Thursday Billboard Update - 3/11/10

There's a new #1 this week, but its a familiar face as Lady Antebellum's Need You Now returns to the top of the ranks with 125,600 sold over the past week. Sade's Soldier Of Love is down to #2 with 79,200 sold. And debuting at #9 is Raheem DeVaughn's The Love & War MasterPeace with 45,200 sold.

Making a huge splash on the Hot 100 is Taio Cruz whose Break Your Heart record featuring Ludacris zooms from #53 to #1. I haven't even heard of the song, let alone heard it, but it better be damn good lol. The odd man out is Trey Songz's Say Aah which exits the top 10 after 2 weeks.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Lady Antebellum - Need You Now (2-1)
2. Sade - Soldier Of Love (1-2)
3. Blake Shelton - Hillbilly Bone (3)
4. Danny Gokey - My Best Days (4)
5. Various Artists - Almost Alice (5)
6. Lifehouse - Smoke and Mirrors (6)
7. Lady Gaga - The Fame (5-7)
8. Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D. (4-8)
9. Raheem DeVaughn - The Love & War MasterPeace (9)
10. Easton Corbin - Easton Corbin (10)

• Jason DeRulo's self-titled debut album checks in at #11 with 42,300 sold.
• DJ Khaled's 4th album Victory debuts at #14 with 28,000 sold. Its rough out there.
  

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

1. Taio Cruz - Break Your Heart (53-1)
2. Lady Antebellum - Need You Now (3-2)
3. Young Money - Bedrock (2-3)
4. Rihanna - Rude Boy (8-4)
5. Black Eyed Peas - Imma Be (1-5)
6. Ke$ha - TiK ToK (4-6)
7. Train - Hey, Soul Sister (6-7)
8. Jason Derulo - In My Head (10-8)
9. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (5-9)
10. Ludacris - How Low (7-10)

• Usher's Lil Freak with one of the new wack rappers in the game, Nicki Minaj, debuts at #43.
• Speaking of new wack rappers, Roscoe Dash's All The Way Turnt Up turns up 15 spots higher than last week by going 61-46.
• Kevin Rudolf's I Made It (Cash Money Heroes) leaps 14 spots 67-53.
• Trey Songz's Neighbors Know My Name jumps 16 spots 88-72.
• Something that goes by "Three 6 Mafia Vs. Tiesto With Sean Kingston & Flo Rida" debuts a track named Feel It at #78.

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Three 6 Mafia - Lil' Freak (Ugh Ugh Ugh) (feat. Webbie)

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Thursday Billboard Update - 9/3/09

Still nothing interesting going on in the Billboard 200 (though Colbie Caillat is kinda hot and can definitely get it!) so moving right along...

Then again, nevermind because ain't shit going on on the Hot 100 either. Same 10 songs as last week.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Colbie Caillat - Breakthrough (1)
2. Skillet - Awake (2)
3. Miley Cyrus - The Time Of Our Lives (3)
4. Kings of Leon - Only By The Night (4-4)
5. Imogen Heap - Ellipse (5)
6. Reba McEntire - Keep On Loving You (1-6)
7. George Strait - Twang (2-7)
8. Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D. (5-8)
9. Taylor Swift - Fearless (8-9)
10. Various Artists - Now That's What I Call Country Vol. 2 (10)

• Letoya Luckett's 2nd solo album Lady Luck comes in at #12 with 32,900 sold.
• Queen Latifah's new album Persona comes in at #25 this week with 18,400 sold.
  

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

1. Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (1-1)
2. Jay Sean - Down (3-2)
3. Miley Cyrus - Party In The U.S.A. (2-3)
4. Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody (6-4)
5. Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me (4-5)
6. Jay-Z - Run This Town (5-6)
7. Drake - Best I Ever Had (7-7)
8. Keri Hilson - Knock You Down (8-8)
9. Pitbull - Hotel Room Service (10-9)
10. Cobra Starship - Good Girls Go Bad (9-10)

• Flo Rida's new single with Ne-Yo, Be On You, makes a 26 spot jump 53-27.
• Drake & Trey Songz's Successful is up 9 spots 63-54.
• Three 6 Mafia returns to the charts this week with their new single Shake My debuting at #85.
• Also making its debut this week is Pleasure P's new single Under at #87.
• R. Kelly's Number One featuring Keri Hilson comes in at #96 this week. Kellz will be on Jimmy Kimmel tonight so I'm interested to see how that's gonna go.
• Wale's single Chillin with Lady GaGa FINALLY debuts on the Hot 100! Its only at #99 though and about 5-6 month after it came out. Maybe BET should've held off on the "Rising Icon" tag for it lol. Not saying he can't be one one day, but lets wait until you get a hit and drop an album first.

