Retailers: Chris Brown Album 'Overstocked and Low Sales

Following in the footsteps of Miley Cyrus, the beleaguered R&B artist has shut down his Twitter account, a day after microblogging his butt off about Walmart and other big-box haters not stocking his new album.


Chris Brown's rant that U.S. music retailers are boycotting his new album "Grafitti," appears to be unfounded. Brown took to his Twitter account - which is now inactive - over the weekend to complain about the fulfillment and display of his album in a series of posts.

"im tired of this shit. major stores r blackballing my cd. not stockin the shelves and lying to costumers. what the fuck do i gotta do... ... yeah i said it and i aint retracting shit im not biting my tongue about shit else... the industry can kiss my ass," read messages posted.

He also noted specifically that he "JUST WAS AT WALMART IN Wallingford CT,844 north colony.. the didnt even have my album in the back... not on shelves, saw for myself."

A survey and store visits find that Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Trans World, Newbury Comics are all carrying the Brown record and sources say that his album received widespread distribution and promotion by his label, Jive Records, and his distributor, Sony Music Entertainment. Jive shipped over 400,000 units of "Graffiti," and also had it positioned in prime stores space at all key accounts, according to sources. In fact, sources suggest that Jive may have overshipped his record, as sales are slow.

'Overstocked'

"Not only am I carrying it, I am over carrying it, because it isn't selling," says the head of purchasing at one large chain. "I wish I could return it." He says the album's first week sales only reached 40% of expectations.

At 27-unit Newbury Comics, Carl Mello head of purchasing, echoes that sentiment. "We have it; it's not selling much."

He says the chain never even considered boycotting Brown - an accusation leveled by the artist on Twitter. Brown pleaded guilty to charges in connection with his attack of former girlfriend Rihanna in February, just before the Grammy Awards show. "We never considered not bringing it in," Mello says. "If we stopped bringing in records from every unsavory character that puts out an album, there would be tumbleweed floating around our stores."

When ordering the record, Mello says he took into account Brown's altercation with Rihanna from a sales perspective, only. After saying, "Let's see what has happened with his sales since the incident," Mello reports that "Exclusive," which was issued in November 2007, sold 11 copies chainwide in October 2008, 8 copies in November, 5 units un January, 4 in February, 2 in March, and 0 copies in April, May and June. "From July until now, we have sold 3 copies," Mello adds. "When you see an artist is going to release a new album and then you go back and see these kind of sales, alarm bells go off. You don't feel over confident about bringing in a lot of records."

Nevertheless, "we brought in the new album because you know you are going to sell some," Mello says. "We let the consumer vote on it."

And so far, consumers aren't flocking to stores to vote on behalf of Brown. Sources project that Brown sold about 100,000 units last week, well below the 150,000-175,000 units he was expected to sell. Mello says that the album is probably about the No. 40 best selling title at the chain.

Even Wal-Mart -- which was singled out by Brown on Twitter as one of the so-called merchants boycotting his record because the Wallingford, Conn., store didn't have it in stock -- says they are carrying the Brown album. "We are surprised at the comments on Twitter, since all Walmart stores carried the CD since its release, including the Wallingford store mentioned in the post. This store had in fact sold through their copies over the weekend. The majority of our stores are showing today they have copies on hand."

Likewise Billboard found plenty of Brown in stock at Best Buy in Union Square and on Broadway by Houston Street, in Manhattan, as well as at the J&R Music World superstore in downtown Manhattan.

Jive declined to comment.

Peep this one consumer comment:he embarrassed himself. His album sold less than Rihanna's first week. they both suck!

10 of the Best Social Media Tools for Entrepreneurs

As an Etrepreneur myself,among others gifts and talents I have, we all can use advise and leads to where and how to find the right social media tools that only help build and market our brands to the worldwide web so I felt the need to help Barb Dybwad spread the word and insight on the top 10 tools and sites to use to cover all areas in the social media arena worldwide.

Whether your company is just starting out, just starting to turn a profit or already on the verge of an acquisition, as an entrepreneur you’ll be constantly evaluating the tools that will help get your business to the next stage.

Even if the ink on the business plan isn’t dry yet, you want to be armed with the social media tools that will play an important role in company communication, product and brand promotions, and business development for your startup. Some of the tools in this list will be familiar, but it’s worth taking a moment to reframe how they might become power tools in a business context.

