LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/
Ludacris Official Website) - Three-time Grammy Award-winner
Ludacris takes over the No 1 spot on Urban
Radio for a second consecutive week with "
How Low" - now certified RIAA platinum for U.S. sales in excess of one million units, setting the stage for THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES, the 7th studio album from Disturbing Tha Peace CEO and DTP/Def Jam artist Luda, arriving in the physical and digital marketplace on March 9th.
As anticipation builds for THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES, Ludacris moves into his second week as special guest on the Black Eyed Peas' The E.N.D. Tour. The 10-week, 32-city tour of stadiums and major arenas across North America runs through April 11th in Vancouver. (Please remaining tour dates below.)
With tour venues quickly selling out, fans will also have their chance to see Ludacris on television over the next month - starting with NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on March 2nd. Appearances continue March 10th on ABC's Live with Regis & Kelly; March 23rd on The Ellen DeGeneres Show; and March 26th at the outdoor stage of ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live. Luda will round out the month with a double-header on March 30th, hitting TBS's Lopez Tonight with George Lopez and E! network's Chelsea Lately.
THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES is the long-awaited follow-up to Luda's previous concept album, Theater Of The Mind (November 2008), which spun off a pair of singles that both hit Top 20 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and the Top 40 stretch of the Hot 100: "What Them Girls Like" (featuring Chris Brown and Sean Garrett), and "One More Drink" (featuring T-Pain).
It was October of 2008, in the heat of electioneering fever, when Ludacris (Chris Bridges) made hip-hop history as co-star of two major motion pictures that opened within two weeks of each other. Max Payne, based on the popular video game, in which Luda starred as an internal affairs agent alongside Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis and Beau Bridges, opened on October 17th; and Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla, in which Luda joined Gerard Butler and Thandie Newton for an exciting tale of the Russian mob in London, opened on October 31st.
In between his movie premieres in October, Ludacris performed at the syndicated BET Awards '08 tv broadcast, hosted by D.L. Hughley. Most recently, Luda co-starred in the Lionsgate film Gamer (September 2009), joining Gerard Butler for another action thriller.
Theater Of The Mind followed-up Luda's RIAA platinum Release Therapy of 2006, which debuted at No 1 - the same week that its first single, the RIAA platinum "Money Maker" (featuring Pharrell Williams) hit No 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts. Luda's next No 1 single was "Runaway Love" with Mary J. Blige, which they performed with special guests Earth, Wind & Fire at the 49th annual Grammy Awards worldwide telecast. Release Therapy won the Grammy for Best Rap Album, and "Runaway Love" won Best Collaboration at the BET Awards '07.
In addition to appearing as both guest host and performer on NBC's Saturday Night Live, 2006 was a landmark year for Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges. He scored rave reviews for his star appearance in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the show's highest rated episode ever. His role in the critically acclaimed film, Crash (which opened in 2005) earned him honors in 2006, sharing the SAG Award for Best Ensemble, the Critics Choice Awards for Best Ensemble, and winning him the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporter Actor in A Motion Picture.
