Chicken Hill Productions - We Here (feat. Young Collage, Peabodie, Dee, Ren & Psyph,

Everybody on the track is a homeboy of mine of course. They on here putting it down one time for the 209 sector people show some love and check out the video.

Katy Perry Set to Tie Michael Jackson’s Milestone

Michael Jackson may always be the “King of Pop,” but Katy Perry may be entering the late singer’s kingdom. The pop star’s latest disc, Teenage Dream, features an endless string of hits, and if the album’s fifth single, “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” hits the Number One spot, Perry will become the first female artist to ever have five Number One singles off one album, matching a record Michael Jackson set in the late eighties with his album Bad.

Considering Perry’s newest single jumped 27 spots to the Number Four spot this week on the Billboard Hot 100, it seems as if this is a very realistic goal for the singer whose other Number One smashes from Teenage Dream include the title track, “California Gurls,” “Firework” and “E.T.”

Perry has already broken the Hot 100 record for most consecutive weeks with a single inside the Top 10 by managing to spend an entire year with at least one song dominating the charts (sorry Ace Of Base) and it looks as if “T.G.I.F.” could also become her sixth single to pass the four-million download mark.
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In other words if there is ever a time to buy stock in Katy Perry, we’d consider now to be as good a time as ever.

LA Sheriff Warns of Cocaine Additive Reactions

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cocaine cut with a livestock de-worming medication is causing severe skin reactions in drug users, authorities warned Monday.

Pointing to a recent study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department sent out an advisory outlining a problem that has been cropping up in hospitals around the country.

In a June 7 paper, doctors described two cases at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, near Los Angeles, and four cases at the University of Rochester Medical School, in Rochester, N.Y., where patients went to the emergency room complaining of purple blotches on their ears and other areas after taking cocaine.

The patients had suffered a reaction to the veterinary treatment levamisole, the study said, which is banned for human consumption but frequently used to adulterate cocaine.

"We believe this case series may represent the tip of the iceberg as a looming public health problem caused by levamisole," the study stated.

Dr. Noah Craft, one of the study's authors, said he sees a new case at least once every two months and he first started noticing the trend in late 2009. Patients develop blotches that turn from pink to purple and, once the skin has died, to black. Usually these marks are on the ears, mouth and cheeks.

In some cases, patients also develop a potentially fatal condition affecting the bone marrow and leaving them vulnerable to infection. Symptoms usually disappear a few weeks after a patient stops using cocaine and only a small percentage of people are susceptible to having an adverse reaction to levamisole, Craft said.

Sheriff's Capt. Mike Parker said he sent out the advisory to try to encourage people to stop using illegal drugs.

"If not because of the violence in this country and beyond, how about for no other reason so you don't have your extremities turn purple and fall off," he said.
The study states drug dealers may cut cocaine with levamisole because it works in a similar way to the street drug, increasing levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine to the brain's euphoric centers.

Levamisole is the main ingredient used to cut cocaine in the Los Angeles region, Drug Enforcement Administration spokeswoman Sarah Pullen said. Though the agency does not routinely test for contaminants, levamisole has been found in both powder and crystal cocaine.

Author: Thomas Watkins, He can be followed at http://twitter.com/thomaswatkins

Alter-Egoz ((Artwork))

Check out my boy Carl Whitman and his creative brand. Alter Egos is a custom design company that really brings out your character in there designs. They use a ordinary photo of you and make magic with it. Here are some below to get an idea.

Jimmy “Henchman” Rosemond Arrested in NYC

After being on the run since May 29th, Hip-Hop hardcase Jimmy Henchman was bagged coming out the W Hotel in NYC. He trued to run, buuut…. well check the story. Another one bites the dust.

As Reported By The New York Post:


Hip-hop talent agent James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond was arrested by DEA agents and charged today with heading a cocaine trafficking ring that operated on both the West and East coasts, authorities said.

