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Author: GG

  • Taylor Swift Puts Up Huge First Week Numbers

    Is Taylor Swift pop music’s biggest star?

    Check out my man Big Money Mike’s Chart Stalker post for this week:

    Well, reports immediately started flying around suggesting that Taylor would come close to the coveted million mark, and now the dust has settled for the week, and Swift scores the biggest debut week for an album in half a decade. “Speak Now” starts with nearly 1.05 million units, EASILY making it this week’s #1 album.

    Mike goes on to note that Swift is only the second female artist to sell at least one million albums in the first week of release. Britney Spears performed the trick with her second album, at a time when many more albums were being sold weekly.

    So who is pop music’s biggest current star? Eminem? Lil’ Wayne? I still go with Swift. She reaches so many different demographics, including the one that is most important when the goal is to sell albums. She reaches the music buying audience.

  • MC Hammer Tries To Diss Jay-Z

    MC Hammer is many things. He seems like a fun dude. He’s all about his family. He was so hot at one time that if you ask non-rap fans to name a rapper, they may still drop his name. But a battle MC he’s not.

    He seems to be frustrated with Jay-Z for a rhyme that mentioned his name in a Kanye West Good Friday track called So Appalled. When I first heard the rhyme, I wondered if Hammer would respond or even care, and it looks like he cared a lot.

    Here was Jay-Z’s original rhyme:

    And Hammer went broke so you know I’m more focused. I lost 30 mil so I spent another 30. ‘Cause unlike Hammer 30 million can’t hurt me.

    Hammer has been calling Jay-Z “hell boy” for whatever reason. And now he’s trying to call himself King Hammer. I guess that’s a shot at Jay-Z’s King Hov title. They call me King Hov copy?

    If you look closely at the video, you’ll see MMA fighters Brenden Schaub and Nate Marquardt who Hammer is now managing.

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  • New Video – Willow Smith’s Whip My Hair

    I doubt this surprises anyone, but Willow Smith, daughter of Will and Jada, and sister to Jaden, has talent. We don’t know how much just yet based off this song (and video), but she’ll definitely get every chance in the world to show it.

    If you’re wondering where Willow got her pretty decent voice, well, mother Jada has a nice voice. Jada isn’t going to break it down for you Mary J. Blige style, but she did sing the hook on one of her husband’s songs, which took the premise from an old Luther Vandross single.

    Based on the video, the kid has a lot of the confidence of her old man in her. Check out the video for Whip My Hair:

    Update: The video is back up.