You also gotta go by sites nowadays and youtube and whatnot. On youtube the biggest videos are from Rihanna (duh) Chris Brown (a little surprising) and Lil Wayne, though the top video of all time is Avril Lavigne of all people...Then again, we're in a day and age where the record gets broken 3 times a year.
Anyway, I digress....
Lil Wayne didn't sell 4 million albums and wasn't the top selling artist of 2008 for nothing. Not for Lollipop. Lollipop was obviously huge, but then you had Mrs. Officer which is gaining in popularity as well as that b.s. featuring on T-Pain's "Can't Believe It" remix. That was auto-tuning at its worst. I hope the trend dies by the end of 2009. with auto-tune, ANYBODY can "sing" but they all sound basically the same.
That's why I loved the hip-hop from the 90's. Rappers were rappers and R&B guys were R&B guys. Nate Dogg held it down like no other. He was and still is the gold standard for hooks. Shame his life basically fell apart.
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