Rosemond, who was a wanted fugitive, was hunted down by US Marshals and agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration after a long investigation, officials said.


The hip-hop mogul spotted the agents at about noon as he walked out of the W Hotel in Union Square, sources said. Once on the street, Rosemond walked north and tried to outrun the agents until he was finally arrested on 21st Street and Park Avenue South.

The US Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn charged Rosemond in a complaint today with orchestrating the delivery of multiple kilos of cocaine from Los Angeles to the New York City metropolitan area.

Millions of dollars in drug proceeds went from New York back to California, the complaint charged.

Rosemond is expected to be arraigned this afternoon in Brooklyn federal court.


The DEA probe was aided by two informants who were high-ranking members of Rosemond’s organization, the feds said. Hundreds of kilos of cocaine was shipped to New York — sometimes encased in plastic that was covered with mustard in an effort to throw off drug-sniffing dogs.

Source: OzoneMag

Mexican Police Capture Top Drug Cartel BOSS

CITY (AFP) – Mexican police have captured the top boss of the notorious La Familia drug cartel in a raid on the central town of Aguascalientes, a government spokesman said Tuesday.

"The federal government has detained the top leader (of La Familia) Jose de Jesus Mendez," said security spokesman Alejandro Poire.

"This detention has destroyed the remaining command structure," he said, adding no shots had been fired in the raid that led to Mendez's capture.

Earlier, President Felipe Calderon sent a message on his personal Twitter account, saying: "A great blow by federal police against organized crime. One of the most wanted criminals captured. Congratulations."

La Familia is one of Mexico's most violent drug cartels, and its stronghold is in Michoacan state where it has been battling the Los Zetas gang.

The former head of La Familia, Nazario Moreno, was killed in December in a shootout with police. Classed among Mexico's seven major drug cartels, La Familia is considered the country's top producer of synthetic drugs.

It announced its arrival on the scene in October 2006, when its men walked into a bar and rolled five severed heads onto a dance floor.

La Familia was soon posing a direct challenge to the federal government, killing eight people in a grenade attack on a crowd celebrating Mexico's independence day on September 15, 2008.

In July 2009, it killed 16 police officers, 12 of whom were found in a heap on the side of a road.

The toll in suspected drug-related violence in Mexico has surpassed 37,000 since Calderon launched a military crackdown on organized crime in 2006.

Kuzzo Fly - I'm On That (feat. Yukmouth) Official Video

Here go my two homeboys doing they thang for the west coast. Shout out Kuzzo and Yuk for both being apart of my projects.

Marilyn Monroe's Seven Year Itch dress sells for $4.6m

The white dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch has sold for $4.6m (£2.8m) at an auction in Los Angeles.

The dress was part of a collection of film memorabilia collected by actress Debbie Reynolds over four decades.

She had hoped to house them in a museum but the project never came to fruition.

Other lots included Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra headdress, a Charlie Chaplin bowler hat and the guitar played by Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music.

Reynolds, 79, was in tears as the auction on the iconic Seven Year Itch dress closed, CNN reported.

Auction house Profiles in History had expected it to reach around $2m.

It was bought by an unidentified buyer bidding by telephone.

A red sequined dress and feathered headdress worn for Monroe's role in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes reached $1.47m and a saloon girl costume from River of No Return for $510,000.

Many of the items had been given to Reynolds by her close friend Dame Elizabeth Taylor, who died earlier this year. The horse racing outfit worn by Taylor as a child in National Velvet sold for $73,800.

The trademark bowler hat worn by Charlie Chaplin in several films, including The Little Tramp, reached $135,300 while a dress and pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the filming of The Wizard of Oz sold for $1.75m despite not having appeared in the film.

Keya Morgan, a collector of memorabilia and author of a book on Monroe, said the auction was "totally crazy, especially in this recession".

She told CNN Monroe would have been amazed to see her old outfits sell for so much.

