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[madhousedarry]

The Omen: Legacy of Lunacy | Chapter 11

"Okay, The Monkey," Dmitry Kurnosov interrupted his friend, "we've had a great chat here, but you can see on Martin's monitors that I'm at The Blood Polygon now, and therefore, if I need to make it to the meeting with the boss, then I need to get out of here as soon as possible so that I can tele-slap my way to the door of his office at least five minutes after he gets settled in there with his buddies, you understand?"

"I understand, bro, but personally I would advise you to go somewhere and walk for a couple of hours after leaving The Blood Polygon, because you know what kind of person our boss is - first he pulls you out of the ass of the world with the words, like, come to me immediately, and then, when you go through all the circles of hell for the sake of meeting him, you go to him and hear the classic "I'm busy!", after which you sit in his reception room like the last loser for two hours and only then, when you are ready to explode with anger, he suddenly sticks his head out of the office and peacefully says, "Okay, bro, fly in to me, let's chat!"

"I think you're right," Dmitry Kurnosov agreed with Mark. "But I'll go anyway, because I've long understood that if you want to achieve something in life, you shouldn't sit still, but take your feet and go!"

"Forward so forward," said Mark. "Just don't forget that you must arrive at the meeting with the boss in full dress uniform and with a smile on your face! And not in this fancy dress costume of yours, in which I now have the pleasure of seeing you on the monitor! Where did you even dig that up? And these creepy red contact lenses! What the hell, I don't understand! Have you decided to become a maniac and walk the streets dressed like that?! Do you even know…" Mark suddenly fell silent.

"What?" asked Dmitry Kurnosov. "Did you say something, The Monkey?! I didn't hear."

"No, nothing. I just thought - what if you really are a maniac and you don't give a shit that the cops can fine you for walking around the streets dressed as a professional killer? You know how they feel about such things now."

"I know," Dmitry Kurnosov replied. "But I'm not a maniac and never have been one. I just want to look natural on this Polygon among all these robot Satanists dressed in brown robes and hoods. As for the suit, I bought it at Stereolith Productions in Kirkland. There's a nice little store in this The Omen Ican town where you can buy anything you want. So I bought myself a suit that suits me very well. And I made the lenses myself - they're made of silicone hydrogel, which I tinted with A&V Scallop 82 pigment. Of course, they're not ideal - for example, they dry out my eyes like crazy - but I've somehow gotten used to it. And in general, I just want to look like a hero from a super-action movie, and not like a pot-bellied, chubby-cheeked cutie-shy, which I actually am."

"Thank you for your confession," Mark said sarcastically, "but I would still ask you to change your suit when you go to the boss, otherwise I'm afraid he won't listen to your story for long, but will simply say: "What a sight, soldier Kurnosov, come on, march to the kitchen, ten outfits out of turn!"

"Come on, The Monkey, you know that we're not like the army," Dmitry Kurnosov reasoned with him. "We don't have strict requirements for appearance."

"I'm not saying that you have strict requirements. You just have to look as natural in the office as you want to look on this The Blood Polygon."

"Oh, no way, I'm not going to trade my roomy black coat for a noose around my neck and a tight three-piece suit that's threatening to come apart at the seams under the pressure of my body!" said Dmitry Kurnosov. "It would be better if you, The Monkey…"

He paused and suddenly it dawned on him.

"Listen! That's an idea! You know what? Let me call Stereolith Productions in Kirkland right now. They have a PR department for clients from other countries, and let me call them right from here and say: "Dear Director of Stereolith Productions, I want to buy a suit like mine from you and give it to my boss!" I think that would be a win-win idea! And if we can't get through to them from our personal phones, we'll just ask our secretary to make a call directly from our corporation's main office. And then I'll be able to buy our boss the same suit as me, so he won't be all cocky about my appearance!"

"You should go to work at Ubihard, make them new games in the "Mist" series," Mark grinned. "Such a quest has come my way here that I simply don't know how to take your words… But let's look at things realistically - the boss doesn't really give a shit about your suit, and it's better not to even think about giving him the same one, because not only is it a completely pointless undertaking, it's also very risky - after all, as I understand it, you bought this suit not from us, but abroad, right?"

