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Made even more iconic for how The Boondocks's "Tom" karoked it to perfection , "Burn" as the second single for "Confessions" help continue Usher's push to full superstardom a decade ago during this time. Jermaine Durpri produced another classic beat for this terrific ballard that wasn't too slow. And though the music video was subpar as for what it could have been, "Burn" still resonates up there as one of Raymond's Top 5 in my mind. So for today's Flashback Friday first choice, it's "Burn" from a decade ago. More to come at The Whole Delivery in a bit, stay tune. 

While "8701" was a quality album that got Usher back in the picture, when "Yeah" was the first single released for "Confessions," that is when his career reached true global superstardom on all platforms. With Lil Jon and Luda helping especially Lil Jon with the clutch producing, and Sean Garrett playing the role as key writer of many, here is the song that raised Usher to another level. It's "Yeah" from 10 years ago. More to come at The Whole Delivery today for sure, stay tuned. 

From 10 summers ago at this time:

Headlining the releases this week, it's none other than the controversial Brit M.I.A with her third album "Maya." Also releasing albums this week are Korn, Sting, Intriguer, Drama Queen, and Innocence Mission . Also, just if you care, Usher has released finally the video for "There Goes My Baby." It's as expected, and actually pretty decent. Your first music thread.

It's whatever : The "Glee - The Music Volume 3: Showstoppers" soundtrack arrives at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart as expected, starting with 136,000 sold according to Nielsen SoundScan. The cast of "Glee" claimed its first No. 1 recently with "The Power of Madonna," when that seven-song EP arrived at the top with 98,000. "Showstoppers" is the third proper full-length soundtrack from the Fox TV show. The first two volumes were released in quick succession last November and December. This third edition includes highlights from the second half of "Glee's" debut season. A forthcoming six-track EP titled "Journey to Regionals" is due on June 8. (Don't peek at its tracklist if you don't want upcoming episodes to be spoiled.) The Rolling Stones with their re-release of "Can't Be Tamed" hit #2 with a 76K, with the weeks' highest debut from the Black Keys ("Brothers") coming in ...

It's painful how he tried to be Kanye here. Truly painful.

Photo from Billboard And over his mentor too, in a terrible week for album sales : Justin Bieber scoots back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with "My World 2.0," shifting 102,000 copies (down 65%) in its third week on the chart. It bowed atop the list two weeks ago with 283,000 but fell to No. 2 last week upon the No. 1-arrival of Usher's "Raymond v Raymond" (329,000 in its debut). This week, Usher's set slips to No. 2 with 92,000, down 72%. Despite that massive drop and his lowest first week sales in a long while, Usher may still have an outside chance for platinum. But it's going to be very very hard for him to reach that total. The highest debut was from the guitar playing Slash right at #3, although Billboard has the wrong number currently on their site in terms of what the correct amount was sold for that album. Now I don't know if EMI really wants to celebrate this and al with how abysmal these album sales are, but whatever: Sl...

Oh man...... OH MAN : More to come folks......more to come.

You could say that today is arguably the first big multiple release day of the year, as we all know the two biggest releases. But here are the other notable ones . In stores: There are a bunch of big names on tomorrow's new release schedule: Erykah Badu, Usher and Alan Jackson lead the way, while "Wu Massacre" -- a Wu-Tang Clan faction featuring Ghostface Killah, Method Man and Raekwon -- also drops. Veteran Bay Area rapper E-40 does the double album, separate releases thing with "Revenue Retrievin: Day Shift" and "Revenue Retrievin: Night Shift." And on the indie-pop tip, there's "I Will Be" by Dum Dum Girls and the essential "Black Tambourine" collection. And there you go.

Reflection Eternal feat Bub B "Strangers" is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of utter brilliance. Hi-Tek with this beat continues to show how he's the most underrated. A preview of the still same Usher and the bootleg Lil Kim's video for And Big Boi combines with Andre 3000, I mean, B.O.B in probably the only thing that will sound like Outkast this year. Other than that, not much else new worth the time here.

Just like I'm Real from last week, another great summer 2001 song, and probably my second favorite Usher song of all time (even though I don't think he wrote this track, unsurprisingly). "You need to sit down, this may take a while." Here's "U Remind Me." U Remind Me - Usher Enjoy.

Photo from Billboard Nick Cannon's wife is releasing her 12th album, "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" on August 25th. She is certainly dropping a lot of albums of lat, because the last one wasn't really well received at all. And the numbers she has on Twitter is massive by the way Since entering the studio earlier this year, Carey has been giving updates about the album with regularity to her 600,000-plus followers on the microblogging site. Damn. Cassie's time has already pass. And that's absurd to say that about someone who is 22, unless it's true. And I'm 22. Timbaland and Nelly furtado are getting sued.......by a record label.......... from Helsinki, Finland . I wonder if a label in Antarctica exists? I never heard of him until now sadly, but TWD Condolences to Bob Bogle of rock band The Ventures. He passed away day at 75. If this true, damn Nas, Damn. And I don't like to get into marriage details because it stupid gossip, but here's anot...

Photo from MTV.com Unlike Usher, Beyonce' was able to have her fans buy her mediocre at best effort for this year. By almost going gold in the first week of sells to top the charts, "I Am....Sasha Fierce" won't suffer the same faith as "Here I Stand" despite a CD that was heavily criticized for being another up and down, nowhere near classic effort from the nevertheless superstar figure. Nickelback had to take second place with their Dark House release, with new American Idol winner David Cook taking the bronze with his debut release. Even more stunning is looking at how paltry John Legend's sales are at the moment for his acclaimed Evolver . 297,021 Chalk another victory for style over substance in the music world.Though John Legend is a pretty stylish dude though.

First Music Thread Dedicated to new videos. And all are from prominent R&B artist. One is decent, one is ehhhhhhhhhh, and the last one is surprisingly good, and very necessary for that last artist and his struggling album. First, here's another Chris Brown duet with a chick. This time, It's Keri Hilson in the nice, if not cliche, "Superhuman." Then, not the best effort from Alicia Keys, as she teams up with Jack White to create the new Bond song for the new movie coming out. Sadly, it is just a total force. Her vocals sound so weird on this song, and it just fails in my view. Finally, Usher gets a much needed good video, thought it is the typical run of the mill R&B video. Here's "Trading Places." This video could help his massively disappointing album sales. Or maybe not. Another music thread, with news, will come later. For now, Peace!