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Newsweek Magazine, in its 4/9/07 issue, has declared Will Smith the most powerful actor in Hollywood today. His worldwide box office total is more than $4 billion. That total is more than Adam Sandler & Will Ferrell's total... combined. You can read the full article here at MSNBC.com Congratulations!!!!

Dream - This Is Me(P. Diddy Remix)

No Doubt - Bathwater Return Of Saturn(2000)

Position/Artist/Album/TWSales/%Change/LWSales/Total Sales 2 STONE*JOSS INTRODUCING JOSS STONE 118039 999 158 118,214 5 HOUSTON*MARQUES VETERAN 68647 999 107 68,760 6 AKON KONVICTED 68567 -4 71133 1,932,106 - 2x platinum watch 7 LLOYD STREET LOVE 55492 -62 144304 200,164 8 MUSIQ SOULCHILD LUVANMUSIQ 53807 -64 149259 203,581 9 RICH BOY RICH BOY 48715 -56 111853 160,966 10 WINEHOUSE*AMY BACK TO BLACK 47667 -6 50888 98,622 11 TIMBERLAKE*JUSTIN FUTURESEX/LOVE SOUNDS 41881 -1 42184 3,001,572 - 3X Platinum 12 THICKE*ROBIN EVOLUTION OF ROBIN THICKE 40119 -1 40518 852,654 - Platinum watch 13 FERGIE DUTCHESS 39678 -1 40161 1,642,312 14 JONES*NORAH NOT TOO LATE 38742 -4 40150 1,164,849 18 FURTADO*NELLY LOOSE 33873 -3 34772 1,592,482 20 INSANE CLOWN POSSE TEMPEST 33297 999 200 33,501 22 RAE*CORINNE BAILEY CORINNE BAILEY RAE 32271 -5 34005 1,329,524 25 STEFANI*GWEN SWEET ESCAPE 25813 -1 26051 1,027,875 - Platinum 26 BABY BOY DA PRINCE ACROSS THE WATER 25660 999 48 25,710 28 8-BALL & MJG RIDIN' HIGH 25589 -49 49959 75,969 29 NOTORIOUS B.I.G. GREATEST HITS 24955 -36 38703 163,154 30 DEVIN THE DUDE WAITIN' TO INHALE 24909 999 724 25,633 31 CRIME MOB HATED ON MOSTLY 22071 999 104 22,178 35 MARLEY*STEPHEN MIND CONTROL 19734 999 52 19,787 36 MAYER*JOHN CONTINUUM 19603 -8 21270 1,552,830 37 YOUNG JEEZY INSPIRATION: THUG MOTIVATION 18446 0 18379 968,020 42 LEVERT*GERALD IN MY SONGS 15633 -15 18411 313,973 43 VARIOUS 2007 GRAMMY NOMINEES 15428 -21 19414 462,381 44 VARIOUS NOW 23 15216 -4 15868 2136,636 45 CIARA EVOLUTION 15047 -1 15210 1,072,371 49 AGUILERA*CHRISTINA BACK TO BASICS 14621 -1 14700 1,454,260 54 BEYONCE B'DAY 14001 -13 16101 2360711 59 PRETTY RICKY LATE NIGHT SPECIAL 13419 -15 15773 384,954 60 DREAMGIRLS SOUNDTRACK 13396 -25 17927 918,254 67 PUSSYCAT DOLLS PCD 12137 -17 14671 2,643,740 68 PINK I'M NOT DEAD 11686 30 8957 639,398 88 BLIGE*MARY J. REFLECTIONS: A RETROSPECTIVE 9660 -16 11522 643,410 90 DIDDY PRESS PLAY 9524 0 9517 583,892 92 BIRDMAN & LIL' WAYNE LIKE FATHER LIKE SON 9369 -11 10478 678,233 93 EMINEM PRESENTS: RE-UP EMINEM PRESENTS: RE-UP 9295 -8 10140 934,553 99 LUDACRIS RELEASE THERAPY 8778 -5 9239 1,140,846 100 OMARION 21 8461 2 8256 330,735 101 BOW WOW PRICE OF FAME 8433 -12 9560 47,0026 105 LEGEND*JOHN ONCE AGAIN 8262 -3 8549 1,006,789 111 BLIGE*MARY J. BREAKTHROUGH 7695 -21 9759 2,884,527 112 J.DILLA RUFF DRAFT 7691 999 347 8049 115 NAS HIP HOP IS DEAD 7633 -12 8655 689,187 120 GAME DOCTOR'S ADVOCATE 7381 -6 7891 893,532 126 VARIOUS WOW GOSPEL 2007 7106 -15 8357 109,208 127 SNOOP DOGG BLUE CARPET TREATMENT 6961 -2 7137 830,067 133 JAY-Z KINGDOM COME 6501 -14 7563 1,402,408 139 FANTASIA FANTASIA 6212 -9 6802 329,644 149 DADDY'S LITTLE GIRLS SOUNDTRACK 5787 -22 7401 130,571 150 UNK BEAT'N DOWN YO BLOCK 5679 10 5169 113,377 153 BROWN*CHRIS CHRIS BROWN 5592 -11 6315 1,882,534 162 GNARLS BARKLEY ST. ELSEWHERE 5300 -5 5587 1,271,422 173 EMINEM CURTAIN CALL 4799 -5 5033 2,709,175 176 TYRESE ALTER EGO 4739 -17 5743 331,244 186 HAYSTAK zzzzzzVELLI 4390 999 81 4473 187 SCOTT*JILL JILL SCOTT COLLABORATIONS 4374 -18 5341 121,461 192 JONES*JIM HUSTLER'S P.O.M.E. (PRODUCT 4309 -8 4697 366,041 197 TAMIA BETWEEN FRIENDS 4115 -3 4225 127,766