"Well, yes, in Kirkland," confirmed his words Dmitry Kurnosov. "When I was doing another mission there, out of boredom I went into a clothing store called "Stereolith Productions" and there, in order to demonstrate my readiness to take part in the fight against what The Omen Icans call "the new world order", I bought myself a maniac costume. It was written on the sign - "Maniac costume, black wide-brimmed hat - 1 pc., black raincoat - 1 pc., brown pants - 1 pc., white shirt - 1 pc., black shoes - 2 pcs.". The price for everything was two hundred and five bucks. I didn't haggle and paid for the whole thing as much as they asked. And then, when I returned to Pet-el-burge, I decided that it would be cool to show up at The Blood Polygon in such an outfit. Well, I got into it, now I don't wear any other clothes except this "Maniac Costume", I even drink tea and read books in it at home, that's how it is!"

"Oh, come on," Mark was surprised, "do you really wear it to the store? And what about your reputation? You could get into trouble! Or, even worse, they could mistake you for a maniac and arrest you! But you're not a maniac, you're just a person with a non-standard vestiual orientation ("vestis" means "clothing" in Latin). They could throw you in a mental hospital! Or even bake you in an oven - it depends on your luck! What do you think? If I were you, I wouldn't take such a risk for anything!"

"Oh, come on," said Dmitry Kurnosov. "You know what? Let's call our secretary right now and ask her if she can call that very Stereolith Productions clothing store. And if not, then we'll definitely do everything according to the rules: we'll tell her the whole story about my maniac costume that I bought in Kirkland or we'll come up with something even worse…"

"Stop playing the fool," said Mark. "I'm not your errand boy!"

"That's understandable," Dmitry Kurnosov said in a conciliatory tone. "It wasn't just like that that I suggested you call the secretary - I specifically wanted to test your reaction to my proposal. If you agreed to help me with this matter and do everything right… But if not, then you and I will both look like complete idiots, mark my words!"

"I don't mind, actually," said Mark. "But tell me, why does our boss need this suit?"

"Well, I already explained it to you," said Dmitry Kurnosov. "The logic here is simple - if the boss is dressed the same as me, then he won't give a damn about my appearance and we won't have any squabbles about it!

"And if he doesn't want to?" asked Mark. "What will you do then, huh?! You know - in our company, everyone stands their ground! You stand their ground, I stand my ground, and I won't even mention the boss!"

"What else can I do?" Dmitry Kurnosov asked his friend. "I can't just call this store. It has to be on behalf of our entire corporation!"

"I've told you more than once - give up your stupid idea, but no: "let's call, let's call"! I'm sick of it already!" Mark shouted in his heart. "Finish our conversation, grab your feet and stomp from The Blood Polygon straight to the boss, before he gets all his bodyguards on their feet and interrogates you with prejudice! And I'll go to my place, look at this suit of yours on the Internet, right on the website of this very Stereolith Productions. If I like it, I'll buy it for myself on the weekend… Just keep in mind - if you deceive me or do something like that to me while drunk - then everything between us will be over forever! And don't expect that after that I will help you! I know you - you will always do things your own way anyway. And I don't want to be considered an idiot like you! And anyway, I don't know - maybe all this bullshit is that very "new world order" that The Omen Icans are talking about day and night on all TV channels? And you, as always, are in your repertoire! Well, okay. I'm going to my room - otherwise my head is already splitting from all this talk…"

"But please don't forget about this maniac costume," Dmitry Kurnosov asked him, but Mark had already pressed the end call button.

And then suddenly Dmitry Kurnosov felt a strong blow to the side - this was the same cultist who had frozen like a statue during his conversation with Mark, but at the end of the communication session he immediately came to life and fired a charge of salt from a blowgun into him.

Dmitry Kurnosov dropped the phone on the ground, but immediately picked it up and ran as fast as he could to the exit of The Blood Polygon, which was camouflaged from the inside as an inverted red and white triangle with horns on the sides, which hung quietly on the hedge and was visible to anyone who wanted to see it.

