ChrisBrown.com

Chris Brown transformed the iTunes R&B/soul chart last week occupying the top two slots on the Top 10 chart.
Fresh off its official release October 6, Brown's single "I Can Transform Ya" struck no.1 before sliding down to no.2 on the US chart.
Unseated by Brown's "Forever," a song that remains a hit a year after its release, "I Can Transform Ya" moved well in New Zealand, Australia and Canada. In each country Brown's Lil Wayne assisted track struck the top 10, even landing a no.6 position on the Canadian iTunes R&B/Soul chart.
News of Brown's success on the chart follows NBC's decision to feature "Forever" on the highly rated wedding episode of 'The Office'. Perhaps part reason for the song's climb on the chart, "Forever" aided characters Jim and Pam in reenacting the infamous JK wedding YouTube video that made headlines over the summer.
Singer Chris Brown allegedly involved in other violent incidents
A probation report alleges that he had pushed girlfriend Rihanna in one incident and broken the windows on their vehicle in another. Judge sentences the singer to five years' probation.


Singer Chris Brown was involved in two unreported incidents "related to domestic violence" before the February encounter that left his pop star girlfriend Rihanna bruised and bleeding, a probation officer's report filed with the court Tuesday alleged.

The first incident allegedly occurred about three months earlier, in Europe, when Brown and Rihanna were in a "verbal dispute," according to the report, which cited detectives investigating the case. She slapped him and Brown responded by shoving her into a wall, the report alleged.

Three weeks before the February incident, Brown and Rihanna were in Barbados, driving a Range Rover lent to them by a local dealership when they had an argument inside the car, according to the report. Brown got out and broke both the front driver and passenger side windows, the report alleged. No one was injured.

Neither incident was reported to authorities, according to the report, and Brown was not accused of any criminal wrongdoing.

Brown's attorney, Mark Geragos, declined to comment.

On Tuesday, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg sentenced Brown to five years' probation and ordered him to do 180 days of community labor -- to be directly supervised by the police chief in Richmond, Va. -- as agreed to in his plea deal in June, when he pleaded guilty to felony assault.

A second felony charge, making criminal threats, was dropped at the time of Brown's plea. Schnegg repeatedly made it clear at Tuesday's hearing that she wanted Brown to perform physical labor, rather than community service, in Virginia, where his family lives and he has a permanent home. She said she had received a letter from Richmond Police Chief Bryan Norwood indicating that the singer would be removing graffiti, picking up trash, washing cars or maintaining grounds.

Brown also will go through a 52-week domestic violence program sponsored by Commonwealth Catholic Charities in Virginia.

Schnegg ordered Brown to stay at least 100 yards away from Rihanna, unless they are attending an "entertainment industry event," when the restriction is 10 yards. Saying that she was not immune to "chatter on the airwaves" about his whereabouts, the judge sternly advised Brown that violating any probation terms would put him in prison.

Brown, who was wearing a black pinstripe suit and black tie, did not speak other than to say "yes" to the judge's orders.

In an interview with the probation office in preparation for his sentencing, the singer told officers that he saw violence in his own home while growing up and that he did not want to "carry on that cycle." He said he was "ashamed and embarrassed" about what he had done, and wanted to plead guilty immediately but his attorney would not let him, according to the report.

After the sentencing, Sandi Gibbons, an L.A. County district attorney's office spokeswoman, said that the singer was not getting any special treatment and that his sentence was not a "slap on the wrist."

"We feel that the sentence for Mr. Brown is an equitable one," said Gibbons, speaking to reporters outside the courthouse. "It's now in his hands. He's in control of his fate."

Rihanna, whose real name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, did not appear in court. Her attorney, Donald Etra, said that she had no objections to the sentencing terms, and that she was moving on with her life.

Chris Brown: Appears Remorseful,  Also Says He’s Dating Again
R&B Singer Who Assaulted Former Girlfriend Rihanna Is Taking Anger Management Classes, But Says He Is Dating

Chris Brown tells his story to Larry King...

In two new interviews, Chris Brown talks about his continuing love for Rihanna and his personal history with abuse.

Brown, who was sentenced to five years of probation last week for assault on his one-time girlfriend Rihanna, spoke with both People and Larry King for the first time since his arrest in February.

In his interview with King, which will air Wednesday on CNN, Brown claimed not to have remembered the incident, though he did plead guilty to felony assault on trial.
He said, "When I look at it now, it's just like, wow, like, I can't — I can't believe that — that actually happened."

Still, he told People, immediately following the assault, he went home and admitted everything to his mother, saying he "broke down."
Brown's mother, Joyce Hawkins, has been the subject of spousal abuse herself, at the hands of Brown's stepfather.

But the 20-year-old R&B singer insists he's not like the man who used make him "scared to go to bed."
Brown told People, "I feel like he enjoyed it. He was an abuser. It was continuous."

On top of Brown's probation and six-month community service sentence, he is also ordered to stay at least 100 yards away from Rihanna for the next five years, a ruling he says has been "difficult" to obey.

"I never fell out of love with her," he told People. "That just wouldn't go away."
And on King, he went so far as to say, "We'll always be friends." While conducting a friendship at a 100 yard distance will be tough, it will be even tougher for Brown to rescue his reputation.

"I just need to prove to people I can be a role model," Brown said. "That's not who I am as a person, and that's not who I promise I want to be."