scott storch

Christina Aguilera  Stripped (2002) Producer 
Christina Aguilera  Can't Hold Us Down [Australia] (2003) Producer 
Bilal  Love It [CD5/12"] (2001) Keyboards 
Bilal  1st Born Second [Clean] (2001) Keyboards 
Boogiemonsters  Riders of the Storm: The... (1994) Keyboards 
Boyz II Men  Full Circle (2002) Producer 
Bubba Sparxxx  Dark Days, Bright Nights... (2001) Keyboards 
Bubba Sparxxx  Dark Days, Bright Nights... (2001) Keyboards 
Busta Rhymes  Anarchy (2000) Producer, Mixing 
Busta Rhymes  Anarchy [Clean] (2000) Producer, Mixing 
Busta Rhymes  Total Devastation: The Best of... (2001) Producer, Mixing 
Busta Rhymes  Genesis [Clean] (2001) Keyboards, Keyboard Bass 
Busta Rhymes  Genesis (2001) Keyboards, Keyboard Bass 
Busta Rhymes/Mariah Carey...  I Know What You Want [Australia... (2003) Keyboards, Keyboard Bass 
D12  Devil's Night [Import Bonus CD] (2001) Keyboards 
D12  Devil's Night (2001) Keyboards 
Kiley Dean  Make Me a Song (2003) Producer 
Dice Raw  Reclaiming the Dead (2000) Keyboards, Producer 
Dr. Dre  Still D.R.E. [CD Single] (1999) Keyboards 
Dr. Dre  2001 [Instrumental] (1999) Keyboards 
Dr. Dre  Still D.R.E. [Import CD Single #1] (2000) Keyboards 
E-Dub  Prezident (2001) Producer 
Earth, Wind & Fire  Promise [Japan Bonus Tracks] (2003) Bass, Guitar, Keyboards 
8 Ball  Lay It Down (2001) Producer 
Eightball  Lay It Down [Clean] (2001) Producer 
Eightball  Lay It Down (2001) Producer 
Eve  Scorpion (2001) Keyboards, Producer 
Eve  Scorpion [Clean] (2001) Keyboards, Producer 
Eve  Scorpion [UK Bonus Tracks] (2002) Keyboards, Producer 
Eve  Gangsta Lovin' [CD #3] (2002) Keyboards, Producer 
50 Cent  New Breed [DVD & CD] (2003) Piano 
Nelly Furtado  On the Radio [Australian Single] (2002) Clarinet, Keyboards 
G-Unit  Beg for Mercy [Clean] (2003) Keyboards, Producer 
G-Unit  Beg for Mercy (2003) Keyboards, Producer 
Warren G  Return of the Regulator (2001) Keyboards 
Warren G  Return of the Regulator [Clean] (2001) Keyboards 
Warren G  Return of the Regulator [Bonus... (2002) Keyboards 
G. Love & Special Sauce  G. Love & Special Sauce (1994) Piano 
Ginuwine  Senior (2003) Producer, Drum Programming 
Ja Rule  Blood in My Eye [Clean] (2003) Producer 
Jay-Z  Blueprint©˜: The Gift & the Curse... (2002) Fender Rhodes 
Jay-Z  Blueprint©˜: The Gift & the Curse (2002) Fender Rhodes 
Jay-Z  Blueprint 2.1 [Clean] (2003) Fender Rhodes 
Jay-Z  Blueprint 2.1 (2003) Fender Rhodes 
Jazzyfatnastees  Tortoise & the Hare (2002) Keyboards, Producer, Fender Rhodes 
John Boy & Billy  John Boy & Billy's Christmas Album (1996) Clavinet 
John Boy & Billy  Christmas Album (1998) Clavinet, Performer 
Beyoncé  Dangerously in Love (2003) Producer 
Beyoncé  Dangerously in Love [Import Bonus... (2003) Producer 
Beyoncé  Dangerously in Love [Japan Bonus... (2003) Producer 
