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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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
congrats to them both
Well Done I guess, but I don’t rate T.I as a rapper, I THINK HE IS S***
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 F****** CRAP RECORDS AND DO WELL BUT THAT DOESN’T MAKE THEM GOOD, HIP HOP IS PURE S*** THESE DAYS
Congrats to T.I. and Jennifer Hudson.
^^ 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.
Good for them!
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