All you had to do was press on its middle, after which the teleportation mechanism would automatically trigger, which would transfer anyone wishing to leave The Blood Polygon from its territory straight to the barracks. Dmitry Kurnosov didn't have to persuade himself for long and as soon as he found himself next to the hedge, he immediately pressed on the triangle with all his might.

Immediately a whirlwind rose up around him, which, having swallowed him up in a flash of white fire, carried him away to an unknown destination, and after a couple of seconds he saw the familiar barracks of his unit in front of him.

It was quite cozy, if you can call it that for a room of about ten square meters without a single picture on the wall or even a vase of flowers on the table. A quick glance was enough to notice that all the beds were neatly made and the floor was swept to a mirror shine.

Dmitry Kurnosov looked around: no one was visible anywhere. He went to the window, behind which he could see the parade ground, where there was also no one - apparently everyone had already gone to their places for the evening roll call or dinner.

He sat down on the bed and put the phone next to him. He wasn't sure what to do next: pull down his pants and jerk off to porn since no one could see him, or go to the toilet to empty his bladder.

After some thought, Dmitry Kurnosov decided that he should go to the potty, but before that he decided to pull the shutter back to the sex scene from the movie "A Home at the End of the World", namely the one in which naked Asia Vieira flashed her ass and tits in the company of the polished faggot Ryan Donowho.

However, Dmitry Kurnosov did not even have time to assume a horizontal position and take off his pants, because at that very moment, the enraged conscript Pavel Solonin himself burst into the barracks along with two more soldiers born in 1982 - just a minute, Dmitry Kurnosov himself was born on September 27, 1994, due to which he was twelve years younger than these three, due to which they used hazing methods against him.

Be that as it may, when they saw him sitting on the bed with a phone, on the screen of which a video with a naked chick was playing, they immediately understood the seriousness of the situation and pounced on him, poor thing, with the whole crowd and immediately threw him to the floor, and one of them stepped on his right hand, in which he was holding the phone, which immediately made it go numb, and the second hit him on the head with all his might with his wrapped towel - so as not to leave bruises - with his fist.

Pavel Solonin, who led this triumvirate of Cossack robbers, took advantage of the fact that Dmitry Kurnosov was too busy with his buddies, grabbed his phone and, devouring his screen with his eyes (and there was something to devouring, naked Asia Vieira after all!) began to slowly jerk himself off with one hand, until he suddenly felt how Dmitry Kurnosov, lying on the floor, grabbed his soleus muscle with his teeth.

Then the brave soldier Pavel Solonin couldn't stand it and screamed at the top of his lungs:

"You bitch!" and tried to kick Dmitry Kurnosov in the face, but it was too late - he fell from the pain in his leg, and the phone stolen from the soldier who bit him immediately flew into the corner.

The next moment, Dmitry Kurnosov, taking advantage of the fact that the instigator of the attack was temporarily incapacitated by his dishonest move with his teeth, picked up his phone from the floor and, not paying attention to the fact that Pavel Solonin, who was writhing on the floor from pain in his leg, was trying to get up, rushed to the exit.

Two other soldiers, born in 1982, seeing this and realizing their mistake - or maybe just not having time to think in the heat of the fight - rushed after him, but no way! Dmitry Kurnosov, despite his beer belly and plump, hamster-like cheeks, was a surprisingly good runner and jumper, so they were unable to keep up with him and soon fell behind.

But during this time, the three of them managed to run out of the barracks, cross the empty parade ground and eventually go out onto the street, where sergeant Nitwitted Neff was unexpectedly waiting for them. He was in full dress uniform and holding a Kalashnikov assault rifle in his hands - apparently, he had just returned from guard duty protecting the unit's perimeter.

When he saw two soldiers born in 1982 running towards him, he took a few steps towards them:

"Stop! I'll shoot!" he croaked with the intonation of a dying swan.

But the soldiers didn't stop, and then he fired into the air, and one of them fell - apparently, out of fear, he thought that they were shooting at him. Then Dmitry Kurnosov, who was already very close to Nitwitted Neff, shouted to him:

"Why are you standing there, sergeant? Can't you see that the man is running away?"