Beyoncé  Dangerously in Love [Australia]... (2003) Producer 
Beyoncé  Baby Boy [Australia CD] (2003) Producer 
Beyoncé  Me Myself and I/Krazy in Luv (2003) Producer 
Beyoncé Knowles  Me, Myself and I [UK Single] Producer 
Lil' Kim  Bella Mafia (2003) Producer 
Lil' Kim  Bella Mafia [Clean] (2003) Producer 
Lil' Kim  Thug Luv/This Is Who I Am (2003) Producer 
Lil' Kim  Thug Luv/This Is Who I Am [Clean] (2003) Producer 
Limp Bizkit  New Old Songs [Clean] (2001) Keyboards 
Limp Bizkit  New Old Songs (2001) Keyboards 
Loon  Loon (2003) Producer 
Loon  Loon [Clean] (2003) Producer 
Mack 10  Bang or Ball [Clean] (2001) Keyboards 
Mack 10  Bang or Ball (2001) Keyboards 
Keith Martin  It's Long Overdue (1995) Keyboards 
Angie Martinez  Animal House (2002) Producer 
Angie Martinez  Animal House [Clean] (2002) Producer 
Memphis Bleek  M.A.D.E. (2003) Producer 
Memphis Bleek  M.A.D.E. [Clean] (2003) Producer 
Mobb Deep  Infamy (2001) Producer 
Ms. Jade  Girl Interrupted [Clean] (2002) Keyboards 
Ms. Jade  Girl Interrupted (2002) Keyboards 
Mystikal  Tarantula [Clean] (2001) Producer 
Nas  QB Finest [Clean] (2000) Producer 
Nas  QB Finest (2000) Producer 
Nelly  Derrty Versions: The Reinvention (2003) Remix Producer 
Next  Next Episode (2002) Producer, Mixing 
Next  Next Episode [Clean] (2002) Producer, Mixing 
Onyx  Bacdafucup, Pt. II [Clean] (2002) Producer 
Onyx  Bacdafucup, Pt. II (2002) Producer 
Sean Paul  Dutty Rock [2003] (2003) Producer 
Sean Paul  Dutty Rock [2003 Clean] (2003) Producer 
Pink  M!ssundaztood (2001) Producer 
Pink  M!ssundaztood [German Bonus Track] (2002) Producer 
Pink  M!ssundaztood [Japan Bonus Tracks] (2002) Producer 
Pink  M!ssundaztood [Bonus DVD] (2002) Producer 
Pink  Family Portrait (2002) Producer 
Dina Rae  And (2004) Programming, Producer, Musician 
Rahzel, The Godfather of...  Make the Music 2000 (1999) Keyboards, Producer 
The Roots  Organix (1993) Keyboards 
The Roots  Do You Want More?!!!??! (1995) Keyboards, Fender Rhodes 
The Roots  Illadelph Halflife (1996) Keyboards 
The Roots  Illadelph Halflife [Clean] (1996) Keyboards 
The Roots  Things Fall Apart (1999) Keyboards, Producer, Engineer 
The Roots  Roots Come Alive (1999) Keyboards, Producer 
The Roots  What You Want (1999) Keyboards, Producer 
The Roots  Roots Come Alive [Limited Edition... (1999) Keyboards, Producer 
The Roots  Phrenology (2002) Producer 
The Roots  Phrenology [Clean] (2002) Producer 
The Roots  Phrenology [Bonus DVD] (2002) Producer 
Sarai  Original (2003) Producer 
Schoolly D  Welcome to America (1994) Keyboards 
Slum Village  Trinity (Past, Present and Future) (2002) Producer 
Slum Village  Trinity (Past, Present and Future) (2002) Producer 
Snoop Dogg  Last Meal (2000) Producer 
Snoop Doggy Dogg  Last Meal [Clean] (2000) Producer 