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10. Monitter

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As an entrepreneur, you need to know what people are saying about your company as well as your competitors. Enter Monitter, a service that monitors Twitter mentions in real-time in a multi-column interface reminiscent of TweetDeck . Simply input a search term into a column, add or remove columns as desired, and get an automatically-refreshing picture of what people are saying about your brand or competing brands in your space.

Pro Tip: By default, the Monitter interface is gray on black, which can be hard on the eyes. You can switch to a more typical color scheme by selecting the “light” theme in the menu at the upper right.

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9. YouTube

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You already know about YouTube , but have you thought about how it could help your business? Could your product benefit from an awesome video walkthrough? Could your marketing strategy include a viral video strategy that gets you lots of exposure at relatively low cost?

And now with Promoted Videos getting placement in AdSense units around the web, there’s even more incentive to think about leveraging social video as a brand exposure tool. If you can create interesting content that’s relevant to your brand or products, a positive visual association with your company can attract new interest, build company culture, turn inquiries into sales, and give back significant brand dividends over time.

Pro Tip: The most obvious and frequent business use of YouTube is for marketing and advertising, but don’t overlook other ways in which your company can leverage YouTube. Visual walkthroughs and FAQs can be a great boon to customer service. Videos of you and your team giving public presentations, speaking at conferences or engaging with the media can establish and enhance your company’s reputation as a thought leader. And don’t forget the utility of private videos for use in executive and new employee trainings and recording company events; access can be shared with only the people who should be able to see each item.

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8. UserVoice

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As a small business, it’s hard to juggle building and improving your products with supporting what’s already out there. That’s where UserVoice can help.

From bug reports to feature requests, UserVoice can help track and manage the feedback of your users and customers. Not only does it assure your userbase that you care about what they have to say, but it can potentially leverage the best suggestions from the people who are actually using your tool or service. Since users can vote on the ideas of other users, you can start to get a picture of the most-requested features and fixes for your app or service to feed back into your products’ lifecycles.

Pro Tip: You can also use UserVoice to get feedback on a limited release or beta version of a product by setting up a private forum or forums. You can send invites to specific email addresses, or limit your feedback to company-wide participants by restricting access by email domain.

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7. MailChimp

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Most reports and punditry on the death of email are a bit premature. The good old fashioned mailing list is still a good way to maintain relationships with customers, especially when done well.

The web-based mailing list manager MailChimp offers list management, tracking and analysis, and custom HTML templates for up to 500 subscribers and 3000 emails a month for free. Paid plans kick in at larger subscriber numbers. Featuring integration with WordPress , Twitter, Salesforce and more, MailChimp is the list manager of choice for an impressive list of heavyweights including Mozilla, Intel, Canon, Fujitsu, Staples and more.

Pro Tip: MailChimp has a well-documented API that allows you to integrate the service with your own existing applications, tools, content management system or CRM solution. There’s a growing list of plug-ins already created for a number of platforms.

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6. Get Satisfaction

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Great customer support is important, but it can also be time-consuming and costly. Get Satisfaction aims to help by leveraging the strength of your user community and cutting down on repetitive support costs.

Get Satisfaction provides a forum where your customers can get answers to questions, solutions to problems, and submit feature and new product requests. Those answers and solutions are stored and searchable over time, cutting down on support costs and building trust with your userbase.

Used by small businesses and large popular brands alike, Get Satisfaction gets rave reviews for human customer service and helping to build communities around brands and products.

Pro Tip: Embeddable widgets allow you to bring the conversation back to your own company’s site or even within your products themselves. Drop a searchable FAQ or a feedback tab or page right into your website or service to integrate the customer service experience right where your users need it.

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5. Twitter

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What would this list be without our favorite microblogging service? From best practices for brands to tips for executives to using Twitter for customer service, there’s no shortage of creative ideas for leveraging Twitter for your business.

Even if you’re not in a technically-oriented industry, you’ll want to know which influencers in your domain are on Twitter and which of your potential clients and customers are there (hint: probably a bunch). You’ll want to wrap your head around hashtags for business, and more certainly check out Twitter’s own guidebook for businesses (as well as our own guidebook, of course!).

