Posts Tagged ‘Entertainment Weekly’

Jay-Z’s Platinum Status in Perspective

In Art, Hip Hop, History, Music, News, Opinion, R&B, fame, radio on 14 October 2009 tagged 21st Century Breakdown, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly, Green Day, Leah Greenblatt, Live on the Inside, No Line on the Horizon, Sugarland, U2 with View Comments

Since Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 record setting debut five weeks ago, BNW has been tracking the album’s progress on the Billboard 200 Album chart. This week the album officially surpassed the platinum mark, and now we have this EW article to put the achievement into perspective. Pay attention to the big names who have yet [...]

Even With Lowest Sales in Weeks, Michael Jackson’s Number Ones Outsells Competition

In History, MJ, Music, News, R&B, fame on 13 August 2009 tagged Bad, Billboard 200, Billboard Charts, Entertainment Weekly, King of Pop, Live on the Inside, Michael Jackson, MJ, MJJ, Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen/Soundscan, Number Ones, Sugarland, Top Comprehensive Albums, Wal-Mart with View Comments

Sugarland‘s Billboard 200 Chart Topper: Sugarland takes No. 1 with Live on the Inside, a punnily-titled live CD/DVD that was sold exclusively at Wal-Mart. The number of shoppers who picked it up? Just 76,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Michael Jackson Outsells Competition Yet Again: Michael Jackson’s Number Ones, the greatest-hits set that keeps outperforming the [...]

Kal Penn to Work for White House

In DC, Film, News, Politics, comedy, fame, india on 7 April 2009 tagged Asian American, Barack Obama, Entertainment Weekly, Fox, Harold & Kumar, Indian-American, John Cho, kal penn, New York Daily News, Star Trek, White House, White House Office of Public Liaison with View Comments

Kal Penn has always seemed like an oddity – on one hand he is an astute cultural observer and on the other he has pandered to many media stereotypes about Indians and Muslims throughout his career, but now it seems as John Cho is preparing to board the Starship Enterprise, Penn is headed to the [...]