2 and sold 1.6 million copies overall.Įvanescence’s “Fallen” (Wind-Up) slips 4-7 in its 25th week on the chart, with a sales slide of just 2% to 74,000 copies. Most major retailers positioned the CD and the DVD together in stores, with Best Buy even selling the disc for a substantial discount to customers who bought the film. Sales were down 12% to 94,000 copies in the album’s sixth week on the chart, its first to fall below the 100,000 mark.īenefiting from the film’s release on DVD, Epic’s “Chicago” soundtrack bolts 99-6 in its 32nd week. The Bad Boy/Universal soundtrack to “Bad Boys II” is pushed down 3-5 with the new arrivals. That nearly matches the to-date total of his 2001 effort “I’m Serious,” which peaked at No. earns his best week on The Billboard 200 with his sophomore effort, “Trap Muzik” (Grand Hustle/Atlantic). The new single “Let’s Get Down” featuring Baby is in the top-30 of the Hot 100.
11 and has sold 1.1 million copes to date. His 2002 effort, “Doggy Bag,” debuted at No. Despite the tumble on the big chart, Jackson’s collection leads Billboard’s Top Country Albums roundup for the second-straight week.īow Wow’s third album, “Unleashed” (Sony), his first without the “Lil” prefix, gives the teenage rapper his highest debut on The Billboard 200. Sales of that set were down 51% to 158,000 copies, bringing the album’s two-week total to 486,000 units. II” ( Arista Nashville), which falls to No. “Clones” replaces last week’s chart topper, Alan Jackson’s “Greatest Hits Vol. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, boasts an all-star cast of Dirt McGirt, Clipse, Foxy Brown and Busta Rhymes, among others, and features the Hot 100’s top-10 smash “Frontin'” from the Neptunes’ Pharrell Williams and Jay-Z. “Star Trak Presents… Clones” sold 249,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan, and leads seven albums into the top-20. “Hot Damn,” Clipse featuring Ab-Liva, Pharrell, and Rosco P.The first release from the Neptunes’ Arista-affiliated label Star Trak is also its first to top The Billboard 200.
“Frontin,” Pharrell Williams featuring Jay-Z Here is the tentative tracklist for “Clones” (order to be determined): Hugo and Williams are also squeezing in production work on Britney Spears’ next Jive studio set, of which Hugo will say only, “we have some ideas but it’s just a matter of going in and doing it.” N*E*R*D will play dates this summer on the Sprite Liquid Mix tour, backed by Spymob. I don’t really even play guitar or bass but I’ve picked it up along the way. “This time around, most of the record, we’ll program things and play them ourselves. “The last album, we had Spymob help us,” he says. Meanwhile, N*E*R*D is “about 40%” through with its sophomore studio album, which will find Hugo and Williams playing the instruments themselves. Everyone sings ‘We Are the Champions,’ but this is ‘We Are the Champions’ and ‘Dr. Someone said we should submit it to the Olympics. As for “Loser,” Hugo enthuses, “to me, that is a stadium anthem. “It’s on a classic R&B tip, mixed with our version of Michael Jackson today,” Hugo says of the song. Usher’s track, “Sweet Lies,” may wind up being a duet. “We’re open to working with him more,” he offers. The Neptunes recorded at least one other song with McGirt (who was recently released from jail) but Hugo is hesitant to reveal further details. Hugo describes the song featured on “Clones,” titled “Operator,” as “an attempt to bring him back to the essence of ‘Brooklyn Zoo,’ where you get an adrenaline rush when you listen to it.” Hugo says he is particularly excited to be working again with McGirt, whose 1999 Elektra album “Nigga Please” featured production by the Neptunes. The Neptunes’ band, N*E*R*D, contributes the new track “Loser,” while Neptunes member Pharrell Williams offers the solo cut “Frontin,” featuring Jay-Z. We produced everything here.”Īmong the artists slated to appear are Dirt McGirt (formerly Ol’ Dirty Bastard), Usher, Clipse, Foxy Brown, Kelis, Busta Rhymes, Spymob, and up-and-coming Star Trak signees Rosco P. It’s a compilation to wave the flag and let people know about the label. 5, “Star Trak Presents… Clones” is described by Neptunes principal Chad Hugo as “our official stamp album. Ubiquitous production team the Neptunes is working on a star-studded compilation featuring artists from its Star Trak label.
0 kommentar(er)
