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#22. Drake – Take Care – 15,900 (1,651,973)

#31. Tyga – Careless World: Rise of the Last King – 12,400 (169,432)

#34. Odd Future – OF Tape Vol.2 – 11,900 (52,000)

#35. Diggy – Unexpected Arrival – 11,500 (32,900)

#41. Young Jeezy – TM 103: Hustlerz Ambition – 9,900 (540,000)

#42. E-40 – Block Brochure: Welcome To The Soil 1,2 & 3 – 9,500 (9,500)

#56. ¡MAYDAY! – Take Me To Your Leader – 5,400 (5,400)

#156. DJ Premier & Bumpy Knuckles – Kolexxxion – 3,000 (3,000)

* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.


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(Reuters)

YouTube announced a movie rental partnership with Paramount Pictures on Wednesday, despite the online video website’s long-running litigation with Paramount parent company Viacom Inc.

YouTube said it would offer online rentals of nearly 500 Paramount films, including “Hugo” and “The Godfather,” rounding out its growing catalog of feature-length movies.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed and it was not immediately clear why the two companies, whose parent companies have sparred in court for years, decided to put their differences aside for this licensing agreement.
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Since Instagram’s iPhone app hit the App Store in October 2010, Android users have been patiently — and in some cases, not so patiently — awaiting a version for their phones. That day has finally come: Instagram for Android is now available for free download over at Google Play, Google’s store for apps, ebooks and other media.

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom announced at SXSW in March that the long-awaited Android version of Instagram was on the way. He teased the version on stage, but didn’t provide a demo. A signup page allowing Android users to be notified when the app went live was posted later in the month.

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Don Trip drops an official video for “Like Me”, off his Gangsta Grillz mixtape “Guerrilla”. Directed by Joe Yung Spike.

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Less than a year after his death, the life of technology guru and Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs will be honored in an upcoming independent biopic entitled “Jobs” starring Ashton Kutcher.

The TV and movie actor, who bears a striking resemblance to a young Jobs, is slated to begin filming the movie in May during his hiatus from “Two and a Half Men.” The plan is to begin production before a rival film, based on writer Walter Isaacson’s lauded Jobs biography, gets off the ground. Jobs died on October 5, 2011.

“Jobs” will be directed by Joshua Michael Stern (“Swing Vote”) and will chronicle Jobs’ rise from a Northern California hippie upbringing to the co-founding of Apple, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Andy Fields, on vacation in Las Vegas from the UK, may have hit an unreliable jackpot in form of an original Andy Warhol sketch. Fields picked up the work, by a then 10-year old Warhol, for just $5 from a “drug user.” The seller, improbably, also offered some history of the drawing suggesting that his aunt used to babysit the famous artist. If real, this rare work of art could be worth millions. [Art Info]

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Chairman of The RLJ Companies and founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), Robert “Bob” Johnson announced today that his company has entered into an agreement to acquire Image Entertainment and Acorn Media Group, (two highly separate media businesses), to create one of the largest independent distributors of digital and video content in the world. The new company name will be RLJ Entertainment. Read More

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A group of local investors agreed on Monday to buy Philadelphia Media Network Inc., the parent company of The Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com, for $55 million with an additional $10 million in working capital for operations. The deal represents the fourth ownership change for the media properties in less than six years.

Led by businessman Lewis Katz, 70, and insurance executive and Democratic leader George E. Norcross III, 56, the group has agreed to buy PMN from a collection of hedge funds and other financial firms that have owned the daily newspapers and their related website since they emerged from bankruptcy in October 2010.
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Shawn Carter better known as Jay Z has come a long way from 5C. And for his new Roc-A-Wear commercial, he journey’s from Marcy projects to the opening of the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, where his NBA team, Brooklyn Nets are scheduled to play.