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Sales numbers from Nielsen SoundScan exhibit Em kick the Beatles in the ’00s.
By James Montgomery

Eminem’s <i>Marshall Mathers LP</i>

Photo: Interscope Records

Back in 1999, Eminem was many appropriate well well known as the somewhat screwy, bottle-blond protégé of Dr . Dre . Ten years — and millions of albums — after, he’s about to be well well known as the best-selling artist of the decade.

On Tuesday( Dec 8), Nielsen SoundScan — that tabulates the Billboard charts — expelled their lists of the best-selling artists, albums and songs of the ’00s . And let’s usually contend the past 10 years have been really great for Mr . Mathers.

Em sole some-more than 32.2 million albums in the 2000s, circumference out the Beatles to explain the pretension of top-selling artist . The Beatles finished up with the decade’s best-selling manuscript( they sole scarcely 11.5 million copies of 2000’s greatest-hits comp 1 ,) besting the likes of ‘NSYNC’s No Strings Attached( 11.1 million copies sole) and Norah Jones’ Come Away With Me, ( 10.5 million) . Eminem was the usually artist to place dual albums on the list; his The Marshall Mathers LP and Eminem Show annals landed at #4 and 5, offered 10.2 million and 9.8 million copies, respectively . Interestingly, of the tip 10 albums of the decade, the many not long ago expelled is Usher’s Confessions, that came out in 2004.

The usually areas in that Eminem or the Beatles didn’t browbeat the decade were songs and air wave fool around . According to Nielsen — that began gripping lane of digital sales in Jul 2003 — Flo Rida’s “Low” was the decade’s top-selling digital strain, carrying been downloaded some-more than 5.2 million times . It bested the likes of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance”( scarcely 4.7 million downloads), Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours”( 4.6 million) and the Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow”( 4.3 million) .

And there was nothing of that droll downloading things when it came to the decade’s most-played air wave songs( generational order, any one ?) a list surfaced by Nickelback’s “How You Remind Me” — that was spun some-more than 1.2 million times given being expelled in 2001 — and featuring names similar to Train( whose “Drops Of Jupiter” was racked up some-more than 1.1 million plays), Lifehouse, 3 Doors Down and Lee Ann Womack.

Nielsen Soundscan combined the decade lists regulating interpretation picked up from Jan 1, 2000-November 1, 2009, and yet total competence climb by Dec 31, they won’t change the rankings.

The top-selling albums of the decade, according to Nielsen SoundScan:

1 . The Beatles, 1, 11, 499, 000 units sold
2 . ‘NSYNC, No Strings Attached, eleven, 112, 000 units sold
3 . Norah Jones, Come Away With Me, 10, 546, 000 units sold
4 . Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP, 10, 204, 000 units sold
5 . Eminem, The Eminem Show, 9, 799, 000 units sold
6 . Usher, Confessions, 9, 712, 000 units sold
7 . Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory, 9, 663, 000 units sold
8 . Creed, Human Clay, 9, 491, 000 units sold
9 . Britney Spears, Oops! .. . I Did It Again, 9, 185, 000 units sold
10 . Nelly, Country Grammar, 8, 461, 000 units sold

The top-selling digital songs of the decade, according to Nielsen SoundScan:

1 . Flo Rida attainment . T-Pain, “Low” 5, 214, 000 units sold
2 . Lady Gaga attainment . Colby O’Donis, “Just Dance, ” 4, 690, 000 units sold
3 . Jason Mraz, “I’m Yours, “ 4, 619, 000 units sold
4 . Timbaland attainment . OneRepublic, “Apologize, ” 4, 439, 000 units sold
5 . The Black Eyed Peas, “Boom Boom Pow, ” 4, 349, 000 units sold
6 . Soulja Boy Tell’em, “Crank That, ” 4, 315, 000 units sold
7 . Lady Gaga, “Poker Face, ” 4, 200, 000 units sold
8 . Coldplay, “Viva la Vida, ” 4, 140, 000 units sold
9 . Taylor Swift, “Love Story, ” 4, 005, 000 units sold
10 . Katy Perry, “Hot N Cold, ” 3, 945, 000 units sold

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He additionally brushed off Rolling Stone’s common review: ‘I didn’t get the approach they looked at my album.’
By Jayson Rodriguez, with stating by Sway Calloway

Chris Brown

Photo: MTV News

Chris Brown had his day in justice when he pleaded guilty for his attack on Rihanna progressing this year . But with the Tuesday( Dec recover of Graffiti — his initial plan since the Feb attack — finds the thespian confronting a opposite kind of judgment.

So far, yet, Brown pronounced the feedback he’s gotten from the open has been meritorious for his manuscript, the third of his career.

“My fans[ have] since me a good reply on the manuscript, ” Brown told MTV News . “They essentially pronounced they love it . They discuss it me what songs they love . Similar to 99 percent of the comments have been all certain about the album.”

Reviews for Brown’s manuscript have often been inexhaustible, nonetheless most reviewers have put the song in the context of the attack . Rolling Stone repository did a stand in examination of Brown’s manuscript to one side Rihanna’s ultimate . The examination remarkable that, astray as it might be, it’s formidable to attend to Brown’s song but recalling his aroused actions.

“The Rihanna incident has done it unfit to listen to him in the same approach, ” the examination examination . “The benevolence that charcterised songs similar to 2008’s ‘Forever’ is right away a tough sell.”

Brown took displeasure with the examination, in that he perceived 2.5 out of five stars, receiving to his Twitter comment to reply to the repository . “rolling mill mag.. . r u serious?” he wrote . “we will see . manuscript 12-8-09.”

“I didn’t get the approach they looked at my manuscript, ” he explained to MTV News . “I only felt similar to there was a small bit of hatred since of the incident and not since of the song . But we’re gonna keep it moving.”

