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Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum superstar, entrepreneur, actor, and philanthropist, NELLY, who has sold almost 100 million albums and singles in his 13 year career , releases his brand new album, “M.O.” on September 30 th . The album, Nelly’s 7 th , includes his hot new single “Get Like Me” where the St Louis superstar joins forces with two of the world’s hottest stars Nicki Minaj and Pharrell. The single is the follow up to Nelly’s recent major hit “ Hey Porsche" and his current US megahit "Cruise" (Remix), r ecorded with his f riends, the country duo, Florida Georgia Line. “H ey Porsche” incredibly gave Nelly his 22 nd charted Top 40 song, making him tied for 11 th most charted Top 40 hits artist of all-time.  Get Like Me (feat. Nicki Minaj & Pharrell) -  Get Like Me (feat. Nicki Minaj & Pharrell - Single

Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum hip-hop superstar Drake who recently returned with his sumptuous new single “Hold On, We’re Going Home” (#5 in the UK chart), follows up with the release on September 29th of his feverishly anticipated new album “Nothing Was The Same”. Nothing Was The Same is released on Young Money/Cash Money Records/Island Records and promises to be one of the biggest releases of the year. Drake recently also featured on friend, and fellow Toronto native, The Weeknd’s single “ Live Fo r“. The album was produced by long time musical partner Noah “40” Shebib and Jay Z features on the track “ Pound Cake/Paris Morton Music 2 ” which contains elements of Ellie Goulding’s “ Don’t Say A Word. ” Other featured tracks include Started From The Bottom”, “Tuscan Leather”, “Worst Behaviour”, “305 To My City” and “Wu-Tang Forever”. Nothing Was the Same - Drake available on iTunes   http://www.drakeofficial.com/ WHAT THE PAPERS SAY Drake is “the genre’s stylistic stan