Reynolds began collecting props and costumes in 1970 and had amassed some 3,500 items.

Speaking before the auction, she said the cost of maintaining them had become too high and that by selling them "I won't have quite so much responsibility and I can rest a little more".

Debbie Reynolds has made a mint from her collection of costumes and artifacts, but the sale is tinged with sadness.

For decades the actress personally attended studio auctions to buy spectacular costumes from some of the most iconic films. For Reynolds it was a labour of love and reflected a passion to preserve the artifacts of Hollywood's golden age.

But little interest was shown in the collection from any organisation with the wherewithal to put it on display. The actress decided to sell off the items individually because caring for them had become a financial burden.

Joe Maddalena, who runs the auction house, Profiles in History, told me it reflected badly on Hollywood: "Why there isn't a movie hall of fame, a cultural institute to share this around the world is an atrocity. I don't think anybody cares enough about their heritage to do something about it."

Author: Peter Bowes

Luxottica: Owns All Your Eye Glasses

Silver compares the eyewear industry to that of Swiss watches “People know that when you’re buying a Patek Philippe, you’re getting a movement that came from Patek Philippe – and they are happy to pay that premium.” On the contrary, the reigning force of Italian conglomerate Luxottica, which now owns Ray-Ban, Persol, Oakley, Mosley Tribes, and even Oliver Peoples, dominates eyewear. In addition to these “house brands”, Luxottica owns the licensing rights to a shocking amount of designer frames including Chanel, Ralph Lauren, Bulgari, Ferragamo, Versace, and many more.

No matter whose frame you are buying at what price, they are all coming from Luxottica.

Author: Benjamin Clymer

Apple starts selling unlocked iPhones in US

NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Inc. on Tuesday started selling "unlocked" iPhones in the U.S. for the first time, allowing owners to switch carriers to a limited extent and save money when travelling.

Apple is selling them on its websites and its store for $649 and $749 depending on how much memory they have. They're identical to the versions sold for use on AT&T Inc.'s network, but don't require a two-year contract.

The buyer will separately have to buy a Subscriber Identity Module, or SIM card, from a carrier to activate the phone. Apart from AT&T, the only national U.S. carrier that's compatible with the phone is T-Mobile USA, and it can provide only phone calls and low data speeds. Its U.S. "3G" wireless high-speed data network isn't compatible with the iPhone.

Many overseas carriers, however, are fully compatible with the phone, so international travelers can switch out their U.S. SIM card with one from the local country to avoid AT&T's international roaming fees.

Apple already sells unlocked iPhones in all other countries where the phone is available, according to Apple spokeswoman Natalie Harris.

Hackers have also made a sport of unlocking iPhones, freeing them up for resale and use in other countries.

AT&T sells iPhone 4s that are locked but don't come with contracts, also for $649 and $749. Spokesman Mark Siegel said AT&T will not sell the new unlocked phones.

AT&T does not let customers unlock older iPhones either. The company provides unlock codes to customers with other phones if their contracts have expired or they're willing to pay an early termination fee.

Unlocked and no-contract phones are more expensive than phones sold under contract because carriers like AT&T subsidize phones that come with contracts, figuring that they will make their money back through service fees.

The Paul Newman Daytona on Black NATO

While your average Paul Newman Daytona costs as much as a Porsche 911, that doesn’t mean it should sit on a pricey leather strap or bracelet. The black bezel and subdials against the bright white dial on this Paul Newman go perfectly with a simple black NATO.

Flo-Rida Arrested For DUI In His $1.7 Million Bugatti

If you can afford a $1.7 million Bugatti, you should be able to afford a designated driver. TMZ reports that Flo Rida was pulled over in his pricey ride for reckless driving at 3:30am last night in Miami Beach, and picked up for suspicion of DUI after failing a field sobriety test and stinking of the sauce. The sits also says he’s still in booking, and that his blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit. AllHopHop also claims Flo was driving with a suspended license. If this didn’t already sound like some Hangover II-style adventure (he did rap over the credits), Flo Rida is currently scheduled to perform in Bangkok this weekend, though it’s unclear whether he’ll still be able to make the engagement.

