The Smoking Gun has the details of a just-filed lawsuit against Keith Urban, a New Jersey oil painter whose keithurban.com website has spurred the similarly named country singer into legal action:
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Welcome to On The Shelf, Idolator's weekly look at the coming torrent of record releases. Looking over the roster of albums being released tomorrow, we realized one thing: next week's chart may be another one in which the all-important mom demographic rules the roost. After the jump, we look at tomorrow's offerings from Josh Groban, Keith Urban, and Mickey Avalon, as well as two compilations of recent pop hits.
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Australian cowboy/Nicole Kidman arm candy Keith Urban checked himself into rehab last night, canceling all appearances promoting his forthcoming album, Love, Pain And The Whole Crazy Thing in the process. We're the first to admit that we don't know much about country music, but we're pretty sure that this news can't be good for Capitol Nashville, Urban's label. While it's poised to nab a top-five slot on next week's chart with an album by Dierks Bentley—who we thought was a Gnarls Barkley side project—Love, which is slated to come out on Nov. 7, is its premier fourth-quarter release. (Urban's last album, 2004's Be Here, went triple-platinum.) Urban's battled drug problems in the past, so this news isn't likely to shock his fans. In a world where records have less time than ever to prove their mettle, canceling appearances could result in Urban's sales sagging.
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- 50 Cent, aggravated with P. Diddy and not worried about losing his White Party invite, drops a track that claims Diddy knows who shot The Notorious B.I.G. And all this frustration seems to be the result of 50 wanting to work with ... Ma$e? Seriously? [MTV]
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