Adele's new album, "25," looks like it will make history.
Billboard projects the disc will sell 2.5 million copies in it's opening week, breaking the record of 2.42 million, set by NSYNC's 2000 release, "No Strings Attached."
No album prior to or after "No Strings Attached" had sold 2 million copies in one week since Nielsen Music began tracking point-of-sale music purchases in 1991.
"25,"Adele's third album, was released on Friday, November 20th, via XL/Columbia Records. First day iTunes sales surpassed900,000.
Final first week numbers will be announced by Nielsen on November 29th.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 25, 2015 at 10:30am
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Last March we reported that the Wu Tang Clan had recorded a secret album titled "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin," that they would only sell one copy of for millions of dollars.
Some hip hop heads wondered if the group could pull it off, but TMZ reports that an anonymous American buyer has purchased the double disc for over $1 million.
As part of the deal, the collector cannot release any of the 31 songs for 88 years, which means unless one of us turns out to be the second coming of Methuselah, we'll never get to hear the record, aside from one 51-second snippet of a track producer Tarik “Cilvaringz” Azzougarhshared with Forbes last year.
“For art to change the way people think, it has to come from an extreme place,” said RZA. “No monumental change ever started with a compromise or a small shift. It starts extreme.”
Adele is in a class by herself. Her new album, "25," continues to move units in massive volumes. The British songbird's third effort sold 1,056,429 in it's second week, pushing the 2 week total to 4.4 million.
According to HitsDailyDouble, Adele's "25" is the first album to sell more than 1 million in the 1st and 2nd week.
Adele's just released album, "25," is exceeding all expectations. In just three days it has already sold sold at least 2.3 million in pure album sales in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music.
At that pace it will shatter the one week sales record of 2,416,000 set by NSYNC's 2000 album, "No Strings Attached."
Billboard now projects that it will sell 2.9 million copies by week's end.
The album puts Adele in the elite club of artists who have sold1 millionrecords in a week. Check out the full list viaBillboard below.
The One Million Club
Adele; 25; TBD*; Nov. 26, 2015 (*sales for debut week to be determined) Taylor Swift; 1989; 1,287,000; Nov. 2, 2014 Taylor Swift; Red; 1,208,000; Oct. 28, 2012 Lady Gaga; Born This Way; 1,108,000; May 29, 2011 Taylor Swift; Speak Now; 1,047,000; Oct. 31, 2010 Lil Wayne; Tha Carter III; 1,006,000; June 15, 2008 50 Cent; The Massacre; 1,141,000; March 6, 2005 Usher; Confessions; 1,096,000; March 28, 2004 Norah Jones; Feels Like Home; 1,022,000; Feb. 15, 2004 Eminem; The Eminem Show; 1,322,000; June 2, 2002 ‘NSYNC; Celebrity; 1,880,000; July 29, 2001 The Beatles; 1; 1,259,000; Dec. 24, 2000 Backstreet Boys; Black & Blue; 1,591,000; Nov. 26, 2000 Limp Bizkit; Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water; 1,055,000; Oct. 22, 2000 Eminem; The Marshall Mathers LP; 1,760,000; May 28, 2000 Britney Spears; Oops!…I Did It Again; 1,319,000; May 21, 2000 ‘NSYNC; No Strings Attached; 2,416,000; March 26, 2000 Backstreet Boys; Millennium; 1,134,000; May 23, 1999 Garth Brooks; Double Live; 1,085,000; Nov. 22, 1998 Whitney Houston/Soundtrack; The Bodyguard; 1,061,000; Jan. 3, 1993
G-Unit emcee Young Buck hits the studio with Boosie Badazz and Starlito to cook up some audio heroin for his forthcoming mixtape titled "10 Pints," available everywhere on Black Friday, November 27th.
Check out parts one and two of the"10 Pints"vlog below.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 23, 2015 at 10:30am
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As he prepares to release his "10 Pints" mixtape, Young Buck drops off parts three and four of his vlog taking us behind the scenes of the recording process.
These feature Yo Gotti, Ghostface Killah and Raekwon.
"10 Pints" will be released on Black Friday, November 27th.
There are no off days for Cold Summers Entertainment boss, and Tanboys member, Lil Eto. He drops off a new music video for "Eyes Open" featuring Boob Bronx and Ant Milli.
Bad Boy Records recording artist Machine Gun Kelly visited The Breakfast Club to talk about not liking to take fan pictures, a comment about Eminem's daughter getting him banned from Shade 45, first number 1 album, acting, dating Amber Rose, Fader & Rolling Stone refusing to interview him, LeBron James coming back to Cleveland, his daughter and more.
Galafati Music Group Presents Frost G, and his debut project "Frozen H20". The Texas native has recently been on Jerry Springer, and debuted his recent video/single "Street Certified" on Worldstarhiphop (Video below) Follow Us:
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An overnight confrontation between two groups of students escalated into gunfire Friday when a freshman at Northern Arizona University killed one person and wounded three others, authorities said.
University police chief Gregory T. Fowler identified the shooter as 18-year-old Steven Jones and said he used a handgun in the shootings at about 1:20 a.m. Friday. Police were still interviewing Jones and he had not been booked into jail Friday morning.
