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In a history-making week on Billboard's European Top 100 Albums, Michael Jackson holds down a spectacular eight of the top ten titles. Meanwhile, "When Love Takes Over" (Positiva/EMI) by David Guetta featuring Kelly Rowland starts a second week atop European Hot 100 Singles.Jackson's domination also represents a near-lockout of the pan-European top ten for Epic/Sony Music Entertainment, in which last year's "King of Pop" compilation again comes out on top. It leads the way in no fewer than eight markets, holding at No. 1 in Germany and Austria, moving 77-1 in the Belgian region of Flanders, 6-1 in neighboring Wallony, 13-1 in Poland, 3-1 in Holland and 2-1 in Switzerland and Spain. It's top five in five other territories.In the United Kingdom, it's "The Essential Michael Jackson" that rules, with 113,000 new sales last week from a running total in its four years on release of 483,000. That compilation holds at No. 2 Europe-wide, also moving 4-1 in Finland, 3-2 in Switzerland and entering and No. 3 in Norway and Portugal.Next up, at No. 3 overall, is the original edition of "Thriller," which leaps to the top in Italy (12-1) and Spain (3-1) and is in the top five in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany. Its title track single also rises 4-2 in Italy. Jackson's "Number Ones" collection is up 6-4 on Top 100 Albums, sitting at No. 2 in both Ireland and Germany. "The Collection" is his only title in descent on the overall chart, down 3-6 despite holding at No. 1 in Denmark and racing 34-5 in Sweden and 19-9 in Germany.With the regular volume of "Thriller" at No. 3, the 25th anniversary deluxe reissue also fares well, climbing 14-7 on the composite chart. It's up 12-2 in Hungary, 7-5 in Finland, 41-6 in Spain and 18-9 in the United Kingdom, but falls from the top spot in Switzerland and Poland. "Off The Wall," the studio predecessor to "Thriller," is up 34-8 on Top 100 Albums, fuelled by a 10-3 climb in the United Kingdom on sales of 39,000. Remarkably, that's the album's highest-ever position on the U.K. chart, where it previously peaked at No. 5 in its fourth week on the survey in October 1979.

The biggest leap of all Jackson's albums is taken by "HIStory - Past, Present & Future, Book 1," which zooms 92-9 after reappearing at No. 4 in Germany and 33-17 in the United Kingdom. Jackson also has two singles in the European top ten, holding at No. 7 with "Man In The Mirror" and dipping 9-10 with "Billie Jean."The only non-Jackson titles in the top ten of the pan-European album chart are Black Eyed Peas' "The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)" (Interscope/Universal), which holds at No. 5, and labelmate Lady Gaga's "The Fame," down 8-10.Guetta's single, a former U.K. No. 1, continues to lead the European Hot 100 as it extends its reign in Switzerland, Ireland and Wallony and climbs 6-3 in Austria, 4-3 in Germany and 11-10 in Italy.

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Big Brother 11

Ok so one of my favorite shows Big Brother has returned for its 11th season. Now Big Brother is a show about 14 house guest who are placed in a house together to manipulate, fight, and lie their way to a 1 million dollar grand prize. This year the house guest are going back to the high school days, they were placed into 4 clicks the Populars, Athletes, Off beats, and Geeks. If you have seen Big Brother before season 10 to be exact, the muscular and crazy Jessie is back and bigger than before. This season is shaping up to be another great season with lots of new surprises and twist to be revealed. You can catch Big Brother on the ABC network or at http://www.bigbrother.com/ Also if you have showtime 2 you can see Big Brother After Dark which is a 4 hour view of the house from the cameras inside and it shows you what the regular 1 hour show doesn't.

Modern Warfare 2/Halo 3:ODST

OK so this September Gamers will be very happy because two major blockbusters are returning for another squeal, Infinity Ward has Released Modern Warfare 2 which is a squeal to the very successful Call of Duty 4:Modern Warfare. This game comes equip with better graphics, weapons, story and multi-player. My opinion this game is going to be amazing, at E3 09 Infinity Ward previewed a single player campaign mission that showed the visually stunning, pulse pounding and flat out fun that Modern Warfare 2 has in store for gamers. This title is scheduled to release November 11th, 2009

Bungie Studios has done it again with the new release of Halo 3:ODST. ODST standing for Orbital Drop Shock Troopers is a prequeal to Halo 3. This game takes place after Halo 2, The Master Chief is missing and all hell is breaking out. The Covenant and Brute forces are growing stronger and all that stands between the Covenant from destroying the universe is a highly trained elite force of soldiers called the ODST. Expect ODST to drop this September.

Movie of The Week

OK so out of all the NEW movies that have come out this week I would have to say my favorite one was Public Enemies. Public Enemies is an Epic thriller based on the life of a 1930's Gangster called Jon Dillienger played by Johnny Depp. Dillienger is a bank robbing mastermind who is on top of the world until a newly formed Federal Burro of Investigations (FBI) and Agent Melvin Purvis played by Christian Bale start to make things difficult for him. Jon's girlfriend Billie Frechete played by Marion Cotilliard is Jon's pride and joy all he wants it to go away with her and make a better life, but it seems like shes the only one protecting him. This is my pick of the week because the film is amazing in almost all aspects, this film really pulls you in and shows you what it was like in the early 1930's during the great depression. The action is great and the story was touching. So to wrap it all up I give this movie 41/2 stars out of 5.

click the link below to see a trailer for the movie PUBLIC ENEMIES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWof6CovHxI