Spearhead  Home (1994) Keyboards, Fender Rhodes 
Sticky Fingaz  Decade (2003) Producer, Executive Producer 
Thirstin Howl III  Licensed to Skill (2003) Producer 
Justin Timberlake  Justified (2002) Clavinet, Producer, Coordination 
Justin Timberlake  Justified [Australia Bonus Track] (2002) Clavinet, Producer 
Justin Timberlake  Cry Me a River [Germany CD] (2003) Clavinet 
Truth Hurts  Truthfully Speaking [Clean] (2002) Keyboards, Producer 
Truth Hurts  Truthfully Speaking (2002) Keyboards 
WC  Ghetto Heisman (2002) Producer 
WC  Ghetto Heisman [Clean] (2002) Producer 
Xzibit  Restless (2000) Keyboards, Producer 
Xzibit  Restless [Clean] (2000) Keyboards, Producer 
Young Gunz  Tough Luv (2004) Producer 
Young Gunz  Tough Luv [Clean] (2004) Producer 
Original Soundtrack  Down in the Delta (1998) Producer, Fender Rhodes 
Original Soundtrack  Wood (1999) Keyboards, Producer 
Original Soundtrack  Backstage: A Hard Knock Life... (1999) Producer 
Original Soundtrack  Backstage: A Hard Knock Life (1999) Producer 
Original Soundtrack  Best Man (1999) Keyboards 
Original Soundtrack  Hurricane [2000 Original... (2000) Arranger, Producer 
Original Soundtrack  Down to Earth (2001) Producer 
Original Soundtrack  Made (2001) Producer 
Original Soundtrack  Wash (2001) Keyboards 
Original Soundtrack  How High (2001) Producer 
Original Soundtrack  How High [Clean] (2001) Producer 
Original Soundtrack  Brown Sugar (2002) Producer, Remixing 
Various Artists  Life of the Party (1997)  
Various Artists  Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin... (1998) Keyboards 
Various Artists  Source Hip-Hop Music Awards 1999 (1999) Producer 
Various Artists  Lyricist Lounge, Vol. 2 (2000) Producer 
Various Artists  Lyricist Lounge, Vol. 2 [Clean] (2000) Producer 
Various Artists  Violator: The Album, Vol. 2 (2001) Producer 
Various Artists  Violator: The Album, Vol. 2... (2001) Producer 
Various Artists  Source Hip-Hop Music Awards 2001 (2001) Producer 
Various Artists  Source Hip-Hop Music Awards 2001... (2001) Producer 
Various Artists  Red Star Sounds, Vol. 1: Soul... (2001) Producer 
Various Artists  Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Vol... (2001) Producer 
Various Artists  Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Vol... (2001) Producer 
Various Artists  Fire, Vol. 1 [AMC] (2002) Producer 
Various Artists  Blazin' Hip Hop and R&B (2002) Producer 
Various Artists  Groovin' High: Soul (2002) Keyboards, Producer, Remixing 
Various Artists  Ultimate Smash Hits [Bonus DVD] (2003) Producer 
Various Artists  Sequence Mixtape, Vol. 1 (2003) Producer 
Various Artists  Thuggin', Ballin' and Pimpin' (2003) Producer 
Various Artists  Hit 56 (2003) Producer 
Various Artists  Much Dance 2004 (2003) Producer 
Various Artists  Grammy Nominees 2004 (2004) Clavinet 

