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Ludacris - Battle of the Sexes

2010 marks three-time Grammy Award winning artist, award winning actor, businessman, restaurateur and Disturbing Tha Peace CEO, Chris Ludacris Bridges, 10th anniversary in the entertainment business. Since bursting onto the international scene at the turn of the new decade, he has been riding a major wave of success ever since.

Having firmly established himself in the worlds of music, film & television and philanthropy, Ludacris shows no signs of slowing down, releasing his seventh studio album, The Battle of the Sexes, March 9th on DTP/Def Jam. The highly anticipated album’s first single, “How Low” is zooming up the music charts and is currently at #1 at Urban Radio, #2 on Billboard’s Rap Songs chart and #4 on the Billboard R&B/Hip Hop chart. The remix featuring Ciara and Pitbull is being released on 2/9 at iTunes.

Helping to launch the release of The Battle of the Sexes, it has just been announced that Ludacris will join supergroup The Black Eyed Peas on their The. E.N.D. U.S. tour, beginning in Atlanta on February 4th. The tour will hit 32 cities across the country including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami (see full tour schedule attached).

In addition to the new album and the upcoming tour, Ludacris continues his charitable work to help improve the lives of children through the Ludacris Foundation. He also recently established his own liquor brand, Conjure cognac, which is currently available in the Atlanta and Miami markets.

Our first single “How Low” is now at number 36 on the South African Top 100 airplay chart, this song is now playlisted by 10 radio stations: 5FM, Metro FM, YFM, Tru FM, East Coast Radio, Kovsie FM, Ikwekwezi FM, Durban Youth Radio, Munghana Lonene and Good Hope FM.

“Battle of the Sexes” album is going to be sampled to our radio stations from the 15th of March with the main focus on Urban, AC and Pop radio stations around South Africa. While sampling this album we will also be setting up album of the week features, song of the week with the aim of raising Luda’s profile in South Africa.

All key magazines, websites and newspapers are going to be sampled with this album starting from Monday. Our objectives here are to get “Battle Of The Sexes” album reviews, Ludacris features and album giveaways. Our targeted magazines include True Love Magazine, Destiny magazine, Cosmopolitan, Drum, Bona, Glamour, You, Soul, Move, People and Heat magazine.