Thursday Billboard Update - 11/15/12

Taylor Swift's Red remains at #1 for a 3rd straight week with another 196,200 copies sold. Ne-Yo's R.E.D. debuts at #4 with just 66,100 copies sold. I guess this is what happens when R&B artists stop making R&B music. Meek Mill's Dreams & Nightmares falls to #8 in its 2nd week with 41,100 sold. Lastly, Kendrick Lamar's good kid, m.A.A.d. city slides to #9 with 40,100 copies sold.

Maroon 5's One More Night ties Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe for longest streak atop the Hot 100 in 2012 9 weeks. Putting the pressure on Maroon 5 is Rihanna's Diamonds, which rises to #2 and replaces Psy's Gangnam Style (2-5). Entering the top 10 is Flo Rida's I Cry (12-10).

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Taylor Swift - Red (1-1)
2. Various Artists - Now 44 (2)
3. Rod Stewart - Merry Christmas, Baby (3-3)
4. Ne-Yo - R.E.D. (4)
5. Aerosmith - Music From Another Dimension (5)
6. Jason Aldean - Night Train (4-6)
7. Mumford & Sons - Babel (7-7)
8. Meek Mill - Dreams & Nightmares (2-8)
9. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city (5-9)
10. Third Day - Miracle (10)

• E-40 and Too $hort have 2 collaborative albums debuting this week, the first is History: Function Music at #62 with 6,500 copies sold, and the second is History: Mob Music at #71 with 5,800 sold. Not sure who told E-40 we need multiple albums from him at a time, but he needs to chill.
• Debuting at #189 is Saigon's Greatest Story Never Told Chapter 2 with a measly 2,800 sold.

The Billboard Hot 100 1-10
first time top 10's in bold

1. Maroon 5 - One More Night (1-1)
2. Rihanna - Diamonds (4-2)
3. Ke$ha - Die Young (6-3)
4. fun. - Some Nights (3-4)
5. Psy - Gangnam Style (2-5)
6. Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven (7-6)
7. Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (5-7)
8. Ne-Yo - Let Me Love You (10-8)
9. Alex Clare - Too Close (9-9)
10. Flo Rida - I Cry (12-10)

• Ed Sheeran's The A Team hops 9 spots 35-26.
• Adele's Skyfall from the new 007 movie soundtrack flies 23 spots 56-33.
• Justin Bieber's Beauty And A Beat featuring Nicki Minaj jumps 16 more spots 54-38.
• Nicki Minaj's Va Va Voom shoots 23 spots 69-46.
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' Thrift Shop jumps 11 spots 66-55.
• P!nk's Try flies 24 spots 93-69.
• Ludacris' Rest Of My Life featuring Usher and David Guetta debuts at #72.
• Pitbull's Don't Stop The Party slides 10 spaces 91-81.

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Thursday Billboard Update - 4/3/12

Madonna's new album MDNA debuts at #1 by selling 359,400 copies in its first week. Coming at #2 is Lionel Richie's Tuskegee with 199,000 sold.

Fun.'s We Are Young featuring Janelle Monae remains at #1 for a 5th week, but Justin Bieber's Boyfriend applies the pressure by debuting at #2.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Madonna - MDNA (1)
2. Lionel Richie - Tuskegee (2)
3. Adele - 21 (2-3)
4. Shinedown - Amaryllis (4)
5. Various Artists - The Hunger Games (1-5)
6. One Direction - Up All Night (4-6)
7. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (31-7)
8. The Used - Vulnerable (8)
9. Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball (6-9)
10. Various Artists - Now 41 (8-10)

• E-40's Block Brochure debuts at #44 with 9,600 sold.