Nitwitted Neff couldn't find a way to answer Dmitry Kurnosov's unexpected question, but instead turned his back on him and ran towards the barracks, where a bunch of soldiers had gathered by that time - they had obviously run out of the dining room to ask why the hell the sergeant had suddenly torn them away from their dinner with a shot into the air.

But Dmitry Kurnosov did not wait for anyone to pay attention to him and, turning his back on his colleagues who were worried about what had happened, ran forward up the street.

He didn't know what to do next - whether to go to the barracks and tell the sergeant Nitwitted Neff what had happened, or to return to The Blood Polygon and take out his anger on a dozen or so robot Satanists there. Neither option suited him, since he never liked going back, always striving to move forward and forward.

But, as it turned out later - and this was the most important thing in his life! - he couldn't return to The Blood Polygon anyway, because for some purely bureaucratic reasons it was closed for repairs, although, as far as Dmitry Kurnosov remembered, nothing was broken there, but who the hell knows, those bigwigs from the accounting department, what they were fighting over there!

Therefore, there was only one place in his personal universe where he headed without hesitation - namely the restaurant "Born Speleologist", located not far from the military unit. There he could calmly think about everything and rack his brains, without the risk of getting into trouble with some angry colonel or even the general himself for the simple reason that this restaurant did not serve military personnel.

And Dmitry Kurnosov, as was said at the beginning of this story, was only partly a military man, so this rule did not apply to him and it was no problem for him to enter this establishment.

He entered the restaurant "Born Speleologist" - it was very quiet there, only somewhere in the far end of the room the music from an ancient, from the eighties, album of the group Depeche Mode, which was called "So My Graveyard!" was playing quietly. Dmitry Kurnosov ordered himself a beer and, leisurely sipping it from a glass, began to think about his conversation with Mark "The Monkey" at The Blood Polygon.

And then it suddenly dawned on him that he should have started a conversation with his friend about casual sex between two people of different genders. At first he thought that he was wrong to be embarrassed to talk about it, but then it finally dawned on him that it would have been outright porn over the phone! And if that was the case, then he should forget about sex once and for all! But how? How could he do it?

Take this video of naked Asia Vieira as an example. After all, she was filmed completely naked and sitting on a half-naked Ryan Donowho in the opening scene of the film "A Home at the End of the World"! So what should he do now? After all, he can't just stop watching feature films altogether just because he accidentally came across a scene in one of them that would be more appropriate to be in porn than in a full-length film intended to be shown on TV and in cinemas!

What if he just doesn't watch movies at all? It's so easy! Switch to books and that's it, problem solved! But how do you do that? He can't just stop watching movies. He's already used to it, and it will be very difficult for him to give it up, especially that movie starring Asia Vieira!

What to do now, Dmitry Kurnosov thought feverishly, having already managed to empty the first mug of beer and order a second. He suddenly remembered his Oppo phone, which he had in his hands before his fight with Pavel Solonin and his two buddies began.

It was very powerful and he got it for pennies, but as it turned out later - that was not the main thing in it. Dmitry Kurnosov understood this immediately after that moment in his life when he first saw naked Asia Vieira in the company of Ryan Donowho on the screen of his phone… But more on that later!

Now he had to solve another problem, namely, a meeting with the boss and his two buddies, whom Mark "The Monkey" had told him about during their last telephone conversation at The Blood Polygon.

But how to get to him, to this very boss? And then it dawned on him - he remembered Mark's words from that very conversation around the fire under the pines near the village of Jerkdicks a little over a year ago…

[cambriomusic]

#311 #nickhexum #dougmartinez #budweiserstage #beautifuldisaster #lovesong #fromchaos #stereolithic #omahanebraska @theflyervault (at Budweiser Stage) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLh1JHSgrZe/?igshid=1bp6jejwh8fkp

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Festival Stéréolithe #6 / Playlist sélective / 6, 7, 8 juin 2019 @ Nancy

