Report: Leona Lewis May Be On Verge of Record-Breaking Deal

Leona Lewis is reportedly poised to sign a record $100 million deal that will encompass albums and live performances, the U.K.'s Daily Star reports. According to sources, competing record labels could present the deal to her as early as this Thursday, which will effectively tear up the current $9 million, five-album deal she signed with Clive Davis' J Records last year. Lewis, a former winner of The X Factor (an American Idol-esque show in the UK) and a current Rolling Stone Artist to Watch, became the first British singer since 1987 to top the Billboard Top 200 singles chart when her worldwide hit "Bleeding Love" reached number one last week, thanks in part to an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show. If the rumors of this new deal are true, the dollar amount would trump the current record-holding $80 million deal Madonna signed with Live Nation last year.

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“Satisfied”

Tom Waits | 2011

Only the genius of Tom Waits could combine the subject of mortality, a reoccurring theme in his work, with wordplay that name checks both Mick and Keith, whom he calls "Mr. Jagger" and "Mr. Richards," and the title of their magnum opus, "Satisfaction." And to show just how cool Waits really is, he even got Mr. Richards to play along, one of nine guest appearances the guitarist has made on three Waits albums. "This growling roadhouse stomp is a late-breaking response to the Stones' greatest hit," Rolling Stone said of the track.

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