Back in the day Apple used to manufacture its products in America. These days? Not so much. Turn over any Apple device and it reads: “Designed In California. Assembled in China.” Those six words speak volumes as to how far American manufacturing and jobs, have fallen over the last three decades thanks to cheap labor […]
We all love our Apple products, even if we hate our Apple products. But what about Apple’s practices? Can we love those? How are these products made? More importantly, who made these iPods, iPhones, iPads and other “magical” devices? The answer is surprising if not chilling: 13-year-olds working upwards of 16 hours a day, that’s […]
Sales of the iPhone 4S were halted in China, after a riot broke out at an Apple store in Beijing yesterday. STORY: 50 Cent Launches SMS Audio, Wants To Feed The Hungry! According to reports, hundreds of people camped out overnight in freezing weather to get their hands on the new phone. But after the Apple […]
Eminem‘s Recovery album has been knocked down to number three on this weeks Billboard’s Top 10 list thanks to California girl Katy Perry and her Teenage Dream. Eminem reigned over the charts in that number one spot for eight weeks before Perry took it over with her sophmore album. According to Billboard Teenage Dream is […]
This week in record sales wasn’t the most exciting but definitely a good look for Hip Hop. Eminem still leads the charts with nearly 1.5 million albums sold. His newest album ‘Recovery’ was released less than a month ago & its already about go to go double platinum. Drake still holds a solid spot along […]
Eminem went platinum in his second week of being out. His new album ‘Recovery’ is way better than his last one & it created enough buzz to go platinum in two weeks. Drizzy Drake is still doing big numbers as well. PEEP BELOW: 1 EMINEM SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT 325,098 -57% RECOVERY 2 2 DRAKE YM/CASH MONEY/UNIV MOTOWN […]
Music sales for hip-hop are looking really good recently. Our leading men are on the charts. Drake released his album two weeks ago almost hitting 500,000 and he should finish up this week going over that number. Eminem released his album last week and already went gold plus more with 753,870. These two artists are […]
Greetings Grinders, For the last week, the world has anxiously awaited for the numbers that would measure if Young Money/Universal artist Drake was able to live up to all the hype. Well, the results are in: Drake’s debut album “Thank Me Later” sold 462,989 copies in its first week. Even though the album had been […]
Last week Plies dropped his 4th studio album ‘Goon Affiliated’ & there were questions on how much he would sell. All of Plies fans are women so we thought this one would sell like crazy like the other ones. This album didn’t do to hot with numbers the first week but Plies is an independent […]
Not many rap & R&B artist are on this list because of the lack of album releases last week from them. Nas & Damian Marley did manage to make the top 5 this week on the charts.The sales aren’t bad but they could be better. Lets just lets the weeks go by & see what […]
It wasn’t a big week for Hip Hop but check the sales any way — 1 GODSMACK UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 118,441 — THE ORACLE 2 2 LADY ANTEBELLUM CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI 96,859 +28% <td style='font-size: 12px; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; z-index: -20
Today is a decent day for new comer to the game B.O.B. with numbers like 83,747 & being new is not that bad. By next week we say he will have sold 100,000. The album was dope so we have faith it will at least hit gold before next year. CHECK THE SALES BELOW: 1 […]