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311 "Mosaic" (2017) // At first listen, the first ten tracks flow over bland. But to diss anything 311 does at this stage in the game seems completely pointless. There are some gens littered throughout this seventeen track batch, most notably "Face In The Wind." It's another collection of tracks from Omaha's world wonder, but it's not the same as some comeback albums like "Evolver" and "Uplifter." Wait... were those comeback releases? 🤔 @therecentlyadded •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• #musicblog #therecentlyadded #vinyljunkie #sumerianrecords #deathwishinc #bridgeninerecords #riserecords #311 #gorillaz #blur #slightlystoopid #sublime #mosaic #stereolithic #lessthanjake #newfoundglory #rancid #redhotchilipeppers #warpedtour #falloutboy #tesseract #periphery #trivium #greenday #reelbigfish #goldfinger #nouseforaname #filter #nyc #hxc

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Tranquility Lyrics - 311

Tranquility Lyrics – 311

Journey in peace now You don’t have to be afraid Though mistakes, they have been made Journey in peace now Journey in peace now You don’t have to be afraid Though mistakes, they will be made Journey in peace now my friend. No you can’t go around it You have to walk right through it My father told me that so long ago Every time that you ignore it It gets a little more You just have to walk toward…

[engineercity]

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3D printer cuts development time

Global fastenings manufacturer and distributor, TR Fastenings, has invested in a new 3D printer. The printer is an SLA (StereoLithic Apparatus) machine which delivers a far superior quality to the FDM (Fused Deposit Modelling) equipment replacing the existing model.

Until recently, SLA printing was prohibitively expensive, but after a group of American MIT students designed and received funding for the ‘Form 1’ model, costs reduced. The Form 1 machine has now been replaced by the Form 2 model, which TR has purchased.

While most of the components supplied by TR to its customers are metal, plastic prototypes are ideal to check the form rather than the function of a part. The printer will be used to create these prototypes for TR customers who want to explore new variations on existing parts or components used in their production process. The TR team will use its extensive library of CAD designs along with the printer’s sophisticated software to create variations of different fasteners for customers to view and test.

Keith Gibb, Head of Web Development at TR, comments: “We first invested in 3D printing technology 3 years ago by purchasing the FDM machine, which is simple to use and ideal for our first foray into the process but doesn’t produce the best quality parts.

“The speed and accuracy of the new printer has already allowed us to produce prototypes for a number of customers in both the automotive and electronics sectors. We made plastic prototypes of metal parts which meant one customer could check fit and form of a new part in 3 days rather than laying down expensive tooling and waiting for weeks. We’ve also produced fully working prototypes of injection moulded parts that were with the customer in 24 hours – the actual injection moulded samples would have taken 6 weeks.”

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[njawaidofficial]

DJ Khaled's 'Grateful' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart

http://styleveryday.com/2017/07/03/dj-khaleds-grateful-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-albums-chart/

DJ Khaled's 'Grateful' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart

Also: Imagine Dragons’ new ‘Evolve’ arrives at No. 2 with 147,000 units.

DJ Khaled lands his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as his latest release, Grateful, bows atop the list. The set — which was released on June 23 through We the Best/Epic Records — earned 149,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 29, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 50,000 were in traditional album sales.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new July 15, 2017-dated chart (where DJ Khaled debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, July 4.

Grateful follows DJ Khaled’s first No. 1, earned a little less than a year ago, when Major Key launched in the penthouse (on the list dated Aug. 20, 2016) with 95,000 units. Of that starting-week sum, 59,000 were in traditional album sales. (Notably, during Major Key’s first week of release, it was exclusively available to stream through Apple Music, and for sale as a download through the iTunes Store. Grateful, however, was widely available at all streaming services and retailers.)

In total, Grateful marks DJ Khaled’s seventh top 10-charting effort, stretching back to 2007’s We the Best, which debuted and peaked at No. 8.

The new album is powered by streams, as it logged a robust 81,000 SEA units — the largest SEA haul for an album since the May 27-dated list, when Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. tallied 86,000 SEA units in its fourth week on the list. (Grateful’s 81,000 SEA units equates to 121.19 million on-demand audio streams for the collected tracks on the album during the tracking week.)

The rest of Grateful’s debut frame is comprised of TEA units (a little under 19,000).

