Making the Band 4 is tonight at 9 PM. I'll be on Twitter, talking live about the show with my friend Anthony from Bad Boy's New Media department. For more details, please see the initial post on the subject.

We're going to try something a little different for next Thursday's episode of Making the Band 4 on February 26 at 9 PM ET. We're going to do a live chat on the microblogging service Twitter. If you're not familiar with it, check it out and give this video a watch. It's free to sign up.

On Twitter, people can talk back and forth by sending what are called @ (at) messages. When you want to send something to someone, you start your message with @username. So, for example, Bad Boy Blog is badboyblog on Twitter. So, if you want to send a message to us on Twitter, you start your message (or Tweet) with @badboyblog.

Twitter also has a tagging system allowing you to group messages all into one strand based on the tag. We are going to use the tag #mtb4. So, during the chat, please add #mtb4 somewhere in every Tweet that you send concerning the show. You can track it via Twitter search and TweetChat.

I'll be participating with the badboyblog account and I've arranged for us to be joined by a special guest, my friend Anthony Violante who works in the new media marketing department at Bad Boy. His account is thisisanthony.

The fun will start at 8:45 PM ET. Please log on at that point and join the TweetChat room. The chat will run all through the show, as we'll chat as things happen, and it'll end at 10:15 PM ET, as we'll do a little post-show chat, as well.

Just as a general reminder, please be sure to keep it at a respectful level toward everyone involved in the chat and the show, including Bad Boy and it's artists. Anything that is outside of that category will be ignored.

With that out of the way, I look forward to talking to you then!

I use Last.fm to track my music listening history. It's a really cool site that can provide you with all sorts of data. For fun, I thought I'd take a look at the top Bad Boy artists and tracks, in my history, for the year 2008. This is based on the top 500 artists and top 500 tracks for the past 12 months, as that is all that Last.fm shows you.

Here are the top 25 most played tracks by or featuring a current or former Bad Boy artist:

1. "Take You There" by Donnie Klang featuring Diddy.
2. "Need A Wife" by Charlie Wilson featuring Diddy.
2. "Living in Pain" by The Notorious B.I.G. featuring 2Pac, Nas and Mary J. Blige.
4. "Hot & Wet (Remix)" by 112 featuring Chingy, Ludacris and Diddy.
4. "I Get Money (Forbes 1-2-3 Billion Dollar Remix) by 50 Cent featuring Diddy and Jay-Z.
6. "Hood Figga (Remix)" by Gorilla Zoe featuring Block, Rick Ross, Jim Jones, Yung Joc and Young Jeezy.
7. "Check Your Coat (Remix)" by O'Neal McKnight featuring Puff Daddy, Jermaine Dupri and Greg Nice.
8. "Through the Pain (She Told Me)" by Diddy featuring Mario Winans.
9. "Cheat on You" by Mase featuring Lil' Cease and Jay-Z.
9. "By Faith" by Diddy featuring Fred Hammond.
11. "Official Girl" by Cassie featuring Lil' Wayne.
11. "Damaged (Remix)" by Danity Kane featuring Fabolous.
11. "Get Buck in Here" by DJ Felli Fel featuring Diddy, Akon, Ludacris and Lil' Jon.
14. "We Fly High (Remix)" by Jim Jones featuring Diddy, T.I., Baby and Young Dro.
14. "Apologize (Remix)" by Timbaland featuring OneRepublic and Gorilla Zoe.
14. "Confessions" by 8 Ball & MJG featuring Poo Bear.
17. "Addiction" by Ryan Leslie featuring Cassie and Fabolous.
18. "Bad Girl" by Danity Kane featuring Missy Elliott.
18. "I Don't Wanna Know" by Mario Winans featuring Diddy and Enya.
20. "Got Me Going" by Day26.
21. "Goin Down Tonight (Remix)" by 112 featuring Diddy and Black Rob.
22. "Music For Love" by Mario featuring LOS.
22. "Erika Kane" by B5.
24. "When I Grow Up (Remix)" by Pussycat Dolls featuring Darkchild, Diddy, Lil' Wayne and Fatman Scoop.
25. "Through the Pain (Instrumental)" by Diddy featuring Mario Winans.
25. "30 Rocks" by 8 Ball & MJG featuring Diddy.
25. "Just One Night" by Cassie featuring Ryan Leslie.

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With the holiday season upon us, it may be a little quiet around here toward the end of this month, but I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a very happy holiday and a happy, healthy and successful 2009!

Thank you to everyone who has read, commented, linked and contributed to Bad Boy Blog in 2008. I appreciate all of the support!

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We'll now have a short coverage break here at Bad Boy Blog. It will be fairly quiet until the end of next week, unfortunately.

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I just wanted to mention that I will be away from the blog for a few days. I appreciate your understanding and thank you for visiting Bad Boy Blog.

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We just launched a new feature and I wanted to be the first to tell you about it. It's called Bad Boy Blog TV. The title kind of gives it away, but this section of the site will feature Bad Boy related videos, updated on a fairly regular basis. This will include news pieces, feature stories, interviews and more.

Some of the videos currently featured include a D. Woods photo shoot, the trailer for "Notorious," Diddy at Cannes and more. There will be some new stuff and some old stuff - it's a bit of a mix. It's not perfect - some unrelated clips may slip in there, but overall, I think it's a nice addition to the site and I hope you enjoy it. It's also an experiment, so we'll see how it goes.

Thank you for reading and, again, for visiting and supporting Bad Boy Blog.

Here are the top 10 most popular search engine terms that people entered to find Bad Boy Blog in the month of September:

1. Bad Boy Blog
2. Donnie Klang Album Sales
3. BadBoyBlog
4. Day 26 Tour Schedule
5. Donnie Klang Album
6. BadBoy Fan Blog
7. Day 26 Tour
8. Gorilla Zoe Don't Feed the Animals
9. Donnie Klang Record Sales
10. Diddy in the Studio

We'll have a short posting break here at Bad Boy Blog as I'll be doing a bit of traveling. We should be back in action in a few days or so. Thank you for your understanding and for visiting Bad Boy Blog.