Author: Anthony Miccio

$85,000 for the largest 3D TV in the world

It’s a 3D TV with an 85-inch plasma screen. Its cost reaches to a whopping $85,000, or about $1000 per inch, making it the largest, most expensive 3D HDTV in the world.

The Danish luxury home audio and video company, Bang & Olufsen (B&O), just launched its first 3D TV that weighs 359.6 pounds (163 kg), equipped with a motorized stand that weighs an additional 600 pounds (272 kg).

The new BeoVision 4-85 is the largest 3D TV in the world at the moment. It provides a full HD clearly, and the display has an anti-reflection covering and is surrounded by a high quality aluminum case.

The TV comes with a central speaker that delivers high frequency sounds and an automatic color management technology that improves the picture quality. But unfortunately 3D glasses are a must and they don’t come with the TV.

So those interested to watch 3D movies on the TV must purchase the 3D glasses that will cost another $150 dollars per pair. This massive TV will be available in markets as of next month.

But before anyone can take the $85,000 TV home, the dealers will require to inspect the place where the client plans to put the TV, as they need to make sure the floor can handle the heavy screen!!!

Gov. Jerry Brown's Plan Would Shift Inmates To Local Jails

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) (UPDATED: 1:53 p.m.) — Gov. Jerry Brown's administration on Tuesday said the governor's stalled plan to shift thousands of inmates from state prisons to local jails will eventually relieve inmate overcrowding, meeting a U.S. Supreme Court order to slash California's prison population.

The administration acknowledged it needs state lawmakers' support and might not meet the court's initial goal of cutting the prison population by more than 10,000 inmates by the end of November. But it did not request a delay.

"What we've said is we're going to move forward with this plan and we'll ask for more time if we need it," Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate said at a news conference.

The latest count shows California's 33 prisons housing 143,565 inmates in space designed for fewer than 80,000, meaning the prisons are at 180 percent of their design capacity.

In an order late last month, the Supreme Court gave California two years to remove more than 33,000 inmates after the justices ruled easing congestion is the only way to improve unconstitutionally poor inmate medical and mental health care. The Supreme Court ruling upheld an order by a three-judge panel overseeing the prison crowding lawsuits against the state.

The administration's response outlined all the steps the state has taken in recent years to reduce its prison population, including sending about 10,000 inmates to other states. But its compliance with the recent order hinges almost entirely on plans that Brown signed into law in April to shift responsibility for thousands of lower-level inmates to counties.

The shift cannot take effect unless local governments get the money to provide jail cells and rehabilitation services, and funding for that remains stalled in the state Legislature. Republican lawmakers have blocked Brown's proposal for an extension of temporary tax increases that are set to expire by the end of this month.

Renewing the recent increases in the vehicle, sales and personal income taxes is essential to funding Brown's plan to shift low-level offenders to county jurisdiction.

The Supreme Court had indicated that it might consider a request for a delay in its order, which includes benchmarks in reducing overcrowding along the way, but Cate said it was too soon for that.

"It would be irresponsible to say we're going to do nothing, go back to the same three judges and cross our fingers," Cate said.

The receiver appointed to oversee health care in the prisons also called on the Legislature to approve funding, both for realignment and for construction of more prison space.

"We have well-defined and prudent plans to continue work in meeting the court mandate to reduce the population and improve inmate health care, which includes adding much-needed capacity through construction of health care facilities, renovation of existing institutions and the Governor's realignment plan," receiver J. Clark Kelso said in a statement. "I will continue to work collaboratively with state and legislative leadership to resolve the issues we face, but the time to make those tough decisions is now."

