L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Todd Martens looks at the week in the music charts. For Adele, it's week No. 23 at the top of the U.S. pop charts. The week's top debut, and indeed the only debut inside the top 10, is Kid Cudi's psychedelic rock project WZRD. And genre-hopping jazz ... more info

411 Mania — Kid Cudi gets the highest debut... more info

ContactMusic — The news today that The Hunger Games will feature a soundtrack including the likes of The Arcade Fire Taylor Swift The Decemberists Kid Cudi and others has merely added credence to the notion that the forthcoming film out on March 23rd looks set to..... more info

411 Mania — News and thoughts on Ja Rule showing Drake some respect from prison, Bizarre leaving D-12, Too Short showing the influence of the industry, Kid Cudi getting mad at Universal over his new album, Birdman signing Limp Bizkit, a look at XXL's Freshmen of... more info

Perez Hilton — Since 2004, hip-hop artist Kid Cudi has sold over 1.19 million units of music. Both of the Day N' Night singer's past LPs sold 100,000+ units in the first week. So, yesterday when Cudi's label, Universal Republic, only shipped out 55k of his new (sl... more info

Pop Justice — Beyoncé has been cast in Ryan 'I created Glee' Murphy’s latest film project One Hit Wonders. (Deadline) (http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/ryan-murphy-plans-one-hit-wonders-with-gwyneth-paltrow-reese-witherspoon-cameron-diaz-beyonce-and-andy-samberg... more info

Topix — Last week, as projections of blinking eyeballs danced across the wall of Soho's W.i.P. during the album preview of WZRD , one couldn't help but draw parallels between the distressed protagonist of Vladimir Nabokov's The Eye , Smurov, and Kid Cudi, wh... more info

411 Mania — Cudi speaks on WZRD... more info

Guardian Music — A new song from Gorillaz? With super-stellar collaborators? Amazing. Or not, as the case may be So far Converse's Three Artists. One Song project has given us the hip-hop funk of My Drive Thru, a collaboration between Pharrell, Santigold and Julian C... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — Dot Da Genius just took to his twitter to drop off something fresh, this was recorded in 2008 and produced by Dot Da Genius himself.Hit play below & enjoy. In all i think its a decent track, which will probably end up growing on me. more info