Maxwell and Jay-Z are riding well into the New Year thanks to their efforts “Blacksummers’night” and “The Blueprint 3″. Both albums and their subsequent singles have earned the duo a leading five nominations a piece at the 41st Annual NAACP Image Awards !

Revealed as nominees Wednesday, January 6, Maxwell and Jay-Z will each go head to head for Outstanding Male Artist and Outstanding Album. Maxwell, fresh off a strong six Grammy nominations, is a double nominee in the Outstanding Song field thanks to the singles “Pretty Wings” and “Bad Habits” and a nominee for Outstanding Music Video (”Pretty Wings”).

Jay-Z, garnering mixed reviews for his latest video/single “On To The Next One,” like Maxwell, is a double nominee thanks to collaborations with Rihanna and Alicia Keys in the Outstanding duo, group or collaboration field, where he’ll face off with Day 26, the Black Eyed Peas and 3 Mo’ Divas.

Garnering nominations for the coveted Outstanding New Artist field are Jeremih, Keri Hilson, K’Jon, Kristinia Debarge, and Melanie Fiona.

Following Maxwell and Jay Z, Alicia Keys earned a total of three nominations, including one for Outstanding Album, followed by Whitney Houston, Rihanna and Mary J. Blige who each have two nods.

Anthony Hamilton, Mary Mary, Jamie Foxx, Ne-Yo, India.Arie and Charlie Wilson each received at least one nomination.

Michael Jackson has been honored with a posthumous nomination for his box office hit ‘This Is It,’ which joins leading film related nominations for “Precious: Based on the novel PUSH by Sapphire’. Mariah Carey, Paula Patton, Mo’Nique, Lenny Kravitz and the film’s director Lee Daniels each received a nomination, along with the film’s leading actress Gabourey Sidibe.

Documentaries also went over well with the NAACP Image Awards committee, both Chris Rock and Lebron James earned a nod for their releases “Good Hair” and “More Than A Game” respectively.

The 41st Annual NAACP Image Awards are set to air February 26 at 8pm ET/PT on Fox.

Performers and presenters will be announced at a later date.

A full list of music related nominees is below. For a complete list of nominees visit naacpimageawards.net.
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UPDATED: Added 2 new untagged HQ photos thanks to George! Hey fans I added 20+ marked photos of Day 26 from the New Year’s Eve 106 & Party New Year’s Eve Bash on 12.31.09. All copyright credit for the photos go to allaccess we do not claim any ownership of the photos The guys looked good. Loved Brian’s hair his braids/cornrows were fresh to death. So what did everyone think of the appearance minus Que? Leave your comments!!

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Ok well I am sure everyone has heard by now that Willie, Robert, Brian and Mike basically had their lawyer write up a statement to Que saying they no longer wished to work with him. I am sorry to see this happen but I was not all that surprised. Anyways here is the story:

The next time you see ‘Making the Band 4′ stars and award-winning group Day 26, they’ll be down one member !

Confirming rumblings of a split that first hit the net in November, Willie of Day 26 took to both Twitter and WGCI stating that he and fellow Day 26 members “tried” to keep Qwanell Mosley aka Que in the group before giving him walking papers this week.

“It’s funny how people can take sides in a situation without knowing the truth. We tried our a**es off to keep him the group,” Willie Taylor of the group that won its first BET Award for Best Group this year wrote on Twitter Friday. (more…)

Hey fans I added some older photoshoots of Day 26 from the “Imma put it on her” video and a J. Richard photoshoot done back in 2008. Thanks to George for the photos!

Imma put it on her

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J.Richard

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Whatever label Diddy does business with, Day26 say they will always share a personal and professional bond with the man who made them famous.

“It really doesn’t affect us,” Willie Taylor said of Diddy’s trek from Atlantic Records to Interscope. “Diddy left to go to Interscope. Big up to Diddy-Dirty Money. Day26 is still Atlantic. We still have the blessings of Diddy. Anything we need from him, he’s like a big brother to us. The support is still there.

“He’s not gone,” Qwanell “Que” Mosley insisted. “He’s there if he wants it. He’s Diddy; we trust [his input]. He trusts us now to move on with our careers. It’s kind of like a blessing.”

The guys plan to handle the production side on many of their new songs.

“We gave you a sample on Forever in a Day,” Willie said of the group’s production skills. “If you read the credits, a lot of that is Day26. But we really wanna get in and zone out again, get the formula. We wanna go back to the Pentagons — they were amazing. Jazze Pha is amazing. [Bryan-Michael] Cox is amazing. We’re reaching out. Sean Garrett — the Pen. T-Pain. We’re gonna reach out. We’re gonna spread the wings, but I think the bulk of the album is gonna come from Day26.”

“Some artists we wanna work with are Jay-Z, Lil Wayne,” Que added. “Eminem is doing his thing. Kanye, Diddy-Dirty Money. We wanna get everybody. Anybody who has any skills, we wanna work with them.”

Added 5 MQ photos of Que at the Gillette Fusion Men Of Style awards from 11/20/09. I am transitioning the photo galleries over to all Day 26 so I will now be posting photos I get of all the guys. Big thanks to jamesblaze for donating these.

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According to aceshowbiz.com:

It has been confirmed that DAY26 who were handpicked by P. Diddy at the end of MTV’s “Making the Band 4″ are no longer at his label Bad Boy Records. “Bad Boy is always our family, but we’re with Atlantic right now,” one of the boyband’s members Willie Taylor told The BoomBox.

In further statement, Taylor explained about their determination to prove that they are more than just TV stars. “I think a lot of people lost it with the entertainment of the show. So now, we really want to show people what we’re all about, that we do our thing whether its on stage, in the studio, writing and producing — we do it all,” he gushed. (more…)

New! Added 10 +photos of the guys arriving at the AMAs this brings the total to 15 candids. The guys were looking really good! Credit: jamesblaze for some of the photos

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