Grateful was ushered in by a pair of top five-charting hits on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, “I’m the One” (his first No. 1 on the list), featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne, and “Wild Thoughts,” featuring Rihanna and Bryson Tiller. DJ Khaled’s star-packed Grateful album also boasts guests such as Beyoncé, JAY-Z, Drake, Alicia Keys, Nicki Minaj and Calvin Harris.

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Imagine Dragons’ new Evolve arrives with 147,000 units and the biggest week of the year for a rock album. Its starting sum is the biggest frame for a rock effort since Metallica’s Hardwired… To Self-Destruct launched at No. 1 with 282,000 units on the list dated Dec. 20, 2016.

Further, Evolve sold 109,000 in traditional album sales — earning the rock group the top-selling album of the week, as it launches at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart. Evolve logs the third-largest sales week for a rock set this year, following the debuts of John Mayer’s The Search for Everything (120,000) and Gorillaz’s Humanz (115,000).

The new album’s debut frame is comprised mostly of album sales, while its SEA and TEA units trail far behind comparatively (just under 23,000 and 15,000, respectively).

Evolve, Imagine Dragons’ third full-length studio effort, is the quartet’s third top 10 album on the Billboard 200, following Smoke + Mirrors (No. 1 in 2015) and Night Visions (No. 2 in 2012). Smoke started with 195,000 units (172,000 in album sales). The new album sports the hit single “Believer,” which has racked up 16 weeks (and counting) at No. 1 on the Hot Rock Songs chart. The song also spent 13 weeks at No. 1 on the airplay-based Alternative Songs chart — the longest run at No. 1 for any song since the band’s own “Radioactive” spent 13 weeks atop the list in 2013.

At No. 3 on the Billboard 200, Kendrick Lamar’s former No. 1 DAMN. holds its position, earning 59,000 units (down 16 percent).

Prince and the Revolution’s Purple Rain soundtrack, first released in 1984, re-enters the list straight in at No. 4, following its deluxe remastered reissue on June 23. The album — combining all versions of Purple Rain, past and present — earned 52,000 units in the tracking frame (of which 48,000 were in traditional album sales). The set collected a 3,633 percent gain in units for the week, and a 4,767 percent leap in album sales.

The former No. 1 — which spent 24 weeks atop the list in 1984 — is Prince’s first album to get get the remastered-and-deluxed treatment. Its redux was announced in 2014, when Prince signed a new deal with Warner Bros. Records. According to a press release from the label, the remaster of the original album was “overseen and sanctioned” by the late artist (who died in 2016).

Purple Rain was reissued in a variety of formats, including a 20-track deluxe edition with unreleased bonus tracks and a 35-track expanded edition with additional B-sides, rarities and a live DVD of the Purple Rain Tour from 1985.

2 Chainz’s Pretty Girls Like Trap Music slides from No. 2 to No. 5 in its second week on the Billboard 200, earning 43,000 units (down 59 percent).

Alternative rock band 311 claims its 10th top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as MOSAIC debuts at No. 6 with 39,000 units (37,000 in traditional album sales). The group last hit the top 10 in 2014 with Stereolithic, which also launched at No. 6 (with 41,000 in sales — before the chart transitioned to a consumption-ranked tally later that year).

Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) stays steady at No. 7 on the new Billboard 200 (36,000 units; down 5 percent), and Drake’s More Life descends 6-8 (34,000 units; down 18 percent); the sets ruled for two and three weeks, respectively. Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic climbs 10-9 (32,000 units; up 5 percent).

Closing out the top 10 is the soundtrack to Moana, which rises 15-10 with 29,000 units (up 21 percent), of which 13,000 are in traditional album sales (up 15 percent). The album’s rise is likely owed to its parent film’s June 20 arrival to Netflix. The film was released in theaters last November, and then issued on home video in March.

This article first appeared on Billboard.com.

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DJ Khaled's 'Grateful' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart

DJ Khaled's 'Grateful' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart

Plus, Imagine Dragons’ ‘Evolve’ arrives at No. 2 and Prince and the Revolution’s reissued ‘Purple Rain’ soundtrack returns at No. 4.