The Billboard Hot 100 1-10
first time top 10's in bold

1. fun. - We Are Young (1-1)
2. Justin Bieber - Boyfriend (2)
3. Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know (4-3)
4. The Wanted - Glad You Came (3-4)
5. Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) (2-5)
6. Nicki Minaj - Starships (5-6)
7. Flo Rida - Wild Ones (7-7)
8. Katy Perry - Part Of Me (8-8)
9. One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful (11-9)
10. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe (18-10)

• Usher's Climax jumps 11 spots 40-29.
• Karmin's Brokenhearted flies 19 spots 52-33.
• Waka Flocka Flame's I Don't Really Care featuring Trey Songz debuts at #64.
• Trey Songz's Heart Attack debuts at #65.
• Young Jeezy's Leave You Alone featuring Ne-Yo hops 12 spots 88-76.
• Sean Paul's She Doesn't Mind debuts at #78.
• Pitbull's lead single for the "Men In Black III" soundtrack Back In Time debuts at #79.
• Trey Songz's Sex Ain't Better Than Love jumps 11 spots 91-80.
• Drake's Crew Love featuring The Weeknd jumps 12 spots 100-88 in its 2nd week.

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Drake - The Motto (feat. Lil Wayne & Tyga) Video

I see it's becoming a bit of a tradition for Drake to make at least one question fashion choice per video. In Headlines it was the Bill Cosby sweater and this time it's the cheetah print jacket (that I have a hard time assuming he found in the men's department). Oh well, at least he had Lil Wayne's inflatable green boots in the video to soften the blow.

(Side note: Young Real Nigga murked everybody on this beat!)

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Thursday Billboard Update - 4/7/11

Grabbing her 6th #1 album is Britney Spears as her Femme Fatale bangs out 277,100 first week. This puts her in a 3rd place tie for most #1s all-time by a female artist with Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson. (Sounds odd for Britney's name to be in the same sentence as Mariah and Janet, right?) Coming in at #2 is Wiz Khalifa's weed plate, coincidentally named Rolling Papers, with 198,200 copies sold. Snoop Dogg's Doggumentary debuts at #8 with 50,500 sold while Mary Mary's Something Big checks in at #10 with 42,000 sold.

Katy Perry's E.T. featuring Kanye West remains at #1 for a 2nd week, while Rihanna's S&M slides up a spot to #2, and Black Eyed Peas' Just Can't Get Enough hops 2 to #3. Just one new entry in the top 10 this week and its Adele's Rolling In The Deep flying 17-10.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Britney Speaks - Femme Fatale (1)
2. Wiz Khalifa - Rolling Papers (2)
3. Adele - 21 (3-3)
4. Chris Brown - F.A.M.E. (1-4)
5. Various Artists - Songs For Japan (6-5)
6. Radiohead - The King of Limbs (6)
7. Jennifer Hudson - I Remember Me (2-7)
8. Snoop Dogg - Doggumentary (8)
9. Kirk Franklin - Hello Fear (5-9)
10. Mary Mary - Something Big (10)

• E-40's Graveyard Shift debuts at #40 with 13,600 sold while Overtime Shift debuts at #42 with 13,400 sold.
  

The Billboard Hot 100 1-10
first time top 10's in bold

1. Katy Perry - E.T. (1-1)
2. Rihanna - S&M (2-2)
3. Black Eyed Peas - Just Can't Get Enough (5-3)
4. Cee-Lo - Fuck You (3-4)
5. Lady Gaga - Born This Way (4-5)
6. Chris Brown - Look At Me Now (7-6)
7. Jeremih - Down On Me (9-7)
8. Jennifer Lopez - On The Floor (10-8)
9. P!nk - Fuckin' Perfect (8-9)
10. Adele - Rolling In The Deep (17-10)

• In its 2nd week, Lil Wayne's John featuring Rick Ross skyrockets 35 spots 57-22.
• Bruno Mars' The Lazy Song hops 10 spots 37-27.
• Wiz Khalifa's When I'm Gone debuts at #57.
• Pitbull's Give Me Everything featuring Ne-Yo, AfroJack & Nayer debuts at #60.
• Britney Spears' I Wanna Go debuts at #73.
• Snoop Dogg's Boom with T-Pain debuts at #81.
• YC's Racks debuts at #86.

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This Week In Flops 3/29/11

Coming in at #1 next week will be Britney Spears' Femme Fatale, the only thing left to settle now is how much she'll sell. Britney's 2008 effort Circus moved 505,000 first week, and while I don't think this album will reach those heights, it should still be an great opening week. My guess is 375-450k.