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Duo insist the stories at the at the behind of of multiform marks on manuscript, that drops Dec 8.
By Shaheem Reid

Clipse

Photo: Sony

NEW YORK — The Clipse’ brand new LP, Til the Casket Drops, is eventually entrance out subsequent week, and all the brother-duo can do is smile.

“I was usually vibing out to it, ” Malice pronounced of the manuscript not long ago . “I do not[ customarily] attend to[ the manuscript] : I do it, I lay it down, I wait for for it to get ready, afterwards I go at the behind of and catch it . I feel contemptible for a lot of cats . We got that manuscript right now.”

Malice pronounced it was “unfair” to ask him what his the one preferred strain from the LP, was but he did list a couple of he was prejudiced to; “I similar to ‘Champion, ‘ ‘Popeyes[ Popular Demand], ‘ ‘Showing Out, ‘ and ‘Door Man’ is incredible.”

The Clipse not long ago shot a video for “Door Man” in Virginia.

“[ That's a] genuine funny lane, ” Malice one after another . “It’s all you wish to see, how hold up is at home for us: removing income, the ‘hood and your homies . We lost a lot of family, so .. . When I contend ‘family, ‘ I meant people that were down with us, people nearby and dear to the hearts . Entourage . People who helped set up this total Clipse thing . We been by a lot, but we’re still celebrating — remembering how all was, how it was ostensible to be.”

“It’s roughly similar to ‘America Undercover, ‘ ” Pusha explained of the shave . “We have that ‘America Undercover’ feel, that sort of documentary style.”

Meanwhile, Push says his the one preferred jot down is positively “Freedom.”

” ‘Freedom’ is a emancipation strain, ” he pronounced . “It’s an reparation, it gives a rhyme and reason for a a little of the things and a little of the attitudes of the Clipse . It says ’sorry’ usually as most as it says we’re improved[ than alternative rappers], and we’re still the most appropriate .. . ever.”

Both Clipse partial of say that their mistakes have been deeper than rap.

“Nothing musically, ” Pusha answered about what they’re apologizing for in “Freedom.” “This is the lives . This strain has influenced a lot of people and lot of lives around us . Once we get from in front of the camera, there’s a total universe out there that we’re a partial of: family, friends, streets . It’s a lot that goes on and a lot that goes on at the at the behind of of this.”

“A lot of sacrifices have been done at the at the behind of of this strain, ” Malice offered.

“Yeah that’s the word: scapegoat, ” Pusha combined with a giggle . “That was a great word.”

“The strain gathering me funny, ” Pusha raps on the lane, that was constructed by Sean C and LV . “I’m usually anticipating joy in meaningful you can’t reinstate me/ What a thing to say/ But what am I to do/ I’m purpose personification the unwavering n—a/ And loyal is true.”

Sean C and LV additionally constructed “Never Will It Stop” where the Clipse turn tales of stacking income and ciphering off bricks of powder . DJ Khalil brings a reggae season lane to the snitch-admonishing “There Was a Murder.” The Neptunes constructed “Life Change, ” that facilities Kenna and additionally talks about redemption.

“I was unlucky mild, bad blind and exposed, ” Malice, who additionally describes himself as a uneasy essence with suspense in the strain, raps . “So most so, I left my family secluded .. . So most mix, but my suggestion ever so vacant.”

Later, he rhymes about becoming different his hold up and raising a family of 4 . “I’m at the behind of on house due to the Lord’s GPS, ” he continues prior to charity certain goal for the youth.

Casket, that additionally includes the Kanye West-featured singular “Kinda Similar to a Big Deal, ” comes out on Dec 8, along with albums from Gucci Mane, Snoop Dogg and B.G.

“Amazing, ” Pusha pronounced about being expelled on a hip-hop-heavy week . “We’re in great association . Let’s keep all the trade coming! I hold if you going in[ the store], you’re gonna have some-more than usually 10 dollars to outlay . You competence have 50 . We’re gonna get one of them[ purchases] .”

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Singer called in to Shade 45 heavenly body hire on Saturday.
By Gil Kaufman

Chris Brown

Photo: Frazer Harrison/ Getty Images

Chris Brown has been you do a lot of explaining newly, but on Saturday he called in to DJ Whoo Kid’s show on Shade 45 heavenly body air wave to diffuse reports which he’s been receiving shots at Jay-Z.

“My Twitter ain’t get hacked, ” Brown told DJ Whoo Kid about a fast picked-up post in which the thespian appeared to impute to Jigga as a “cornball” during the American Music Awards on Nov twenty-two( the twitter was fast taken down) . “People blew[ it] out of suit . .. . I was additionally commenting on sure things which was going on on the AMAs . I was tweeting incidentally about what was going on .. . so, the homies was at the residence and everyone was similar to, ‘He’s creation an excuse.’ All I twittered, I pronounced, ‘cornball’ — I wasn’t articulate about homie at all, ” Brown explained.

“But the droll thing is, my homies was rapping and[ I was similar to], ‘Ya’ll have been only trite, ‘ and so I only typed it in, and at which impulse I proposed saying the comments: ‘Oh, you talkin’ about Jay?’ I was similar to, ‘Hell naw, what you mean?’ I pronounced let me undo this prior to this be an additional story . I do not need no some-more problems right right away, I do not need no some-more people anathema me out.”

Brown simplified which he has no beef with Jay — who happens to be Rihanna’s longtime coach . “I’ve never unequivocally talked to homie, ” he pronounced . “Ain’t no beefs . I only get my income, [ he] get his.”

During the talk, Brown additionally reliable which in further to the 13-track Graffiti which drops on Dec 8, an 18-track fine chronicle will be expelled on the same day.

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