LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Three years ago he debuted on the charts with the single "Locked Up." This year, Akon locks up Billboard's top pop artist honor. Sign up ...

FISHKILL, N.Y. (AP) -November 30, 2007 Akon is scheduled to appear in Fishkill Town Court on Monday morning for arraignment on a misdemeanor charge of endangering the welfare of a minor, and ...

BALTIMORE -- Forget record sales. Pop stars are now measured by their omnipresence, and few have mastered that art as well as Akon. Akon on your radio. Akon on your ring tone. Akon on "American Idol." ...

It will be New Jersey's biggest hip-hop concert this summer. It will also be one of the year's biggest hip-hop concerts anywhere. Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning for Summer Jam 2007, featuring ...

American hip-hop and R and B singer Akon pleaded not guilty to minor criminal charges overnight after being accused of tossing a teenage fan off the stage during a concert in upstate New York earlier ...

has been getting more and more attention, with even the NYTimes writing up the company's decision to pull its sponsorship of Gwen Stefani's tour because of Akon's performance at a club in Trinidad, ...