Pro Tip: Try not to use Twitter as a purely broadcast medium; whether one person or several posts to your official account, make sure your company is listening and interacting as well as simply posting. Strive for authenticity in your company’s tweets and try to think of it as taking part in a conversation, not just another soapbox platform.

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4. Facebook

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Facebook is the other social networking giant you’ll want to be sure your business has a presence on. It’s another powerful tool for building relationships, raising visibility for your brand, and targeting your customer niche.

With a robust and relatively low-cost advertising platform, you can connect directly to the potential customers or clients who might want to know about you. Optimization tools help you fine-tune and target your ads more intelligently, and get detailed insight into who is responding to your ads.

Pro Tip: Authenticity is key here too for maximum impact. With changes that made Facebook Pages more like personal pages, your brand’s home on Facebook is no longer relegated to fairly static profile information. Since the Wall Feed is usually the main point of entry for your fans and visitors, think of it as an opportunity to provide some sort of utility to your visitors, whether it be information, entertainment, or relevant expressions of your company’s culture and mission.

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3. Basecamp

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If you’re like most startups, you’ve got a heck of a lot going on. You need to keep on top of your projects and open loops, not just internally but with your clients, partners, and customers as well. That’s where a good project management tool comes in.

Basecamp from 37signals is a great and cost-effective web-based tool for project management and collaboration. Featuring to-do lists, milestones for important due-dates, file sharing, blog-style messaging, wiki-style writeboards, time tracking, and integration with the excellent group chat product Campfire, basic plans for small businesses start at $24 a month.

Pro Tip: Add extra functionality to your Basecamp environment or integrate it with your existing systems in the extras and add-ons department. For example if you use Freshbooks, you can even invoice your Basecamp projects via Freshbooks.

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2. LinkedIn

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From hiring to networking with cohorts and potential clients to participating in groups and question threads, LinkedIn is a powerful social network for entrepreneurs and business professionals of all stripes. It’s a great place to both discover and research potential job candidates (with a reported 75% of hiring managers using it over Facebook and Twitter), as well as both keeping up with and extending your network.

Pro Tip: Although it’s not an overnight success solution, positioning yourself as an expert in the LinkedIn Answers domain(s) relevant to your business can be a great way to increase your authority and drive new interest to your business. Don’t underestimate the power of asking for advice here as well.

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1. Google Apps for Domains

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Startup costs for outfitting an office with networking and computing equipment are staggering enough as it is without even taking into account the software and maintenance components. One area for adventurous entrepreneurs to cut costs in the latter department lies in the realm of typical office staples: email, calendaring and the office suites businesses typically need to use to prepare documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

Instead of paying an IT staff to set up, host and maintain your own mail servers, Google Apps for Domains can handle custom email addresses at your own company’s URL. As an alternative to Microsoft Outlook worth considering, Gmail also integrates nicely with Google Calendar for your group calendaring needs.

And whereas once Microsoft Office was one of your only choices in the office suites department, Google Documents now handles document, spreadsheet and presentation preparation with aplomb — all the while making it easy to share and collaborate with colleagues without having to email documents around or check items out of a central repository.

Pro Tip: For the truly frugal, you can even opt for the totally free Standard Edition which includes basic Gmail, calendaring, Google Docs and Google Sites. Premier Edition will run you $50 per user per year, but increases user email storage to 25GB, adds more security features and guarantees you uptime and support.

PMD"Parrish Smith" The founder of EPMD HIPHOPS SUPERSTAR

This is a very special blogspot issue thats dedicated to the my spiritual brother and one of the late 80's,and 90's leaders of hiphop whom of course Jay-Z,P-Diddy and a host of other MC's got their inspirations from PMD was the 1st rap artist to do his own label deals with DefJam with his own imprint the "HitSquad"which to this day are still selling our venues over seas and in america feel free to preveiw this new hot video featuring "PMD" and nigerian rap artist "Cashino" with the hit trax "All I Got" with a cameo appearance by "Nas"


