Akon's "Smack That" Makes Historic Leap on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart from #95 to #7.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Upfront/Konvict/SRC/Universal Motown multi-platinum recording star and much sought after producer and songwriter, Akon, makes history with his new single "Smack That" featuring Eminem jumping 88 spots, from #95 to #7 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart this week. "Smack That" is also one of the top 10 fastest growing songs at Top 40 radio. The monstrous leap is fueled by the single's #6 debut on Billboard's "Hot Digital Songs" chart with 67,000 downloads sold in it's first week. "Smack That" is one of two lead singles from Akon's forthcoming sophomore disc, Konvicted, due out November 21, 2006. The single has already been the #1 most added song at rhythmic and crossover Crossover The point on a stock chart when a security and an indicator intersect. Crossovers are used by technical analysts to aid in forecasting the future movements in the price of a stock. In most technical analysis models, a crossover is a signal to either buy or sell. radio and has been listened to more than three million times in one month on Akon's MySpace page (www.myspace.com/akon). Akon's other lead single, "I Wanna wan·na Informal 1. Contraction of want to: You wanna go now? 2. Contraction of want a: You wanna slice of pie? Love You" features Snoop Dogg is seeing a considerable amount of attention as well. Akon scored unprecedented success, both here and abroad, with his multi-format smash hit singles "Locked Up" and "Lonely" from his multi-platinum debut release, Trouble. He's produced hit songs for hot rapper Young Jeezy Jay Jenkins (born September 28, 1977 in Columbia, South Carolina) better known by his stage name Young Jeezy, is an American rapper. He was formerly known as "Lil' J" in his early rap career. and his own top-selling R&B artist T- Pain. He has recently worked in the studio with Elton John Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March, 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. and Gwen Stefani and will be debuting several breakout artists on his newly developed label, Konlive. The following is the track listing for Konvicted: 1. Shake Down 2. Blown Away feat. Styles P 3. Smack That feat. Eminem 4. I Wanna Love You feat. Snoop Dogg 5. Rain 6. Never Took the Time 7. Mama Africa 8. Don't Matter 9. I Can't Wait 10.Once in a While 11.Tired of Runnin 12.Gangsta Noun 1. gangsta - (Black English) a member of a youth gang AAVE, African American English, African American Vernacular English, Black English, Black English Vernacular, Black Vernacular, Black Vernacular English, Ebonics - a nonstandard form of American English Bop |
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