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Oct
29
In the past year, Michael Jackson has earned $90 million. $72 million, or 80% of the $90 million made in the past year, was made after his passing. How much money did you make this past year? Better yet, how much money did I make this past year? Exactly. Here’s an excerpt from the Billboard.com article:
Jackson earned less than the $350 million that fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent scored in the past year, and the $235 million earned by the songwriting duo Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.
Forbes counted money earned from October 2008-October 2009, even for Jackson, who died June 25. But about $72 million — or 80% of the $90 million earned in the past 12 months — came after Jackson’s death, said a spokesperson for GreenLight, a consultancy company that represents “delebs,” their term for dead celebrities still earning money.
On Wednesday, Jackson — along with AEG Entertainment and Sony — began raking in money for next year’s list as the concert-rehearsal documentary “This Is It” opened in 3,500 domestic theaters and around the world.
Read the rest of the article @ Billboard.com & be sure to check out “This Is It”, in theaters now!
Oct
28
The title is pretty self explanatory. NYC crowds don’t play that hype…so rude, but hey…thats NY.
Exactly.
Oct
8
SMASH: Jay Z Writes Letter To MTV Addressing The Absence Of Eminem On The Hottest MC List
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MTV released their annual hottest MC list a while ago and the man at the top of the list decided to chime in on why he felt Eminem should have been on the list.
MTV, Thanx for this nod of appreciation. Although I don’t strive to be ‘hot’ for any particular year, I thank you for the acknowledgment. My whole goal is to be recognized as the best ever. I created the term ‘best rapper alive’ as a sign of respect to my fallen comrades (Biggie and Tupac). I believe I’ve allowed a significant grace period, and I believe I would not be respecting myself if being the absolute best was not my goal, and that’s why I continue to push myself until exhaustion … salute.
Sidebar: Kanye moment if I may … Eminem?!?! I think you do the credibility of this list a disservice if you don’t thoroughly explain his omission. As of this second he has the highest selling rap album of the year and a scene stealing verse on the best ‘posse’ cut of the year . (*Hands mic back to Taylor Swift … and nobody was harmed, I apologize in advance.)
I agree.
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Sep
9
1st he pushed a million copies in a week during a time when major artists are barely pushing half that in the same time period, now, Lil’ Wayne has upped the ante for Hip Hop by having the highest grossing Hip Hop tour of all time! When I first read the news I couldn’t believe it, but it goes to show you that Hip Hop still has a massive audience despite naysayers. Below I put up an excerpt I pulled from Billboard.com:
Seventy-eight Lil Wayne headlining arena and amphitheater concerts in North America from Dec. 14, 2008, through Sept. 6, 2009, grossed approximately $42 million and drew nearly 804,000 fans, according to Lil Wayne tour producer and tour business manager Shawn Gee, who also serves as president of music and entertainment at Sports & Entertainment Financial Group.
“It’s definitely one of the biggest in the last couple of years,” Gee tells Billboard.com, noting that Haymon Events/Live Nation was the exclusive tour promoter for all of the shows. “Our plan was to prove that Wayne was a viable headlining arena artist.”
The second highest-grossing rap tour that Billboard has tracked was Jay-Z’s 2008 jaunt with Mary J. Blige, which grossed $34.6 million and drew 310,694 concertgoers to 28 shows, according to Billboard Boxscore. Kanye West’s 2008 Glow In the Dark tour comes in third, having pulled in $30.8 million from 49 concerts that attracted 507,853 fans.
Exactly!
Sep
8
T-Pain is definitely about to make a lot of money with this Auto-Tune iPhone application…such a great idea! Check out this video of T-Pain showing other artists in the industry his idea.
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May
19
Damn, it begins….
Documents have been revealed to HipHopDX suggesting that Best Buy retailers have reported over 6,000 physical units of Eminem’s Relapse [click to read] sold by 10 am, this morning. By these projections, the day will see an estimated 133,000 units sold of the Shady/Aftermath/Interscope Records star. According to these figures, the album will be on pace to sell approximately 288,000 units at the mega-retailer alone.
Read the rest of this article over at HipHopDX
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May
13
In the middle of all this Cassie/Rihanna hoopla here comes Beyonce smashing on the both of them simply by being outlandishly fly without taking off her clothes and exposing her coondocks to the world. Not to mention her body smashes….we love you B!
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Apr
29
With all the hype going around that Asher Roth had sold 200 thousand copies of his debut album Asleep In The Bread Aisle many were starting to believe that Asher would do over 500K for his first week. Well, for those people I say believe half of what you see and none of what you hear because according to Billboard.com Rick Ross took the top spot on this weeks Billboard 200 by selling 158K in its first week. Asher actually debuted at #5 selling only 65K which is 5K short of what people were saying he sold in only 2 days.
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Apr
13
SMASH: Capoeira Fighter Shows Off Then Gets Knocked Out With One Punch
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Here is a disclaimer for everyone out there: If you talk big shit, please back it up! It can do some serious damage to your ego.
Exactly.
Mar
17
Michael Eric Dyson is the man. I’m sure if I search deep enough he might have more SMASH moments than anyone.
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