Title/ Weekend Gross (in millions USD $$$)
- Underworld Awakening $25.3 m
- Red Tails $18 m
- Contraband $12.2 m
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close $10 m
- Beauty & the Beast (3D) $8.7 m
Weekend @ The Box Office: January 20-22 2012
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The First Album Recorded Entirely on the iPhone
Alabama-based rock band One Like Son wanted to challenge themselves when they returned to the “studio” to record their third album after a 10-year music hiatus. So on Jan. 1, 2010, band frontman Stephen Poff vowed to spend the year recording a new set of songs solely with iPhone track apps.
“I feel this is one of our best sounding recordings,” Poff said. In the past, Poff recorded two albums the traditional way – in a studio using condenser microphones, hard disc systems, amps, cables, patchbays and other accessories.
According to Poff, recording tracks using only applications was much more difficult than he anticipated. His previous iPhone-recording experience only involved experimenting on basic four-track applications that allows users to record, then overlay four tracks of music to play together.
The 11-track album was finished right before the new year on Dec. 31, 2011. Read More
Weekend @ The Box Office: January 13-15
Title/ Weekend Gross (in Millions USD $$$)
- Contraband $24.5 m
- Beauty and The Beast (3D) $17 m
- Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol $11.7 m
- Joyful Noise $11.2 m
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows $8.6 m
Wikipedia Blackout: Websites Wikipedia, Reddit, Others Go Dark Wednesday to Protest SOPA, PIPA
Google, Twitter Also Protest Bills Meant to Protect Movies and Music From Online Piracy
Source: ABC
Wikipedia will go dark all day Jan. 18, 2012, along with Reddit and Boing Boing as a protest to the SOPA and PIPA bills from Congress.
Do not try to look up “Internet Censorship” or “SOPA” or “PIPA” on Wikipedia, the giant online encyclopedia, on Wednesday.
SOPA and PIPA are two bills in Congress meant to stop the illegal copying and sharing of movies and music on the Internet, but major Internet companies say the bills would put them in the impossible position of policing the online world.
Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, now says his site will go dark for the day on Wednesday, joining a budding movement to protest the two bills.
“This is going to be wow,” Wales said on Twitter. “I hope Wikipedia will melt phone systems in Washington on Wednesday. Tell everyone you know!” Read More
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Monster Will No Longer Make Beats by Dre Headphones
TheVerge reports:
Beats audio has become a pretty familiar brand around these parts: in addition to the ubiquitous headphones, the company has licensed its brand to HP and is majority owned by HTC — both of which manufacture an increasing number of Beats-branded products. Regardless, it’s the headphones that built the brand, and the future of who will be manufacturing them is a little more cloudy today as Beats and Monster will not be renewing their contract.
Sources told Business Week that the split happened because of a disagreement over (what else?) money and credit, with each company believing it deserved more of both. Read More
Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 1/8/2012
#2. Drake – Take Care – 42,000 (1,289,000)
#4. Young Jeezy – TM 103: Hustler’s Ambition – 36,000 (337,000)
#6. Rihanna – Talk That Talk – 27,000 (541,000)
#8. LMFAO – Sorry For Party Rocking – 25,000 (549,000)
#17. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter IV – 17,000 (1,934,000)
#19. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne – 17,000 (1,248,000)
#38. J. Cole – Cole World: The Sideline Story – 9,600 (508,000)
#40. Common – The Dreamer / The Believer – 9,500 (98,000)
#69. The Roots – undun – 6,400 (101,000)
#90. Childish Gambino – Camp – 4,900 (104,000)
* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.
Weekend @ The Box Office: January 6-8, 2012
Title/ Weekend Gross (in millions usd $$$)
1. The Devil Inside $33.7
2. Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol $19.8
3. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows $13.6
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) $11.3
5. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked $9.4
Throwback Video of the Day: Jay-Z “Blue Magic”
1st single, off Jigga Man’s 10th studio album American Gangster (2007).
In unrelated news, Congrats 2 Jay & Beyonce on new baby girl Blue Ivy (pictured below)
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