Billboard Names Chris Brown Artist of the Year for 2008
Chris Brown has been named Artist of the Year by Billboard magazine.
Rihanna - who is dating Chris Brown - was named Best Female Artist.
Leona Lewis was named Best New Artist. Alicia Keys had the Top Hip-Hop Album. Flo Rida's "Low" was the Song of the Year, Bon Jovi had the highest grossing tour and Taylor Swift was named Topped Country Artist. Billboard's Year in Music feature for 2008 can be found here.
A Pepsi-Yahoo promotion on Yahoo Music called cover art has several artists performing covers of hit songs. The best cover among them is Many Moore's cover of Rihanna's terrific song "Umbrella." Moore says she doesn't normally listen to pop music but says that "you just cannot deny how melodic this song is." Rihanna's original video for "Umbrella" runs in the background during Moore's cover. You can see the original video from Rihanna here. Here is Mandy Moore's cover of "Umbrella."
