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28 April 2012 8:05 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »

If you take a look at the music charts today, it’s rare to see a Top 10 that isn’t filled with glossy American popstars who just want to dance on the floor/party rock/put their hands up/raise their glass (I could keep on going) so sometimes it’s healthy to take a look at things from the other side of the world. Over in South Korea, China and Japan it is very rare for any of the artists we take for granted to dominate the charts considering these countries are each filled with their own pop culture. Cracking the east Asian market is the equivalent of British musicians trying to crack America – near on impossible. You may think ‘What’s the point? I’ve never heard of any of these people and the only ones listening to them are those crazy asian kids who stay on chatrooms »

- Josh Webb

1 February 2012 1:55 PM, PST | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »

When Nicole Scherzinger got fired from "The X Factor" on Monday (Jan. 30), it may have come as a shock to some. But the signs were all there that the tenure of the former Pussycat Doll, who herself was discovered on the singing competition "Popstars," was doomed from the start.

Fans of the show know that Scherzinger wasn't even producers' first choice for the fourth judge's chair. She was actually a late replacement after Cheryl Cole got the hook. And without proper time to really test out the chemistry, the Scherzinger experiment was off to a rough beginning.

While she did a nice job helping runner-up Josh Krajcik get to the finals, it was his talent that was really the key here.

Scherzinger was often the victim of barbs from Simon Cowell. While this is par for the course for Cowell, it was clear that he viewed her as a music »

- editorial@zap2it.com

2 items from 2012