On the latest Billboard 100 chart, "Press Play" jumped up 25 spots, moving from 100 to 75.

Check out our audio player to the right to listen to "Freestyle (This is Why I'm Hot)" by Yung Joc as well as "Cruisin" by 8 Ball & MJG featuring Three 6 Mafia and Slim from 112.

Executive produced by Diddy and Hezekiah Walker of the Love Fellowship Tabernacle; "Thank You" was going to be Bad Boy's first gospel album. At one time, it was scheduled for release on June 5, 2001. But, it was never released. So, let's take a look at what might have been. For reference, I am including an old press release from Arista at the end of this article.

According to that release, this was the planned track listing:


Faith Evans, 112, Carl Thomas, Thelma Guyton, Asia & Ashley and Tammy Ruggeri were all Bad Boy artists. Mario Winans and Cheri Dennis still are, of course.

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Bad Boy has launched a new Bad Boy Mobile section on their website.

You can buy ringtones featuring Bad Boy artists past and present. They also have a select of wallpapers.

I just thought that I would post a reminder: this is your last chance to suggest questions for the Jerome Childers interview which is happening tomorrow. So, if there is anything that you'd like me to ask them, please let me know. Thanks.

Here are Bad Boy's positions in this week's Hot 100:

42. "Last Night" by Diddy (a new high, up from 51).
53. "Tell Me" by Diddy (up from 54).

"Last Night"'s spot makes it the second highest charting single off of "Press Play" moving it ahead of "Tell Me"'s high of 47.

Diddy is in at 100 on this week's Billboard 200, selling 10,800 copies (a gain from last week), bringing his total up to 531,100.

Updating a previous story, the BadBoyRecords YouTube account has been re-instated and the videos are back online. No word on what the issue was... very well could have been some sort of mixup.

If you try to access the Bad Boy Records YouTube account, you are shown the following message:


The BadBoyRecords account is still showing up in my favorites, but with 0 videos. Was it suspended by YouTube? Did Bad Boy request the closure in response to Richard Dearlove's recent accusations (that'd be kind of lame, to be honest)? We can only hope that it is temporary as it'd be a shame to lose the posted content.

Edit: Actually, a lot of the content is on MySpace Videos.

Next week, we'll be interviewing former Bad Boy artist Jerome Childers. Better known as Jerome or Lil' Jerome, his biggest mark was made on the single "Too Old for Me" off of "Bad Boy Greatest Hits, Volume 1". The track was remixed into the "Shorty & Nore Remix" which featured N.O.R.E. and Diddy and was given a video. There was also an "R&B Remix".

He was also featured on the Belly soundtrack with "Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer". Two lesser known singles, "No Disturb Sign" (featuring Heavy D and Diddy) and "Dear Ivette" were also released.

We'll be asking him about his time at Bad Boy as well as his departure. We'll also find out what he's been doing since then and what he's up to in the present. If you have any suggested questions, please feel free to let me know, via e-mail or comment on this entry. Thanks.