PMD, Parrish Smith (aka the Mic Doctor of the classic hip-hop group EPMD), has been traveling on a long road of rocking mics, releasing records, and keeping his mind on business. From classic EPMD tracks like �It�s My Thing�, �Gold digger�, �Crossover�, to �You Gots To Chill�, PMD has dropped legendary verses and flows all throughout hip-hop history. PMD�s smooth, mellow voice along with his rugged style and b-boy attitude make him one of the most well respected old school hip-hop legends of today. The classic EPMD album �Strictly Business� had deep funky jams and a strong attitude. Other incredible EPMD albums like �Business Never Personal� and �Unfinished Business� were constant favorites of crowds, DJ�s, and fans. With his partner Erick Sermon (The Green Eyed Bandit), EPMD formed Hit Squad. One of the first hip-hop squads, The Hit Squad gave birth to now legendary emcees like Redman, Das Efx, and K-Solo. Due to many different problems, EPMD broke up in the mid-90�s and the future looked extremely bleak. PMD�s first solo album �Shade Business� was considered a luke-warm effort while his sophomore LP �Business Is Business� did better. Then, a miracle happened. EPMD reunited for the �How To Be A Player� soundtrack. They released 2 more albums (�Back In Business� and �Out Of Business�) that spawned hard-hitting hip-hop tracks like �Richter Scale�, �Never Seen Before�, and �Symphony 2000�. Since then, many well-respected hip-hop artists have made hits by jacking classic EPMD tracks. Jay-Z�s first big hit �Ain�t No�� used the beat from EPMD�s �It�s My Thing�. DMX�s bombastic debut �Get At Me Dog� used a straight-jacked loop of �Get The Bozac�. The list goes on an on. Everybody from Nas to Wu-Tang Clan to Foxxy Brown has used classic EPMD hits to make their own hits. Today, EPMD (Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith) have left Def Jam. Erick, the E Double E, has formed Def Squad with Redman and Keith Murray while PMD maintained Hit Squad. Erick Sermon signed to J Records while PMD made an alliance with the underground and indie label Solid Records to make his own Boon Dox Records. Also, his professional and friendship relationship with Japan�s own DJ Honda cemented many ill collaborations. With a brand new Hit Squad, a new label, and a brand new attitude, PMD just released his 3rd (and best) solo album �The Awakening�. While his other solo efforts were not as focused, �The Awakening� is overflowing with thick, funk beats, hardcore rhymes, steady production, and many well respected guests. It is his most focused and strongest solo LP to date. Kutmasta Kurt, DJ Muggs, Alchemist, Pete Rock, Ghetto Pros, and DJ Honda handle production on the LP. Guests include Fat Joe, Erick Sermon, K-Solo, Das Efx and more. PMD also has time to play the mentor role by signing prot�g�s like 275 and Don Fu-Quan. Still, Parrish Smith is not done. After he releases �The Awakening�, he plans to release a collaboration album with DJ Honda titled �Underground Connection�. While the future of EPMD may not be 100% certain, Parrish Smith�s future is. He will be rocking mics. PMD has redeemed himself. He has awoken from the coma of the industry and music business. Today, PMD�s business IS personal. Parrish Smith, the mic doctor, the PMD of EPMD, is back and better than ever. You better wake up.

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Bill O’Reilly vs. Rev Al Sharpton Over Michael Jackson Controversy

Yes I know,this guy Bill O'Reilly really has his priorities in the wrong mindset with the Rev Al Sharpton Message to the world over the Micheal Jackson(RIP)Contronversy,just check this out.

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ToyotaRockTheSpace

Good news! for all of our worldwide fans.Our entry into Rock The Space Presented by Toyota Music has been accepted.
We need you all to vote 4 us in this hot new artist contest.The A&R execs at MySpace Records want to see who's got the goods to make the Final 5. A vote of fans will decide who wins Rock The Space and walks away with a Recording Contract with MySpace Records plus $10,000 in Fender gear, so help us help you with your votes for Da-Jiberishrapstar "Dremoney Featuring his 12yr old daughter Da Jiberish princess "Angel" performing their hit song "Hop It" GodBless we love you all. just vote below...

Jay-Z Buys back the last album due in contract

It’s being reported that sometime earlier this year legendary rapper, Jay-Z, allegedly bought back the last album due to Island/Def Jam in his recording contract. The alleged sum it took to complete and close out the contract was a king’s ransom of $5 million (although this is not a confirmed amount).

