JAY-Z BEATS ELVIS

The numbers are in for Jay-Z's BP3 album & ya boy Hov is holding the #1 spot on top of the Billboard Top 200 Album Charts!




Blueprint 3 sold more than 470,000 copies in it's first week of sales, making Jay-Z the only solo artist to have the most #1 albums in history, surpassing the Rock & Roll pioneer/legend Elvis Presley & leaving him behind The Beatles!!




Men lie, women lie, numbers don't.




What a fete!!!

NY HIP HOP IS ALIVE

If you're trying to go to the Jay-Z concert at MSG this Friday, you're out of luck & will have to watch it via the TV like the rest of us!




The tickets went on sale today at 8AM for $50 a pop & sold out within 12 minutes!!!

Raekwon the Chef's Only Built For Cuban Linx 2 is out in stores today the same day as Hov's & surprisingly, it beat BP3 for the #1 spot on iTunes!





Hip hop fans stand up!!

G.I JOE GOES #1

G.I Joe: Rise Of The Cobra scored big in the box office opening weekend!



The action flick made $56.2 million which made it the fourth-largest August debut of any film ever & making it number one!

And for something that's way off topic, now I'm hearing that Paula Abdul could very well be taking a permanent seat at the judges table for Dancing with The Stars!



Now that's a perfect match.

A NY TIMES BESTSELLER STAR

Former The Hills reality TV star Lauren Conrad's book L.A Candy has topped the New York Times Bestseller List twice for consecutive weeks!

The starlet couldn't believe it herself saying that she never would've thought she'd be able to do such a fete!



L.A Candy is a fictional novel about a 19-year-old named Jane Roberts, who moves to Hollywood to star in her own reality show.



Familiar ey?!

"Some of the characters may symbolize people in my life," Lauren says, "but it is in no way calling anyone out."

Coolio! Congrats.

THE SIMPSONS & THE KING OF POP

Michael was a huge fan of The Simpsons. Who isnt???

Well The Simpsons will re-air the music video for Do the Bartman and a show title card in memory of Michael before this Sunday's episode at 8PM on Fox. Michael wrote the song for Bart and the single reached No.1 in the UK but was never released as single here in the US. The video however gained heavy rotation on MTV when it was out.

Do you guys remember the episode when Michael played Leon Kompowsky, a fat white mental patient that believed he was the Michael Jackson?? Homer met him when he was sent to the insane asylum for acting crazy at Barney's rehab session?? Well to refresh your memory here's a clip of the two in the psych ward.

And I know you all remember this song he and Bart sang for Lisa's birthday. Happy birthday Lisaaaaa, Lisa it's your birthdayyyyy. Sucha good melody!

I remember watching the episode and thinking that's not Michael singing, even though it sounded very close to it, but yet, that is Michael's voice when he was talking. I checked the credits at the end of the show to see if his name would appear but nope it didnt. I figure we all were bamboozled!

MJ loved the show, especially Bart so he decided write Do The Bartman and ultimately wrote the Happy Birthday Lisa song as well. He also asked for several script changes including him and Bart singing a song together and a line reference be changed from Prince to Elvis Presley (ironic?).

And it turns out that Michael couldn't be credited because of contract agreements with his label stating he couldn't sing for any other company as long as he was signed with them.

He did in fact voice himself, but a sound-alike would receive the credit. While Michael recorded the voice work for the character, all of his singing was performed by an impersonator because he wanted to play a joke on his brothers and fool them into thinking the impersonator was him!

Michael ended up recording his versions of the songs though and here's one for your ears:

Happy birthday Lisaaaaaa. Lisa it's your birthdayyyyyyyy.

Peace and love Mike.

BLACK EYED PEAS IS #1

The Black Eyed Peas’ new album The E.N.D. debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200 chart, moving an impressive 304,000 units its first week in stores.


The sales figures marks the best opening week ever for the Peas, who topped their 2005 release Monkey Business, which moved 291,000 units.


The Black Eyed Peas’ latest single I Gotta Feeling is currently sitting at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, right behind their own #1 single, Boom Boom Pow, which has held the top slot for 11 weeks in a row.



I didn't expect that! Congrats!