Tour kicked off in November 2009 and will run at least through April 2011.
By James Montgomery

There’s a reason Lady Gaga doesn’t ever seem to want to wrap up her globe-trotting Monster Ball Tour: It’s a moneymaking machine.

Billboard is reporting that, by the time the curtain finally falls on the Ball — which kicked off in November 2009 and is scheduled to run until at least April 2011 — it will have grossed nearly $200 million worldwide. [..]

Brandon Flowers, the lead singer of Las Vegas-based band The Killers, will release his first solo album this year. The news was revealed by a Killers fan site on a Twitter post, directing followers to the band’s official website, thekillersmusic.com. The website opening [..]

Named after the closing track of her latest “New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh,” Erykah Badu has announced the dates for her 2010 North American tour, “Out My Mind, Just In Time.” The trek will make stops at amphitheaters and concert halls beginning May 22 at Pier Six Pavilion in Baltimore, MD, and wrapping up on June 24 at The Pearl Concert Theater in Las Vegas, NV. [..]

Justin Bieber scoots back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with “My World 2.0,” shifting 102,000 copies (down 65%) in its third week on the chart. It bowed atop the list two weeks ago with 283,000 but fell to No. 2 last week upon the No. 1-arrival of Usher’s “Raymond v Raymond” (329,000 in its debut). This week, Usher’s set slips to No. 2 with 92,000, down 72%. [..]