Nick Warner, legislative director of the California State Sheriffs' Association, said he hadn't seen the state's response to the court and could not immediately comment.

Associations representing California counties — which run the jails that would receive the inmates — and the state's police chiefs voiced continued support for Brown's plan, assuming the necessary funding is made available.

"The Governor's plan for realignment can work ... if it's funded," said Dave Maggard, president of the California Police Chiefs' Association.

The Supreme Court ruling "made funding realignment absolutely essential and urgent," he said. "We hope that the Legislature agrees with us and will act quickly."

"What we heard today was pretty much in line with what we expected," said Erin Treadwell, spokeswoman for the California State Association of Counties. "Realignment is the most logical choice as far as how to deal with (the court order). We need to get that to the public for a vote as quickly as possible."

Brown has insisted that any tax extensions be approved by voters, even though the same number of votes would be needed to extend the taxes in the Legislature as would be needed to put them on the ballot. Some fear work on realignment would begin and voters would reject the tax extensions.

"We expect the voters to agree to it" when they hear all the arguments, Tate said.

"If the voters turn this down," Treadwell said, "it throws this into another world. ... I'm not a very good soothsayer of Armageddon."

Fox News Cancer Doc Diagnosed With Cancer

Fox News on-air health contributor Dr. Cynara Coomer was diagnosed with thyroid cancer last month -- just four weeks after the birth of her daughter, Olivia.
The 39-year-old Coomer -- who specializes in breast cancer and is the chief of breast surgery at Staten Island University Hospital -- revealed her diagnosis on her Foxnews.com blog, stressing to viewers the importance of getting their thyroids checked.

She was diagnosed with a type of thyroid cancer that has an 80 to 90 percent survival rate.

She underwent successful surgery Jan. 6.

"It still makes your heart skip a beat and takes your breath away for a second," she says of learning her cancer diagnosis. "Fortunately, knowing what I know, I knew it was a treatable cancer, but still having to go through those emotions and getting the diagnosis is a bit overwhelming.

"As a physician, you feel like your body won't let you down, and that this won't happen to you, or that, if it does, it will happen later in life," she says. "I have a big heart for my patients that have to go through cancer treatments," she says. "This gives me a better understanding on an emotional and psychological level about what they're going through.

"It's a reality check for our sense of mortality."

Iggy Pop With A Dior Handbag

This pic is one of the ugliest pics i ever seen in life. Shout out to Iggy for being such a crzy guy!

Motorola DROID 3 Makes an Appearance in Leaked Verizon Tutorial Videos

Right on the heels of the Motorola Droid X2 on Verizon release, now three training videos have been leaked of the Motorola Droid 3. Take a gander at its five-row slide-out keypad, 8-megapixel camera that implies 1080p video recording, and a rumored dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor like its predecessor the Droid X2.

If your Sunday is not very exciting, here is some news that might cheer some Verizon users up. Big Red has the habit of uploading tutorial videos for their new devices, and it seems that the tutorials for the Motorola Droid 3 have slipped out of their hands today.

(via) TechDygest

First man ‘functionally cured’ of HIV

Since HIV was discovered 30 years ago this week, 30 million people have died from the disease, and it continues to spread at the rate of 7,000 people per day globally, the UN says.

There's not much good news when it comes to this devastating virus. But that is perhaps why the story of the man scientists call the "Berlin patient" is so remarkable and has generated so much excitement among the HIV advocacy community.

Timothy Ray Brown suffered from both leukemia and HIV when he received a bone marrow stem cell transplant in Berlin, Germany in 2007. The transplant came from a man who was immune to HIV, which scientists say about 1 percent of Caucasians are.

(According to San Francisco's CBS affiliate, the trait may be passed down from ancestors who became immune to the plague centuries ago. This Wired story says it was more likely passed down from people who became immune to a smallpox-like disease.)

What happened next has stunned the dozens of scientists who are closely monitoring Brown: His HIV went away.

