THE WEEK IN MUSIC

This past week (January 31-February 5,2011) provided for some interesting stories in music, the most important of which I will report on below!‼

Prince fans were disappointed Friday night when his scheduled concert in Dallas, where it is Super Bowl weekend, was CANCELED. Prince was to perform at TheEvent along with Erykah Badu, but the official press release from Prince’s team stated that the event organizers were not able to fund and put on the event like they thought, and so it was never able to materialize. This most likely is speaking almost solely of money, because the official cancelation did not come until early Friday, with ticket-holders having already paid a minimum of $1500 for access to the show being let down at the last minute.

Nicki Minaj surpassed Kanye West this week in album sales, as her Pink Friday ended up at #3 on the Billboard 200 behind only Amos Lee’s Mission Bell and Iron and Wine’s Kiss Each Other Clean. This week put Nicki’s total album sales at 989,000, while Kanye sits at 981,000. This is a very small difference when speaking of such large numbers, and I expect the two to remain close as long as they both stay in the limelight. The disgust that I feel though at the fact that Nicki Minaj can possibly sell more albums than Kanye West is……………..for another day, and another discussion‼

Super Bowl Sunday is here, finally, and today’s game is a big play for some of Hip-Hop’s notables. Today’s halftime show will mark the debut of Eminem’s first endorsement deal, in which he will appear in a commercial for Lipton Brisk Tea with whom he has signed a seven-figure contract. Diddy will star in a Mercedes-Benz commercial, and Will.I.Am directed two commercials for Chatter.com, which will both center around their halftime performance with Usher.

To round out Super Bowl Sunday, rapper Lil Wayne made a song entitled “Green and Yellow”, remixed from Wiz Khalfa’s “Black and Yellow”, in support of the Green Bay Packers. How do the two compare???? You decide! Check them both out‼

For more chart updates, your top 5 on singles on the Hot 100 list were:

1. Bruno Mars Grenade
2. Pink Fuckin Perfect
3. Katy Perry Fireworks
4. Wiz Khalifa Black and Yellow
5. Enrique Iglesias ft. Ludacris and DJ Frank E Tonight (I’m Lovin’ You)

That list just taught me that Enrique Iglesias was still alive. And that he makes music with rappers. Well, he did have a song with Lil’ Wayne called “Push”, but after that I thought his career ended. Not because that song was bad, but just because not even Lil’ Wayne could keep Enrique Iglesias from falling into the bottomless pit of “NO ONE cares about you anymore‼”, one in which artists are falling quicker and quicker into.

Excuse my Enrique Iglesias rant. I did really like Hero.

Okay. That’s all the music news for now. Come back Wednesday when I give you a mid-week update, recapping the Super-Bowl performance by the Black-Eyed Peas and some anticipation talk of the Grammys. Later‼!