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Jay-Z & Kanye’s Watch The Throne Breaks U.S. ITunes Record

Posted by Muammar Reed on August 15, 2011
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Billboard.com

“‘Watch the Throne’ surpasses the previous one-week iTunes record, set when Coldplay‘s 2008 album “Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends” shifted 282,000 in its first week. (The album sold 288,000 total downloads in its first week, including sales from all other retailers.)”

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There is No Competition

Posted by Muammar Reed on August 17, 2010
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There are two types of artists that irk me:

1.  Artists that are too afraid of being themselves because they are afraid of what everyone thinks; and

2.  Artists that are too engulfed into what everyone else is doing that they can never create anything authentic.

Just Blaze on Competition with Kanye

For all artists that fall into either category, realize that “There is no Competition.”  You are only competing with yourself, your bad habits, your work ethic, and your fear of embarrassment and being inadequate. Continue reading…

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