let the music play.......

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977), known simply as Shakira , is a Colombian singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer, dancer, philanthropist and occasional actress who has been a major figure in the pop music scene of Latin America since the mid-1990s. In 2001, she broke through into the English-speaking world with the release of Laundry Service, which sold over fifteen million copies worldwide.A two-time Grammy Award-winning and seven-time Latin Grammy Award-winning artist, Shakira is the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time, having sold more than 60 million albums worldwide according to the United World Chart. She is also the only artist from South America to reach the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100, the Australian ARIA chart, the United World Chart and the UK Singles Chart.

According to the United World Chart, Shakira is as of 2007 the fourth most successful artist so far from the 2000s. She is also the only artist to have two songs in the top ten of the most successful singles since 1999

Iron Maiden are a British heavy metal band from Leyton in the East End of London. The band were formed in 1975 by bassist Steve Harris, formerly a member of Gypsy's Kiss and Smiler. Iron Maiden are one of the most successful and influential bands in the heavy metal genre, having sold over 100 million albums worldwide.The band won the Ivor Novello Awards for international achievement in 2002.They were also inducted into the Hollywood Rock Walk during their tour in the United States in 2005.

Iron Maiden were formed on Christmas Day 1975, by bassist Steve Harris, shortly after he left his previous group, Smiler. Harris attributes the band name to a movie adaptation of The Man in the Iron Mask, which he saw around that time, and so the group was christened after the 17th century torture device

Iron Maiden (1980)
Killers (1981)
The Number of the Beast (1982)
Piece of Mind (1983)
Powerslave (1984)
Somewhere in Time (1986)
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)
No Prayer for the Dying (1990)
Fear of the Dark (1992)
The X Factor (1995)
Virtual XI (1998)
Brave New World (2000)
Dance of Death (2003)
A Matter of Life and Death (2006)

Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage names Eminem and Slim Shady, is an Oscar and multiple Grammy Award winning rapper, record producer, and actor from Detroit, Michigan. Having sold over seventy million albums worldwide,Eminem is one of the highest-selling musicians of the early 2000s thus, making him one of the highest-selling rap artists of all time. Eminem was discovered by rapper and producer Dr. Dre. Dr. Dre later signed Eminem to his record label, Aftermath Entertainment.

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has praised Mathers for his "verbal energy" and for arousing popular interest in poetry and lyrics.Eminem is infamous for the controversy surrounding many of his lyrics. With the success of his highly acclaimed album,The Marshall Mathers LP and its subsequent nomination for four Grammy awards including Album of the Year,critics such as GLAAD denounced his lyrics as homophobic and misogynist, while others claimed that it promoted violence.In 2002, he starred in the semi-autobiographical movie 8 Mile.

The Slim Shady LP (1999)
The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
The Eminem Show (2002)
Encore (2004)
King Mathers (TBD)

Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978), best known as Usher, is an American R&B and pop singer and actor who rose to fame in the mid-late 1990s. To date, he has sold approximately 30 million albums worldwide and has won five Grammy Awards.Usher is also a part owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers National Basketball Association franchise. He also has his own record label, US Records.

At age thirteen, Raymond competed on Star Search, where they were spotted by an A&R representative from LaFace Records, who arranged an audition for them with L.A. Reid. A contract with the company soon followed. Usher was introduced on "Call Me A Mack," a song he recorded for the soundtrack album to the John Singleton film, Poetic Justice.


1994: Usher
1997: My Way
1999: Live
2001: 8701
2004: Confessions
2008: Fifth Album

Enrique José Martín Morales (born December 24, 1971), better known as Ricky Martín, is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-winning Puerto Rican pop singer who rose to fame, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991. He has sold almost 48 million albums around the world,charting twenty one top-ten hits on the U.S. Latin Charts, eight of which reached number one, and a total of over thirty hit singles.