Greatest parody video of all-time. Instant Classic Daft Punk - One More Time A Tribe Called Quest feat. LOTNS - Scenario Michael Jackson - Remember The Time JJFP - Summertime Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See; Woo-Hah! Got You All In check

Corinne Bailey Rae *The Whole Album*

(sarcastically) no way tim! the record labels are wise and all-knowing. no way would they put out rubbish.

The title should read U.S. CD Sales plummet.

US CD sales plummet as people turn to digital music downloads Mar 22 07:15 AM US/Eastern View larger image US sales of music compact discs plummeted 20 percent in the first three months of the year as downloading of songs continued to knock the underpinnings from record studio revenues. Eighty-nine million CDs were sold from the start of the year through March 18 as compared with 112 million CDs sold during the same period in 2006, according to figures released Wednesday by industry tracker Nielsen SoundScan. Purchases of digitized albums online failed to make up the difference -- instead they dropped from 119 million during that time period in 2006 to 99 million during the first three months of this year, SoundScan reported. Meanwhile, sales of individual songs in digital format on the Internet rose from 242 million tracks during those months last year to 288 million this year, according to SoundScan. Consumers are sending a message to artists that "while you may have put a lot of thought into the sequence of the album, I only like these three songs," said digital music industry analyst Michael McGuire of Gartner Research. "It comes back to consumers being in complete control of their media experience, and that is not going backwards," Gartner told AFP while discussing the drop in album sales and the rise in single-song track purchases. "This is a tough business being a record label because they have to find new sources of revenue." Overall album purchases, calculated by considering every 10 track sales the equivalent of an album, were down by 10 percent in the first quarter this year from last year when 131 million albums were sold, SoundScan figures showed. Music industry statistics show that CD sales have declined steadily for more than five years but still account for 90 percent of album purchases. The relentless popularity of digital music downloads on the Internet is taking the legs out from under CD sales and leaving studios with nothing to stand on if they fail to adapt to online distribution, McGuire said. "The last couple of years the music industry didn't move fast enough and they are trying to catch up now," McGuire said. "But, the whole digital thing is a train that is picking up speed." EMI and Warner Music, two of the world's four major studios, are quickly investing in online "search, discovery and recommendation" tools such as websites at which users share song playlists and recommendations, McGuire said. Instead of letting CD sales erode as they warily eye online forms of distribution, studios should turn the Internet to their advantage, according to McGuire. Online communities can be courted and members given easy paths to websites or real-world stores where music can be purchased. "The imperative is for studios to find as many frictionless transaction paths as possible for digital content," McGuire said. "An important component is embracing discovery tools on social networks." Protecting music from piracy is an unavoidable burden of online song distribution. Music must also compete more than ever with computer games and online video for people's "time, eye balls and wallet share," McGuire said. A high-profile casualty of the shift to digital distribution of music was the iconic Tower Records chain of stores started in California in 1960. Tower records closed its real-world stores in December of 2006 and exists as an online book, music and video stop at the website www.tower.com.

I was unstoppable at the Tabletop Ms. Pac-Man game(I'm mad that I don't still have that game). And no one, I MEAN NO ONE, could touch me on Blades Of Steel(old school hockey game).

