Urban Music 2000 Blog - Music News, Celebrity News, & Gossip

Urban Music News, Celebrities, Entertainment, Sports, & Political News

Entries Tagged ‘Back Catalog’

Fiddy Feud Helps Rick Ross Lock Up No. 1

Rick Ross may have learned the trick to beating Hannah Montana: start a fight with 50 Cent.
The Miami rapper ruled the charts with Deeper Than Rap, but Ross didn’t topple the Hannah Montana soundtrack alone. The self-proclaimed boss reached No. 1, selling 158,000 copies to Hannah’s 104,000, per Nielsen SoundScan, with help from his red-hot [...]

Lil Jon Free From TVT Records

Lil Jon, who was in musical limbo after his longtime record label TVT Records went bankrupt earlier this year, has reached an agreement that frees him from his TVT obligations while entering into a new venture with digital entertainment company The Orchard, which is purchasing TVT’s assets.
Lil Jon will work with the Orchard’s Brand [...]

Death Row Records Auctioned for $24 Million

 
Death Row Records, the hip-hop label that released seminal gangster rap albums by Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, has been auctioned for $24 million.
The New York-based Global Music Group Inc. said in a statement to The Associated Press on Monday that on June 24 it purchased Death Row, including its enviable back catalog [...]