Ms. Jackson Debuts at #1

Go Janet! Go Janet!!

Apparently Janet just needed a little discipline to get back on top.

Ms. Jackson's Discipline has debuted at number one, becoming her first chart-topping album since her pre-wardrobe-malfunctioning days, when All for You reigned supreme seven years ago.

Discipline is the controlmeister's 10th studio album but her first for Island Def Jam. Like fellow pop diva Mariah Carey, Jackson left Virgin Records to join partner Jermaine Dupri at Island in hopes of staging a comeback. Her previous two albums, 2004's Damita Jo and 2006's 20 Y.O., both missed the top spot breaking a string of number one albums dating back to 1986's Control.


But reflecting the down times in music land, Discipline moved just 181,000 copies, per Nielsen SoundScan, fewer first-week sales than either Damita Jo (381,000) and 20 Y.O. (297,000); All for You's whopping 605,128 first-week copies in 2001 is still Jackson's biggest sales week.

After leading with the Rodney Jerkins-helmed "Feedback," Discipline is currently at radio with the Ne-Yo- and Dupri-penned "Rock with U." Jackson also picked up a 2008 NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actress last month for her role in Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?

While Discipline is Jackson's first number one album in seven years, New AmErykah, Pt. One: 4th World War is Erykah Badu's first full-length album in eight. The first in a two-part series, 4th World War sold 124,000 copies to open at number two.

With Jackson and Badu landing one-two, Jack Johnson's chart-topping streak ended at three weeks, with Sleep Through the Static falling to three on 92,000 copies. The other powerhouse album of late, Alicia Keys' As I Am, slipped three spots, selling 57,000 copies at five.

Webbie's Savage Life 2, featuring the lead singles "Independent" and "I Miss You," opened at four, selling 72,000. The original Savage Life, the rapper's breakthrough album, also debuted at four in the summer of '05.

Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus reentered the Top 10 at six, moving 54,000. The tween star's eight-spot surge stems from a recent trip to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, a Barbara Walters interview on Oscar night and an Academy Awards appearance presenting Enchanted's Oscar-nominated "That's How You Know."

The Once soundtrack, featuring the Oscar-winning track "Falling Slowly," got its own Oscar show bump, flying up 24 spots to number seven with 47,000 copies. (That was one spot above another soundtrack from an Oscar-contending film, Juno.)

Shawty Lo's solo debut, Units in the City, narrowly missed the Top 10, at 13, selling 31,000 copies. The Peach State rapper, currently at radio with "Dey Know," is a founding member of the group D4L.

Dolly Parton followed at 17, selling 27,000 copies of Backwoods Barbie, the music legend's first mainstream country album in nearly a decade. In addition to nine Parton-penned tracks, the singer covered the Fine Young Cannibals with "Drives Me Crazy" and Smokey Robinson with "The Tracks of My Tears."

Other noteworthy debuts included the original Broadway cast recording of The Little Mermaid at 26, the After's Never Going Back to OK at 41, London electro-stars Goldfrapp at 48 with Seventh Tree, Stellar Kart's Expect the Impossible at 66, Pillar's For the Love of the Game at 71, Leeland's Opposite Way at 72 and Cheri Dennis' In and Out of Love at 74.

Meanwhile, over at radio, Usher's new single "Love in this Club" rocketed 50 spots this past week to reach number one on the Hot 100, dethroning Flo Rida's monster hit "Low." The first single from Usher's forthcoming Here I Stand album also topped SoundScan's digital tracks and iTunes in its debut.

Usher's last album, 2004's Confessions, made history with four chart-topping singles that dominated the Hot 100 crown for a combined 40 weeks. No other male artist has accomplished such a feat in SoundScan history.

Overall, sales were down 1 percent from last week and down more than 6 percent compared to the same sales week last year.

Here's a rundown of the Top 10 albums for the week ended Sunday:

1. Discipline, Janet Jackson

2. New AmErykah, Pt. One: 4th World War, Erykah Badu

3. Sleep Through the Static, Jack Johnson

4. Savage Life 2, Webbie

5. As I Am, Alicia Keys

6. Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus, Miley Cyrus

7. Once soundtrack, various

8. Juno soundtrack, various

9. Little Voice, Sara Bareilles

10. Back to Black, Amy Winehouse

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JUANITA BYNUM: Tax Drama Can't Stop Her From Getting 'Unplugged'

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When you address Juanita Bynum you better refer to her as "Doctor."
Or that's how she prefers to be referenced as.

A media alert announcing a last minute press conference for the Pentecostal Prophetess circulated earlier this afternoon saying that "Dr. Bynum will address the media regarding the current tax issues facing Juanita Bynum Ministries."

Held at the Atlanta gospel radio station WPZE-FM, the 48-year-old self-proclaimed "new face of domestic violence" wanted to face the music in regards to reports that implied her money was funny.

Earlier this week, Ware County Tax Commissioner Steve Barnard said this week the property owned by her ministry would be auctioned off next month if Bynum didn't pay more than $33,000 in property taxes.

Today, the Chicago native said that all those taxes have been paid, adding that she wants to turn the property into a spa for women and that her lawyers told her it could be considered a tax-exempt religious building.

"It didn't work out that way...So be it," the tell-it-like-it-is televangelist said.
What she didn't say was whether she planned to charge women to visit the spa, whether it would be an overnight facility or the size of the building where the spa would be housed.

