Soulja Boy’s Crank That (Soulja Boy) has passed 3 million downloads.
If you’re into numbers:
"Grammy nominated for Best Rap Song and the #1 song on the Hot 100 chart for seven weeks, "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" has also sold more than 3,000,000 ringtones and its music video has been viewed an incredible 28,000,000 times on YouTube. In addition, the instructional dance video has been viewed 22,000,000 times and the video for the single "Soulja Girl" (featuring I-15) 11,000,000 times. Not surprisingly then, his website is also the #1 most viewed artist site on the Web, with more than 1,000,000 unique hits per month. His MySpace page has recorded 27,000,000 profile views and 31,000,000 audio streams."
On the album tip:
"With his debut album, Souljaboytellem.com (ColliPark Music/Interscope Records), rocketing past its gold certification — having sold more than 658,000 copies to date — Soulja Boy is the biggest selling new hip-hop or R&B artist of 2007."
Wait a minute! Isn’t it common knowledge that Soulja Boy is only a singles artist?
Reality. It really messes with your fixed assumptions, don’t it?
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