DJ Khaled lands his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as his latest release, Grateful, bows atop the list. The set — which was released on June 23 through We the Best/Epic Records — earned 149,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 29, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 50,000 were in traditional album sales.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new July 15, 2017-dated chart (where DJ Khaled debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, July 4.

Grateful follows DJ Khaled’s first No. 1, earned a little less than a year ago, when Major Key launched in the penthouse (on the list dated Aug. 20, 2016) with 95,000 units. Of that starting-week sum, 59,000 were in traditional album sales. (Notably, during Major Key’s first week of release, it was exclusively available to stream through Apple Music, and for sale as a download through the iTunes Store. Grateful, however, was widely available at all streaming services and retailers.)

In total, Grateful marks DJ Khaled’s seventh top 10-charting effort, stretching back to 2007’s We the Best, which debuted and peaked at No. 8.

The new album is powered by streams, as it logged a robust 81,000 SEA units — the largest SEA haul for an album since the May 27-dated list, when Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. tallied 86,000 SEA units in its fourth week on the list. (Grateful’s 81,000 SEA units equates to 121.19 million on-demand audio streams for the collected tracks on the album during the tracking week.)

The rest of Grateful’s debut frame is comprised of TEA units (a little under 19,000).

Grateful was ushered in by a pair of top five-charting hits on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, “I’m the One” (his first No. 1 on the list), featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne, and “Wild Thoughts,” featuring Rihanna and Bryson Tiller. DJ Khaled’s star-packed Grateful album also boasts guests such as Beyoncé, JAY-Z, Drake, Alicia Keys, Nicki Minaj and Calvin Harris.

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Imagine Dragons’ new Evolve arrives with 147,000 units and the biggest week of the year for a rock album. Its starting sum is the biggest frame for a rock effort since Metallica’s Hardwired… To Self-Destruct launched at No. 1 with 282,000 units on the list dated Dec. 20, 2016.

Further, Evolve sold 109,000 in traditional album sales — earning the rock group the top-selling album of the week, as it launches at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart. Evolve logs the third-largest sales week for a rock set this year, following the debuts of John Mayer’s The Search for Everything (120,000) and Gorillaz’s Humanz (115,000).

The new album’s debut frame is comprised mostly of album sales, while its SEA and TEA units trail far behind comparatively (just under 23,000 and 15,000, respectively).

Evolve, Imagine Dragons’ third full-length studio effort, is the quartet’s third top 10 album on the Billboard 200, following Smoke + Mirrors (No. 1 in 2015) and Night Visions (No. 2 in 2012). Smoke started with 195,000 units (172,000 in album sales). The new album sports the hit single “Believer,” which has racked up 16 weeks (and counting) at No. 1 on the Hot Rock Songs chart. The song also spent 13 weeks at No. 1 on the airplay-based Alternative Songs chart — the longest run at No. 1 for any song since the band’s own “Radioactive” spent 13 weeks atop the list in 2013.

At No. 3 on the Billboard 200, Kendrick Lamar’s former No. 1 DAMN. holds its position, earning 59,000 units (down 16 percent).

Prince and the Revolution’s Purple Rain soundtrack, first released in 1984, re-enters the list straight in at No. 4, following its deluxe remastered reissue on June 23. The album — combining all versions of Purple Rain, past and present — earned 52,000 units in the tracking frame (of which 48,000 were in traditional album sales). The set collected a 3,633 percent gain in units for the week, and a 4,767 percent leap in album sales.

The former No. 1 — which spent 24 weeks atop the list in 1984 — is Prince’s first album to get get the remastered-and-deluxed treatment. Its redux was announced in 2014, when Prince signed a new deal with Warner Bros. Records. According to a press release from the label, the remaster of the original album was “overseen and sanctioned” by the late artist (who died in 2016).

Purple Rain was reissued in a variety of formats, including a 20-track deluxe edition with unreleased bonus tracks and a 35-track expanded edition with additional B-sides, rarities and a live DVD of the Purple Rain Tour from 1985.

2 Chainz’s Pretty Girls Like Trap Music slides from No. 2 to No. 5 in its second week on the Billboard 200, earning 43,000 units (down 59 percent).