Damian Marley - Confrontation

Update: Come Wednesday the Oscar-nominated movie The Pursuit of Happyness will reach a milestone. That's when The Pursuit of Happyness will cross the $300 million worldwide mark. Congratulations!!!! Domestic: $164.1 million Overseas: $135.4 million Total BO: $299.5 million

Robin Thicke - Lonely World

Yep, he's going to milk Biggie's legacy for all its worth. He has to because he has no one else on his roster, including himself, that can sell records or generate real buzz. On another note, how sad is it that they have to keep putting out Biggie & 2Pac albums? Bad Boy & 'Pac's label are destroying the legacies of these 2 great emcees.

3.15.07 - Even though we were told there would be no more Biggie albums, Bad Boy decided to release a greatest hits album anyway. Buoyed by the 10th anniversary of Biggie's death, his Greatest Hits album reached the #1 spot. Rank/Artist/Album/TWSales/%Change/LWSales/Total Sales 1 NOTORIOUS B.I.G. GREATEST HITS 99178 999 318 99496 - Puffy sucking it dry 2 ARCADE FIRE NEON BIBLE 91800 999 336 92154 3 DAUGHTRY DAUGHTRY 81786 -9 89901 1883497 4 AKON KONVICTED 76019 3 73457 1792406 5 ALLAN*GARY GREATEST HITS 69672 999 72 69938 6 RELIENT K FIVE SCORE & SEVEN YEARS AGO 63962 999 290 50188 7 JONES*NORAH NOT TOO LATE 59446 -19 73843 1085957 8 FALL OUT BOY INFINITY ON HIGH 58055 -14 67168 583222 9 KORN MTV UNPLUGGED 51190 999 196 51400 10 THICKE*ROBIN EVOLUTION OF ROBIN THICKE 47250 -17 57020 772017 - continues its strong push Other Notables: 11 TIMBERLAKE*JUSTIN FUTURESEX/LOVE SOUNDS 46120 -14 53563 2917507 - 3X Platinum watch 12 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE SOME HEARTS 45181 33 33939 5035966 - 5X PLATINUM!!! 13 FERGIE DUTCHESS 42629 1 42011 1562473 15 RAE*CORINNE BAILEY CORINNE BAILEY RAE 41193 -8 44598 1263248 16 NICKELBACK ALL THE RIGHT REASONS 40342 -1 40884 5052217 - 5X PLATINUM!!! 17 FURTADO*NELLY LOOSE 38745 -14 45157 1523837 19 STEFANI*GWEN SWEET ESCAPE 30704 1 30412 976011 - Platinum watch 21 MAYER*JOHN CONTINUUM 26893 -10 29947 1511957 23 RASCAL FLATTS ME AND MY GANG 25960 -5 27314 3817754 24 DREAMGIRLS SOUNDTRACK 25481 -43 44656 886931 25 LEVERT*GERALD IN MY SONGS 25072 -26 33700 279929 27 YOUNG JEEZY INSPIRATION: THUG MOTIVATION 22807 -4 23663 931195 33 BEYONCE B'DAY 18731 -15 21939 2330609 35 GYM CLASS HEROES AS CRUEL AS SCHOOL CHILDREN 17588 2 17325 212355 37 EVANESCENCE OPEN DOOR 17164 10 15564 1621895 41 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS STADIUM ARCADIUM 16623 -12 18915 1971726 - 2X Platinum watch 44 CIARA EVOLUTION 16155 -16 19136 1042114 45 PUSSYCAT DOLLS PCD 16100 52 10625 2616932 - who's still buying this? 50 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE BLACK PARADE,THE 15188 -6 16098 980514 51 AGUILERA*CHRISTINA BACK TO BASICS 15134 2 14815 1424939 53 BLIGE*MARY J. REFLECTIONS: A RETROSPECTIVE 13967 -20 17355 622228 56 BLIGE*MARY J. BREAKTHROUGH 13193 -19 16261 2867073 57 BRIGHT EYES FOUR WINDS 12933 999 131 13065 58 THREE DAYS GRACE ONE-X 12922 0 12912 621176 64 EMINEM PRESENTS: RE-UP EMINEM PRESENTS: RE-UP 11989 -13 13783 915118 66 BIRDMAN & LIL' WAYNE LIKE FATHER LIKE SON 11827 -8 12853 658386 67 NAS HIP HOP IS DEAD 11758 -11 13151 672899 - should be 2X platinum by now 73 LUDACRIS RELEASE THERAPY 10743 -11 12125 1122829 75 DIDDY PRESS PLAY 10658 -10 11904 564851 77 LEGEND*JOHN ONCE AGAIN 10573 -23 13756 989978 - Platinum watch 78 BOW WOW PRICE OF FAME 10366 -2 10591 452033 82 OMARION 21 10070 -9 11010 314018 84 VARIOUS WOW GOSPEL 2007 9707 -18 11904 95936 87 B.G. & THE CHOPPER CITY BOYZ WE GOT THIS 9499 -64 26690 37852 89 SNOOP DOGG BLUE CARPET TREATMENT 9332 -22 11897 815969 92 JAY-Z KINGDOM COME 9150 -23 11905 1388344 93 U2 U218 SINGLES 9133 -4 9477 646404 101 GAME DOCTOR'S ADVOCATE 8441 -16 10092 878260 - so much for outselling Jay 109 ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS MOVE ALONG 7834 -10 8680 1831420 113 CONSEQUENCE DON'T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB 7478 999 43 7521 - this album is pure fire!! 114 PINK I'M NOT DEAD 7243 19 6084 618755 115 BROWN*CHRIS CHRIS BROWN 7107 -20 8841 1870627 118 TYRESE ALTER EGO 7027 -19 8682 320762 119 INCUBUS LIGHT GRENADES 6973 -6 7431 517211 121 FANTASIA FANTASIA 6935 -14 8053 316630 123 GNARLS BARKLEY ST. ELSEWHERE 6795 -28 9394 1260535 131 SCOTT*JILL JILL SCOTT COLLABORATIONS 6478 -33 9618 111746 137 SLIM THUG & BOSS HOGG OUTLAWZ SERVE & COLLECT 5931 -52 12340 18956 145 BLUNT*JAMES BACK TO BEDLAM 5638 -14 6531 2538280 146 EMINEM CURTAIN CALL 5595 -6 5932 2699343 - who's still buying THIS???? 148 LIL SCRAPPY BRED 2 DIE BORN 2 LIVE 5552 -17 6684 251380 152 KEARNEY*MAT NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE 5304 -11 5947 169628 156 JONES*JIM HUSTLER'S P.O.M.E. (PRODUCT 5263 -9 5780 357035 157 TRICK DADDY BACK BY THUG DEMAND 5262 -16 6256 213828 158 UNK BEAT'N DOWN YO BLOCK 5207 -10 5807 102529 183 T.I. KING 4511 -10 5023 1644888 185 TOMLIN*CHRIS SEE THE MORNING 4463 -6 4754 94594 186 BECK INFORMATION 4391 -14 5107 372835 188 FALL OUT BOY FROM UNDER THE CORK TREE 4363 3 4232 2527717 190 RJD2 THIRD HAND 4305 999 134 4440 194 PANIC! AT THE DISCO FEVER YOU CAN'T SWEAT OUT 4181 -8 4532 1573122