Apparently he has produced their new single...

any truth to this?

URL: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10699242/scott_storchs_outrageous_fortune

Scott Storch's Outrageous Fortune
The hits he's produced for Dr. Dre, 50 Cent and Beyonce have earned him $70 million, a Scarface-worthy mansion in Miami and a place in Paris Hilton' heart. Next up: Hot tracks for Jessica Simpson and Hulk Hogan's daughter

The vast majority of the hip-hop industry records during vampire hours. Most artists and producers arrive at the studio around 10 p.m. and work till five or six in the morning, meaning most modern hip-hop is recorded between midnight and 4 a.m. So, just after 10 p.m. one Friday night in Miami, superproducer Scott Storch is on his way to work, driving to the Hit Factory Miami in his white convertible Lamborghini, slicing down the freeway doing eighty, totally stoned.

He's in a red T-shirt, jeans and multihued Nike Air Force Ones, and he's glistening like the morning dew because of an obscene amount of jewelry, including a thirty-four-carat yellow-diamond ring worth $3 million, a thirteen-carat white-diamond ring, a $250,000 diamond-encrusted watch and three iced-out chains around his neck. Call Storch hip-hop's Liberace. He's worth $70 million, the result of his work with Dr. Dre (he co-produced "Still D.R.E."), Beyoncé (he produced "Baby Boy" and "Naughty Girl"), Justin Timberlake ("Cry Me a River"), Lil' Kim ("Lighters Up"), Fat Joe ("Lean Back"), 50 Cent ("Candy Shop") and Chris Brown ("Run It" and "Gimme That"). But even after a slew of great clients, he's still bitter about those few who don't call back.

Storch is driving to the studio to work on a song for Jessica Simpson called "Mr. Operator," another piece of the large body of work he has coming out in the next year, including songs he made with Nas, Ludacris, the Game, Mario, Eve, Mya and Jay-Z. "I'm working with Jay-Z on his new album," Storch says, the Lamborghini engine behind his shoulder roaring like a lion. "The first time we ever really worked together. We got some fire." He's also working on an album for Brooke Hogan, Hulk's daughter, which will be the first release from Storch's new label, Tuff Jew. "I heard her sing and I thought, 'She's not just a celebrity's daughter.'"

Storch is thirty-two, super-rich and draped in the massive self-confidence of a successful producer. An artist's success is due to talent and hard work, as well as elements much harder to quantify like image, timing and It factor, but a successful producer knows he has made it on intelligence, taste and work ethic, and not unquantifiables. Storch is filled with the self-satisfied arrogance particular to multimillionaire hip-hop superproducers like Pharrell and Kanye. He carries himself like a prince strolling through the kingdom with nary a care. He's cocooned by quite an entourage (five assistants, a team of armed bodyguards, a driver, assorted friends and hangers-on), so there's always someone nearby, ready to do anything he wants -- get some tea, roll up a joint, pull out the Ferrari. Superproducers like Storch, Pharrell and Kanye are hip-hop's answer to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, the nerds who grew up and took over. But as much as artists need producers, producers need artists, too, so right now, as his Lamborghini smooths through the Miami night, Storch is in a bit of a foul mood, upset that some of the superstars who are on his résumé are not in his future.

"I worked with Beyoncé on her last album," Storch says. "I wasn't invited to the new album. I only delivered three hit records last time. But a lot of artists figure they want to try something different. Whatever. There's certain artists who are loyal and certain ones don't really care and don't give you the opportunity to follow through with them again. I'm insulted by a lot of the artists I delivered hits to."

Like who?

"Like Christina Aguilera." Storch made seven songs for her most recent album, Stripped, two of them singles, and helped her sell 12 million records worldwide, but he's not working on her new album, Back to Basics. "I told [Christina's people] I needed a private plane to get out to L.A.," he says. "I had to bring equipment, clothes, my people. You want me to move my life from Miami to L.A. for six months, and you can't get me a plane to do it? She didn't go to bat for me. And I truly cared about her as a person and a friend and as an artist."

But the situation most upsetting to him now is the as-yet-unreleased album by his ex-girlfriend Paris Hilton. "She's cool," he says, "and she surprised me not as a singing talent, but she has a cool little timbre in her voice that's reminiscent to Blondie and Cyndi Lauper." He made nine songs for her album. (He says they made records but not movies.) "I put my heart and soul into that. I delivered incredible music. She's a wild girl, and within my music I think I captured the essence of what Paris really is in life." They cut sassy club pop such as Britney might make, records for the clubs that pivot not around Hilton's voice but around her cult status and sexual image.

