At the end of each week, #Top40Tweets lists a cross-section of artists on the current pop charts and puts their tweets on display (along with their current chart number) for your enjoyment/scrutiny. This week, we look at 5 artists on the Billboard Music Charts.

Forbes has just released their “Highest-Paid Celebrities List” for the period between May 2011 and May 2012, and surprise, surprise, you’d be in pretty sparse company if you were a musician on that list. The list is crowded with media and movie moguls, but only boasts 3 musicians out of 21.

At the end of each week, #Top40Tweets lists a cross-section of artists on the current pop charts and puts their tweets on display (along with their current chart number) for your enjoyment/scrutiny. This week, we look at 5 artists on the Billboard Music Charts.

Max Martin has thirteen #1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100. He just co-wrote and co-produced “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” by Taylor Swift, which stands a good chance at being her first #1 single on the charts (yes, her first), so it may not be long before he has fourteen. Let’s check out some of Max Martin’s best modern work, as we dial back his biggest hits from 2001-2012.

Max Martin was the millennial torch-bearer to Sweden’s continual reign over saccharine, ridiculously catchy pop gems. For the first time on Friday Mixtape, we’re splitting the producer’s work into two parts, because Max Martin is one of the most prolific and successful pop producers for the last two decades. First, we’ll look at his look from 1994 through to 2000.

SAMPLED is a column that examines the skeletal production of a contemporary Rap/R&B/Hip-Hop or Pop song. From what song did the loop, sample, or chopped up vocal providing the backbone for a new interpretation originate? This week, the sample is taken from “Toxic” by Britney Spears.

Have you ever wondered what pop stars would look like if they were working class, regular folk like you and me? What if they didn’t have the time or money to hire personal trainers, nutritionists, make-up artists, and stylists? What if Fergie never really hit it big with the Black Eyed Peas, and spent the rest of her life as an aging Vegas cocktail waitress?

Admit it — it’s too hot to wear pants. It’s July, and as temperatures rise, fashion sense is being sacrificed for common sense. When it gets hot, even pop stars release their inner never-nude. Check out these photos of pop stars and rappers wearing jorts, and let it be an inspiration. Let’s wear jorts every day for the rest of summer. Deal? Deal.

At the age of eighteen, Nate “Danja” Hills had one objective — usurp the throne from an industry-leading super-producer named Timbaland. After a chance encounter, Danja moved into a spare room in Timbaland’s Miami home, where the two would work together for the next two years.

During FOX’s 2012 upfronts presentation yesterday at the Beacon Theatre in New York, both Britney Spears and Demi Lovato made appearances to confirm their participation in the upcoming season of the American version of X Factor. Spears and Lovato will join Simon Cowell and Epic Records C.E.O. L.A. Reid on the judges panel, replacing Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger, who were let go from the show after its first season. Will Britney and Demi give X Factor the ratings and credibility boost the show needs to compete with other televised singing competitions?