1991: Ricky Martin
1993: Me Amaras
1995: A Medio Vivir
1998: Vuelve (Latin platinum)
1999: Ricky Martin
2000: Sound Loaded (2x platinum)
2001: La Historia (2x Latin platinum)
2003: Almas del Silencio (2x Latin platinum)
2005: Life
2006: MTV Unplugged
2007: Black & White Tour

Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (born on May 8, 1975, in Madrid, Spain) is a singer/songwriter of Asian and European ancestry.

Iglesias's career started on Indie label Fonovisa who helped turn him into one of the most popular artists in Latin America and in the Latin market in the United States, selling more Spanish albums than any other artists in that period of time. Before the turn of the millennium he made a crossover into the mainstream English market and signed a unique multi-album deal with Universal Music for an unprecedented $48,000,000, with Universal Music Latino to release his Spanish albums and Interscope to release English albums.

Iglesias has had five Billboard Chart #1s in English and holds the record for producing seventeen number 1 Spanish language hits singles on the Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks. His album sales currently total over 41 million, making him one of the biggest-selling Spanish musical artists in the world.
here's one of ma fav.........


spanish :
Enrique Iglesias 1995
Vivir 1997
Cosas del Amor 1998
quizas 2002
Untitled New Spanish 2008

english :
Enrique 1999
Escape 2001
7 2003
Insomniac 2007

Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July 24, 1969),popularly nicknamed J.Lo, is an American actress, singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, fashion designer, television producer. She is the richest Hispanic in Hollywood,and the most influential Hispanic entertainer in America according to People en Español's list of "100 Most Influential Hispanics"

Lopez was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York to Puerto Rican parents Guadalupe Rodríguez, a kindergarten teacher, and David Lopez, a computer specialist. She has two siblings, Lynda and Leslie. Lopez spent her entire academic career in Catholic schools. She financed singing and dancing lessons for herself from the age of 19. After leaving a one-semester career at Baruch College, Lopez divided her time between working in a legal office, dance classes, and dance performances in Manhattan clubs at night. After months of auditioning for dance roles, Lopez was selected as a dancer for various rap artists' music videos, a 1990 episode of Yo! MTV Raps, and on the American Music Awards as a backup dancer for the New Kids on the Block and their performance of their song "Games" in 1991. After being rejected twice, Lopez gained her first regular high-profile job as a "Fly Girl" dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color in 1990. Soon after, Lopez became a backup dancer for Janet Jackson and made an appearance in her 1993 video "That's the Way Love Goes".


1999: On the 6
2001: J. Lo
2002: J to tha L-O!: The Remixes
2002: This Is Me... Then
2005: Rebirth
2007: Como Ama una Mujer
2007: Brave

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (born September 4, 1981) is an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director, actress, dancer, and fashion designer. Knowles rose to fame as the creative force and lead singer of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child, the world's best-selling female group of all time.

After a series of commercially successful releases with the group, Knowles released her debut solo album, Dangerously in Love, in June 2003. The album became one of the biggest commercial successes of the year, topping the albums charts in the U.S. and the UK. It also spawned the number-one singles "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy" and earned Knowles five Grammy Awards in a single night in 2004. Knowles' second album B'Day was released worldwide on September 4, 2006, coinciding with her twenty-fifth birthday. The album spawned the UK number-one singles "Déjà Vu" and "Beautiful Liar", as well as the worldwide hit "Irreplaceable", which reached number one in several countries. It also earned Knowles her seventh solo Grammy Award (she has won ten in total).

2003: Dangerously in Love
2006: B'Day

Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975),better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper. He rose to fame following the release of his albums Get Rich or Die Tryin' and The Massacre. 50 Cent achieved multi-platinum success with both albums, selling over twenty-one million records worldwide.

Born in South Jamaica, Queens in New York, 50 Cent began drug dealing at the age of twelve during the 1980s' crack epidemic.After leaving drug dealing to pursue a rap career, he was shot nine times in 2000. After releasing his mixtape "Guess Who's Back?" in 2002, 50 Cent was discovered by rapper Eminem and signed to Interscope Records. With the help of Eminem and Dr. Dre—who produced his first major commercial successes—he became one of the highest selling rap artists in the world. In 2003, he founded the record label G-Unit Records, which signed successful rappers such as Young Buck, Lloyd Banks, and Tony Yayo. 50 Cent has engaged in numerous feuds with other rappers including Ja Rule, The Game, and Fat Joe.

Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003)
The Massacre (2005)
Curtis (2007)
shortly : Before I Self Destruct (2008)

Westlife are an Irish pop music group that formed in July 1998.The group is popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and much of Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Westlife have had fourteen number one singles in the United Kingdom between the years 1999 and 2006, the third-highest such total in UK history, behind Elvis Presley and The Beatles, and tied with Cliff Richard. They are also the only artist/group to win 'Record of the Year' in the UK four times. The group had sold more than 40 million records by end of 2006, yet to this day it is still unclear to how many records exactly the band have sold because some of their main markets are countries in Asia that do not publish sales figures.They are worth an estimated €28 million (about $38 million)
Westlife were awarded the Best Irish Pop Act, a public voting category, at the annual Ireland Meteor Awards for the seventh consecutive year on 2 February 2007.


1999 Westlife
2000 Coast to Coast
2001 World Of Our Own
2002 Unbreakable - The Greatest Hits Vol. 1
2003 Turnaround
2004 Allow Us to Be Frank
2005 Face to Face
2006 The Love Album
2007 Back Home

Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ as well as "The King of Pop",is an American musician, entertainer, and pop icon whose career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for almost 40 years.

Michael Jackson is widely regarded as one of the greatest entertainers and most popular recording artists in history, displaying complicated physical techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, that have redefined mainstream dance and entertainment.His achievements in the music industry have included a revolutionary transformation of music videos,establishing high-profile album releases and sales as a new trend for record companies to generate profits,dominating pop music during the 1980s,and becoming the first black entertainer to amass a strong following on MTV while leading the relatively young channel out of obscurity.His distinctive style, moves, and vocals have inspired, influenced, and spawned a whole generation of hip hop, pop, and R&B artists. He has been named the "Most Successful Entertainer of All Time" by Guinness World Records

Jackson began his musical career at the age of five with the Jackson Family vocal group. He released his first solo recording, Got to Be There, in 1971, while remaining a member of the group.In his solo career, Jackson recorded and co-produced the best-selling album of all time, Thriller, which has worldwide sales exceeding 104 million.After Thriller, Jackson continued to release internationally chart-topping albums like Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), HIStory (1995), and Invincible (2001), his latest album of fully original material. Michael Jackson has received thirteen Grammy Awards and charted thirteen #1 singles in the United States, more than any other male artist in the Hot 100 era.In November 2006, the World Music Awards announced that Michael Jackson had sold over 750 million units worldwide and given $300 million to charity,making Jackson one of the best-selling music artists and one of the most charitable humanitarians of all time, whose efforts on the latter front have been acknowledged with a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.

the discography of michael jackson is a bit long so check it out here.......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_jackson#1958.E2.80.931979:_Musical_prodigy

Linkin Park is a rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band had since sold more than forty million albums and won two Grammys.With their debut album, Hybrid Theory, they achieved mainstream success; the album certifying Diamond from the RIAA.Their following studio album, Meteora, continued the band's success, topping the Billboard 200’s album charts in 2003, and was followed by extensive touring and charity work around the world.

Recognized for their adaption of the nu metal genre into a radio-friendly style in Meteora and Hybrid Theory,the band’s latest studio album, Minutes to Midnight had stemmed away from their previous nu metal sound, venturing into a variety of other genres.They are also known for their several collaborations, most notably with rapper Jay-Z in their mash-up album Collision Course, and a plethora of other artists on Reanimation.The album topped the Billboard Charts by selling nearly 625,000 copies in its debut week, making it the third best debut week of any album for the year.

Xero Sampler Tape (1997)
Hybrid Theory EP (1999)
Hybrid Theory (2000)
Reanimation (2002)
Meteora (2003)
Collision Course (with Jay-Z) (2004)
Minutes to Midnight (2007)

Music...... soothes the mind and gives it rest , heals the heart and makes it whole , flows from the heaven to the soul !!

See music as a perfect way to have good feelings because it goes deep inside your heart..