source: Forbes
1. Lady Gaga earnings: $90 million
2. Oprah Winfrey net worth: $2.7 billion earnings: $90 million
3. Justin Beiber earnings: $53 million
4. U2 earnings: $195 million
5. Elton John earnings: $100 million
6. Tiger Woods earnings: $75 million
7. Taylor Swift earnings $45 million
8. Bon Jovi earnings: $125 million
9. Simon Cowell earnings: $90 million
10. Lebron James earnings: $48 million
Harold Camping, the 89-year-old Family Radio founder, a California-based religious broadcasting network that spans more than 150 outlets in the United States, is predicting the world is going to end May 21, 2011.
Robert Fitzpatrick, a 60-year-old ex-MTA employee has dropped down $140,000, his life savings, to help spread the word that the world will end on May 21, 2011.
“I’m trying to warn people about what’s coming,” Fitzpatrick told the Daily News. “People who have an understanding [of end times] have an obligation to warn everyone.”
Fitzpatrick spent his money on 1,000 placards on subway cars and several more on bus shelters around the city. They read: “Global Earthquake! The Greatest Ever – Judgment Day: May 21.”
The retiree’s beliefs are based on the predictions made by Harold Camping, who claims the rapture will take place on May 21. Fitzpatrick said the cataclysmic event will happen just before 6 p.m. Eastern.
Don H. Barden was born in Inkster, MI and started up his first business with only $500 in the 1960s, a record store where he began promoting bands and booking shows. From this humble entrepreneurial beginning Barden made it into the cable industry, eventually achieving success as the first African American cable-company owner in Detroit, MI.
In 2002 Barden took possession of the Fitzgeralds casinos. One was based in Tunica, Mississippi, another in Black Hawk, Colorado, and the third in downtown Las Vegas. With the Las Vegas casino Barden became the city’s first African American casino owner.
Barden Companies, with over four thousand employees, earned $347 million in 2002, 90 percent of which came from Barden’s four casinos, his Tunica-based casino being the most profitable.
Don Barden showed that he had great negotiating skills, whether for real estate or for licenses for new technology, and was a risk taker. With each new acquisition he gained more experience, and he continually used his new skills to move his companies forward.
Barden passed away on Thursday, May 19, 2011 of Lung Cancer in Detroit, MI.
R.I.P. Don Barden a true #GWOPSTAR and inspiration for GWOP Magazine.
(Don Barden pictured above with Bella Marshall and former Boxing champ Tommy Hearns)
*sidenote: We would like to see Terrance Howard playing a lead role as Barden in a biopic of his life.
via HipHopDX
* Please note: figures below approximated to nearest thousandth.
Top 200 Album Sales (Top 10 Hip Hop/R&B)
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 3 | Lonely Island | Turtleneck & Chain | 68,000 | 68,000 |
| 5 | Tyler, the Creator | Goblin | 45,000 | 46,000 |
| 6 | Beastie Boys | Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2 | 42,000 | 170,000 |
| 14 | Rapheal Saadiq | Stone Rollin’ | 21,000 | 22,000 |
| 17 | Bruno Mars | Doo-Wops & Hooligans | 20,000 | 1,017,000 |
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 22 | Wiz Khalifa | Rolling Papers |
16,000 | 387,000 |
| 41 | Lupe Fiasco | Lasers | 11,000 | 379,000 |
| 45 | Eminem | Recovery | 10,000 | 3,853,000 |
| 83 | Lil Wayne | I Am Not A Human Being | 5,700 | 877,000 |
| 197 | Jim Jones | Capo | 2,500 | 45,000 |
After ten years of illegal file-sharing, LimeWire and its founder Mark Gorton have agreed to compensate the RIAA $105 million.
LimeWire was shut down by the RIAA in federal court over copyright infringement claims.
The case has finally been wrapped up with a jury deciding on damages against the service. The jury in this case opted to arrange a settlement between LimeWire and the RIAA legal team, which would call for LimeWire to pay $10,808 USD per track for the 9,715 tracks the RIAA claimed LimeWire infringed, for a total fine of $105M USD.
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Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy Internet phone company Skype Technologies SA for $8.5 billion in cash- the most aggressive move yet by Microsoft to play in the increasingly converged worlds of communication, information and entertainment.
Buying Skype would give Microsoft a potentially valuable communications tool as it tries to make a bigger impact on the Internet and become a bigger force in the smartphone market.
The sellers include eBay and private equity firms Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz.
Skype has about 663 million users worldwide. According to documents, Skype users made 207 billion minutes of voice and video calls last year.
Most people use Skype’s free calling services, which has made it difficult for the service to make money since entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis started the company in 2003
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Title Weekend Gross Budget
1. Thor $65.7 million $150 million
2. Fast Five $32.5 million $125 million
3. Jumping the Broom $15.2 million $6.6 million
4. Something Borrowed $13.9 million $35 million
5. Rio $8.5 million $90 million
With the NBA Playoffs amongst us GWOP Magazine staff has compiled a list of the best professional athletes who have had a successful Music career. You at least need a music video to have made the list. Check the full list after the jump.
Watch X Factor vs. Tsu Surf in New York:
spotted: latimes
Access Industries, a holding company founded by oil baron Len Blavatnik (pictured above), won the auction to buy Warner Music Group Corp. for $3.3 billion in cash, the companies announced Friday morning. Blavatnik edged out more than a dozen other biddors including Sony Music Group, supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, Platinum Equity, Live Nation Entertainment and investment firm Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts, whose unsolicited offer late last year kicked off the auction process. Warner Music Group is the home of artists such as Green Day, Metallica and Bruno Mars.
Elite models are prospering as consumers continue to purchase luxury goods. Checkout the list of highest paid super models in the World. Pictured below is Gisele Bundchen, a Brazilian model and occasional film actress. See what other super models made the list. You won’t see any bra and pantie MySpace posing avatar pics on this list. Full List after the jump.
spotted at: Forbes
spotted: HipHopDX
*Please note: figures below approximated to nearest thousandth.
Top 200 Album Sales (Top 10 Hip Hop/R&B)
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 6 | Chris Brown | F.A.M.E. | 28,000 | 513,000 |
| 9 | Wiz Khalifa | Rolling Papers | 24,000 | 352,000 |
| 13 | Bruno Mars | Doo-Wops & Hooligans | 23,000 | 972,000 |
| 14 | Rihanna | Loud | 22,000 | 1,231,000 |
| 27 | Nicki Minaj | Pink Friday | 13,000 | 1,342,000 |
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 95 | Cam’ron & Vado | Gunz N’ Butta |
4,400 | 12,000 |
| 99 | DJ Quik | The Book of David | 4,200 | 14,000 |
| 104 | Atmosphere | The Family Sign | 4,200 | 39,000 |
| 143 | T.I. | No Mercy | 3,200 | 502,000 |
| 161 | Rick Ross | Teflon Don | 3,000 | 615,000 |
