Bad Meets Evil Hits Top 10 on Hot 100, LMFAO Still No. 1

LMFAO spends its fourth week atop the Billboard Hot 100, to be released tomorrow (July 28) on Billboard.com, with "Party Rock Anthem," featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock, while high-profile rap duo Bad Meets Evil charges into the top 10 with "Lighters."

"Party" tallies a fourth week at No. 1 on Digital Songs, although it declines by 3% to 209,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. On Radio Songs, the track lifts 3-2 with a 5% gain to 143 million in all-format audience, according to Nielsen BDS.

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"Harry Potter" series made over $1.6 billion in disc sales

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - "Harry Potter" is cinematic gold bullion.

The final film in the mega-grossing series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2," shattered box office records last weekend after debuting to north of $478 million worldwide.
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But that's just a taste of the spoils to come if the bespectacled wizard's performance on DVD and Blu-ray is any indication.

Thus far, the first seven films in Warner Bros. boy-wizard franchise have banked some $1.63 billion in domestic disc sales, according to new estimates from the media research firm IHS Screen Digest.

That heady number doesn't even count the additional $150 million that "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1" is still expected to generate on home video in North America. Also, importantly, it doesn't take into account the hundreds of millions of dollars more the series has grossed in foreign home entertainment rentals and sales.

All told, the first six films in the series shipped an estimated 89 million video units in their initial releases to the U.S. video market during the past eight years, IHS reports.

Theatrically, "Potter" has lapped "James Bond" as the most lucrative franchise in movie history, having already grossed more than $6.8 billion worldwide through Tuesday.

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Exclusive: Google offers credit card to advertisers

Google is offering the card to select U.S. clients with what it calls a competitive interest rate, an ample credit line and no annual fee. The catch: it can only be used to buy search advertising on the world's No.1 Internet search engine.

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Why is Obama giving Libya to the Russians?

The opinions expressed are his own.

With President Obama’s Libya policy staggering from one embarrassment to another, last week he and Secretary of State Clinton outdid themselves. They publicly welcomed Russia’s effort to insert itself as a mediator, an act of such strategic myopia that it must leave even Moscow’s leadership speechless.

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Rihanna topples Lady Gaga for Facebook Queen title

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Sorry, Lady Gaga, but Rihanna has just passed you by. At least on the graph up.

The "Rude Boy" singer has overtaken the "Judas" chanteuse became the most popular female star in the social media sites, according to Famecount.com.

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Cheap Trick escape as Ottawa rock stage collapses

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Veteran U.S. band Cheap Trick escaped unhurt when a storm blew in a lot of their stage show at a major rock concert in Ottawa, Canada, on Sunday night.

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