The Willow Smith Machine Comes to the UK

Willow Smith’s second single ‘21st Century Girl’  is released today (exclusively on iTunes) and is the follow up to natural hair anthem ‘Whip My Hair’  which went platinum in the US and Australia and broke the gold mark in Canada and Ireland.

A hitmaker at the ripe old age of 10, Willow starts her international tour with tween sensation Justin Bieber this weekend.

You can catch Willow and Justin in the UK as follows:

4th March – Birmingham NIA
5th March – Birmingham NIA
11th March – Liverpool Echo Arena
12th March – Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
14th March – London O2
16th March – London O2
17th March – London O2
20th March – Manchester MEN
21st March – Manchester MEN
23rd March – Sheffield Arena
24th March – Nottingham Arena

Prepare for lots of screaming!

MTV’s Ones to Watch in 2011

According to MTV, these are some of the acts tipped to be big in 2011:

Willow Smith – daughter of Will and Jada, her debut single ‘Whip My Hair’ was a massive Internet hit Stateside (and an anthem for the ever growing natural hair movement in the US) which resulted in her being signed to Roc Nation (think Jay Z, Rihanna). Not bad for a 10 year old!
 

Willow Smith

Labrinth – a British rapper, singer-songwriter and producer signed to Simon Cowell's Syco music label. We wonder how they’ll handle him among ‘artists’ like Westlife, Susan Boyle and Joe McElderry! He tasted success after his collaboration with Tinie Tempah on 'Pass Out' and his following #2 hit 'Frisky'. His debut album should be released later this year.

Labrinth

Wretch 32 - a grime MC and rapper from North London. He is part of The Movement made up of himself, Ghetto, Scorcher and Devlin. Pretty impressed that he’s sold in excess of 8,000 CDs in independent outlets alone.

Wretch 32

Emile Sande - Aberdeen born Emeli has two top 10 singles under her belt after collaborating with Chipmunk on 'Diamond Rings' and with Wiley on 'Never Be Your Woman' (loved her on that). She releases her debut album later this year.

Emile Sande