Jay Z & Kanye West created a high-end foreign rap album with Watch The Throne becoming the highest selling iTunes album in history beating out Coldplay with about 290,000 digital album sales it’s first week out.
Top 200 Album Sales (Top 10 Hip Hop/R&B)
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 1 | Jay-Z & Kanye West | Watch The Throne | 436,000 | 436,000 |
| 7 | Beyonce | 4 | 27,000 | 654,000 |
| 8 | Ace Hood | Blood, Sweat & Tears | 26,000 | 26,000 |
| 11 | Royce Da 5’9 & Eminem (Bad Meets Evil) | Hell: The Sequel | 23,000 | 444,000 |
| 21 | Gucci Mane & Waka Flocka Flame | Ferrari Boyz |
17,000 | 17,000 |
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 25 | Royce Da 5’9 | Success Is Certain | 16,000 | 16,000 |
| 38 | Big Sean | Finally Famous: The Album |
11,000 | 182,000 |
| 111 | Kanye West | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 3,900 | 1,191,000 |
| 178 | Wu-Tang | Legendary Weapons | 2,500 | 16,000 |
| 180 | Tyler, The Creator | Goblin | 2,400 | 102,000 |
Jeezy’s TM 101 Anniversary Concert at Highline Ballroom in NYC
Swizz Beats – who most recently appears on Jay-Z & Kanye West’s Watch The Throne– has been named Vice President of Creative Design and Global Marketing for British Car Company Lotus.
“The key is to infiltrate the market in a cool way,” said Swizzy in a clip of his first day on the job. His business philosophy centers on the idea that the key to success is for “things to happen organically.”
Which isn’t to say that Lotus is about to go into the woods and find their zen spirit animal. “They want flash,” Beatz continued – and flash is something this track slinger is definitely familiar with.
“Like Group Lotus, he means business: He’s a risk taker with considerable credentials, including music producer, rapper, designer and painter,” a Lotus rep said in a statement. “(He’s) the perfect man to add to the Lotus lineup.”
Maybach Music Group’s rising star Meek Mill drops his latest mixtape. #DREAMCHASERS
Features Rick Ross, Beanie Sigel, Young Chris and more… Produced by Jahlil Beatz and Lex Luger.
Mark Cuban, business mogul and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, once spent $110K at Club LIV in Miami. Last night, Jay-Z shattered that record by allegedly racking up a tab of $250K.
The gold Ace Of Spades bottles were flowing freely at the Watch The Throne release party, which reportedly cost hundreds of dollars and hours in line just to enter. Kanye was in Europe and couldn’t attend, but Hov made up for it by spending an absurd amount and even copping one of those massive $100k 15 liter bottles of Ace of Spade at one point.
DJ Clue, Stevie J and Don P supplied music for the event, and sources say that VIP treatment for the night was starting at $20K.
Google just announced that it is acquiring Motorola Mobility. The search and online advertising company is buying the company for approximately $12.5 billion (or $40 per share), in cash. The price represents a premium of 63 percent to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares last Friday. Google had about $39 billion in cash at last count.
In a blog post, Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page writes that Google has acquired Motorola not only because of its strength in Android smartphones and devices, but also for being a “market leader in the home devices and video solutions business.”
It’s also a move to build up the company’s patent portfolio, he adds, as it will “enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies”.
According to Motorola Mobility’s website, the company holds approximately 14,600 granted patents and 6,700 pending patent applications, worldwide, as of January 2011.
Spotted: Forbes
This week Jay-Z and Kanye West unveiled their long-awaited collaboration, Watch the Throne. The album’s timing and title couldn’t have been more appropriate—the Empire State of Mind rapper is hip-hop’s top earner with $37 million in the past 12 months, claiming his fourth Cash Kings crown in five years; his partner-in-rhyme ranked third.
1. Jay-Z $37 million
2. Sean “Diddy” Combs $37 million
3. Kanye West $16 million
4. DeWayne “Lil Wayne” Carter $15 million
5. Bryan “Birdman” Williams $15 million
6. Marshall “Eminem” Mathers $14 million
7. Calvin “Snoop Dogg” Broadus $14 million
8. Andre “Dr. Dre” Young $14 million
9. Aliuane “Akon” Thiam $13 million
Young Jizzle drops new visual for “Win” off the TM 103
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