A record is broken this week on the BILLBOARD Hot 100, as
AKON achieves the largest climb in the chart's
48-year-history with "Smack That" featuring Eminem,
which rockets # 95 to # 7. The song's monstrous leap is fueled by its No. 6
debut on Hot Digital Songs with 67,000 copies sold. The 88-spot jump bests the
86-4 move by Vanessa Hudgens,
Zac Efron and Andrew Seeley's "Breaking Free"
in February.
“Smack That,” Featuring Eminem is the #1 Most
Added at Rhythmic And Crossover Radio
New Album Konvicted In Stores November 21st.
Multi-platinum selling
singer/songwriter/producer Akon scores big with his new single, “Smack That,”
featuring Eminem with the #1 Most Added song at Rhythmic and Crossover this week
at radio. In addition to the #1 status, on Akon’s myspace page (myspace.com/akon),
“Smack That” has been listened to over 1 million times in just two weeks. His
sophomore release, Konvicted, is set to be in stores on November 21.
Konvicted, almost entirely produced by Akon, features guest appearances by
aforementioned Eminem (Em produced “Smack That”), Akon’s artist T-Pain, Snoop
Dogg and Styles P.
Akon scored unprecedented success, both here and abroad, with his multi-format
smash hit singles “Locked Up” and “Lonely” off of his multi-platinum debut
release of Trouble in 2004. “Lonely” stayed on the Billboard “Hot 100” chart for
3 months and was the #1 song in the UK along with his album (it also scored well
in territories as diverse as Japan and Australia). “Locked Up” was a Top 5
single throughout the world.
The talented singer/songwriter/producer established himself as the premiere
production and writing wizard over the past couple of years. He has produced,
written, and/or appeared on hit songs for Young Jeezy (“Soul Survivor” was also
written by Akon), Elton John, R. Kelly, Gwen Stefani, Beenie Man and T-Pain.
With the success of a multi-platinum record under his belt and with his artist
T-Pain on Jive Records, Akon recently secured a label deal through Interscope
Records called Konlive Records where one of his acts will include Chilli from
super girl group, TLC. His 1st release on Konlive is due early 2007.
Not one to put all of his eggs in the music basket, the Senegalese-born star,
has also established a diamond supply and mining company called Aliaune that
supplies diamonds to dealers across the world. He is also working on his
clothing line as well as a movie project based on his own inspirational story.
