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While the record-sales biz continues its steady slide, the music video game industry is booming Rosetta Stone language. In a press release, the makers of Rock Band have revealed that after only 15 months of business, the franchise has surpassed $1 billion in North American retail sales alone. MTV Games and Harmonix also announced than more than 40 million individual tracks had been downloaded and purchased via the Rock Band platform.Rosetta Stone has been covering the battle between Guitar Hero and Rock Band and their constant search for exclusive rights to major artists catalogs and new features. But the numbers dont lie, and in 2008 Rock Band was "the number one title of 2008 by revenue across all game genres," according to the press release. Of course, 2007s Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock was the first video game ever to break the billion-dollar barrier, so we guess thats a tie.Whatever the revenue gap between RB and GH is now, expect it fluctuate as both titles release big-name versions this year: Guitar Hero: Metallica hits shelves March 29th (James Hetfield talks that game here) and The Beatles: Rock Band, perhaps the most-anticipated game in either franchises Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 history, will be released on September 9th, 2009. To counter, Guitar Hero reportedly has a Van Halen-dedicated version on the way.As the pair continue slugging it out, the music video game market will get even more crowded when both DJ Hero and Scratch: The Ultimate DJ enter the arena later this year. It was a final display of his charm, right before the whole act came crashing down. "Blood on the Dance Floor," 1997 >His last angry gasp and a true oddity: an album by Michael Jackson that barely anybody heard. A barrage of quasi-industrial remixes and freakouts, disconnected from any concept of pop music as it existed outside his skull, this was never a hit. But it exposes the paranoid rage driving his music at the end. It was only after his death that people noticed "Morphine," an ode to Demerol addiction. "You Rock My World," 2001 His last choice of an old Hollywood playmate was Marlon Brando, which made it harder to ignore that Michael had turned into Colonel Kurtz at the end of Apocalypse Now. He bid his audience one last farewell with a30th-anniversary Cheap Rosetta Stone French special, and made his last visit to the Top 10 with one of the least memorable things hed ever recorded.

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