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Kanye West and Jay-Z's Watch the Throne becomes the fastest-selling rap album in 2011, selling 436,000 copies its first week, beating Lupe Fiasco's third studio album Lasers. It is also the third rap album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200. [citation needed] Rolling Stone names Eminem "the King of Hip Hop". [citation needed]
R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Artist(s) Rap Albums Artist(s) Refs. January 1 Michael: Michael Jackson: Pink Friday: Nicki Minaj [3] January 8 Recovery: Eminem [4] January 15 Recovery: Eminem [5] January 22 Pink Friday: Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Nicki Minaj [6] January 29 [7] February 5 [8] February 12 [9] February 19 [10] February 26 [11] March 5 Recovery ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" was the number 1 song of the year, topping the Hot 100 for 7 consecutive weeks. Four of Katy Perry's singles, "Firework", "E.T.", " Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) " and " Teenage Dream " managed to enter the list, with "Firework" and "E.T." being numbers 3 and ...
Quan, 33, who died at an Atlanta hospital on Sept. 5, was one of the biggest names in hip-hop in the mid-2010s. He gained mainstream fame through the trap singles “Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)” and ...
The Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart ranks the best-performing singles in that category in the United States. The first number one song of the year was claimed by Trey Songz with his song "Can't Be Friends"; [1] it spent the first six weeks of 2011 at number one, and also topped the chart the last seven weeks of 2010, therefore spending 13 weeks atop the chart in total. [2]
This is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in 2011.
Paul Butterfield died of an accidental drug overdose on May 4, 1987. Several live albums were released years after his death. Hip hop disc jockey and producer Scott La Rock was murdered in 1987. His singles and EPs with KRS-One have been released. Peter Tosh was murdered in 1987. He had several live albums and compilations released after his death.
Seventy-one singles made into top 10 of the Hot 100, the all-genre Billboard singles charts, in 2011. Sixty-eight acts had a top-ten hit during the year, with twenty achieving their first either as a lead or featured artist. Lil Wayne, Bruno Mars, and Rihanna each had six top-ten hits in 2011, tying them for the most top-ten hits during the year.