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Cool artwork I found. It's a fake but would be nice if it were real.

Im not so sure they're gonna get number 1 now..... I reckon 3 on the chart is more likely.

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Lighters debuted at number 37 in the UK, absolutely zilch promo, not too bad I suppose....

Bad Meets Evil could have it very good on next week’s Billboard 200 as the Eminem/Royce Da 5’9 duo are in the lead to top the chart.

To do so, “Hell: the Sequel” has to hold off a surge by the angelic Jackie Evancho and her new album, “Dream With Me.” That’s a celebrity death match just waiting to happen. As of Friday, “Hell” was on target to sell between 155,000-165,000 copies, according to Hits Daily Double, while “Dream With Me” was looking good for 145,000-155,000.

That means Adele’s “21” will likely drop to No. 3, but it still poised to surpass the 100,000 mark. Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” continues to decline, looking to sell only 70,000 copies or so.

The third debut in the top 10 belongs to Owl City’s “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” which will likely bow at No. 5.

Rounding out the top 10 are Jason Aldean’s ‘’My Kinda Party’’ at No. 6, “Now 38” at No. 7, “Book of Mormon” original cast album at No. 8, Brad Paisley’s “This is Country Music” at No. 9 an Top 10 mainstay, Mumford & Sons’ “Sigh No More.”

Debuted at number 7 in the UK, not too shabby at all.

-- 1 bad meets evil shady/interscope 166,992 --
hell: The sequel
-- 2 jackie evancho columbia 159,139 --
dream with me
1 3 adele xl/columbia 114,136 0%
21
2 4 lady gaga interscope 68,935 -35%
born this way
7 5 jason aldean broken bow 51,239 +26%
my kinda party
-- 6 owl city universal republic 47,393 --
all things bright & beautiful
-- 7 ledisi verve forecast 36,445 --
pieces of me
-- 8 barry manilow stiletto 35,433 --
15 minutes
8 9 brad paisley arista nashville 34,819 -7%
this is country music
3 10 book of mormon ghostlight/razor & tie 33,235 -42%
original broadway cast
9 11 now that's what i call music 38 capitol/emi 31,682 +2%

iTunes top 10 in Canada for the week ending June 19.

ALBUMS

1 Hell: The Sequel _ Bad Meets Evil

2 21 _ Adele

3 Little Hell _ City and Colour

4 All Things Bright and Beautiful _ Owl City

5 Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits _ Creedence Clearwater Revival

6 Legend _ Bob Marley

7 Born This Way _ Lady Gaga

8 Wasting Light _ Foo Fighters

9 Sigh No More _ Mumford & Sons

10 Find Me _ Christina Grimmie

Eminem and his star power almost surely guarantees heavy sales on any project that bears his name and the trend continued this week as Slim Shady’s newest release Hell: The Sequel – alongside longtime friend Royce Da 5’9 as Bad Meets Evil – gets the distinction of debuting atop the Billboard 200 charts.

For Eminem, the Billboard position is a familiar haunt as the Motor City bad boy has ruled the charts for much of the past decade and remains a record selling phenomenon. In Royce Da 59’s case however, this marks the first time the highly vaunted MC has reached such lofty status. Clocking in at 166, 992 in sales, Hell: The Sequel shows just how powerful Eminem’s brand is as there has been little promotional push and no clear cut smash single to speak of.

Fans on Twitter showed their support of Slim Shady and Nickel Nine’s latest, with some expecting the release to sell as high as it did while others seeing this as a chance for Royce to get his due after so much early promise. Twitter fan @CraigSJenkins tweeted, “Any Eminem project is a lock for at least 6 figure 1st week sales. He is practically the biggest selling artist of our time.” User @ArmedPropaganda said of the EP’s sale, “It's proof that people still want quality music.”

The positive comments continued with, “Big shout out to Royce & Em (Bad Meets Evil) on having the number 1 album on Billboard, very well deserved. The album is crazy lyrical.” Fan @Darealrome humorously added, “Bad Meets Evil went #1, I've said it once and I'll say it again... Eminem is the Rap cheat code.” User @Atilla shouted out Royce Da 5’9 by tweeting, “Eminem & Royce da 5'9" (Bad Meets Evil) have the #1 album in the country. This is great news for Royce, who needed it.”

Hell: The Sequel marks the reunion of the Detroit rhyme slingers after a tiff between Royce and Eminem split the pair apart after a promising few tracks over a decade ago.

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Bad Meets Evil wreaks havoc on the albums chart this week with Hell: The Sequel. The dynamic duo of Eminem and Royce Da 5’9″ enters the Billboard 200 at No. 1 with their collaborative EP.

A decade after they last recorded together, the Detroit MCs debut with 171,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Eminem last held the No. 1 spot with Recovery, which spent seven weeks at No. 1 in 2010. Royce Da 5’9″ previously peaked at No. 110 with his 2009 solo project Street Hop.

Pop powerhouse Adele’s 21 slides to No. 3 (115,000), while Lady Gaga’s Born This Way moves down two spots to No. 4 (68,000).

Among the new entries this week is R&B singer Ledisi, whose fifth album Pieces of Me comes in at No. 8 with 36,000, marking her first top 10 entry and biggest sales week of her career.

Lighters moved up to 30 in the UK this week still without any promo.

