Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Akon's Album "Konvicted"


This album was released on November 14, 2006. It featured so many great artists such as Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Styles P. Late. The song " Smack that", which was with Eminem, was a great hit for Akon. It stayed number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100  for 5 consecutive weeks which is actually a huge record for Akon. Rarely do songs stay at the top of that Billboard for too long. He sold 285000 copies of the album in only one week. And after six weeks more that 1 million was sold. All these records only in the US. However, 2.2 million were sold all around the world. This album brought many awards for Akon such as on Annual Grammy Awards.

Akon's Biography, Akon Fan Website, Retrieved from http://www.akonfan.com/biography.html

Akon Fan Website

Album image[electronic image], Retrieved from http://www.popstarsplus.com/images/AkonPicture2.jpg

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