It appears Jigga is ready to move on and build an empire with his new Roc Nation label over at Live Nation. So there is a great chance his eagerly awaited album “The Blueprint 3” will be his debut LP on the Roc Nation venture.

Jay has also been busy signing acts to the new ROC…key signings so far include up and coming rappers J. Cole, Mikey Factz and British Pop girl group SugaBabes. Rumors are also saying that Jay might sign State Property to the new Roc with all the original members reunited.

Major Copyright Infringing Forum Shut Down In Argentina

It's seems that file sharing copyrigthed materials over the p2p forums are very far from being over here is the lastest case that has emerged wow.
A web forum that was used to distribute copyrighted files to more than 110,000 registered users in Latin America has been closed down. Emep3.com.ar was closed following an investigation by CAPIF, which represents the recording industry in Argentina.

CAPIF had notified the forum's operators of potential copyright infringement problems after its enquiries found the site contained more than 130,000 posts linking to unauthorised music files.

Figures from alexa.com suggest the forum's users were mainly Argentines (73%), with Mexicans (7.4%) and Chileans (4.7%) also using the site. The forum was the 907th most accessed site in Argentina.

CAPIF identified the site operator in early March 2009 and requested that he remove the links to copyright infringing content. Ten days later the whole forum was taken down.

Targeting strategic forums that act as important focal points for illegal content distribution is part of IFPI's regional internet anti-piracy campaign.

The Impact of Gangster HipHop Lyric's&Our Kids!

There is a very good reason for the problems we all have witness or have experience when its comes street gangster hiphop and rap.Which has become a definitive cultural movement of our generation of this day and time. Young adults follow trends that rappers initiate whether good or bad – in our generation today it’s not just a following it’s a way of being. When rap first emerged in the 1980’s politicians challenged it’s content, which created a divide amongst hip hop generationers and the Blacks of the civil rights. Studies show that black boys and girls are actually more knowledgeable about issues such as AIDS and politics when they listen to hip hop as well as the white boys and girls whom also can relate to hiphop and the power of this very American Culture which our news media will never control, as karma continues to come back around which is not black or white its just life.

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The New Digital Platform Is Now 19% of Total Revenues for MajorLabel

The Warner Music Group now generates 19% of its total revenues from digital music, and reported $171 million in digital revenue for its fiscal quarter ended Dec. 31 -- a 20% increase from the same period a year ago.

In the U.S., digital generated $99 million during the quarter, accounting for an even larger 31.4% of total recorded music income.

Overall, the company reported a net profit of $23 million for the quarter, compared with a net loss of $16 million a year ago, while revenue was off 11.2% to $878 million.

"Though facing difficult economic conditions and tough prior-year comparisons, we executed on our strategy and remain confident in achieving our long-term goals," said Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music Group's chairman and CEO.

"We continue to develop new music business solutions and maintain our digital leadership position, while managing costs, gaining share and delivering strong returns on A&R investments.",As we proceed into this new era and except these new concepts of the digital downloads of recorded music and multimedia files etc,hopfully
more new unsigned artist will get a better chance at promoting and saleing their music.

Older Americans And The Use Of Technology!

Not all technologies have comparable usage rates among age groups a study revealed. Younger demographics are much more likely to play video games, use portable MP3 players and visit certain websites, while usage rates of social networking sites among younger age groups is nearly double the older age segments.
The study, “Greying Gadgets: How Older Americans Shop for and Use Consumer Electronics,” found that consumers in their 50s are as likely to own - or plan on buying - an HDTV, as those under age 50, and some 80% of 60-somethings used a cell phone in the past week, nearly equal the usage rates of 18-34 year olds. Additionally, 71% of 60-somethings and 52% of 70-somethings used a search engine in the past week, compared with 77% of 18-34 year olds.
Older Americans Rely More on In-Person Sources

The study also found that the majority of older Americans are comfortable researching and purchasing electronics products. Across all demographics, the internet is an integral part of the research process. Older Americans do, however, rely more heavily on in-person information sources, the study found. Nearly two-thirds (63%) spoke with a sales associate in-person when researching their consumer electronics purchase, compared with 47% of those age 18-49.