Steven Jones
The university in a statement identified the student who died as Colin Brough. The victims being treated at Flagstaff Medical Center are Nicholas Prato, Kyle Zientek and Nicholas Piring. The hospital said it couldn't release any information on conditions.
"This is not going to be a normal day at NAU," said school President Rita Cheng. "Our hearts are heavy."
She called it an isolated and unprecedented incident and said classes would go on as scheduled Friday.
The parking lot where the shooting happened is just outside Mountain View Hall dormitory on the Flagstaff campus, which provides housing for many of the campus' sororities and fraternities. The gate to the dorm's main entrance was closed Friday, and police had the surrounding area taped off.
Iowa City, Iowa-based Delta Chi Fraternity said Delta Chi members were involved, but offered no other details.
Alex McIntosh, a friend of Zientek, said he worked part time at the High Country Conference Center while attending the school full time.
"He's very calm, very respectful, has a great manner, calm demeanor and you'd never expect him to be caught up in something like this," McIntosh said.
Brough was from Castle Rock, Colorado, about 30 miles south of downtown Denver. Randy Barber, a spokesman for Douglas County Schools, confirmed that Brough graduated from Castle View High School in 2013. He said the school district had activated a crisis team to support students and staff at the high school.
Student Maria Gonzalez told The Associated Press that she at first suspected firecrackers when the shooting happened.
"I was studying for an exam so I looked out the window and see two people running, and that's when I realized they weren't fireworks they were actually gunshots," she said.
Arizona political leaders voiced support for the university and surrounding community, with Gov. Doug Ducey calling the shooting heartbreaking. He said the state stands ready to help in the investigation and response.
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, who lives in Flagstaff, expressed confidence that the city "will only grow stronger in difficult moments like these."
The Flagstaff shooting comes on the same day that President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Roseburg, Oregon, where eight students and a teacher were shot and killed last week at Umpqua Community College. The gunman in the Oregon shooting wounded nine others before turning the gun on himself.
NAU is a four-year public university that has more than 25,000 total undergraduate students at the campus in Flagstaff, a city about two hours north of Phoenix that is surrounded by mountains and ponderosa pines.
Freshman Cameron Sands, 18, said he had pledged at a fraternity and was supposed to move into Mountain View Hall on Friday.
"It's crazy. You don't think this stuff happens. When I think of Flagstaff, I think safety," he said.
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AP writers Bob Seavey and Paul Davenport in Phoenix, Jim Anderson in Denver, Bob Lentz in Philadelphia and Matt Small in Washington contributed to this report.
Manila (AFP) - Philippine boxing hero Manny Pacquiao announced Wednesday he would likely retire next year after one last fight so he could focus on a career in politics, hopefully as a senator.
The born-again Christian, winner of an unprecedented eight world titles in as many weight divisions and at times touted as a future president of the Philippines, said he had taken career advice from God.
"I think I'm ready (to retire). I've been in boxing for more than 20 years," Pacquiao, 36, said in an interview on local ABS-CBN television network.
"I prayed to God for guidance and I am happy about it."
Pacquiao turned professional when he was 16 years old and has won 57 fights, including 38 knockouts while losing six, three of them knockouts. Two other bouts ended in a draw.
He lost a unanimous decision in May to unbeaten American Floyd Mayweather in boxing's richest bout, which the Filipino fought with a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder.
Pacquiao, a congressman since 2010, announced this week his bid for a senate seat in national elections to be held in May next year.
"I will have to give up the other things that require my attention. If you are a senator, your focus should only be your job and your family," he said in the interview.
Pacquiao said before the elections he planned to climb into the ring for what would probably be one last time, most likely in March.
He said he was yet to pick his next opponent, and was not ruling out a rematch with Mayweather, even though the American had already announced his retirement.
- Rags to riches -
A rags-to-riches Philippine idol, Pacquiao, a former street vendor, has shrewdly parlayed his boxing success into a career in show business, product endorsements and politics.
Now representing his southern province of Sarangani in the lower chamber of congress, the pint-sized Pacquiao is also an improbable professional basketball player and a Christian pastor.
He was mercilessly criticised on social media this week after it was reported he had attended just four legislative sessions out of 70 this year due to sporting and other commitments.
Despite this, the latest pre-election surveys put him in the winning circle of the 12 senatorial slots up for grab at the polls.
Pacquiao pledged Wednesday he would be a "serious" senator.
"I will not be absent because the whole country will be my responsibility," he said.
Political analyst Ramon Casiple said Pacquiao enjoyed a special "rapport" with the masses that would translate into electoral success.
"The perception is that he is approachable, he has an empathy for Filipinos," Casiple said.
But he warned that in the Senate, Pacquiao would be "under a microscope," with many people looking for signs that he was not working or did not understand the issues.
Casiple also warned that even Pacquiao's popularity might not be enough to get him the presidency down the track.
"His popularity will not be much of an advantage because he will (then) be up against people who are also well-known," he said.
