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Robert Kessler · 10/22/12 03:08PM

Beyonce and Jay-Z may have failed to trademark "Blue Ivy," but they have successfully patented true love and happiness.

Today's Song: Solange "Losing You"

Rich Juzwiak · 10/02/12 01:45PM

Based on numbers alone, you could look at Solange Knowles as this era's answer to La Toya Jackson (although even La Toya went Top 40 on the U.S. R&B singles chart a few times). She is the decidedly less successful sibling of a musical icon (Beyoncé, duh), although the desperation that tainted her earlier work (even her relatively respected sophomore album Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams) has by now evaporated.

An Analysis of Beyoncé's Celeb-Studded Birthday Card: Who Loves Her the Most?

Caity Weaver · 09/04/12 12:30PM

Today is Beyoncé's 31st birthday. For some celebrities, Beyoncé's birthday is a chance to prove, publicly, how close they are with Beyoncé. For other celebrities, it is a chance to remind Beyoncé that they and she were in the same popular R&B group from 2000-2004. For everyone else, it marks the start of the Christmas season.

Blue Ivy Exists

Caity Weaver · 07/18/12 05:10PM

Beyoncé was spotted shopping Wednesday with Earth's favorite and most important baby, Blue Ivy Carter.

Who Cried It Best: Soulja Boy, Kanye West or Beyoncé?

Rich Juzwiak · 07/02/12 09:00AM

Last night's BET Awards featured a 20+ minute extravaganza tribute to Whitney Houston that included Mariah Carey talking about herself (...and Whitney), Monica blowing the doors off the place with a cover of "I Love the Lord" (from The Preacher's Wife) and Chaka Khan reclaiming the song that Whitney once made her own, "I'm Every Woman."

Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian Are Friends or Maybe Hate Each Other

Caity Weaver · 05/29/12 07:42PM

It's been days since one of Beyoncé's back-up dancers tweeted a picture of herself posing with Kim Kardashian backstage at Beyoncé's triumphant return to the spotlight in glitzy Atlantic City, and the world is still no closer to knowing whether Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian are friends or enemies or frenemies or indifferent or one of them thinks they're friends and the other one is like "I don't know that person" or what.

Decoding the Beyoncé Tumblr

Anne Helen Petersen · 04/09/12 03:20PM

Earlier this week, The Beyoncé tumblr went live. And there was much rejoicing: across the web, gossip sites and news organizations alike trumpeted her decision to cultivate a web presence. Various articles figure the "release" of the site in vaguely mystical terms: Beyoncé celebrated her fourth anniversary with Jay-Z on April 4th (4/4); she was "born" onto the web on 4/5.