Higher Levels of Frustration Reported

Older consumers do report a higher level of frustration with the complexity of technology. Some 60% of consumers age 50+ indicated that a product having too many features was a main reason for being frustrated with technology, compared with 39% of consumers age 18-49.

“While satisfaction with CE products is high, frustrations do exist and this should be viewed as an opportunity for companies to seek ways to better address the technology needs of older Americans,” said Tim Herbert, CEA’s senior director of market research.

“In any environment, but particularly one with difficult market conditions, companies need to learn more about how to effectively reach this critical segment of older consumers,” said Elaine Warner, director, consumer technologies, TNS Compete.

About the research: The study was conducted online among a national sample of 3,135 US adults from TNS Compete’s online consumer panel, during November 2008.
Related topics: Wireless, Search Engine Marketing, Youth, Traditional, Retail, Videogames, Online Networks, New Tech, Demographics, Behavioral Marketing, E-Commerce, Elderly, Entertainment, and Interactive Social Networking.

Is The American Idol a Fake Platform?

As we all know american idol is not all what its been hyped up to be,which was created to give upsigned recording artist that where never signed before achance to be heard ,showcase and seen in front of millions of americans for their dreams to come true to become future recording stars.Well this is not the case in season number 8 of the false hopes show thats actually just a paycheck for the ads,and the shows producers .Case and point is Joanna Pacitti,Joanna is a former child entertainer--a moderately talented, moderately pretty girl aggressively groomed from an early age to be a big pop star.Who ended up getting dropped from MCA and becoming a waitress, things also didn't work out for Joanna quite as she or her Svengalis (among them Geffen Records honcho and frequent reality-TV figure Ron Fair) had planned. Despite appearances on the movie soundtracks for Legally Blonde, Nancy Drew, and Bratz, and having one of her songs covered by Britney Spears, Joanna's one album for Geffen/A&M, This Crazy Life, was a flop and Joanna (as she used to be singularly named) was dropped from A&M in 2007.I honestly can NOT believe the AmIdol producers are up to their old sneaky tricks in season 8.But as the saying goes you just can't trust the old ways of the media which will never change,and we must really embrace this digital social platform of new media to be showcased and discovered which gives the unsiged new digital artists achance the rightway with no hidden agenders which has nothing to with what Simon says.

Jermaine Dupri Ousted From Position At Def Jam?

Jermaine Dupri is no longer president at Island Records Urban Music, according to reports.The rapper/producer, who has head the position for nearly two years, oversaw all of Island Def Jam's urban music business, and served directly under Chairman Antonio "LA" Reid and President and COO of Island Def Jam Music Group Steve Bartellis. Insider music industry sources revealed that a formal announcement could be made this week. It is as of yet unclear what the source of the change is.These aren't the first reports of Dupri's termination from the storied label. Rumors began circulating this past August that Island Def Jam was displeased with him - citing lackluster album sales for projects he helmed such as Janet Jackson's Discipline.This goes to show once again that experience is the best teacher,there is no way any rapper should have been allow to be a record executive,in any shape form or fashion this is why alot of the major labels are finding them selfs regrouping to possibly be apart of the future which has already proceeded to take over with the new digital recording platforms.

Will Smith asks for $25 million per film,and" 7pounds" bombs at the box-office.

Will Smith is usually a man in Hollywood that can seemingly do no wrong. Although his movies are not always critically acclaimed, he’s a man who always gets it done from a box-office stand point.
Of his seventeen movies he’s appeared as a lead role, twelve have made over $100million domestically including his last eight which is a pretty impressive feat.
Therefore the poor box office results of his latest movies “7 Pounds”, which made less about $60 million world-wide to date, has movie executives pointing the finger at Smith.
Once producer spoke rather blunt about the situation claiming “if he wants to ask for $25 million per movie then he’s gotta’ deliver and this time he didn’t deliver”.

In the world of movie making the decision to purchase tickets comes down to the perception of fans and many fans weren’t feeling this filming, “Will just seemed to be overacting to me. I like the funny Fresh Prince type of characters and this was way to serious.”


Nevertheless, producers are scrambling to reach the $100 million dollar mark as the film cost more than $90 million to create. “7 Pounds” is now showing at theatres around the country, but may go to DVD earlier than expected to help recoup costs.
Maybe Will needs to start rapping about the public just don't understand.