Lil Wayne Songs: Down by Books Group
Lil Wayne Songs: Down . Chapters: Down. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 256. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: “Down” is a song by British artist Jay Sean. The song was released in North America as his debut single from his debut album there, All or Nothing. In other markets, including the UK, the song serves as Jay Sean’s lead single from what will be his third studio album there. The single features American rapper and label mate Lil Wayne and is produced by J-Remy and Bobby Bass. “Down” is the seventh-best selling single of 2009, having sold more than three million digital copies in the United States alone, and has been certified Platinum in several countries. The song has sold six million copies worldwide, and also received a large airplay of two billion listener impressions on radio worldwide.
The track was released to US radio on May 31, 2009 and on iTunes on June 30, 2009. “Down” hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the issue dated October 17, 2009, knocking The Black Eyed Peas off the top of the chart after their 26 week reign at #1. This made Jay Sean the first British act to score a Billboard Hot 100 number-one single since Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida” in 2008, and the fourth British act overall this decade. The song has also made him “the first UK Urban act ever to top Billboard’s Hot 100”, the ninth (second British) male solo performer to top the US charts with his debut single in the US, and the first British act to have reached #1 in the US and not in the UK with a song since Seal’s “Kiss From A Rose” in 1995. It is also the best-selling single by a British/European male artist in North America since Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind” in 1997, the first single by a solo artist of Asian origin to top the US charts, and the first by an British Asian artis.