Rapper T.I. dominates the charts this week on multiple fronts. The Atlanta native’s latest Long Play effort ‘Paper Trail’ stormed to the top the Billboard 200 chart with a whopping 568,000 copies sold in its first week – the highest selling debut of his career.Elsewhere, his collaboration with Rihanna ‘Live Your Life’ breaks the record for the biggest chart jump on the Billboard Hot 100 – soaring #80-#1 – due to a surge in digital sales. Interestingly, the song unseats his ‘Whatever You Like’ from the top spot – itself breaking records 6 weeks ago after leaping #71-#1. The last artist to achieve such a feat was Usher in 2004 – with ‘Burn’ topping ‘Yeah’ on the same chart.
The week’s 2nd highest debut came from American Idol Alumni Jennifer Hudson, whose self titled debut landed at #2 – selling through an impressive 217,000. {Source}
More power to them both.
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7 COMMENTS
lea
October 10, 2008 at 7:49 am
Rihanna also made history….she has the most #1 singles from any female in the 21st century…4 #1 singles on her own 1 with T..I = 5 #1 singles….why didnt u mention that SAM
lea
October 10, 2008 at 7:50 am
congrats to them both
Anonymous
October 10, 2008 at 8:28 am
Well Done I guess, but I don’t rate T.I as a rapper, I THINK HE IS SHIT
AND BOTH RECORDS HE PUT OUT ARE RUBBISH, INFACT HIM, LIL WAYNE AND KANYE WEST ARE ALL ON THE SAME LEVEL, OVERRATED RAPPERS, WHO MAKE FUCKING CRAP RECORDS AND DO WELL BUT THAT DOESN’T MAKE THEM GOOD, HIP HOP IS PURE SHIT THESE DAYS
Keith
October 10, 2008 at 8:41 am
Congrats to T.I. and Jennifer Hudson.
tia
October 10, 2008 at 9:26 am
^^ y cant people be like you just be positive lol
congrats to them…j-hud should be really happy with those numbers because these days nobody is really selling too much of anything. I have to admit i like t.i’s album,not a huge fan of his but i like his album.
Anonymous
October 10, 2008 at 10:09 am
Good for them!
b3utifulnf0cused
October 12, 2008 at 3:35 pm
T.I. is a great artist! Check out his interview with CNN at one of the best websites for Urban News:
http://www.livesteez.com/videos/watch/KmldjVa
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