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Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 9/30/2012

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October 3, 2012
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#5. Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1 – 89,000 (89,000)

#7. G.O.O.D. Music – Cruel Summer – 55,000 (261,000)

#25. 2 Chainz – Based On A T.R.U. Story – 15,000 (303,000)

#44. Rick Ross – God Forgives, I Don’t – 9,300 (417,000)

#80. Nas – Life Is Good – 4,700 (305,000)

#90. DMX – Undisputed – 7,500 (25,000)

#101. Slaughterhouse – welcome to: Our House – 3,700 (80,000)

#123. Brother Ali – Mourning In America And Dreaming In Color – 3,100 (14,000)

#146. Murs & Fashawn – This Generation – 2,700 (2,700)

#188. Tech N9ne – E.B.A.H. – 2,100 (16,000)

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

Weekend Box Office: September 28-30, 2012

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October 1, 2012
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Title/ Weekend Gross (in millions usd $$$)

  1. Hotel Transylvania  $42.5 m
  2. Looper $20.8 m
  3. End of Watch  $7.8 m
  4. Trouble with the Curve  $7.2 m
  5. House at the End of The Street  $7.1 m
  6. Pitch Perfect  $5.1 m
  7. Finding Nemo (3D)  $4 m
  8. Resident Evil: Retribution $2.9 m
  9. The Master  $2.6 m
  10. Won’t Back Down  $2.6 m

Spike Lee : My Big Break

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September 30, 2012
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Legendary filmmaker and professor Spike Lee talks about how he starting shooting film and how he created epic advertising campaigns with Michael Jordan in the 80s.

“Find something you Love!” 

–Spike Lee

Disney World has spent $2.5 million to influence Florida elections so far this cycle; 90% to Republicans

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September 28, 2012
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Disney World has spent $2.5 million to influence Florida elections so far this cycle; 90% to Republicans | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

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Walt Disney World has spent nearly $2.5 million on political candidates and causes in Florida so far this election cycle, according to an Orlando Sentinel review of state records, as the giant resort attempts to influence elections from the Keys to the Panhandle.

 

Disney’s political spending in Florida has ballooned to unprecedented levels: It has spent nearly twice as much money as it had at this same point during the 2010 elections, and it has spent about six times as much as it did during the entire 2008 cycle.

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Hong Kong Tycoon Offers $65 Million To Find Husband For Lesbian Daughter

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September 28, 2012
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HONG KONG — The daughter of a flamboyant Hong Kong tycoon — who has offered $65 million to any man who can woo her away from her lesbian partner — said she’s not upset with her father. Still, it’s unlikely she will be accepting any of the marriage proposals flooding in.

Cecil Chao made world headlines this week when he offered the unusual marriage bounty after learning that his daughter, Gigi Chao, had eloped with her partner to France.

Hong Kong decriminalized homosexuality in 1991, but it does not legally recognize same-sex marriage.

Cecil Chao is the chairman of Hong Kong property developer Cheuk Nang Holdings and has a reputation for being a playboy.

He once claimed to have had 10,000 girlfriends but has never married. Read More

Jaden “The Coolest”

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September 26, 2012
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Directed + Edited by Mike Vargas for Nuyorktricity
Vocals Produced + Music provided by Omarr Rambert for Stoopid Robots

Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 9/23/2012

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September 26, 2012
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Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 9/23/2012

#2. G.O.O.D. Music – Cruel Summer – 205,000 (206,000)

#22. 2 Chainz – Based On A T.R.U. Story – 17,000 (288,000)

#30. Tech N9ne – E.B.A.H. – 14,000 (14,000)

#41. Lecrae – Gravity – 11,000 (103,000)

#43. Brother Ali – Mourning In America And Dreaming In Color – 10,000 (10,000)

#46. Rick Ross – God Forgives, I Don’t– 10,000 (408,000)

#55. DMX – Undisputed – 7,500 (25,000)

#74. Nas – Life Is Good – 5,800 (301,000)

#83. Slaughterhouse –  welcome to: Our House – 5,000 (76,000)

#104. Kreayshawn – Something ‘Bout Kreay – 3,900 (3,900)

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

Controversial Call Costs Oddmakers Millions

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September 25, 2012
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Gambling expert RJ Bell of Las Vegas-based Pregame.com says he thinks two-thirds of bets worldwide were on the Packers, and that sports books took in at least $150 million because of this call.

The NFL upheld the Seahawks’ disputed 14-12 win over the Packers and resumed meetings with its locked-out officials.  This may have been the worst call in NFL History.

Weekend Box Office: September 21-23, 2012

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September 24, 2012
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Title  / Weekend Gross (in millions usd)

  1. End of Watch  $13.1 m
  2. House at the End of The Street  $12.2 m
  3. Trouble with the Curve  $12.1 m
  4. Finding Nemo  $9.6 m
  5. Resident Evil: Retribution $6.7 m
  6. Dredd  $6.2 m
  7. The Master  $4.3 m
  8. The Possession  $2.6 m
  9. ParaNorman  $2.3 m
  10. Lawless  $2.2 m

Billie Joe of Green Day “I’m Not F*ckin Justin Bieber” @ i Heart Radio Music Festival

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September 22, 2012
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Green Day had their set cut from 45 min to 20 min at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, so that Usher could perform.  Billie Joe gets mad and smashes guitar.

Monica Lewinsky to get $12 million For Memoir

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September 22, 2012
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Monica Lewinsky, 39,  the White House intern who performed philatio on the president has been shopping her memoirs for a few weeks. According to the New York Post, she has apparently sold it for $12 million to an unnamed publisher.

Wowzers! $12 million for a story about a blow job?

Universal Music Group acquires EMI for $1.6 Billion

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September 21, 2012
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Vivendi’s Universal Music Group won European and U.S. approval for its $1.9 billion purchase of EMI’s recorded music business on Friday, with the EU requiring the company to sell labels that account for about a third of the British company’s revenues.