I gotta agree with AJ. 50 is only doing what many rappers have done before him. He's doing whatever he can to make money. It's not about the music or the culture with him. The same can be said of a bunch of cats before him. Hip-Hop was killed, in my opinion, when Dr. Dre came out with The Chronic. Dr. Dre didn't kill it but soon after that album everybody started copying him and his style of music. The fun and creativity left hip-hop and it's been going downhill ever since. Someone will come up with a new style and then you'll have 50 copycats. The record industry encouraged it, paid radio & TV stations to promote it and the people accepted it. For it to change, THE INDUSTRY MUST BURN!!!!!

The Notorious B.I.G. - Warning Classic storytelling song from B.I.G.

The Oscar-nominated film, The Pursuit of Happyness, is expected to cross the $300 million worldwide mark by the end of next week making it one of the most successful dramas of all-time. Domestic: $162.8 million Overseas: $131.3 million Total BO: $294.1 million

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Robin Thicke's album and success is proof that good music will find its way to the people. It was sheer word-of-mouth that kept his album in the top 100 before "the mainstream audience" grabbed a hold of it. I really like the fact that he stuck to his guns and made the music he wanted to make instead of dumbing down for the purpose of just selling records. A lot of rappers might want to take advice from Robin.

Justin Timberlake feat. Timbaland & T.I. - My Love Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland - Promiscuous

Update: The Pursuit of Happyness nabbed third in the international box office grosses, reinvigorated by South Korea's $1.9 million debut from 140 screens. Overall, the Will Smith drama had a $6.5 million weekend for a $124.7 million total. The Pursuit of Happyness could break the $300 million mark in terms of worldwide numbers when all is said and done. Domestic: $162.8 million Overseas: $124.7 million Total BO: $287.5 million

This track is that fire!! Hip-hop needs this track.

Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom

PLEASE, NO MORE SPICE GIRLS!!!