The programmers at Vh1 have composed yet another list in their ongoing series of "The Greatest" 100 things to happen within a specific time period: The 100 Greatest Songs of '00s.

At the top of the heap is Beyoncé's hit 2003 single, "Crazy In Love," followed by Outkast's once-inescapable summer anthem "Hey Ya!" and Lady Gaga's suggestive dancefloor-filler "Poker Face." At the bottom is Sisqo's novelty sex jam, "The Thong Song" and Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats."

Vh1 will begin airing the countdown on Monday, October 5 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Go here to read the complete list of songs.

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Producer Mark Ronson and singer Katy B (pictured) have collaborated on an anthem for the 2012 London Olympics. The song, which will  be featured in Coca-Cola's commercials and digital platforms throughout the Games, mixes beats with sampled sounds recorded on athletes from five countries as they were training for the event, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The athletes recorded include British table tennis player Darius Knight, U.S. hurdler David Oliver and 400m runner Kseniya Vdovina. Ronson, a three-time Grammy winning producer who's best known for his work with Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen, recorded the sound of Knight's table tennis ball and Vdovina's heartbeat, for example.

The yet-to-be-named song will form the basis for Coke's "Move The Beat" campaign and feature in a commercial in which Ronson and Katy B perform it live in front of a audience of 1,000 that will include students and the young athlete ambassadors.

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Sylvia Robinson, the producer behind the first commercially successful hip-hop single, "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugar Hill Gang, died Thursday morning at a New Jersey hospital, the New York Times reports. She was 75.

A singer, songwriter, producer and co-founder of the pioneering record label Sugar Hill Records, Robinson became known as "the Mother of Hip-Hop" after she decided to record the emerging musical form as it evolved out of the New York City club scene of the late 1970s.

She started as an R&B singer in the 1950s as one half of the duo Mickey and Sylvia and scored a solo hit in 1973 with the song "Pillow Talk." In 1979, she scouted MCs from disco clubs in Harlem, formed the Sugar Hill Gang and transformed a disco beat from Chic's "Good Times" into the first hit rap record, "Rapper's Delight." She later signed Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and recorded their 1982 anthem, "The Message."

Robinson died from congestive heart failure early Thursday morning.

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Adele looks appropriately down in the dumps in her video for runaway hit break-up ballad, "Someone Like You." The song, the second single taken from her smash "21" album, shot up the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this month following her performance at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards.

In the grainy black-and-white promo, directed by veteran video director Jake Nava, the British songstress can be seen forlornly wandering the streets of Paris in the wee morning hours.

"The location evokes style and romance” Nava said in a press release. “And shooting early in the morning allows you to focus on Adele in this lonely and emotional space.”

Watch the video here.

(via Idolator)

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Courtney Love has signed a book deal for an autobiography the Hole front woman and actress hopes will "set the record straight" about her marriage to late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain, her battles with drug addiction, her relationship with her daughter Frances Bean and a plethora of celebrity attachés.

BBC reports that the deal is with publisher William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. The untitled book will be co-authored by by rock biographer Anthony Bozza, who has previously co-written with Guns N' Roses' Slash and The Fugees' Wyclef Jean. The book is due for publication sometime next fall.

A lot has been said about Love over the years, so the publisher is billing this as the "definitive" account of her life. "It's time for the public to hear her tell her story, as she lived it," publisher Lynn Grady told the BBC.

The 47-year-old joins an ever-growing list of famous rockers-turned authors that includes Neil Young, Keith Richards and Gregg Allman.

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Lady Gaga has filed a lawsuit against a cosmetics brand that's trying to use her name to market make-up and jewellery, the Associated Press reports.

In legal papers filed in New York against Nevada-based Excite Worldwide LLC, the star claims the company applied without her permission to trademark "Lady Gaga" and "Lady Gaga LG" in order to dupe fans into thinking she's affiliated with the products. She's seeking unspecified damages.

Gaga has registered her name for a range of products, including clothes, ringtones and hair, body and nail products.

The AP reports that U.S Patent and Trademark Office records show Excite's applications haven't been approved. The company has not responded to press inquiries.

(via Billboard)

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Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Chris Crocker are persona non-grata as far as Britney Spears' minders are concerned. On Wednesday, a Swedish journalist claimed that the "Toxic" singer's press team deleted half the questions he'd submitted for pre-approval before interviewing the star, including queries about other pop stars and her thoughts on "the future."

