Akon is going to hook up with other local artists according to Australia’s Daily News. Akon is scheduled to head to Africa next week to record a song with Ladysmith Black Mambazo. LBM has won a grammy, in case you don’t know or have not heard of them. LBM is big time and [...]

The internet is really a cool thing. I mean, how else would you or I be able to read about Akon news in Jamaica or some other place around the world? Anyway, I think it is really cool, even if you don’t. But, I was checking out a write-up in the Jamaica [...]

Young Jeezy’s Soul Survivor (featuring Akon) is still topping the chars this week.
Chris Brown begins his first month on top of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart as his single, “Run It!,” maintains its No. 1 spot on the Hot 100 for the fourth consecutive week. His self titled album debuted at No. 2 on [...]

The Cape Times reports that Akon lost out to Nigerian artist, Face Idibia, for the Revelation of the Year category. Pretty interesting. I did not realize that there are so many music awards shows all over the world. I guess we don’t really hear about all of the awards shows from around the world [...]

I just came across this cool review of the Trouble album on a New Zealand website. I guess those guys down under listen to good music too. Who knew? Check this out:
To understand where AKON is right now is just half the equation. The other half lies in where he came from: this young artist [...]