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May 09, 2008 - 9:22 am
Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon Make First Post-Honeymoon Appearance
Mariah Carey is canceling spots all over her personal calendar. She was supposed to be a guest on The View next Monday - not any more. A performance at the Dubai Festival Resort - I'm kinda busy now. Interviews on British radio stations - I'm not a morning person. It's the glow of new love blinding outside distractions. So it was surprising to see Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon together at Lincoln Center last night for Time Magazine's Most Influential People in the World event. more..

May 09, 2008 - 7:42 am
Vanessa and Angela Simmons Visit Harlem for some Pastry Signings
Vanessa and Angela Simmons were at a Harlem sneaker spot this week, scribbling their names on Pastry sneakers for a 'thousand' people. Strike that.. a thousand young ladies. It's nice to see the Simmons girls haven't grabbed a microphone, attempting to become the next hot female rapper or singer. That would be too predictable. Instead they've channeled Auntie Kimora's inner Baby Phat and infused it with a new youthful energy. more..

May 08, 2008 - 12:43 pm
EW’s First Look at George and Laura Bush >> Oliver Stone Style
Oliver Stone is hard at work, trying to crank out this year's Farenheit 9/11. His biopic of the soon to be ex-president, George W. Bush aka Who's Osama?, is on full press. The listed drop date is 2009, but the word is Oliver Stone is hoping to have the movie finished by this October. Just in time for the November election. more..

May 06, 2008 - 7:52 pm
Mariah Carey Sends an Email Confirming Her Marriage: “I’m So Happy”
Alright, I said I wouldn't dig, but this kind of fell on my lap. People is reporting that Vogue's fashion editor, Andre Leon Talley, got an email from Mariah Carey on Monday confirming her marriage to Nick Cannon. Take it and bake it.. more..

May 06, 2008 - 6:35 pm
Notorious Cast and Crew Intros: An Extra’s Set Experience + Biggie and Faith
Look at that picture. If you weren't sure if Angela Bassett looked anything like Voletta Wallace, that's proof positive the Notorious casting director got it right. As filming of Notorious continues (it began on March 23,) over at notoriousblog.net the folks involved with the film are keeping a decent set of updates. more..

May 06, 2008 - 1:15 pm
Mariah Carey is Vibe Magazine Cover Girl: Itsy Bitsy Black Bikini
Mariah Carey is this month's Vibe magazine cover girl. They've got a fantastic summertime look going on. No green screen here, Vibe flew to the Caribbean island of Antigua to shoot Mariah in her favorite outifit: anything itsy bitsy or mini and skimpy. This time it was a black bikini. Too bad these types of magazine articles are crafted months in advance or they might have checked her fingers for that Cannon ring. That whole rumored marriage to Nick is so left field, it's easier not to believe it than to do any kind of investigative digging. more..

One of many big bobble heads in sneaker store on the Deuce
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Van Hunt
This is a conversation I had with Van Hunt a couple of years ago. He recently released an EP called The Popular Machine that you can download off Amazon and Itunes. I haven't had much interest in interviewing people lately, so I dug this one up from the archive.

He was fresh on the scene promoting his debut self-titled album Van Hunt. Among other things, we talked about his father the "part-time painter and pimp." more..
top ten weekend boxoffice chart
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  top ten week ending 05/09/08
gross earnings
est.soundscan#
est.soundscan#
week
  1. Iron Man $104,250,000.00 1
  2. Made of Honor $15,500,000.00 1
  3. Baby Mama $32,330,000.00 2
  4. Forgetting Sarah Marshall $44,804,000.00 3
  5. Harold and Kumar $25,270,000.00 2
  6. Forbidden Kingdom $45,124,000.00 3
  7. Nim's Island $42,544,000.00 6
  8. Prom Night $41,447,000.00 3
  9. 21 $79,057,000.00 6
  10. 88 Minutes $15,424,000.00 3
  1. Madonna "Hard Candy" 282,785.00 1
  2. Mariah Carey "E=MC2" 736,811.00 3
  3. Leona Lewis "Spirit" 490,186.00 4
  4. Lyfe Jennings "Life.." 76,332.00 1
  5. Def Leppard "Sparkle.." 54,402.00 1
  6. The Roots "Rising Down" 54,710.00 1
  7. Portishead "Third" 44,894.00 1
  8. Mudcrutch "Mudcrutch" 28,191.00 1
  9. Now 27 -various- 567,745.00 8
  10. Tim McGraw ".. Hits" - 1

A note on these sales numbers: they are based on Soundscan numbers.

Soundscan numbers are based on actual albums sold (or at least *cough* passed underneath a price scanner at the register.)

Billboard and various other charts base their numbers on RIAA certifications, which are based on units shipped to the stores, however Soundscan is what the music executives really care about. If a record fails to sell, music stores send the albums back to the distributors, who, in turn, send them back to the label which kinda negates the RIAA number.

A RIAA platinum or gold certification is a simple way to inflate the numbers to "wow" the public, it's a prestige thing. Like saying that you make $50,000.00 a year without adjusting for taxes and social security deductions.

For that reason, Soundscan is more accurate.

The numbers up above are not actual Soundscan numbers, it costs a grip to gain access to that information - monthly fees and all that kinda thing, however I have access to estimated numbers which are accurate within a couple thousand.

If you see the letter R next to a sales number, it means that I couldn't get an estimated joint and based it on RIAA instead.

Good enough? Okay. Bye, bye

  1. Lyfe Jennings "Life.." 76,332.00 1
  2. Mariah Carey "E=MC2" 736,811.00 3
  3. The Roots "Rising Down" 54,710.00 1
  4. Rick Ross "Trilla" 470,044.00 9
  5. Lil Mama "Voice of the.. " 17,738.00 1
  6. Estelle "Shine" 13,511.00 1
  7. Mary J Blige "Growing.." - 20
  8. Marvin Sapp "Thirsty" - 24
  9. Keyshia Cole "Just LIke.." 1,000,000.00 R- 32
  10. Raheem DeVaughn "Love.." - 16
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The Bank Job


The Bank Job

Ducked into a newspaper/magazine store to avoid the rain - a copy of Fade In stuck in the outside pocket of my jacket. Nothing new or blurbable on the racks, head out the door, to the movie theater. Unknowingly, I have two guys following me. Didn’t discover this until reaching the kiosk and one of them speaks up..

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Steam Meter Music Review
Chrisette Michele - I Am


Chrisette Michele "I Am"

If it's not American Idol, the next best place to get 'a break' is through guest spots on premium rapper's albums. Chrisette Michele is evidence of this. Known by few outside of industry circles just a year ago, anchoring songs on both Nas and Jay-Z's albums helped give her that "who is that?" factor. Lucky for Chrisette Michele, the time between chorus duty and debut album was short and sweet.

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Stat Quo Stat Quo feat. B.O.B. - "My Ride Double Bubble"

His album has been in Dr. Dre and Eminem's oven for a long time. This is asking for 106 play, they'd better pop it out"

Busta Rhymes Busta Rhymes - "Don't Touch Me"

Busta returns as The Godfather of the Club Banger.. it bangs.

Jim Jones "We Roll" - Jim Jones & Max-B feat. Pete Rock

From Pete Rock's new CD "NY's Finest"

The Knux "Cappuccino" - The Knux

New artists signed to Interscope out of New Orleans - has that early Outkast sound"

Common "The Light 08 ( It's Love)" - Common + Just Blaze

Part of Smirnoff's Signature Mix Series - Common remixed it with Just Blaze. Download the mp3 from their site.

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