Here are Bad Boy's positions on the most recent Billboard U.S. album and single charts, released today. Machine Gun Kelly's "Invincible" makes ome major inroads with a number of debuts while French Montana's "Shot Caller" gains.
Singles
Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles
8. "Invincible" by Machine Gun Kelly (debut).
Heatseekers Songs
10. "Wild Boy" by Machine Gun Kelly (a new high, up from 14).
16. "Invincible" by Machine Gun Kelly ("Hot Shot Debut").
Here are Bad Boy's positions on the most recent Billboard U.S. album and single charts, released today.
This is a noteworthy week for Bad Boy. Machine Gun Kelly makes his Billboard Hot 100 debut with "Wild Boy." This is Bad Boy's first song on the chart since May 21, 2011, when Dirty Money's "Coming Home" appeared for the last time. Across the board "Wild Boy" hits new highs.
The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Greatest Hits" makes a big leap, as well, jumping to 152 on The Billboard 200. This is the first time a Bad Boy album has been on that chart since May 14, 2011 when Dirty Money's "Last Train to Paris" took it's final bow.
Finally, French Montana is now showing up on Billboard as a Bad Boy artist, so he is included in these charts, as well.
At press time, two relevant charts had not yet been updated. Those are the Hot Digital Songs and Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles charts. When Billboard updates them, this article will be updated.
Update: Those charts have now been accounted for and Bad Boy did not hold a position on either of them.
Here are Bad Boy's positions on the most recent Billboard U.S. album and single charts, released today.
As of writing, Billboard has not yet updated a few meaningful charts, including Hot Digital Songs, Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles and Heatseekers Songs. The latter two of which, Machine Gun Kelly's "Wild Boy" had charted on for the previous week. I will update this post when these charts are brought up to date.
Update (1/16/2012): Those charts have been updated and included below.
Albums
R&B/Hip-Hop Catalog Albums
15. "Greatest Hits" by The Notorious B.I.G. (re-entry).
Singles
Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles
8. "Wild Boy" by Machine Gun Kelly (down from 6).
Heatseekers Songs
18. "Wild Boy" by Machine Gun Kelly (down from 17).
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
52. "Fly Together" by Red Cafe (down from 47).
85. "Wild Boy" by Machine Gun Kelly (down from 83).
Rick Ross has released his "Rich Forever" mixtape, which can be downloaded on LiveMixtapes.com. It features two appearances each from Diddy and Rick Ross.
Diddy appears for ad-libs on the first track, "Holy Ghost," and provides a verse on "New Bugatti," which was produced by D.RICH. Meanwhile, Montana is featured on "Stay Schemin" (with Drake) and "Off the Boat," produced by The Beat Bully and Lex Lugar, respectively.
Check out some behind the scenes footage of them making the mixtape below.
Here are Bad Boy's positions on the most recent Billboard U.S. album and single charts, released yesterday. We are now covering the "Social/Streaming" charts that Billboard provides, including the Social 50 and YouTube.
Singles
Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles
6. "Wild Boy" by Machine Gun Kelly (down from 4).
Heatseekers Songs
17. "Wild Boy" by Machine Gun Kelly (down from 16).
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
47. "Fly Together" by Red Cafe (down from 44).
83. "Wild Boy" by Machine Gun Kelly (a new high, up from 86).
XXL reports that, during an Interview with Reese On The Radio, former Bad Boy artist G. Dep revealed that he is working on an autobiography from prison, as he waits sentencing for the murder that he confessed to at the end of 2010.
"It's one of those things where I'm not trying to explain or justify anything," he said. It's just I'm trying to just give people my last option. Obviously I can't record. I don't know if people are wondering what's going on or even care, but this is something from an artistic point of view that will kind of close out what I was doing, for now. It might kinda answer some people's questions.”
Rap Radar has the track listing to Rick Ross' "Rich Forever" mixtape and Diddy and French Montana will both appear twice.
Diddy will appear on the first track, the intro "Holy Ghost" as well as "New Bugatti," which was produced by D.RICH.
Meanwhile, Montana will appear on "Stay Schemin," with Drake (originally thought to be the title track) and "Off the Boat." Those songs were produced by The Beat Bully and Lex Luger, respectively.
Diddy will be appearing with a substantial portion of the Bad Boy roster on DJ Whoo Kid's Shade 45 show on New Year's Eve. The show runs from 12 PM to 5 PM ET.
Alongside Diddy will be Cassie, Machine Gun Kelly, French Montana and Red Cafe, in addition to Steve O (seems likely he'll connect with Machine Gun Kelly at some point on the air, seeing as the rapper name checks him repeatedly on "Wild Boy"), Rocsi, Matisyahu, Busta Rhymes and Waka Flocka Flame.
With 2011 coming to a close, Bad Boy Records will break it's streak of 17 consecutive calendar years where it released at least one album.
From 1994 through 2010, the record label put out at least one album every single year. In 1995 and 2002, it put out only one album. The most prolific year was 2008, which saw 8 releases (counting 8 Ball & MJG's "Living Legends" and the "Chopped and Screwed" version both as one release).
During the span, Bad Boy averaged 3.8 releases per year (including "Bad Boy Records Presents Dance Mixes Volumes 1-4" as one release and Jordan McCoy's self-titled digital only EP). For more information, please see our full list of Bad Boy releases.
Bad Boy's last release was Diddy/Dirty Money's "Last Train to Paris" on December 14, 2010. Right now, it appears that Red Cafe's debut album may be Bad Boy's first release. The rapper has been referencing a February 14 release date for "The Shakedown," which at that point would be Bad Boy's first release in exactly 14 months.
