Jay-Z and Kanye West’s collaborative album Watch the Throne, which was released exclusively to iTunes last Monday (August 8th), has broken a record for the online store.
According to reports, the LP has become the highest selling album in the store’s history for first-week sales, moving about…
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Common at The White House
Wiz Khalifa’s Pittsburgh anthem “Black and Yellow” has reached No. 1 on the Hot 100 after an 18-week climb, and the 23-year-old rapper tells Billboard.com that no one is more surprised at the success of the debut single than he is.
“It feels amazing. Everybody that makes music wants to be in this position,” says Khalifa (real name: Cameron Thomaz), who found out about the song reaching the chart’s pole position yesterday morning (Feb. 10). “I’m pretty level-headed about everything but… I did a little dance.”
[more via Billboard]
This was the season that hip-hop finally caught up to the NFL, something that happened weeks before the Black Eyed Peas took center stage at Cowboys Stadium for the Super Bowl XLV halftime show.
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