Alternative rock band 311 claims its 10th top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as MOSAIC debuts at No. 6 with 39,000 units (37,000 in traditional album sales). The group last hit the top 10 in 2014 with Stereolithic, which also launched at No. 6 (with 41,000 in sales — before the chart transitioned to a consumption-ranked tally later that year).

Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) stays steady at No. 7 on the new Billboard 200 (36,000 units; down 5 percent), and Drake’s More Life descends 6-8 (34,000 units; down 18 percent); the sets ruled for two and three weeks, respectively. Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic climbs 10-9 (32,000 units; up 5 percent).

Closing out the top 10 is the soundtrack to Moana, which rises 15-10 with 29,000 units (up 21 percent), of which 13,000 are in traditional album sales (up 15 percent). The album’s rise is likely owed to its parent film’s June 20 arrival to Netflix. The film was released in theaters last November, and then issued on home video in March.

This article originally appeared on Billboard.

https://tunecollective.com/2017/07/03/dj-khaleds-grateful-debuts-no-1-billboard-200-albums-chart/

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311 tres once, Nació como banda el 89 con el vocalista y guitarrista Nick Hexum, el guitarrista Jim Watson (quien sería reemplazado por Tim Mahoney), el bajista P-Nut y el baterista Chad Sexton. En 1992, Doug "SA" Martínez se unió como vocalista y más tarde haría los arreglos musicales en los siguientes álbumes de la banda. Hasta la fecha, 311 ha lanzado diez álbumes de estudio, un álbum en vivo, cuatro recopilatorios, cuatro LP y cuatro DVD.

Después de varios lanzamientos independientes, 311 firmó con la disquera Capricorn Records en 1992 y lanza los álbumes Music (1993) y Grassroots (1994) con un éxito moderado. Obtuvo un mayor éxito con su álbum 311 Album que ganó un triple disco de platino y alcanzó el puesto # 12 en el Billboard 200 con los sencillos "Down" y "All Mixed Up", el primero de estos encabezó la lista Billboard de las canciones más sonadas en Estado Unidos en 1996. los siguientes tres álbumes de la banda, Transistor (1997), Soundsystem (1999) y From Chaos(2001), no alcanzaron el éxito masivo de 311 Album, aunque seguían siendo exitosos.5 En 2004 lanzaron Greatest Hits '93-'03 ganando disco de oro, penúltimo álbum es Universal Pulse (2011). El álbum de estudio más reciente de la banda es Stereolithic (2014). A partir de 2011, 311 ha vendido más de 8,5 millones de discos en los EU.

Capricorn Records fué la disquera para muchas bandas de rock sureño y de soul en los años setenta incluyendo The Allman Brothers Band, The Marshall Tucker Band, Delbert McClinton, The Outlaws, Elvin Bishop, Wet Willie, Jonathan Edwards, Captain Beyond, White Witch, Grinderswitch, Cowboy, Kitty Wells, Dobie Gray, Travis Wammack y Stillwater. Inicialmente la discográfica era distribuida por WEA/Warner Music Group Elektra Records, luego por Warner Bros. Records) y luego por PolyGram Records. Capricorn se declaró en bancarrota en octubre de 1979. La discográfica fue abierta nuevamente gracias a un acuerdo con Warner Bros a comienzos de los años noventa.

Esta canción personalmente me relaja mucho y me pone de buen humor con ganas de salir, amar la vida, aceptar que hay cosas que no está en mis manos cambiarlas este sentimiento de bienestar de estar en el lugar donde quiero y necesito estar para estar en armonía y coherencia con mi propósito de vida, en el video hay una playa y la playa mas allá de simbolizar placer, vacaciones y descanso, simboliza para mi energía, agradecimiento paz interior, el saber fluir con la vida y estar despiertos de manera consiente con lo que está dentro de nuestro más profundo ser y en lo que nos queremos convertir esa mujer maravillosa que se ama a sí misma y ama cada minuto y cada ser que la rodea, esa mujer que ya tiene las respuestas pero no a manera egocéntrica si mas aterrizada y humilde, así simplemente honrando la vida.

Bonito día.