Teen sensation: Artists of the Year

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script><br /></div> <div align="center" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center" border="1" width="72.2%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" ffffff=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/923315.cms" alt="/photo/923315.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><br />Recording artist ''JoJo'' arrives at the Teen People 2004 Artists of the Year party at the Key Club in Los Angeles on Sunday.<span style="" font-size:="" font-style:="" italic="">(AP photo)</span><br /><br />The 13-year-old pop star has scored her first film role. The singer will star in a new comedy entitled <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Aquamarine</span>, about two teenage girls who discover a mermaid in their beach club''s swimming pool. The film''s production begins in February next year.<br /><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section2"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script><br /></div> <div align="center" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center" border="1" width="72.2%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" ffffff=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/923316.cms" alt="/photo/923316.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><br />Nicky Hilton types on her Sidekick as she arrives at the Teen People 2004 Artists of the Year party. <span style="" font-size:="" font-style:="" italic="">(AP photo)</span><br /><br />Nicky Hilton and her sister Paris are known for being the young and wealthy heirs to the Hilton Hotel fortune, and for their jetset party-girl lifestyles. Nicky is named for her granduncle Nicholas Conrad "Nicky" Hilton, Jr, the one-time husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor and the son of Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton.<br /><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section3"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script><br /></div> <div align="center" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center" border="1" width="72.2%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" ffffff=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/923318.cms" alt="/photo/923318.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><br />Ashlee Simpson, one of the evening''s honourees, arrives at the Teen People 2004 Artists of the Year party in Los Angeles. <span style="" font-size:="" font-style:="" italic="">(AP photo)</span><br /><br />Ashlee''s next single has been changed from the previously announced title track <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Autobiography</span> to <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">La La</span>.<br /><br />The recent issue of Teen magazine was the first magazine to feature Ashlee on the cover. <br /><br />"I''m a simple girl in a complex world," sings 19-year-old Ashlee Simpson on <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Autobiography</span> (now <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">La La</span>), a track from her debut Geffen Records album.<br /><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section4"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script><br /></div> <div align="center" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center" border="1" width="72.2%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" ffffff=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/923320.cms" alt="/photo/923320.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><br />Japanese singing sensation Utada Hikaru at the Teen People 2004 Artists of the Year party. <span style="" font-size:="" font-style:="" italic="">(AP photo)</span><br /><br />After her Japanese debut single, the Japanese song <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Automatic/Time will tell</span>, was released, it became a direct hit in her native country. <br /><br />EMI (Utada''s label) and Utada decided to launch this number in Japan, probably to compensate the ''failure'' abroad in the United States. <br /><br />The success was tremendous, after Automatic soon her first album ''First Love'' was released, by the end of the month more than 3,500,000 million copies were sold!<br /></div> </div>