King Of Click
DIGITAL NEWS By TC on February 18, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Let’s hear it for the boy, Flo Rida as he just made history (again) for most digital song downloads in a seven day period with “Right Round,” the first single off his sophomore album R.O.O.T.S. (Routes Of Overcoming Struggle) with a staggering 636,000 according to the Nielson Soundscan. It coincidently breaks the previous record he set a little over a year ago with the T-Pain featured “Low” by over 200,000 sales. According to Billboard, the whooping figure also wipes out the record set of opening week downloads by Eminem’s 50 Cent’s latest snorefest, “Crack A Bottle.”
Here’s where all this historic Hip-Hopness gets bittersweet.
Flo Rida, while undoubtedly talented with a stellar debut under his belt and the apparent heir to Nelly’s platinum Pop empire, didn’t really deliver anything incredible with this one. It’s merely your run-of-the-mill sample jack (80’s drag-queen anthem “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)” by Dead Or Alive) accompanied with a cheesy chorus. And with the labels still trained in the methods of following the money, expect more diluted danceables to be infiltrating the airwaves in the near future.
BUY — Flo Rida Featuring Kesha - Right Round For $.79
Or not.
Flo Rida Featuring Kesha - Right Round CDS
Flo Rida Topples Single-Week Download Mark [Billboard]
Previously Posted - Like A Record Baby…
Posted in DIGITAL NEWS, GENERAL, MUSIC, SMOKE BREAK, WE GOT NOW — Tags: Billboard, Flo-Rida, R.O.O.T.S. (Routes Of Overcoming Struggle), record-breaker
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Did anyone read this? It was in the cooler.
http://www.thekeyinfluencer.com/channel/2009/02/10/music-business-in-bad-shape-says-leslie-brathwaite/#more-529
6. CHANGE YOUR VIEW OF SUCCESS
There’s a really annoying trend that breeds negativity in the industry. When an artist doesn’t go gold or platinum…OR if they don’t sell a million copies in their first week, they automatically feel like a failure. The labels help this ignorance by putting so much focus on record breaking sales. The math is simple. If you spend $300,000.00 making an album, and you sell 200,000 copies@ $8 per copy, then you just grossed $1,600,000.00 – That’s a success. You spent 300k and made 1.6 million! If the money were spent better, distributed more fairly, and accounted for more accurately, everyone would be happy. The greed by the labels cause them to try to spend less to make the album, which results in poor product, which results in poor sales. Its not complicated.
I have a dream (c) u know who !
http://www.zshare.net/audio/5583571878f62bd4/#
but DETOX WASNT DIS ONE.
Damn that jewellery looks fake as hell, like mail-order from the back of XXL magazine fake. Miami/Florida hiphop is garbage on a hot, sunny day in a landfill.
BUY — Flo Rida Featuring Kesha - Right Round For $.79
LMAO!
Funniest shit I’ve heard all day
Damn that jewellery looks fake as hell, like mail-order from the back of XXL magazine fake.
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I can’t even lie, That watch looks hella fake. It’s like the colored the jewelry american cheese yellow in photoshop
@ Amp: American cheese yelllow!!! LOL. I can hear it now: “Fuck canary-yellow diamonds on the wrist nigga!!! I got that Wisconsin-cheddar ice yo!!!
I guess lightening does strike twice… well, ANOTHER 14:49 minutes… smh.
I’ve never heard this song before.
I must be getting old.
That cooler article was a great and insightful read.
As for Flo Rida, we’ll be seeing these records set and broken pretty frequently for awhile because people are still adapting to downloading and the records are fairly new.
Or not.
^^
Says it all.. .
“Fuck canary-yellow diamonds on the wrist nigga!!! I got that Wisconsin-cheddar ice yo!!!
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LOL!
Hide that hairline…
Yo gotty I am sudenly king of the internet
DJ Vlad Freestyle
http://www.vladtv.com/video/4220/jimmy-valentine-freestyle/
Byron Crawford Blog post
http://www.byroncrawford.com/2009/02/jimmy-valentime-im-the-best.html
:: BlANK STARE::
i am in shook right now…
shout out to Grems
Yo who the fuck is letting you in their studio? That shit was garbage! Oh my fucking god! The Internet got any motherfucker with a mic thinking they can be rappers. And you stay coming here dropping them shits off like it’s worthy of the zshare space that you up them on. You got nooooo fucking flow!!!
Apologize to my ears and apologize to zshare!
yo TC i love how you give readers that chance to buy, or not! haha!
I actually think this guy is pretty dope.
I mean it’s poppy as hell….but for what it is it’s very well done.
and yeah…he definitely has flow.
and… that cheese head chain!
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