Wiz Khalifa is arguably the hottest rapper in the game right now (overall, not musically), now it's time to see if that heat can translate into record sales. Generally, weed-based rappers don't perform well, but I think Cruella Khalifa has a good shot at that #2 spot. For him, I'm going with 115-150k.

I can't think of a Snoop Dogg album less anticipated since Doggumentary the No Limit days. Now I'm not saying the album sucks or anything, but its been a LONG time since Dogg has had little-to-no buzz surrounding an album.

Regardless, its hitting stores today, and I'm expecting sales in the range of 50-90k.

This is the first time I've had a gospel album on TWIF, so I'm not familiar with what they usually sell. And yes, that is a built in excuse because I expect to be totally wrong with my guess of 30-60k.

I'm not sure we needed dual E-40 albums in consecutive years, but nevertheless he's back with Graveyard and Overtime Shirt of his Revenue Retrievin' series. Sales of both album should be nearly identical once again, and I'm guessing 10-15k.

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Muzik Pt. 1

Busta Rhymes Feat. T-Pain - Hustler's Dream (Clean)


Wow, not impressed... at all lol.

Lil Jon Feat. Ciara & Lil Wayne - Roll Call


Can I get a show of hands from all the indiviuals that forget about Crunk Rock?? Let it go Jon, your time came and went in 2004 lol.


Shawty Lo - Roll The Dice


Why do niggas keep insisting on remixes tracks other people have already remixed?? First Wayne then Jeezy and now Lo. Anyway, as far as the track goes, in the 2nd verse it sounds like he was trying to call a truce with T.I. again but then again who knows with this nigga because beef with T.I. is obviously the only reason he's ever mentioned.

Lloyd Banks - Don't Come Around


I hope Banks is gonna put this type of effort on his album tracks. Good shit.

DJ Drama Feat. Ghostface & Lupe Fiasco - Paint A Picture


This shit is sick! Ghostface rips it, Lupe rips it, the beat is hard! Just a overall good ass track.

DJ Green Lantern Feat. Avery Storm & Uncle Murda - Crazy World


I never made a post about dude the cops shot in the back, but how sad was that?? Man, so fucked up still in 2009.

Ne-Yo - I'm Doin' Ok


How many tracks did Ne-Yo do for his last album?? I mean damn he's still dropping shit lol. This track, like its title, is just ok though.


Ya Boy Feat. E-40, Kurupt, & Glasses Malone - Superstars


No disrespect to Kurupt but his verse was wack! I'm about all of it from the way he spit it to the actual lyrics lol. And can somebody tell Glasses Malone he's gonna have a hard time trying to be a gangsta rapper using auto-tune lol. The verses went from good to bad to badder to baddest lol.

Jim Jones Feat. Ryan Leslie - Precious


Jimmy went back to the old super wack version of himself from like 03-04 lol. I mean that 2nd verse was just terrible and to add insult to injury he was off beat...as hell lol.

N.O.R.E. - Blame It Freestyle


I love N.O.R.E. but he does nothing to help this track out.

N.O.R.E. - Ain't I Freestyle


I don't know if its because this track is just wack or N.O.R.E. was just bad, but I hated this.

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This Week In Flops 11/25/08

I'm gonna let Kanye skate because not only do I think he'll exceed 300,000, but also...okay, who am I fooling?? I already saw him projected numbers and he's not gonna flop. Well he is in a sense because its gonna be no where near Graduation or Late Registration numbers. Anyway, the show must go on....

With 309,800 in its first week, Ludacris' last album Release Therapy barely made it past flop status BUT that was in 2006 and unfortunately I think he's due. Its really a shame because this is easily one of the year's best. I got Theater Of The Mind doing 250k-275k, but more specifically somewhere around 267,000. Still not bad for my boy.

Who grows hair after they're 30?? I thought 30 was the official hair cut off date?? Oh well I still love E-40 lol. Unfortunately there isn't much buzz around this project so I see sales being extremely low. How low?? I'm talking V.I.C. low. I'm guessing somewhere in the ballpark of 8k-20k.

