Janelle Monae just posted an update to Twitter, thanking her followers for buying her life back. At the time the tweet was posted, the effort had raised $180,650.

Initially, the plan had been for a collection of celebrities to stay off of Twitter until $1,000,000 was raised. Regardless of what they reach, charity is charity and it's good that they were able to raise what they were.

Some celebrities, such as Alicia Keys, who led the effort, remain offline.

With the inclusion of "Coming Home" on the Billboard charts, we also get the production and songwriting credits for the song. It is always possible that this is not final.

When the song was released, Diddy revealed that it was produced by Alex Da Kid and Jay-Z and that the verses were done by Jay-Z. A version of the song with J. Cole appeared online and seemed to be a reference vocal for Diddy, but it was not used in the actual song.

According to the Billboard listing for the the song, which features Skylar Grey, it was produced by Alex Da Kid and written by Alex Da Kid, H. Brook, Jay-Z and J. Cole. After running some Google searches, it appears that H. Brook might be Skylar Grey. I've reached out to Alex Da Kid and Grey on Twitter to confirm.

Update: The subsequent Billboard charts changed the credit for H. Brook to S. Gray.

Here are Bad Boy's positions on the latest Billboard U.S. album and single charts, released today. Dirty Money's "Coming Home" makes an impressive debut on the Billboard charts, hitting six in all, including the big board with a placement of 61 on the Hot 100.

This marks the third Dirty Money single to hit the list of the top 100 songs in the country, regardless of genre, following "Hello Good Morning" (which peaked at #27) and "Loving You No More" (#91). On top of that, "Loving You No More" moved up across the board. Are the stars beginning to align for a successful December 14 release of "Last Train to Paris"? It's possible.

i SQUARE "Hey Sexy Lady" continued to move up on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, moving from 33 to 25. Credit to Interscope's Kavi Halemane, who called that exact placement on Twitter. Ha.

Here are all of the placements:

Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

64. "The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III" by Janelle Monae (up from 65).

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Vibe has included Janelle Monae's "The ArchAndroid" in their list of the 10 best albums of 2010. She is listed with the likes of Drake, Eminem, Kanye West, Rick Ross, The Roots and more.

Vogue.com's preview of Dirty Money's "Last Train to Paris," that I reported on yesterday, is now available on their website.

The preview features new, longer snippets of songs from the album and some additional songs that have not previously been released in any form, including "1st Place Loser," "Repercaution" and "Angels (Guy Gerber Mix)." Here is the full track listing:

1. Intro
2. 1st Place Loser
3. I Hate That You Love Me
4. Repercaution
5. A** on the Floor featuring Swizz Beatz
6. Shades featuring Lil' Wayne, Justin Timberlake, Bilal and James Fauntleroy
7. Strobe Lights featuring Lil' Wayne
8. Angels (Guy Gerber Mix)
9. Someone to Love Me

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The nominees for the 53rd edition of the GRAMMY Awards have just been announced and Janelle Monae has collected two nominations.

In the category of Best Urban/Alternative Performance, Monae is nominated along with Big Boi for "Tightrope." Then, in the Best Contemporary R&B Album, Monae's "The ArchAndroid" received a nod.

Career wise, she now has collected three GRAMMY nomination, following "Many Moons" in the Best Urban/Alternative Performance category at the 51st GRAMMY Awards.

Congrats to Ms. Monae.

Dirty Money's "A** on the Floor" (free download) is the latest song from the upcoming "Last Train to Paris" album to receive the music video treatment. Diddy posted a picture of Swizz Beatz on set on his Twitter profile.

Dirty Money's "Someone to Love Me," a track we have heard about for some time, has now been added to our audio player. More than a year ago, a music video was shot for the song. It's an interesting record. What do you think? Let me know in the comments.

In January, a very unfinished version of Dirty Money's "Strobe Lights" appeared online. It featured Lil' Wayne, who had yet to begin his eight month prison sentence. In fact, Wayne even shot a clip for a potential "Strobe Lights" music video before the sentence began.

Wayne was released about a month ago and the final version of "Strobe Lights" was released today. You can listen to it in our audio player. Let me know what you think in the comments.

Recently, an unfinished version of the music video for the Bugatti Boyz' "Another One" appeared online. I declined to publish it here at Bad Boy Blog. The official clip has now been released and you can watch it below. It was directed by Spiff TV.