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House arrest has paid off big time for T.I.

The rapper, who recorded his forthcoming Paper Trail while confined to his Atlanta-area home, made chart history as his album single "Whatever You Like" rocketed 70 spots to No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100. This sets a new record for the biggest jump to the top slot, besting Maroon 5's record-setting 63-spot jump for "Makes Me Wonder" back in May 2007.

T.I.'s track rocketed to No. 1 thanks to downloads, selling 205,000 copies in its first week in online stores. That gives "Whatever You Like" the biggest digital sales debut by a rap artist since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking downloads five years ago.

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Disney star, Miley Cyrus frenemy and rumored Nick Jonas dater Selena Gomez just released her music video for “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” from Another Cinderella Story.

Us Weekly probably summed it up best with the headline “Watch Selena Gomez Dance With a Mop.” Yep, that’s about all there is here. Well, that and a preview of Disney’s next big thing.

Whereas her BFF Demi Lavato looks like she’s trying hard to be a rock star in “Get Back” and there’s no question that Miley brings it (like Madonna!) in “7 Things,” Selena’s all “Hey! I’m cute and fun. Who wants to have a sleepover?! I’ll bring the tube of cookie dough!”

Needless to say, this video is way better than that rehash of “Our Lips Are Sealed” which Hilary Duff released with the first version of A Cinderella Story. But give these girls another six years and they could be in Hilary’s spot—watching a new crop of cute young'uns rise in fame while taking dad to court to foot a $25,000 21st-birthday-party bill. (Aw, poor Hil, we do miss you!)

What do you think? Better than Miles or just whatever?

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The FBI is gunning for the Guns N' Roses leaker.

A Los Angeles-area blogger who admittedly posted nine tracks in June from the forever-in-the-works Chinese Democracy album was arrested today on suspicion of violating federal copyright laws.

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Jessica Simpson gets a cover story in the upcoming People dedicated to how in love the reinvented country star is at the moment. In fact, she’s so in love right now, she doesn’t journal in black notebooks anymore—she uses pink and white ones.

The interview was like any other chronicling her love life, because that's all this girl seems to be about. Divorcing Nick Lachey was sad times, dating John Mayer was weird and Tony Romo is currently perfect.

About this perfect man, she has this to declare: “I just told him today, ‘You’re the love of my life.’ ” Oof, last time she said that about someone, it ended one of MTV's greatest reality shows.

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Forget OxyClean, it's the Jonas Brothers who have the real Staind-fighting power.

Staind was making a play to top the charts with The Progress of Illusion, thereby joining U2, Metallica and the Dave Matthews Band as the only modern rock bands to land four consecutive No. 1 albums. Instead, Staind got wiped out by the clean-cut Jonases.

The siblings' A Little Bit Longer sold 147,000 copies for the week ended Sunday, per Nielsen SoundScan, to hold their place at the top of the Billboard 200. In contrast, The Illusion of Progress sold just 92,000 copies at No. 3, trailing Kid Rock's Rock N Roll Jesus at No. 2 with 101,000 discs.

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Is Lindsay Lohan's closest companion about to pen a tell-all tome?

"Well, she's certainly telling friends she's planning to write a book," said a source close to club DJ and Lohan pal Samantha Ronson. "It's supposed to be about her, allegedly. But come on, you know Lindsay will be all over that book. She's the only one people want to read about."

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UPDATE: Turns out we were right. Due to technical difficulities, this isn't quite the breathtaking work of art Heidi had envisioned. Heids just released this statement: "I apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced when trying to view or download my 'Overdosin' video. We have experienced an error and are working to correct it as soon as possible." We're sure the real music video will blow us all away.

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The highly anticipated music video for Heidi Montag's "Overdosin' " is finally here. But it doesn't look quite right. And not just because it features Heidi Montag, but because it's 10 minutes of slow-mo aerobics. Could this really be the masterpiece Heidi intended?

We actually thought this video was going to be a little bit better than “Higher.” At least, the pictures all indicated a higher production value. And yet we couldn’t make it through the whole thing, so we can’t even promise some big payoff at the end (we suspect there’s none). If you do happen to make it all the way through, let us know if it was worth it, and if you don't, let us know how far you got.

In case you miss Heidi’s manic arm waves as much as we do, we’ve included the classic “Higher” after the jump for your convenience. It’s actually kind of refreshing to watch it after “Overdosin’ ”—brings back the good times.

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Oh, say can you see Jennifer Hudson in Colorado?

The Oscar winner has been tapped to sing the national anthem Thursday, the night Barack Obama is set to address the increasingly star-studded Democratic National Convention for the first time as his party's official candidate for president of the United States.

Meaning, no more of that "presumptive nominee" stuff.

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Think of it as mixtapes made by famous people.

The North Carolina-based indie record label Merge is launching a limited-edition series of CDs curated by famous folks like Saturday Night Live's Amy Poehler, David Byrne, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, novelist Jonathan Lethem and others.

The 14 discs of SCORE! Merge Records: The First 20 Years will feature music from the label's catalog and begin rolling out through 2009. The subscription-only series will also benefit causes chosen by the celebs.

The label has released music from Bright Eye's Conor Oberst, Arcade FIre, the Magnetic Fields, Superchunk, Zooey Deschanel's duo She & Him and more.