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Crank Dat Tune: Soulja Boy Sets Download Record
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by Jarrett Martineau | January 10, 2008 at 12:30 pm
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Last year's breakout (and hard to break out of your head) smash "Crank Dat (Soulja Boy)" is the most legally downloaded ever, according to Interscope Records.
I love artists who include their own name in their song titles. It certainly makes it harder to forget who's responsible for that tune that "YOU....!" just can't get out of your head.
Soulja Boy made history this week, selling 3 million downloads of his smash hit "Crank Dat (Soulja Boy)."Interscope Records announced the news today, naming Soulja Boy the first and only artist to rack up that many downloads.
The single set off a national dance craze and became a pop-culture phenomenon sparking millions of Soulja fans and YouTubers to upload their own versions of the dance. The official "Crank Dat" music video and an instructional video for the dance, available on the site, have together logged over 50 million views on YouTube.
"Crank Dat" spent seven weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2007 and is nominated for a Best Rap Song Grammy.
"Soulja Boy has set the bar for what's possible in terms of breaking an artist online," Steve Berman, president of sales and marketing for Interscope/Geffen/A&M Records, said in a statement. "He's been doing it since day one, before he was signed here, so I'm not surprised he's setting a record today. Soulja Boy is out there on the frontier, showing everyone else what's possible."
His debut album, Souljaboytellem.com, hit the Billboard Top 200 chart at No. 4 in October and has sold over 658,000 copies so far.
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at 12:56 on January 10th, 2008
That "YOU!" thing drives me nuts! I'll be walking down the street and randomly hear some one doing it, and then that dang song pops into my head...
(I think Wang Chung was the first to name-check themselves in a chorus, though, right?)