What’s up Guys?

It’s crazy to see this summer winding down but we got a lot of new stuff coming for the fall so I am excited to get into it. Thanks for all the feedback on the last post.

With the music industry changing in terms of the formats for the music we purchase and all of the new technology people are searching for what’s next. The advent of the ipod and mp3 players as not only music players but as places for digital storage has been the most successful source to store music and anything digital. I have been using a thumb drive or usb drive to keep all of my music and documents with me on the go and I love it. Do you guys use USB drives? What kind of storage devices do you use for music? Also with all of these cell phones being able to store mp3’s space on these devices become a real issue. Are you guys familiar with the micro SD cards that have storage space in the cell phones? Does anyone use those to keep the excess information and music on their phone? If the iphone is indicative of the future where we all carry one device do you envision being able to keep everyone on one device even if that means your phone has to be bigger than an ipod to have both phone capabilities and store 80gb’s of music? Music is going hand in hand with technology these days and it is really exciting.

What’s up everybody? I just got back from an overseas trip with Akon to play his new album, Acquitted, to the heads of Universal in Europe. Akon sold 3 million copies of his last album in the US but something that even surprised me was he sold 500,000 copies in the UK. To put that in perspective Jay-Z’s last album sold 70,000 copies in the UK. Akon is the highest selling urban artist over the past two years in the UK. It’s amazing to see what a broad fan base he has.

That being said the new album is shaping up to be another monster. Akon produces all his own music so it’s not the type of project we hear a song here or a song there. My first listen is always to a completed album. The two records that really jumped out to me are “Hold On” featuring Michael Jackson and “Holla Holla” featuring T Pain. I don’t know what the first single is going to be yet, but the album is coming in October.

On another note, I just got a Nokia N95 from Kyte. If you arent’ familiar with Kyte you can check out a video from Shontelle’s Kyte channel. I will be live blogging from all over with my new phone so make sure to look out for it.