We Are The World

The best selling single on i-tunes right now is the 25th Anniversary all-star recording of We Are The World. Back in 1985 this Grammy winning #1 smash was a charity single for hunger in Africa. This time around it is fund raising for earth quake relief in Haiti.

In addition to the legendary voices of Barbra Streisand, Josh Groban, Celine Dion, and Toni Braxton they are joined by Oscar winner and Season Three Miss American Idol finalist Jennifer Hudson. This is just another example of Jennifer's impressive status as a talented artist in demand. If you look closely in the video you can also see that American Idol judge Randy Jackson contributed to the chorus as well as Season Five Miss American Idol 1st runner up Katherine McPhee and Season Six Miss American Idol winner Jordin Sparks.

Not quite in as much demand is Season Three Miss American Idol winner Fantasia who is struggling to manage her career and her family life on her reality show Fantasia For Real. She has been very public with her personal difficulty with education and reading and she is working with a tutor to earn her GED. At the same time she is trying to make sure her young daughter, Zion, keeps on learning and stays excited about school. For the most part, this is going well, but she feels bad being on the road so much and leaving most of the encouragement to Zion's teachers. This often means that Zion receives many gifts and toys in the mail while her mommy is gone.

The gifts that Fantasia showers on her brothers come in the form of helping them get a break in the music business. She spends so much time trying to help them that she seems to neglect her own career. Her new single was just released and unfortunately it isn't even on the i-tunes top 200 best sellers chart this week. Fantasia is indulging her older brothers idea to record an inspirational single and he wants her to be a part of it. Fantasia takes it a step further and decides to make it a family affair by inviting brother Teeny to be included as well. He shows off how completely undisciplined and unprofessional he is during the recording session. Her manager suggests that Fantasia invite Teeny to tour with her so he can gain experience. Not wanting to deal with all of his drama, Fantasia is initially against the idea, but she goes along with it anyway. Just as suspected, he doesn't listen to any directions and tries to take charge every chance he gets. But thankfully, Fantasia is pleasantly surprised that once up on stage with her he manages to do a pretty good job. For now....