Posts Tagged ‘India Arie’

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Who’d have thunk it? On the strength of “There Goes My Baby,” Charlie Wilson saw his latest offering enter the charts at number two just behind country sensation Taylor Swift and selling over 58,000 copies. Go ‘head Uncle Charlie! Beyonce, Jamie Foxx and India Arie also hold strong in the Top 10 at the number five, six and seven spots respectively. Here’s a random sampling of how everyone else is doing:

PLATINUM AND WATCHING YOU GET DIZZIER
Lil’ Wayne, The Carter III - 3 million
Rihanna, Good Girl Gone Bad - 2.4 million
Beyonce, I Am…Sasha Fierce - 1.9 million
T.I., Paper Trail - 1.7 million
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India Arie and Bobby Valentino make respectable debuts in the Top 10 this week at the number three and seven spots respectively. India’s third release, Testimony: Vol. 2, Love and Politics sold 76,000 units, while over 64,000 fans copped Bobby’s independent offering, The Rebirth.

Despite claims made on his Twitter page about his album selling out “all over,” the latest Soundscan shows that rookie Ryan Leslie was in fact only able to move a paltry 24,000 copies of his own release.

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“I was supposed to be performing background for India [Arie] at the Grammys and I told all my friends I was going to be there. But when I got to the pre-party, I couldn’t get in and my cell phone was cut off. So, I couldn’t call for confirmation. I stood outside using one phone as a phonebook and my friend’s phone to make calls. Nobody answered because they didn’t know the number!”
– Anthony David, Milk Magazine (#2)

Read our complete Anthony David interview to find out how a brother finally got over.