But recently Hilton's label decided Storch's work was too racy for the audience it wanted to attack. For Hilton's first single the label chose "Stars Are Blind," a bouncy Euro-reggae song produced by Fernando Garibay, known for his work with Enrique Iglesias and Ashlee Simpson. Storch was not pleased. "They came to Scott Storch," he says, "and I gave 'em some hot shit, and they smacked me in my face and disrespected me. The record label has destroyed the introduction stage of Paris' project. [The first single they chose] is a safe, contemporary pop record. My stuff is more daring, and I feel like it would've been something to open people's eyes." Now he's unsure if all nine of the songs he made will be on the album.

Long before Storch was wearing yellow diamonds and bickering with Paris Hilton's label, he was a middle-class kid who grew up in Philadelphia and Fort Lauderdale, the son of a court reporter and a singer. Storch loved all sorts of music, from George Gershwin to 2 Live Crew. All the songs he loved he tried to work out on the piano. "As a kid, I used to sit there and figure out how to play everybody's song, and through learning all those songs I learned how to put chords together, and it evolved till I could say, 'Hey, I just wrote that.' " In the ninth grade, Storch dropped out of school to pursue a career in music. When he was sixteen, his parents kicked him out of the house. "My father didn't believe in my music," he says. "I don't blame him." From sixteen to nineteen, Storch was broke, sometimes struggling to eat. He worked at Pizza Hut, did construction and played keyboards wherever he could. Then he became a founding member of a little quartet called the Square Roots, which grew to become the Roots. "I brought to the table the musical tone of the group, and I became one of the main authors of compositions." But after a few years in the Roots, he woke up one afternoon and decided he didn't want to be a keyboardist in a band -- he wanted to be a producer. "The touring life wasn't for me," he says. "I like to wake up in the same place most days. And I'm really into sitting behind a mixing console and listening to music all night and making music all night. I'm a studio rat."

For a few more years he was broke, but he knocked on doors until he was producing songs for Capone-N-Noreaga and Busta Rhymes. Then his friend, Philly rapper Eve, introduced him to Dr. Dre -- his big break. "At the time, I saw Dr. Dre desperately needed something," Storch says. "He needed a fuel injection, and Dre utilized me as the nitrous oxide. He threw me into the mix, and I sort of tapped on a new flavor with my whole piano sound and the strings and orchestration. So I'd be on the keyboards, and Mike [Elizondo] was on the bass guitar, and Dre was on the drum machine, and we were like a band, and we'd go in there and make crazy beats every day."

Storch played on the 1999 album 2001, and working alongside Dre enhanced Storch's sound, his work ethic, his reputation in the industry and his bank account. The album sold more than 6 million copies, and in 2000 Storch bought his first Ferrari. But after a few years, Storch decided he wanted to build his own empire, so he left Dre's team and moved to Miami.

At ten past one at the Hit Factory, Storch sits in the studio and scarfs a Philly cheesesteak and inhales a few joints. He has an extraordinary weed habit, lighting up a new joint every half hour or less. "I only smoke when I'm awake," he says, not exaggerating. Then he settles in behind his console with a drum machine on his left, a keyboard in front and an Apple Mac G5 on his right. The computer, something Dre exposed him to, gives him access to an infinite bank of sounds. With his keyboard and his computer, Storch can manipulate any instrument in the history of the world. For hours, Storch sits in his little console, bouncing to the beat in his black-leather executive's chair, experimenting with kicks, snares, drum patterns and keyboard lines, adding little bits to Jessica Simpson's song like a painter dabbing on a canvas. Storch doesn't write words and, unlike most modern superproducers, he doesn't talk on his records. He just makes beats, but he doesn't use samples -- he composes. "I was one of the first in hip-hop to master the art of playing the stuff," he says.

