled to begin airing on Nickelodeon the week prior to this year’s Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards and during the event itself. Some of the fashions from Beyoncé’s stylish Dereon clothing collection will also be available for download in the game in the coming months.
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Beyonce on Nintendo's New Style Savvy Game
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Grammy star Beyoncé will flaunt her best moves in 60-second Super Bowl commercial
Beyoncé is on a roll. The pop diva scored a record-breaking six awards at the Grammys, and come Super Bowl Sunday, she’ll have 60 seconds to shimmy in a brand-new commercial for HDTV giant Vizio.
An exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the ad shows B doing what she does best: singing and dancing in a sexy mini, under the direction of three-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer Wally Pfister.
The spot will air during the fourth quarter of the game, and that sure doesn’t come cheap: A commercial half that long is likely to cost $2.5 to $2.8 million this year.
Sources say he was taken aback because they don’t like to talk publicly about being married.
A source at the show said, “He appeared startled and a little exasperated.”
But the couple, who wed amid strict secrecy in 2008, was later all smiles at the Sony BMG party at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where they celebrated Beyoncé’s record six awards.
A spy said, “They were holding hands and looking happy.” Other guests included Clive Davis, Sony head Barry Weiss, Kings of Leon, John Legend, Usher, Britney Spears clinging to agent-boyfriend Jason Trawick, Tony Bennett and Sharon Osbourne. Meanwhile, Lady Gaga held court still dressed in a glittering Statue of Liberty outfit at Interscope founder Jimmy Iovine’s afterparty, at the Thom Thom club in Santa Monica, which drew Eminem, Dr. Dre, Akon and the Black Eyed Peas.
