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  Who Charted? Frank Ocean's Surprise Release Debuts at No. 2

  July 18, 2012 – First! Considering the market for mainstream, country-tinged rock is still massive, it's not a huge surprise that the Zac Brown Band's fifth studio album Uncaged, and not Frank Ocean's surprise-released, acclaimed major label debut channel ORANGE earned the top slot on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Uncaged sold 234,000 copies, making it the trio's second No. …
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  Frank Ocean Covers Prince Live, Internet Explodes

  July 18, 2012 – A fan on Tumblr once asked Frank Ocean to name his favorite song. Ocean, who officially released his album-of-the-year candidate channel ORANGE on Tuesday, chose "When You Were Mine," the often-covered Beatles-gone-new-wave heart-tugger from Prince's 1980 album Dirty Mind. As the Seattle Times reports, Ocean kicked off the tour with the song in Seattle on Friday night. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Azealia Banks and Machinedrum Go Off

  July 14, 2012 – Was it a coincidence that the original Frank Ocean, Cody Chesnutt, unveiled the Kickstarter for Landing On A Hundred, his full-length follow-up to 2002's The Headphone Masterpiece, the day after Channel Orange arrived on iTunes? Probably not. Actually, it was totally a coincidence. There's like, no way it wasn't. And I'm mostly just being a jerk about the "original Frank Ocean" dig, but hey, go give Cody Chesnutt some of your dough. …
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  Frank Ocean, 'channel ORANGE' (Def Jam)

  July 13, 2012 – If you are one of the thousands of Americans wondering why the R&B singer Frank Ocean is becoming "famous," here's a partial answer: Frank Ocean is a story we want to tell ourselves. When he migrated from New Orleans to Los Angeles shortly after Hurricane Katrina, he became a story about triumphing over circumstances. Once in L.A., he was signed to Def Jam as a solo artist under his birth name, Chris Breaux. …
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  Frank Ocean Hasn't Touched a Copy of 'Channel Orange' Yet

  July 13, 2012 – A lot of people have been talking about Frank Ocean this week, but aside from the occasional tweet or errant Tumblr post, Ocean hasn't done a whole lot of yapping since his confessional coming-out blog post and channelORANGE release. …
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  Frank Ocean's 'Channel Orange' Won't Be Sold at Target

  July 12, 2012 – Whether Frank Ocean's expedited digital release of channelORANGE will perform well on the charts next week is more or less a no-brainer at this point, however there are still controversies surrounding its arrival. …
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  Big Boi Claims Andre 3000 Thwarted His Frank Ocean Collabo

  July 10, 2012 – While the entire music-loving world had its collective finger hovering above the mouse button to download a digital copy of Frank Ocean's channel ORANGE last night just before he took the stage on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, there was at least one person feeling a little resentful of the rising singer's moment. …
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  Frank Ocean Makes TV Debut, Unleashes 'Channel Orange' a Week Early: Watch/Stream Now

  July 10, 2012 – Little things mean so much in Frank Ocean's music. It's funny how they can also mean so little. "I could never make him love me / Never make him love me," the R&B singer and songwriter confides on "Bad Religion," a swooping, subtle ballad that dramatically equates unrequited love to a suicide cult, from official debut album Channel Orange. …
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  Hear Frank Ocean's Lush Pharrell Collabo 'Sweet Life'

  July 6, 2012 – Just days after setting the internet alight with a Tumblr post that alluded to not being straight, ever-rising R&B sensation Frank Ocean has returned by leaking the next track off his mega-anticipated second album Channel Orange. "Sweet Life" is a collabo with his hero Pharrell Williams, and sounds like the lush pulse of early '80s Stevie Wonder siphoned through the first N.E.R.D. album. Hear it via his Tumblr.  …
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  Why Frank Ocean's Coming Out Tumblr Post Is as Complex and Deep as His Lyrics

  July 5, 2012 – In the twilight hours of Independence Day, Frank Ocean published an excerpt from the liner notes of his forthcoming album: a tender tale of a man he once loved, who wouldn’t admit it was reciprocal until three years later. "based god was right," he wrote, "we're all a bunch of golden million dollar babies. my hope is that the babies born these days will inherit less of the bullshit than we did. …
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