The near 7000-square-foot house sits on more than 23 acres. Bynum's Waycross-based ministry bought the building Aug. 18, 2006, tax records indicate.

The county tax commissioner said he had received a check earlier for $33,904.15 from New Light Church World Outreach in Houston, the Associated Press reported. However, that the property technically remained set for auction on Nov. 6, he added.
"It's not paid off until the check clears the bank," he said, noting he expects to know next week whether the check clears.

In other related news, the tax drama isn't holding Bynum back from releasing her new music project.

Her publicist confirmed to The BV Newswire that 'Juanita Bynum: Unplugged' will be released in November via Flow Records. Recorded in "High Definition" at a small Atlanta church, the nearly 2 hour DVD is comprised of candid interviews, anointed, uncut performances from her latest hit opus 'A Piece of My Passion,' and her trademark dynamic ministering!

If this new project is anything like the I've witnessed recently on YouTube.com, it should be thoroughly enthralling.

The record label has pledged to donate a portion of the proceeds from each DVD sale to organizations fighting against Domestic Violence.

Shortly after being allegedly assaulted by her estranged husband Bishop Thomas Weeks, III,

Bynum announced she will take a stand against mental and physical abuse by lending her support to a myriad of causes.

At presstime, an organization has not yet been named.

*the story continues to unfold*

These Idiots Don't Belong In My Village!

WHO SAYS NAS' NEW CD WON'T BE NAMED AFTER THE N-WORD?: Rapper has total support of label prez LA Reid.
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Apparently Fox news got it all wrong when they reported that the powers that be at Def Jam said the label was not releasing Nas' new project named after the N-word.

Def Jam head, LA Reid, told MTV that he has no problem with the project whatsoever. As far as he's concerned, Nas can do no wrong.

"We support everything our artists do, everything! (L.A. sounds real stupid, that's why these artists are in the state they're in now)" he added. "We stand firmly behind and beside our artists with pride and with pleasure. Anything Nas wants to do, I completely stand beside him. Nas is prolific, he's prophetic, he's a genius, an amazing artist of respect. So, while I'm not sure exactly all that [the title] entails (uhhh, don't you think you ought to find out, Mr. "head of Def Jam?) I know it's smart, so I stand behind him. That's real."

OK, so you may be wondering just why is Nas doing this. The MC says his intent is to take the sting out of the N-word (PLEASE TELL ME...HOW IS THIS GOING TO TAKE THE STING OUT????? THIS IS AN EXCUSE TO SAY THE N***A OR N***ER WORD! WE'RE NOT STUPID! Well MOST of us aren't)

"We're taking power from the word," he told MTV. "No disrespect to none of them who were part of the civil rights movement, but some ... in the streets don't know who (civil rights activist) Medgar Evers was ... they know who Nas is (you fool! so why don't you rap about our predecessors and educate those who are in the streets?!)," the rapper said, referring to the civil rights leader slain in the 1960s.

He also had a message to the "older people" who don't know who Nas is and what a street disciple is.

"Stay outta this (expletive) conversation. (OH NO HE DIDN'T-REMEMBER THIS IS DIRECTED TO "OLDER PEOPLE" WHO DON'T KNOW WHO NAS IS?!) We'll talk to you when we're ready. Right now, we're on a whole new movement (MOVEMENT?! I didn't hear that he was in Jena 6, nor at the Judiciary Committee hearing w/John Conyers, Keith Ellison, Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton etc, is he kidding me?!). We're taking power from that word (hmmm, I'm curious, HOW WOULD U KNOW IF POWER WAS TAKEN FROM THAT WORD?! SMH)."

Finally, not only is the album apparently still in the pipeline for a Dec 11 release, but the title has now been changed from "Nigga" to "Nigger (whew! that was close, they're idiots!)."
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This whipper-snapper has lost his ever-living-loving-lasting mind!

And the fact that L.A. Reid is behind Nas-who blatantly disrespected older people- and gives carte blanche to his artists to do whatever,

sounds pathetic.

Oh, I get it...the bible says there's nothing new under the sun,

this is a publicity stunt in order to promote the sales of his album, which

is due out Dec 11th~

A blind man can see thru this.

I call for a boycott of his album.

Ignorance, is ignorance.

Ivent

Nas, This BETTER Be A Publicity Stunt!

NAS TITLES HIS NEW ALBUM 'NI**A': Name revealed Friday night in New York; rapper says it's due by year's end.
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Why Nas? Why?! the rapper has decided that the N-word - the five-letter slang version - will be the title of his new album due in December from Def Jam.
The rapper announced the news while headlining the last stop of the Sneaker Pimps Tour on Friday at New York's Roseland Ballroom.
According to MTV.com, he told the crowd that his new album will be titled "Nigga," a name he had planned to call his previous album until deciding at the last minute to use "Hip Hop Is Dead" instead.

A month before the new album arrives, Nas's greatest hits collection is scheduled to drop on Nov. 6. A video for one of the two new songs on the project, "Surviving the Times," will be shot soon, according to MTV.
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*smh* sigh, The only thing worse than being stupid, idiotic and foolish,

Is the intentional choice to STAY stupid, idiotic and foolish.

I don't know what's going on...Nas WAS one of the most respected rappers ever.

Not any longer.

It could be worse..we could be Kelis and go home to him.

This BETTER be a publicity stunt.

Some people are desperate to stay relevant. Didn't think he was one of them.

Ivent