Since Spears' prolonged public meltdown period ended with a Los Angeles judge granting her father conservatorship over her life and business affairs, management has clamped down even further on press access to the singer, requiring journalists to submit questions in advance before being granted an audience.

According to Digital Spy, Swedish reporter Torbjörn Ek traveled to the UK to interview Spears about the European leg of her "Femme Fatale" tour, but was hindered by "secret agreements" and the censoring of his questions which "destroy[ed] all possibility of journalistic work."

"They deleted half of my questions that I had to send in advance," he told "Nojes Bladet." "I could not ask about her co-operation with Swedish songwriters, I could not ask about Miley Cyrus or Selena Gomez, Britney's successors in the Disney industry... I could not ask about Chris Crocker's world-famous 'Leave Britney Alone' clip, and they had even deleted the question 'What do you hope the future will bring?'"

When he asked Spears if she felt "over-protected," the interview abruptly ended. "I do not believe a word of her response," he said.

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Joe Jonas might have titillated his female fans with the sexified music video for his solo single "Just In Love," but he he's also angered a pair of indie directors who are accuing the Jonas Brother of copying the romantic concept.

"The Wrap" reports that directors Michael and Mark Polish believe the 22-year-old pop star copied their low-budget drama inspired by the French New Wave called "For Lovers Only." Both works feature lovers cavorting sexily about Paris. In Jonas' video, which was directed by Jaci Judelson, he sidles up to model Angele Sassy in scenes that resemble those in the Polish brothers' film.

"It's very disheartening that a fellow director would go to those lengths to copy 'For Lovers Only' and not credit us," Mark Polish told "The Wrap" in an interview. "If they had said our film was their inspiration, we would have been flattered. But nowhere in any of their materials do they say that we were an influence on them, which is upsetting to us as artists. And it makes this feel like plagiarism."

No word on whether the brothers will pursue a legal action but sources told "The Wrap" they've retained lawyers.

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Toronto-based singer/songwriter Leslie Feist will release her third studio album "Metals" on October 4, but the record is now streaming on her official website. To listen to the 12-track album, fans must first sign-up for Feist's mailing list.

In an illustrated note accompanying the stream, Feist explains that she recorded the album in Big Sur, California earlier this year. "It was February in California which is like April in Canada or July in Australia," she writes. "It rained and stormed and we huddled in this wooden room for 2 and a half weeks."

"Metals" is her first LP since 2007's international breakthrough "The Reminder." She will kick-off a North American tour with a special CBC radio gig featuring several guests, including Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste and The Hidden Cameras' Joel Gibb.

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After a two-year hiatus, Bloc Party are starting to work on new material but without lead singer Kele Okereke. The British rock group confirmed in an interview with "NME" that they want to record and are auditioning new singers.

Since taking a break in 2009, Okereke released the dancey solo album "The Boxer" and is preparing to put out an EP this fall. Last week, the singer told the "NME" that he spotted guitarist Russell Lissack, bassist Gordon Moakes and drummer Matt Tong heading into their New York rehearsal space and had no idea that the sessions were even happening.

"I hope I haven't been fired," he said. "I don't really know what's going on, because we haven't really spoken recently and I'm a bit scared to ask."

Turns out his fears were grounded. "It's not really a secret because Kele's been pretty busy doing solo stuff and it looks like he's going to be doing that a bit longer," Lissack told the magazine. "The other three of us wanted to meet up and make music. We were talking about just doing an instrumental thing, but now we might get a singer as well, to properly put some music out and play some shows."

He insisted that the band is on amicable terms with Okereke but admitted they haven't spoken in months.

"We've still got the same management and stuff, so he might have known, he might not. He's doing his own thing and we wanted to play together, so it wasn't like we were going behind his back," he added. "I haven't spoken to Kele for a couple of months, I guess since the festivals when I was doing stuff with Ash. But there's no bad vibes."

UPDATE: Bloc Party has since released a cryptic statement on their website asserting that "Bloc Party is still Bloc Party" after Okereke posted an annoyed response on his blog about the audition news:

"Hmm, i dont know what to make of this. a big part of me is laughing HARD at all of this but another part of me is all like WTF? im quite curious as to what a bloc party audition would be like?" he wrote. "I wonder if they would let me sit on the panel so i could be a judge tyra banks style?"

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