Bad Meets Evil, the duo of rappers Eminem and Royce Da 5'9", leads 11 new titles onto the Hot 100, as "Lighters" ignites at No. 16. The pair's launch atop the Billboard 200 with its "Hell: the Sequel" EP aids enthusiasm for the track, as 96% of its Hot 100 points total stems from digital sales (132,000)

11 songs in the top 100? or am i reading that wrong?

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New Video filmed so if we're lucky, we'll get it in 6 months time :idc:

Lighters climbed to 17 on the Hot 100 :amazed:

Lighters climbs to Number 10 on the Hot 100 :amazed: all we need now is a video. :suspect:

Bad Meets Evil - the hip-hop duo of Eminem and Royce da 5'9" - bookends the Hot 100's top 10 by igniting 17-10 with Digital Gainer honors (and besting its No. 16 peak upon its debut five weeks ago). The cut soars 12-5 on Digital Songs, up 56% to 143,000, marking its best sales week to-date. Airplay continues to build for the song, which rockets 35-20 on Radio Songs (47 million, up 35%).

"Lighters" (which also marks featured artist Bruno Mars' sixth Hot 100 top 10) is Eminem's second top 10 this year. He and Skylar Grey guested on Dr. Dre's "I Need a Doctor," which reached No. 4 in March. Eminem has now notched top 10s under three billings, in fact; he sang on D12's No. 6-peaking "My Band" in 2004. (The superstar has logged 14 top 10s as a soloist).

Climbed to Number 5 yesterday :love:

maintained Number 5 in the US.
Climbed to 11 in Ireland
Video Premieres this weekend.

Only a day late :love:

Lighters has sold over 1 million copies in the US alone :love:

-likes this song- :D

Rappers Eminem and Royce Da 5' 9's collaborative project Bad Meets Evil: Hell The Sequel, has crossed the 500,000 unit mark. Royce announced that the album has struck gold sales status via Twitter, and showcased his new gold plaque online.

The project marked the first full project the longtime friends and former rivals from Detroit have recorded together and is one of two high-profile collaborative albums released this summer, the other being Kanye West and Jay-Z's Watch the Throne.

While Em has had multiplatinum successes throughout his career, this is one of Royce's fastest-selling releases; and the rapper received accolades on various social networks. Bad Meets Evil... was released June 14.

Glad that Royce Da 5' 9' is getting some recognition, he deserves it.

definitely. i got 'Success is Certain' last week and its a decent album. I ordered 'Death is Certain' last week too but its yet to come in the post.

It was a contentious showdown, but after many lead changes, Bad Meets Evil's "Lighters," featuring Bruno Mars, bested Britney Spears' "I Wanna Go" to take MTV News' Song of Summer crown.

Nearly a half-million votes were cast, though a vast majority (327,679) of those were split almost evenly between Royce Da 5'9" and Eminem's joint project and Spears. Fan groups rallied behind their respective favorites, leading to a lot of back-and-forth over the past few days, but "Lighters" ultimately came out ahead when polls closed earlier Wednesday (September 7), taking 38.2 percent of the tally with 167,202 votes. The track has turned into a summer sleeper hit for Em, Royce and Mars. It is currently holding strong at #4, its peak position so far, on the Billboard Hot 100, 11 weeks after debuting on the chart.

Spears' "I Wanna Go" — the third Billboard top 10 hit from Femme Fatale — trailed with just over 36.6 percent. If Spears is less than pleased with coming in second, she can take comfort in knowing that her 160,477 votes put her way ahead of her nearest competitor, Lady Gaga, by well over 100,000 votes.

Taking 11.91 percent of the poll, Gaga's "The Edge of Glory" came in third with 52,126 votes. The only other song to pull down a sizable number of votes was Rihanna's "S&M," a track released in late spring that topped the charts early this summer, which garnered 34,681 votes for 7.92 percent of the tally.

Interestingly, many of the summer's biggest chart hits found themselves without much love in our Newsroom poll. Among the songs that reached #1 on the Billboard singles chart but found themselves with fractional percentages of the vote here were Katy Perry's history-making "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" with just 1.26 percent, Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" (0.33 percent), LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" (0.71 percent) and this week's Hot 100 #1, Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera's "Moves Like Jagger" (0.98 percent).

Radio hits from Pitbull and Nicki Minaj also missed the boat with 3,090 votes (0.71 percent) and 1,655 votes (0.38 percent), respectively, for "Give Me Everything" and "Super Bass," while "Dirty Dancer" by Enrique Iglesias featuring Usher and Lil Wayne took 0.28 percent and "Otis" from Throne duo Jay-Z and Kanye West scored just 0.12 percent (or 524 votes).

The numbers for mainstream artists like Perry, Minaj and West were fairly similar to those accrued by lower-profile acts Foster the People, Cobra Starship and David Guetta. Foster's "Pumped Up Kicks" earned the band 0.14 percent of our poll, with slightly bigger numbers falling to Cobra's "You Make Me Feel" (0.25) and Guetta's "Where Them Girls At" (0.16).

Seen Eminem back 23rd of August, ****ing amazing, D12 was there, so Royce was there, woah ****, that night was soo good.

Was that at V?

the setlist is epic, you get Eminem's old school catalouge. The D12 era. his newest releases and then Bad Meets Evil....

That sounds awesome. Yeah, he puts on a great show. I saw him and Jay-Z last year at Comerica. One of the best, and most crowded, live events I've ever been to.

I saw him last year at Oxegen well both actually.... Jay-Z was the saturday headliner and Eminem closed the festival......seeing them both completed my list of performers to see live....:D