On November 20, 2007, it was certified triple platinum by the RIAA, with over 3 million sold in the USA and units sold in the USA. It stayed in the top twenty of the Billboard 200 for 28 consecutive weeks. The album went platinum a week later and after sixteen weeks was certified double platinum. The deluxe version was released on Augand Konvicted debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, selling 286,000 copies in its first week and broke the one million mark in the USA with over 1.3 million copies sold worldwide after only six weeks. To coincide with the release of the Platinum (deluxe) edition of the album "Sorry, Blame It on Me" was the fifth single, debuted in August 2007 on the Hot 100 at number seven. "Mama Africa" was released as a European single in July 2007, making it the fourth overall single from the album. A third single, “Don’t Matter,” released in January 2007 was his first solo number one and second consecutive Hot 100 Billboard chart topper. Hot on its heel was "I Wanna Love You," featuring Snoop Dogg, released in September earned Akon his first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, topping the charts for two consecutive weeks. Its first single "Smack That" featuring Eminem was released in August 2006 and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks. In 2005, he released the single "Lonely" which reached the top five on the Billboard Hot 100, and topped the charts in Australia, UK and Germany, and his album climbed to number one in the UK in April 2005.Īkon’s second album, Konvicted was released on Novemincluded collaborations with Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Styles P. SRC CEO Steve Rifkind and Foster flew down to Atlanta, met up with the young artist where they hit it off.Īkon's solo debut album entitled “Trouble” was released on Jand spawned a number of singles: “Locked up,” “Lonely,” “Belly Dancer (Bananza),” “Pot of Gold,” and “Ghetto” inspired by his three years in prison on the charge of “Grand Theft Auto.” The album is a hybrid of Akon's silky, West African-styled vocals mixed with East Coast and Southern beats, beginning with the slam of jail cell door and him uttering the word “Konvict.” The first songs recorded by Akon included Lonely, which caught the attention or SRC A&R Jerome Foster. When the young artist lost his deal with Elektra, Stephens signed him to his own company and began grooming him professionally.
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