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E-40 Feat. The Game & Snoop Dogg - Pain No More (Prod. By J.R. Rotem)

Aight we started off a little shaky with that questionable Hov beat selection, but lets move right along:

E-40 Feat. The Game & Snoop Dogg - Pain No More (Prod. By J.R. Rotem)


You can tell who really works with J.R. on a regular basis out of the 3 lol. E-40 sounded like he wrote his verse to another beat and Snoop was just a bit corny with his flow, but Game ripped hit and the beat and hook are hot so I fuck with this shit.

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E-40 Feat. Akon - Wake It Up Video

I'm definitely not a proponent of old niggas growing dreads for the first time, but this song is still jammin' lol.

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The Wackness

The crop of songs I downloaded today were mostly wack so I figured I'd make a game out of it. That's right, The Wackness isn't just a movie anymore, its a game right here on FiyahMuZik.com! I'm gonna have a wackness countdown and give each song a wackness rating from 1-10, 1 being Young Jeezy (a wack rapper I like) and 10 being the chick that made Its So Cold In The D (the wacket shit out right now). Okay, are you ready to play?? Lets go!

Chingy Feat. Soulja Boy - Turn It Up


No, no, no, turn it down! Soulja Boy has to be the only nigga to get on a track with Chingy and get ate lol. Your boy Soulja offered such classic lines as "I go so hard like I took some Viagra, with a Chinese chick and her pussy diagonal" and "gettin' silly, countin' a milli, eatin' Piccadilly." Sad, sad shit.
Wackness Rating: 9

50 Cent - You Won't Believe Me


I like this original record minus Lil Wayne's verse and an auto-tuned 50 Cent is no better replacement. These niggas are gonna drive me CRAZY with this corny ass shit! I mean it'd be one thing if they could use it right, but they always put it on waaaay too heavy and the shit just sounds even more retarded than they do for dick ridin' T-Pain.

All wasn't lost though because I did like when 50 said, "now I ain't bring you to the back just to have a conversation, a nigga need to feel some penatration." I think I'm gonna change my Facebook status to that when I finish with this lol.
Wackness Rating: 3

E-40 Feat. Shawty Lo - Break Your Ankles (Prod. By Lil Jon)


This nigga Lo REALLY needs to find a new delivery, that shit sucks badly and it makes me not even wana hear what he has to say. I mean I know he's not gonna say anything worth hearing once I see he's on a track, but I like to give everybody a chance. Anyway, this whole record is wack because I dunno wtf they are talking about... at all. Plus, who has Lil Jon beats anymore anyway?? This ain't 2004 nigga lol.
Wackness Rating: 6

Juelz Santana - Go Hard


This rally isn't all that wack, but generally speaking Santana is lyrically so why not let him play too?? Let me stop, I'm really still just disappointed in Kanye so I'm taking it out on Juelz lol.
Wackness Rating: 1

Big Kuntry Feat. Lloyd - Love U


Thank goodness Lloyd was on here or else all would've been lost, especially after starting off with a hook that included, "you need a man that's gon' pipe you the right way, lick you in yo' tight place." Seriously, the new slang for pussy is "tight place"?? That's wack as all hell lol.
Wackness Rating: 5

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E-40 Feat. Akon - Wake It Up

I guess its time for 40 boy to drop a new LP. Now, I dunno if this is the first single, but it is pretty straight.

E-40 Feat. Akon - Wake It Up

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Lil Hop: California Love

I posted the Welcome To The South Lil Hop back in April and now dude is taking it to the West Coast. I'm guessing the East is next (geez that'll be like 20 minutes lol).

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All That New Music I Never Posted Pt. 1

Sorry it took so long, but better late than never, right? Probably wrong, but if you haven't heard/downloaded any of these just listen and/or download them from me.

Usher - His Mistakes


Usher - Moving Mountains


I LOVE both of these 2 new Ushers tracks! I was a bit skeptical about how he'd come back after a new 2004, but he seems to be doing just fine.

Common - The Light 2008 (Its Love)


This shit has been getting a lot of burn on the radio during that 5 o'clock hour. Hey, its love.

Lyfe Jennings - Never Never Land


WACK!

Lyfe Jennings - Brand New


HOT! Would have been much hotter without the old ass rap verses, but its all good lol.

Snoop Dogg Feat. Too Short - Life Of Da Party


Its straight, nothing special.

E-40 Feat. Lil Jon - Turf Drop

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