That sounds like a sitcom. Or a cartoon. Like “Pinky & the Brain”. Right? Anyway, Usher scores his third consecutive #1 debut. “Raymond vs. Raymond” enters the Billboard 200 Albums chart at the top, with 329,000 copies sold. It’s the third highest debut of the year, behind Sade and Lady Antebellum. However, it’s also about 100,000 copies less than Usher’s last album, “Here I Stand”, started with in 2008. This number was juiced by a number of factors including a […]
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Chartstalker 3/31/10: Bieber Fever
Hey, that almost rhymes, right? As expected, teen idol Justin Bieber opens up at the top of the Billboard album charts with “My World 2.0”. The 16 year old Canuck starts with 283,000 copies. He is the youngest male artist to top the Billboard album charts since Stevie Wonder back in 1963. Pretty damn impressive, if you ask me. The top 3 albums this week are all debuts. Former teen idol Monica takes the runner up spot with her fifth […]
The Queen of R&B Videos Returns: Erykah Badu's "Window Seat"
Seriously, who in R&B is making the best videos right now? Hint, her last name ain’t Knowles. Teasing the second volume of her “New Amerykah” series, which comes out this coming Tuesday, Erykah Badu has blessed us with the video for the album’s first official single, “Window Seat”. While the song itself might be the most R&B radio-palatable thing she’s recorded in at least half a decade (not necessarily a bad thing), the video is, as one should expect from […]
Erykah Badu's "Jump in the Air": I Have a Headache
My excitement about Erykah Badu’s “New Amerykah Part 2: Return of the Ankh” (which is due on March 30th) was tempered by the fact that Lil Wayne was gonna be appearing on the album’s first single. I was more than a little disappointed that someone who had such a strong stance about artistic integrity would pull a sellout move and align herself with the hot rapper of the moment, ostensibly just to have a hit single. Having heard “Jump in […]