"He has no replicating virus and he isn't taking any medication. And he will now probably never have any problems with HIV," his doctor Gero Huetter told Reuters.

Brown now lives in the Bay Area, and suffers from some mild neurological difficulties after the operation. "It makes me very happy," he says of the incredible cure.

The development of anti-retroviral drugs in the 1990s was the first sign of hope in the epidemic, transforming the disease from a sudden killer to a more manageable illness that could be lived with for decades. But still, the miraculous cocktail of drugs is expensive, costing $13 billion a year in developing countries alone, according to Reuters. That figure is expected to triple in 20 years--raising the worry that more sick people will not be able to afford treatment.

Although Brown's story is remarkable, scientists were quick to point out that bone marrow transplants can be fatal, and there's no way Brown's treatment could be applied to the 33.3 million people around the world living with HIV. The discovery does encourage "cure research," according to Dr. Jay Levy, who co-discovered HIV thirty years ago, something that many people did not even think was possible years ago.

You can watch Brown talk about his cure in this CBS video report.

(Brown: Eric Risberg/AP)

Author: Liz Goodwin

High fashion or bait? Fly ties now Hair Extensions

BOISE, Idaho – Fly shop manager Jim Bernstein was warned that hair stylists would come banging on his door, but he didn't listen.
Sure enough, less than 24 hours later, a woman walked into the Eldredge Bros. Fly Shop in Maine and made a beeline toward a display of hackles — the long, skinny rooster feathers fishermen use to make lures.

"She brought a bunch up to the counter and asked if I could get them in pink," he said. "That's when I knew."

Fly fishing shops nationwide, he learned, are at the center of the latest hair trend: Feather extensions. Supplies at stores from the coasts of Maine to landlocked Idaho are running out and some feathers sold online are fetching hundreds of dollars more than the usual prices.

"I'm looking around the shop thinking hmmm, what else can they put in their hair?" Bernstein said.

Fly fishermen are not happy, bemoaning the trend in online message boards and sneering at so-called "feather ladies." Some also blame "American Idol" judge and rocker Steven Tyler, who began wearing the feathers in his long hair.

"It takes years and years and years to develop these chickens to grow these feathers. And now, instead of ending up on a fly, it's going into women's hair," said Matt Brower, a guide and assistant manager at Idaho Angler in Boise.

"I think that's the reason a lot of people are a little peeved about it," he said.

The feathers are not easy to come by in the first place.

They come from roosters that are genetically bred and raised for their plumage. In most cases, the birds do not survive the plucking.

At Whiting Farms, Inc., in western Colorado, one of the world's largest producers of fly tying feathers, the roosters live about a year while their saddle feathers — the ones on the bird's backside and the most popular for hair extensions — grow as long as possible. Then the animal is euthanized.

As hair extensions, the feathers can be brushed, blow dried, straightened and curled once they are snapped into place. Most salons sell the feather strands for $5 to $10 a piece. The trend has become so popular a company online even sells feather extensions for dogs.

The craze has also left hairstylists scrambling to find rooster saddle feathers, as fly shops hold onto a select few for their regular customers. The businesses will now ask if the feathers are for hairdressing, said Shelley Ambroz, who owns MiraBella Salon and Spa in Boise.

"If you go in and you're a woman, they won't sell to you," said Ambroz, who started to eye her husband's fly fishing gear after stores ran out.

"He told me to stay out of his feathers," she said.

Whiting Farms is harvesting about 1,500 birds a week for their feathers and still can't keep up with its current orders, said owner and founder Tom Whiting, a poultry geneticist. The company has stopped taking on new accounts.

"I've tried to withhold some for the fly fishing world because when the fashion trend goes away, which it will, I've still got to make a living," he said.

The company was the one that told Bernstein in Maine several months ago that rooster saddle feathers had somehow become the latest coveted hair accessory. Bernstein said he scoffed at the notion that it could reach his shop along the coast of southern Maine.

