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Jay-Z’s Platinum Status in Perspective

In Art, fame, Hip Hop, History, Music, News, Opinion, R&B, 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 1 comment

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 [...]

King of Pop Scores FIVE Posthumous American Music Award Nominations

In Art, fame, Hip Hop, History, MJ, Music, News, R&B, radio, TV on 13 October 2009 tagged AMA, AMAs, American Music Awards, Beyoncé, Black Eyed Peas, Day26, Drake, Fearless, Gloriana, Green Day, Idolator, Jeremih, Keri Hilson, Keyshia Cole, Kid Cudi, King of Pop, Kings of Leon, Lady GaGa, Michael Jackson, MJ, MJJ, Number Ones, Shinedown, Taylor Swift, Zac Brown Band with no comments

Obviously we’re rooting for the King of Pop to sweep the awards, because no matter what, he was the biggest force in American pop music this year. Also, even in death the King of Pop’s decades old hits managed to outshine the newest most glossy productions of today’s pop stars: POP/ROCK Favorite Male Artist Eminem [...]

MTV’s VMA Nominations Getting Better, But Still Terrible as a Whole

In fame, Hip Hop, Music, News, Opinion, R&B, TV on 4 August 2009 tagged 2009 Video Music Awards, A.R. Rahman, Asher Roth, Bjork, Britney Spears, Cobra Starship, D.O.A., Death of Autotune, Dr. Dre, Drake, eminem, Everlong, Flo Rida, Foo Fighters, Francis Lawrence, Freedom '90, George Michael, Good Girls Go Bad, Green Day, Heads Will Roll, Human Behavior, Jai Ho, Jake Nava, Jay-Z, Jonas Akerlund, Kai Regan, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Kings of Leon, Lady GaGa, Major Lazer, Marc Webb, Miss Independent, Mr. Hudson, MTV, Ne-Yo, Nominations, Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang, Paranoid, Passion Pit, Pussycat Dolls, rihanna, T.I., U2, Use Somebody, VMA, VMA Nominations, Where The Streets Have No Name, Yeah Yeah Yeahs with 2 comments

This year’s Video Music Award nominations actually boast some great pop videos: Gnarls Barkley’s Whose Gonna Save My Soul, Lady Gaga’s Paparazzi, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Heads Will Roll, and essentially the entire Breakthrough Video cateogry, unfortunately, many of these videos were nominated in the wrong categories. Though Eminem’s We Made You and Britney Spears’ [...]