Pacquiao heads his own political party but hinted Wednesday he would run for the Senate under the banner of Vice President Jejomar Binay, the current main opposition leader who is running for president in 2016.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 30, 2015 at 3:54pm
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors declined to charge Caitlyn Jenner on Wednesday in a California car crash that killed another driver, citing insufficient evidence to support a case.
Authorities said Jenner was towing an off-road vehicle on a trailer behind a Cadillac Escalade on Feb. 7 when she crashed into two cars, pushing one into oncoming traffic. Driver Kim Howe died when her Lexus was hit by a Hummer in Malibu.
"We believed from the start that a thorough and objective investigation would clear Caitlyn of any criminal wrongdoing," said Blair Berk, Jenner's attorney. "We are heartened the district attorney has agreed that even a misdemeanor charge would be inappropriate. A traffic accident, however devastating and heartbreaking when a life is lost, is not necessarily a criminal matter."
The accident occurred before Jenner announced she is transgender and transitioned into her new identity as Caitlyn.
Sheriff's investigators previously determined that Jenner, 65, was traveling at an unsafe speed for the road conditions at the time and there was enough evidence to support a vehicular manslaughter charge. The case was then referred to the district attorney's major crimes division.
A prosecutor wrote in a one-page sheet declining to file charges that Jenner was traveling slightly below the posted speed limit and began braking less than two seconds before the crash. To prove misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, prosecutors would have had to show Jenner was negligent and had violated a basic speed law.
Based on the facts, the office determined they "cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that suspect's conduct was unreasonable."
After the accident, Jenner released a statement expressing sympathy to those involved in the accident.
"It is a devastating tragedy," the statement read. "I cannot pretend to imagine what this family is going through at this time. I am praying for them."
Jenner is facing separate lawsuits by Howe's stepchildren and the driver of the other car involved in the collision. Jenner's lawyers are fighting efforts to have her give sworn testimony in a deposition in the wrongful death suit filed by the stepchildren.
The crash has shadowed Jenner's much-lauded transgender transition that was announced in a two-hour television special with Diane Sawyer. A Vanity Fair cover story revealed her new identity, and a reality series "I Am Cait" chronicled her new life.
In July, Jenner accepted the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs sports achievement event and urged fellow athletes to join her and make advocacy for transgender issues a priority.
A Los Angeles judge approved Jenner's petition to formally change her name and gender on Sept. 25. Jenner was born Bruce Jenner and won an Olympic gold medal for the decathlon in 1976.
Jenner was married to Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner for more than 20 years and frequently appeared on "Keeping Up With the Kardashians." The couple had two children together, and Jenner has four children from previous marriages.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 15, 2015 at 7:36am
There's no slowing down the nonstop grind of Rochester, New York emcee Lil Eto. He enlists Times Change on his latest track titled "Don't Nobody Love You." Enjoy it up top.
Vester Flanagan, known professionally as Bryce Williams, claims he filed an EEOC report after former WDBJ co-worker Alison Parker made a racist remark. He also claimed that photographer Adam Ward reported him to human resources after they worked together once, according to RT.
The allegations were made in Facebook and Twitter posts by Flanagan after he murdered both Parker and Ward in the middle of a live interview they were conducting on Wednesday, August 26th.
The shooter was fired in was fired from the channel two years ago and had to be escorted from the building. He had developed a reputation as being someone who was difficult to work with.
Flanagan made similar allegations against TV station WTWC-TV in Florida back in 2000.
TMZ reports that Flanagan claimed a producer called him a "monkey," heard a manager tell another black employee to "stop talking ebonics" and said an official at the station joked about a black murder suspect with gold and green grillz, saying he had "collared greens" stuck in his teeth.
The case was settled out of court in 2001.
Flanagan died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound earlier today.
Anderson Silva, perhaps the greatest mixed martial artist in history has been hit with the maximum penalty by Nevada Athletic Commission Chairman Francisco Aguilar, for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs.
The decision came down Thursday, August 13, following a hearing in which Silva offered inconsistent testimony for his January 9, 2015, positive test for the banned substance Drostanolone, several weeks before his fight with Nick Diaz.
The former champion was suspended for one year, fined$380,000and had his victory over Diaz overturned. The bout has now been ruled a no contest.
The penalty is retroactive, meaning the 40-year old Brazilian can return to action in February 2016.
UFC officials backed the decision and said they would welcome Silva back once his suspension has been lifted.
"The UFC organization maintains a strict, consistent policy against the use of any illegal and/or performance-enhancing drugs, stimulants or masking agents by its athletes, and fully supports the Commission's ongoing efforts to ensure clean competition by all MMA athletes," a statement from the organization read. "The UFC recognizes Silva's great career and looks forward to his return to the Octagon in 2016."
Young Chris releases a new music video for his Cardiak-produced track titled "Dues." Filmed by Inferno Productions in LA call 267-304-9255 for videos. Check it out and let us know what you think.
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All ofFuture'shard work in 2015 has paid big dividends. The Atlanta rapper lands his first number one album withDS2.
According to Billboard, the album sold 147,000 copies in it's first week ending on July 23. The figure is more than what his first two albums, Pluto (41,000) and Honest (53,000), moved combined in their debut weeks.
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