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This Week In Flops 5/5/09

My baby Ciara is back as her new album Fantasy Ride finally hits stores. Even though I knew it was coming out on this date for awhile, it still kinda feels like a surprise. Her label really did a poor job promoting this album. Now, in defense of the label, I heard this album sounds exactly like her first two and shows little to no growth so maybe that's why they didn't make a honest attempt to sell it to us. Anyway, she is Ciara so she's good for at least 100,000 so I'm gonna go with 105-130k. And guess what Rick Ross?? She's gonna have the #1 album! Not because she did crazy numbers, but because she came out in a week where she'd have no competition lol. "Get 'em CiCi!"

For starters I wanna say I'm NOT feelin' the haircut at all. I don't want my female to be rocking the same haircut as Chad from the Alltel commercials lol. (BTW I don't think Ciara's "Dennis Hopper in the Super Mario Bros. movie" hair in her album cover is that appealing either lol.) Anyway, you wouldn't expect Chrisette's album to do well seeing she got even less of those Def Jam marketing dollars than Jadakiss, but I have a good feeling about thus album. I'm gonna go 45-75k for Epiphany.

I hope this shit flops just because of the corniness of the album title. Scale-A-Ton?? That's the best you could come up with?? Sounds like something Rick Ross would say lol. You know its a bad play on words when you have to put the real word in brackets underneath it despite the picture depicting a half skeleton, half DJ Paul face lol. Oh, and what's up with the Kenyon Martin-esque lipstick kiss on the neck?? Fuckin' weird. Let me leave DJ Paul aone, 1-5k

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VH1's 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs 61-80

Tonight's 20 songs were MUCH better than last night's. There were a few miststeps (most noticably What You Know over I Used To Love H.E.R.), but just good music in alright order. Anyway, here's 61-80:

80. Three 6 Mafia - Its Hard Out Here For A Pimp
79. DMX - Ruff Ryders' Anthem
78. Arrested Development - Tennessee
77. The Cold Crush Brothers - Cold Crush Brothers At The Dixie
76. Big Punisher Feat. Joe - Still Not A Playa
75. Lil Kim Feat. Lil Cease & Notorious B.I.G. - Crush On You
74. Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours
73. EPMD - You Gots To Chill
72. J.J. Fad - Supersonic
71. Whodini - Freaks Come Out At Night
70. 3rd Bass - Pop Goes The Weasel
69. Common - I Used To Love H.E.R.
68. T.I. - What You Know
67. Ma$e - Feel So Good
66. House Of Pain - Jump Around
65. Spoonie Gee - Love Rap
64. The Roots - What They Do
63. Kid N' Play - Rollin' With Kid N' Play
62. Digable Planets - Cool Like That
61. Slick Rick - Children's Story

Not that sure how that Kid N' Play got so high either, but whatever this 20 was overall better than yesterday's. What do you think?? I'll be back tomorrow with 41-60.

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Facetime With T.O. & Three 6 Mafia

Here's a lil video I found the other day when looking for the 4th episode of Hard Knocks.

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This Week In Flops 6/24/08

Yeah I know its not the 24th BUT last Tuesday I was in a car accident so my mind wasn't really on TWIF lol. Its all good though I just remembered and now lets make it do what it do. BTW I didn't know any of these albums even came out last week lol.

I knew they had on a song out, but dropping an album?? Had no idea! lol. If they were gonna just drop an album outta no where they should've did it last year when Dope Boy Fresh was out, their show was still on TV, and they still had a lil' steam off that Oscar win. Oh well, don't expect big numbers Three 6 fans, I got it doing no more than 30k.

Speaking of Dwele, Kanye did this nigga so wrong! 'Ye did 3 videos for Flashing Lights and didn't feature my man in any of them. Sucks for him lol. Anyway, I don't know where this album is coming from or anything about it BUT neo-soul usually has a sturdy fanbase so I'll give him 10k-20k.

RZA's Digi Snacks...another album I had no idea was coming out. I know nothing about this record so I'm assuming you don't either which is why this record will have a hard time making it over 10k first week. Besides, who wants to buy an album called Digi Snacks??? Hilarious!

These niggas still livin'?? Well apparently so and it looks like they're dropping another album! Great! lol. I won't waste much time with this because you and I both know its gonna struggle to move even 1,000 units and won't show up on the charts at all lol.

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