Up and coming dancehall artiste Max Element has followed up his Wash Cook and Clean single with Pound a Carrot.

the track was conceptualised from a choreographed dance piece that Max saw being executed in his community. “The response so far has been tremendous, it is well loved. I think more so because of the beat of the rhythm and the dance is phenomenal,” Max said recently.

He has so far been promoting the song with the assistance of dancers including the Untouchable Dance Squad and Dance Xpressionz.

Although the creator of the Pound a Carrot dance is unknown, the dance has been popularised by the group Dance Xpressionz.

Ghost releases new album

We haven’t heard much from singer Ghost in a while. The former Monster Shack Crew member has released a new album entitled Ghost Stories.

The album contains 17 tracks. It is his first album of new material in almost nine years.

A release party for the album is planned for September 15 at the Manhattan offices of Linkup Media in New York.

Ghost’s previous albums include Love You, and Under the Moonlight.

The first single from Ghost Stories is titled Baby Come Over.

VMA performance takes Adele to the top

British pop singer Adele benefits from her performance at the recently held MTV Video Music Awards. Her single Someone Like You which was featured in the live telecast, has shot from nineteen to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Someone Like You has given the 23-year-old sensation her second chart-topping single in America, following Rolling in the Deep which spent seven weeks at the summit beginning in May of this year.

It’s been a whirlwind year for Adele whose album 21 and single Rolling in the Deep continue to make inroads not only in America but across Europe.

Back home in the UK, Adele continues to climb the British pop charts with Someone Like You and Set Fire to the Rain. Her album 21 has so far moved three million copies there. Stateside, 21 is nearing the two million mark in sales.

Lil Wayne makes big moves with Tha Carter IV

As was expected, rapper Lil Wayne darts his way to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart with Tha Carter IV. The set moved 964,000 copies in its first week.

The hefty sales of Tha Carter IV is the second biggest first week sales so far for 2011. Back in March, Lady Gaga’s Born this Way album trumped 1.1 million copies in its opening week.

Incidentally, this is Lil Wayne’s third number one album. His last chart topper was I Am Not a Human Being which was released last year. That set moved 119,000 copies in its opening week.

Chart Updates

Talking to the Universe by John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono flies to the top of Billboard’s Dance Music Club Play chart. Close on her heels is California King Bed by Rihanna which jumps to number two.

Veteran R&B singer Johnny Gill is back on Billboard’s R&B Hip Hop songs chart for the first time in 14 years. His latest entry In the Mood peaked at number 33 last week. To find the last charting entry for Gill, you would to journey back to 1997 when Love in an Elevator peaked at number 56.

The various artistes compilation Reggae’s Gone Country debuted at number two on the Billboard Reggae album chart. The chart’s champ for the 6th week running is still the various artistes compilation Jamaica: Island in the Sun which boasts songs from the ska, rock steady and reggae genres.