- Considering Jay-Z will battle relatively uncontested for the top spot on next week’s Billboard chart, it’s safe to assume Hova will likely tie Elvis Presley for the most number one records, with ten. Currently, the rapper is tied at nine with the Rolling Stones (the Beatles top the list with nineteen). To help ensure people go out and buy the American Gangster-inspired American Gangster, Jay-Z will not put his new album on iTunes: “As movies are not sold scene by scene, this collection will not be sold as individual singles,” he says.
- Perhaps assisted by Slash’s fake shredding in their commercials, Guitar Hero III made $100 million its first seven days of release. The question now is, will fans still have money left over for Rock Band, which is out later this month.
- The man accused of putting a noose on the Tupac Shakur statue in Atlanta was officially charged with second-degree criminal damage to property, a felony, for the October 1st incident. The suspect, a very confused African-American named Kenneth Anthony Wilson, will not be charged with a hate crime because police felt there is “no reason to believe the crime was motivated by race.”
- Pete Doherty, back on smack? U.K.’s The Sun has posted a video of recently rehabbed Doherty cooking and shooting up from this weekend. In the video, the Babyshambles guitarist is seen wearing the same clothes he wore to the MTV Europe Music Awards, just hours after telling reporters he’s drug-free. To quote Doherty’s publicist, “He’s been a very foolish boy.”
- According to studies, nearly 62 percent of people who downloaded Radiohead’s In Rainbows didn’t pay a cent for it. Of the 38 percent that paid, the majority shelled out less than two pounds. Only 4 percent paid more than $12 for the MP3s. The “study” does not take into account people who may have purchased the $80 discbox, however.
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