The Recording Industry Association of America made the announcement that they're now adding album streams to the formula of album sales, and TDE's CEO Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith isn't feeling the rule change.

Jay-Z made headlines when he announced his new album “Magna Carter Holy Grail” through a partnership with technology company Samsung.  They will give away a million copies of Hov’s new album.  Jay-Z went on a Twitter rant about new rules and sparked a debate as to whether the album sales will be counted. Well the […]

R&B singer Monica should be celebrating today, the Grammy winner’s ‘Still Standing’ has just been certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of over 500,000 – just four weeks after it’s release.

People who doubted that Lil Wayne could pull off a successful rock album may have to eat their words now that the Recording Industry Association of America has confirmed that Lil Wayne’s Rebirth has gone gold. The RIAA made the announcement today that Rebirth is certified gold and vastly approaching platinum status. The album previously hit […]

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Black Music Month, takeover test child

  According to karencivil.com when Jay-Z stated that there are “New Rules” to the industry he was not joking! In a cross promotion with Samsung, Jay-Z’s new…