Many producers make beats on their own and sell them to the highest bidder. Storch prefers to spend some time with artists to feel their vibe. "I like working with people directly," he says. "I'll sit and talk with the artist for a night. They go home, I make a beat. They come back the next night, and I've got a song together."

Storch's music is often dramatic, with a sinister keyboard line snaking through. "I don't like to make superhappy stuff," he says. "I like serious-sounding records." His knowledge of music is encyclopedic, and his personal study of Indian and Middle Eastern music often informs his sound. You can hear snatches of it in the sinuous keyboard lines on Fat Joe's "Lean Back," Beyoncé's "Baby Boy" and 50 Cent's "Candy Shop." "I have great respect for that type of music," Storch says. "That way of playing is different than our American music. The notes are different, the scales are different. They have half-notes that are in between the tones. It's some really interesting stuff."

But Storch purposely keeps his music simpler than he could make it so that it'll sell to millions of Americans. "It's a chore for me to hold back my mind to do this simple shit," he says. "The best musicians technically -- they make the least. A great jazz musician doesn't really ever sell huge amounts of copies. People want something they can understand, something they can break down in their head and understand the rhythms. There's more money in those little songs." Storch knows where the big money is. A brand-name producer gets four or five "points" (percentage of profits) for each song he produces on an album. If he makes several songs on an album, a producer can end up earning more from CD sales than the artist. Storch had several songs on Beyoncé's Dangerously in Love (more than 4 million sold), 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' (more than 6 million), 50's The Massacre (more than 5 million), Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP (more than 9 million) and Aguilera's Stripped (more than 4 million).

That's why, at 6 a.m., after five straight hours tinkering with Jessica Simpson's beat, when Storch jumps in his Lamborghini, he drives to an island and pulls up to his mansion, a classic Italian villa with a strong Greco-Roman theme, a gaudy residence that resembles the mansion Al Pacino's Scarface lived in. In the main house, there's seven bedrooms and fourteen bathrooms, high ceilings, three levels, marble floors, marble columns, gold-plated bathroom sinks, a huge eat-in kitchen and a great view of Biscayne Bay. There's also two fountains, a pair of two-bedroom guesthouses, a pool cabana and garage space for eight cars. Storch bought the place in the spring. The sellers asked for $16 million, but Storch says he got it for eleven, a record price for that area. "This home isn't for everybody," he says. "It's a little intimidating for a typical family." Out front there's all sorts of exotic cars -- a Ferrari, an SLR McLaren, a Rolls Phantom, a Maybach, an old Trans Am, several Bentleys -- and out back, parked in the bay, is his 125-foot, $20 million yacht named Tiffany. He sold his previous yacht, Storchavelli.

Around 7 a.m., after a long night at the office, Storch is in the rec room, fatty in hand, his eyes starting to close. The Jessica song is almost done, Mya is arriving in a few hours to work on a song, and on his phone there's messages from DMC and Ja Rule, looking for tracks, and a text from someone else looking for something steamier. U COULD BE GETTING YOUR DICK SUCKED RIGHT NOW, it reads. He laughs: "If this ain't heaven, it's hell."

Listen to a playlist of Scott Storch-produced hits and share your thoughts here.

Selected reader responses will appear in Rolling Stone magazine: Write to us at letters@rollingstone.com.

Posted Jun 29, 2006 6:27 PM

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http://slides.sitewelder.com/users/BrianSmith1067/images/BrianSmith106735641.jpg

This is going to sound funny, but what's between his legs?

34 is no age to die at. Tragic.

Scott Storch, U R TEH FUNNY_LOOKING WHITEYXOR! LULZ!