"This is Maine, it's not California. We're a little behind the trends here," he said. "I screwed up. I should have said: `Send me everything you've got.'"

Bernstein's inventory of rooster saddle feathers has long been depleted. About three weeks ago, he dusted off a rooster neck with feathers that had been set aside for fly tying classes at the shop. The neck would have normally cost $29.95, but the shop sold it for $360.

It's not uncommon to find a package of rooster saddle feathers that would have cost around $60 at a fly shop now priced from $200 to $400.

A package of the most popular fly tying hackle for hair extensions, a black and white striped feather called grizzly saddle, would normally retail anywhere from $40 to $60. It sold for $480 on eBay last month after 31 bids.

At the Boise salon, Ambroz has stowed away enough feathers to last about six months.

On a recent Tuesday evening, Emilee Rivers, 16, sifted through a pile of rooster saddle feathers looking for the perfect strands to frame her face. She picked out four and handed them to the stylist, who bonded them together with hot glue before clipping them into Rivers' blond hair.

Brandi Wheeler, 16, was next. There's only one other girl at Borah High School in Boise who has the feather extensions, the teenagers said.

Now, they were joining the select few.

"I've wanted to get them for quite a while," Rivers said.

She went to the salon with her mom, Kristi, who totally gets it.

"My dad on the other hand, he's so confused," Rivers said. "I told him what I was doing and he said: `Why would you get feathers in your hair?'"

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Behind The Scenes: DJ Khaled Ft. Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne - I'm On One

BEHIND THE SCENES OF DJ KHALED's "IM ON ONE" from DERICK G on Vimeo.

Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' Sets One-Week Digital Sales Record

Not only did Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" debut at #1 and sell 1.1 million units last week, the album also set a one-week SoundScan record for most digital sales. In fact, in just one week "Born This Way" became the eighth best-selling U.S. digital album of all time.

"Born This Way" was helped by an estimated 440,000 units sold in Amazon's two-day, 99-cent promotion for which her label, Interscope, was paid full price. Without sales from Amazon's promotion, "Born This Way" would not have surpassed the one million-unit mark but still would have achieved the best single week of digital sales in 2011. Amazon sold an estimated 440,000 digital albums of "Born This Way," meaning the title sold about 222,000 digital units elsewhere. Adele's "21" sold 217,000 digital units in its debut week.

In its debut week, the album sold 662,000 units - 60% of first-week sales - in the digital format. Both figures were higher than her previous albums. "The Fame" debuted October 28, 2008 with a modest 14,000 units and a 59% digital share. "The Fame Monster" debuted with 66,000 units and a 38% digital share. Since their releases, "The Fame" and "The Fame Monster" have 23% and 19% digital shares, respectively.

That first-week tally means "Born This Way" nearly caught the year-to-date digital sales of Adele's "21" in just one week (albeit a long week, since "Born This Way" was released on a Monday instead of the usual Tuesday new-release day). In 14 weeks, "21" has sold 842,000 digital albums and has been the dominant digital album of the year.

On top of that, in just one week, "Born This Way" becomes the eighth best-selling digital album in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. It is 11,000 units behind Kings of Leon's "Only By the Night" and 67,000 units behind Taylor Swift's "Fearless," both released in late 2008. The top three digital albums of all time are Eminem's "Recovery" (975,000), Lady Gaga's "The Fame" (961,000) and Adele's "21" (842,000).

Other top first-week digital album sales of 2011: Lupe Fiasco's "Lasers" has sold 114,000 units; Britney Spears' "Femme Fatale" 113,000; Foo Fighters' "Wasting Light" 103,000; Wiz Khalifa's "Rolling Papers" 73,000; the "Songs for Japan" collection sold 68,000; Beastie Boys' "Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2" 64,000; and Chris Brown's "F.A.M.E." sold 64,000 units.

Author: Glenn Peoples (@billboardglenn), Nashville