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- All that verbal sparring with 50 Cent seems to has paid off: Rick Ross is in line for his third consecutive Number One album as the rapper’s Deeper Than Rap is on pace for 160,000 copies sold. Asher Roth’s Asleep in the Bread Aisle and Depeche Mode’s Sounds of the Universe are battling it out as the week’s second-biggest debut, Billboard.biz reports.
- Lord of the Rings star Andy Serkis has been cast to play Ian Dury in an upcoming biopic of the British rocker titled Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. According to Variety, the film about the “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick” singer will also star Toby Jones, Ray Winstone, Olivia Williams and Mackenzie Crook of the original The Office.
- Record Store Day helped independent shops sell roughly 566,000 albums on April 18th, a one percent boost over the previous year’s totals, Billboard.biz reports. The one percent might seem small, but considering that album sales overall were down 15 percent over the same week last year, the haul was impressive. Additionally, 80,000 vinyl albums were sold, double the amount moved on last year’s Day.
- Bob Marley’s “One Love” was named Jamaica’s best song in the last 50 years, Reuters reports.
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