-- The Reverend Rodney J. Greene is false metal! (R. J. Greene), Sunday, January 14, 2007 7:07 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

I actually looked at his discography on Wikipedia a minute back, and there is literally nothing since "Run It" that is even remotely "good".

was "Lighters Up" before or after that? I liked that one. "For A Minute" too. didn't know he did "Hi Hater" (or took credit for the beatjack, rather). I could very easily fill a CD with Storch productions I like, but there'd be a whole box set of the worst shit ever leftover.

"Lighters Up" came out three months before "Run It" in the UK, dunno about the States

his beat on the new bun b album is pretty good

dude produced the entire brooke hogan LP o_O

deej were you feeling that do or die/remy ma joint he did?

still can't believe this guy is a douche
http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/7/7/0/8/10698077-10698080-slarge.jpg

deej were you feeling that do or die/remy ma joint he did?

-- and what, Friday, July 18, 2008 10:57 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

dont remember it

oh shit I almost forgot "Conceited" was post-"Run It" too, that shit was a minor classic

so his main problem has gotta be cocaina right

Bellido sees Storch's lifelong materialism as his Shakespearean flaw.

nah deej its clearly "mismanagement"

he needs to work on 'accounting practices' (rehab)

oh shit I almost forgot "Conceited" was post-"Run It" too, that shit was a minor classic

-- some dude, Friday, July 18, 2008 11:08 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

yup FREE REMY

MC Hammer - Look Look Look
04. "HammerTime (feat. Nox)"
06. "Look Look Look "

Jurassic 5 - Feedback
03. "Brown Girl (feat. Brick and Lace)"
^^^loool

also the track he did for release therapy apparently became an itunes bonus track and if that isn't the writing on the wall idk what else is

The Brooke Hogan album apparently sold 160k. Which means that 160k people willingly handed over cash to buy it.

tell us what male celebrity Brooke Hogan looks like Dom, bring it on home

Her dad

I mean, that's not really gay best friend cattiness, that's just street knowledge

swish

well, rly, i just think hayden panetroll is so fuckin ugly. i mean honestly she looks like something that would eat straw.

-- Surmounter, Thursday, July 17, 2008 3:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

The Brooke Hogan album apparently sold 160k. Which means that 160k people willingly handed over cash to buy it.

Until the labels ever actually report returns we'll never know how much of that record sold through.The label can pretty easily sell 160K to the big boxes (with a nice three- or four-bucks-a-unit marketing programs) but we never hear how many of that dog Target wrote up on day 91 after it was released.

ellaguru,

Your info is totally outdated. Since March 1991, Neilsen Soundscan has reported consumer retail sales data for big box and major chains and medium to large indpendents as well as online content (itunes, amazon, etc.). This data is what's used to report chart sales figures.

You're absolutely right, Shasta. I've been doing this too long :) Kind of an old-school knee-jerk reaction to reading that a Brooke Hogan CD sold 160K, I guess. Thought we were back in the day when we had "reporting" chart stuff. Those were the days...

From a March 1991 article in the NYT:

"Instead of relying on lists of best-selling albums supplied by record stores, the new charts compute the actual number of records sold through a system that scans the bar codes at retail checkout counters. When first installed at 2,300 retail record stores and 4,000 department stores, the system took into account some 40 percent of all record albums sold in the United States.

Six weeks later, that percentage had jumped to 60 percent, with 2,700 retail stores and 4,500 department stores reporting. Last week, the system tabulated more than five million transactions, 85 percent of them at retail stores and 15 percent at other locations.

Under the new method, albums by best-selling pop acts that had previously taken several weeks to reach No. 1 hit the top in one or two weeks.

Paula Abdul's "Spellbound" entered the pop album chart at No. 5 and reached No. 1 the next week. Two weeks later it was replaced at the top by the Los Angeles rap group N.W.A.'s "Efil4zaggin'," which had appeared on the chart at No. 2 the previous week. This week, the second album by the hard-rock band Skid Row, "Slave to the Grind," enters the chart at No. 1, while N.W.A's album drops to No. 3. The 134,000 units tabulated by Soundscan for Skid Row outdistanced Ms. Abdul's No. 2 album by about 25,000."

