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  • Chart Chat 11/16/08: Rihanna, Snow Patrol, Kanye & More!

    Man, is it hard to get excited about the charts when they change so little from week to week. Here’s what we’ve got going on this week. All charts are listed courtesy of the good folks at Billboard Magazine.

    Top 20 Singles:

    01-Live Your Life (T.I. feat. Rihanna)
    02-Whatever You Like (T.I.)
    03-Hot N Cold (Katy Perry)
    04-Heartless (Kanye West)
    05-If I Were a Boy (Beyonce)
    06-So What (P!nk)
    07-Womanizer (Britney Spears)
    08-Let it Rock (Kevin Rudolf feat. Lil’ Wayne)
    09-I’m Yours (Jason Mraz)
    10-Right Now (Na Na Na) (Akon)
    11-Miss Independent (Ne-Yo)
    12-You Belong with Me (Taylor Swift)
    13-Love Lockdown (Kanye West)
    14-Love Story (Taylor Swift)
    15-Disturbia (Rihanna)
    16-Can’t Believe It (T-Pain feat. Lil’ Wayne)
    17-Mrs. Officer (Lil’ Wayne feat. Bobby Valentino)
    18-Better in Time (Leona Lewis)
    19-Gotta Be Somebody (Nickelback)
    20-Addicted (Saving Abel)

    Top 20 Albums

    01-Twilight Soundtrack (Various Artists)
    02-Black Ice (AC/DC)
    03-High School Musical 3: Senior Year Soundtrack (Various Artists)
    04-Take it to the Limit (Hinder)
    05-Funhouse (P!nk)
    06-Evolver (John Legend)
    07-Paper Trail (T.I.)
    08-Incanto (Andrea Bocelli)
    09-Play (Brad Paisley)
    10-Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (Rascal Flatts)
    11-The Renaissance (Q-Tip)
    12-Death Magnetic (Metallica)
    13-That Don’t Make Me a Bad Guy (Toby Keith)
    14-Rock ‘n Roll Jesus (Kid Rock)
    15-Lucky Old Sun (Kenny Chesney)
    16-Jennifer Hudson (Jennifer Hudson)
    17-My Love: the Essential Collection (Celine Dion)
    18-Year of the Gentleman (Ne-Yo)
    19-The Carter III (Lil’ Wayne)
    20-Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy & Peace (Yo-Yo Ma)

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  • Not Necessarily The News – Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Suge Knight

    I love the music gossip and braggadocio.

    The End Of Lupe?
    According to Billboard.com, Lupe Fiasco has stated before that his last album could be his next and that he will name it LupEND. And he even explained that END would mean everywhere, nowhere and down here. I thought END simply meant END.

    Big Boi Promises 3 Times The Outkast
    Big Boi promised a solo album for each he and Andre 3000 as well as an Outkast album before the year is over based on an article on MTV.com. That’s great news except release dates are so tricky that when you wet the appetite of fans, it’s easy to disappoint when something happens and the albums get pushed back. But that’s not even the best part of the article. Big Boi says that his album will be called Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty. I guess Speakerboxxx 2: Da Return was taken.

    Suge Knight Blames Kanye
    It’s quite odd to me that Suge Knight is suing Kanye West if this SOHH article is correct. He was harmed at a party that Kanye hosted before the 2005 VMAs. He’s suing Kanye for the price of the diamond earring that he lost after being shot in the leg. Well, then Tupac’s estate should be able to sue Suge Knight since Pac was shot and killed in his car right? Eh, it’s not even important to bring up the past. But I just find it so frustratingly odd when things like this come out. Suge Knight isn’t really newsworthy, but then again, this ain’t necessarily the news.

    Photo of Lupe Fiasco by Drflet

  • John Legend’s Evolver: Can the Crooner Get Down?

    Photography by sry85.
    Photography by sry85.

    When it comes to smooth, mature soul music, John Legend is the man to beat. The protege of Kanye West, Legend (born John Stephens) has amassed strong sales, five Grammy Awards and critical kudos for his first couple of albums, Get Lifted and Once Again. He’s become known as the R&B singer you can take home to mom, a piano man in the mold of Lionel Richie and Brian McKnight. However, he’s also got a more pronounced hip-hop vibe and a wink-nudge, sly sexuality that’s a refreshing change from the crassness found in most R&B and hip-hop lyrics these days..

    Legend’s third album, Evolver, has been talked about as a departure. The spacy 80s synths of the bouncy first single Green Light certainly isn’t what you’d normally expect for the buttoned-up crooner, but a rap from the irrepressible Andre 3000 and the fun groove makes the song swing.. With Evolver finally in stores and online, two questions need to be asked. 1) Is the entire album a departure for John Legend, and 2) Can he make it work?

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