In collaboration with Steve Stoute’s new book The Tanning Of America which launched today, steve  has teamed up with AOL to release The Tanning Effect. A visual series encompassing the stories behind Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams, Lady Gaga, Jimmy Iovine and more. Check out the trailer above.

The world’s best-selling album of the past decade, The Beatles’ “1″, makes its global digital debut today exclusively via iTunes. The album has debuted at #1 on several iTunes top albums charts around the world, including the US, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, Mexico, Sweden, Spain, New Zealand, and Greece. The Beatles have now sold more than nine million songs and over 1.5 million albums on iTunes worldwide.

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1 collects all of The Beatles’ singles released between 1963 and 1970 that reached #1 on the UK’s Record Retailer chart and/or on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US. The Beatles achieved 17 #1 UK singles between May 1963 and July 1969 and 20 US chart-toppers between February 1964 and June 1970. Between both charts, The Beatles’ singles spent a total of 128 weeks at #1.

Since its original release in 2000, 30 million physical copies of The Beatles’ “1″ have been sold around the world, including more than 11.7 million RIAA Diamond-certified sales in the US, where 1 topped Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart for eight weeks on its way to becoming the decade’s top-selling album (2000-2009).

The remastered “1″ album will also be released on CD with updated packaging on September 13.

Download your own copy of “1″ from iTunes here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id458032395

“1″ Official Tracklisting
1. Love Me Do
2. From Me to You
3. She Loves You
4. I Want to Hold Your Hand
5. Can’t Buy Me Love
6. A Hard Day’s Night
7. I Feel Fine
8. Eight Days a Week
9. Ticket to Ride
10. Help!
11. Yesterday
12. Day Tripper
13. We Can Work It Out
14. Paperback Writer
15. Yellow Submarine
16. Eleanor Rigby
17. Penny Lane
18. All You Need Is Love
19. Hello, Goodbye
20. Lady Madonna
21. Hey Jude
22. Get Back
23. The Ballad of John and Yoko
24. Something
25. Come Together
26. Let It Be
27. The Long and Winding Road

Judging from the Fall/Winter 2011 upcoming line from Supreme, the skate powerhouse teamed up with Bad Boy Records in its latest collabo t-shirt and accessory. Here we see a key chain and t-shirt with the album cover from the late Notorious B.I.G.’ “Ready to Die.

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Supreme’s Fall/Winter collection will be available on August 25th at our NY/LA stores, August 27th in Japan and September 22nd at our new London store.

Their online shop will re-open on September 1st.

Reebok sat down with Raekwon just before he hit the road for Rock the Bells and got the real story of how he hooked up with Nas and Ghostface Killah to record “Verbal Intercourse” and make his classic album.

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Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… sold over 1.1 million copies in the United States, pioneered the Mafioso rap genre, and became one of the most critically acclaimed hip-hop albums of all time.  Often referred to as “The Purple Tape”, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx features many classic songs including “Verbal Intercourse”.

Ms. Lauryn Hill discusses her 1998 multi-Grammy winning album ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’ as part of the exclusive film series ‘Classic Albums By Classic Artists’ presented by Reebok Classics & Rock The Bells.

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The latest installment of the film series focuses on the artist and her landmark multi-platinum selling album. “I make the music that I want to hear and when you find that other people want to hear that too… how could you not be excited about that,” Ms. Hill notes. She goes on to say “I made a piece of music from a sincere place and I think that sincerity has no choice but to resonate with people.”

Thurnis Haley makes an appearance once again to make an importance announcement, this time however Thurnis is here to talk about Tyler’s new VMA nomination. Catch up with Thurnis while he relaxes to do some Yoga and talk about the meaning behind the MTV nomination. Enjoy!

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As the follow-up to The Weeknd’s successful mixtape House Of Balloons, The Weeknd presents his latest release titled Thursday. The nine track mixtape features songs “Rolling Stone” and “The Birds” that were previously released and can be downloaded now here.

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01. Lonely Star
02. Life Of The Party
03. Thursday
04. The Zone (Ft. Drake)
05. The Birds Part One
06. The Birds Part Two
07. Gone
08. Rolling Stone
09. Heaven Or Las Vegas

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