Scott Storch, U R TEH FUNNY_LOOKING WHITEYXOR! LULZ!

-- The Reverend Rodney J. Greene is false metal! (R. J. Greene), Sunday, January 14, 2007 7:07 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

-- some dude, Friday, July 18, 2008 8:41 AM (Friday, July 18, 2008 8:41 AM) Bookmark Link

I stand by that

so his main problem has gotta be cocaina right

yeah that was pretty goofy how they followed up "he has looked gaunt and unhealthy" with "producer was a flamboyant smoker of marijuana" ---

scott storch's miami beach home for sale on craigslist: http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/767125.html

he went from being worth $70 million a couple years ago to being $550,000 in debt? Jesus Christ, what is wrong with these people?

and is it just me, or does this guy look like a total geek/freak?

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=scott+storch&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

http://z.about.com/d/top40/1/0/f/L/scottstorch.jpg

helluva drug

something a big Pob-like about him:

http://www.classickidstv.co.uk/wiki/images/thumb/3/3a/Pob_logo.jpg/260px-Pob_logo.jpg

Scott Storch isn’t dead. He’s not in jail. The famed producer isn’t even on the run from the police, as you may have heard through the grapevine over the past year. Storch has been focusing on rebuilding his life, because he did, in fact, hit rock bottom.

Lost in a three-year cocaine-abusing haze, he lost more money than most people reading this story will see in five lifetimes: $30 million. Yes, he blew almost his entire fortune on coke, cars, houses, lavish trips, partying and a series of what he calls “poor judgment decisions.”
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But he has come out of his white-powder fog. The producer says he is in recovery, and, as people who love his music will be elated to hear, he’s back making music. On Wednesday night, MTV News caught up with the Grammy winner, who at one time could do no wrong in the studio as he supplied classic beats, not mere hits, for people like Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Fat Joe and Beyoncé.

“I’m taking it back to square one,” he said, sitting in a Miami studio. The boards in the factory displayed his name and his publishing company, Tuff Jew. “I found myself slipping a little bit,” he said with a very anxious look on his face. “I got involved in doing drugs. I had to get myself into recovery. Being in the life that I was living — very fast-moving, option to do anything you want, go anywhere you wanna go — it definitely takes its toll on you, and you lose your concept of reality. I had to get it under control. I had to take it back to the beginning and back to the Hit Factory, where I made a lot of my hits.”

Storch is currently living in a three-quarter house, where he is supervised by a live-in counselor but allowed to go to work in the studio as long as he’s back by curfew.

I got involved in doing drugs.

Dude should have just done drugs without getting involved.

Lost in a three-year cocaine-abusing haze, he lost more money than most people reading this story will see in five lifetimes: $30 million. Yes, he blew almost his entire fortune on coke, cars, houses, lavish trips, partying...

Article reads like a movie script.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-04-22/music/scott-storch-raked-in-hip-hop-millions-and-then-snorted-his-way-to-ruin/

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oops, didn't realize this wasn't a revive. lol at me haha.

put the pipe down man

tru dat imo iirc afaict

RIP BIG MAN

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.19245/scott-storch-sued-by-singer-for-allegedly-being-too-drugged-out-to-produce-album/

where's that photo of ned's head on storch's body

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3724/nedstorchmc0.jpg

It's been a hard few years.

http://www.okayplayer.com/news/throwback-thursdays-the-roots-first-ever-live-show-video.html

Storch just bopping away there...

The CB4 hat alone!

Meantime, two weeks ago

http://instagram.com/p/hU-Wvvyi6O/

I find the guy kinda fascinating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-g0jxauBJg

no news if you know his story, but good interview and piano material, he's so weird

Huh, that's a pretty good EPK, though sorta lol at escaping the debauchery of Miami by moving to ... LA.