KARIMA KIBBLE - SO HAPPY (VIDEO)

Written by Terrell King / Karima Kibble. Produced by Me.

Karima's album Just Karima is in stores now. iTunes here.

KARIMA KIBBLE - JUST KARIMA ON ITUNES

All our US readers, Karima Kibbles album Just Karima is now available on iTunes. The video for the single I produced, "So Happy" is coming shortly. All the support so far is much appreciated :)

KARIMA KIBBLE - SO HAPPY (PRODUCED BY STYALZ FUEGO)

Check out the debut single from Karima Kibble's forthcoming solo album Just Karima.

"So Happy" is written by Terrell King and produced by ME! It debuted at #40 on Billboard Gospel Chart last week. I'm yet to find out where it sits this week. Lets hope it moved up though.

Here is a short writeup on Karima:

After selling more than 500,000 units, releasing six acclaimed albums and garnering a host of Grammy, Stellar and Dove award nominations as a member of the Gospel group, “Virtue,” lead singer and group co-founder, Karima Kibble (wife of Joey Kibble from Take 6) is set to release her eagerly-awaited solo debut, “Just Karima!” on September 22, 2009.

You can pre-order Just Karima now from www.nseasonrecords.com. In stores Sept 22 via Life Music Recordings.

I produced three songs on the album ... getting my gospel on, son :)

TERRELL KING - THE DREAMCHASERZ MIXTAPE

Our friend and talented ATL singer/songwriter Terrell King has released a mixtape of new and old material, some of which was intended for his Avista/Warner debut album.

Terrell and I have worked on quite a few songs for his record over the past year but as time passes, a progression in sound and direction changes so TK felt it was a good time to liberate some of the songs that will most likely not end up on the album.

Enjoy!

Terrell King Presents The DreamChaserz Mixtape

BTW, I produced "Like It", "Hold On" & "Go" ... all of which are rough, unmastered demo mixes, but they still get the point across, you just gotta turn your dial up.

SOME CLARITY

The James Fauntleroy track "Victory" that has been floating around the blogs the past week, is in fact not Fauntleroy, but a demo by Terrell King and the beat is an old track of mine. And yeah I sampled Indigo Girls "Iko Iko" :)

I have no idea how this happened and I would have been onto it much earlier if I wasn't going through a change in ISP at home, but its too late now.

Oh well, carry on.

TERRELL KING / FUEGO / INDUSTRY SHAKERS

Industry Shakers In Stores Now from Zion'z Eye Entertainment on Vimeo

"Last Chance", a joint I produced for US artist/songwriter Terrell King is featured on Industry Shakers, the new compilation from cross-over gospel label Avista Records / WMG out now.

You can listen to "Last Chance" in full HERE or cop Industry Shakers HERE

TERRELL KING - ALMOST CLEAR

Singer/Songwriter Terrell King's new EP Almost Clear is now available for purchase @ iTunes and Amazon via Avista/Warner Music.

Terrell is one of the most talented up & coming singer/songwriters out there right now and is a good friend of ours, so make sure to at least check him out. The EP can be streamed HERE

Almost Clear EP is an introduction to Terrell's full length album In The Clear, which is scheduled for a 2009 release. I worked on quite a few songs for it so it'll be interesting to see which joints make the final cut.

Also, make sure to check out "Last Chance", produced by yours truly.

Terrell King - Million Miles (Produced By Capo Decina)

SALES IN / RADIO'S ON

Plies ft Ne-Yo - Bust It Baby Pt 2

My apologies to those of you who check the blog regularly and follow my "Sales In / Radios On" posts, I have been slacking as of late. Aside from nothing major going down, I've just been generally busy.. But I'm back now, yay.

Random stuff first:

I want to talk about Madonna's dope yet critically bashed album and but I'll leave that for its own post. Did anyone see Lil Mama's debut album Voice of the Young People dropped last week, debuting at #25 with around 19k sales? This is particularly awful considering Lil Mama has had two relatively big singles ("Lip Gloss" & "Shawty Get Loose") and has been promoted fairly well. I guess ain't no one want to hear 12 + songs of Lil Mama. Its not a great album.

Also, before I jump into billboard & radio talk I just wanna congratulate Bliss N Eso on their #10 debut on the ARIA Album Chart. Its been a long time coming. Their album Flying Colours is currently sitting at #33 this week.

There really isn't much to talk about in the way of sales this week so I'll skip that shit and move onto Rhythmic Radio where Plies/NeYo's "Bust It Baby Pt 2" is clearly on its way to #1. Up this week to #7 with a +672 in spins. I like Plies, he has a very descriptive and incorrect way of speaking about his relations with girls in his music, its always hilarious and intriguing, especially knowing its being played on commercial radio.

Rick Ross' "Boss" is also making its move up towards the top spot this week moving to the #5 position up 366 spins. I'm guessing it'll burn out within the next 2 weeks and peak at around #3 but its a dope song and I'm glad a song with some balls is in the top 10.

As Mariah Carey's god-awful "Touch My Body" finishes its run, her new single "Bye Bye" (Johnta Austin/Stargate) looks like it has a clear path to the top. This week at #14, up 505 spins. I'm curious to know if Mariah and JD purposefully aimed at making an album that made no musical progression from her last. "Bye Bye" just sounds like an amalgamation of everything from Emancipation of Mimi. In fact everything on E=MC2 sounds like it was made 'safe' in the hope to stretch the album out across the year with 5-6 singles. I call that A&R music.

Usher's "Love In This Club Pt 2" is making strides to the top, this week @ #18 up 625 spins. It'll be interesting if this and the original both share a position in the top 10. Ne-Yo's finally found a single to launch his upcoming album off. "Closer" sits at #17 this week and looks like it'll slowly make its way up and start flying once the video hits all media outlets.

Dream's "I Luv Your Girl" is doing its damn thing. (#23, +445) I hope it sticks around for a while. Dope joint. Still waiting for "Fast Car" or "Nikki" to come out as singles. Even tho dudes album sold poorly, I guarantee he'll have singles that stretch out to the end of this year .. pity that doesn't really translate to album sales any more.

To finish things off, Nelly & Fergie's awful "Party People" is performing ok at radio but seems to have already dropped off on the Billboard 100 and is struggling to do anything. Will Universal continue to poor money into this project and release Nelly's album off the back of this? or will he get pushed back indefinitely like Nicole S? I get the feeling Universal thought Nelly would be one of their bread winners this year, going by his success in the past. I've been saying the only way for Nelly to succeed this time around is to change up the format, go back to the melodic sing/song 'almost r&b' fun-party records, add some Antares Auto-Tune to keep it current, possibly have T-Pain or Akon pen the track and he's got a winner. This bullshit he's putting out ain't cutting it.

Iight thats it for me, I'm ghost. oh BTW, whoever is responsible for leaking the records I've done for the Terrell King album (Alive, Last Chance), y'all are killing me. The feedback has been crazy but that shit is UNMIXED/UNMASTERED! Chill out on that shit. I'll also make a seperate post addressing this soon.

Be easy.