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The song led Soulja Boy to sign with Collipark's imprint on Interscope Records, who released the final, professionally-recorded song on May 2, 2007 in the U.S.; a global release followed on June 27. Soulja Boy stated in a 2007 interview that prior to his Interscope deal he did not realize the song would "catapult [him to fame]".
During the 50th Annual Grammy Awards, "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" was nominated for Best Rap Song, losing to Kanye West's and T-Pain's "Good Life". Way's major label debut album, Souljaboytellem.com , was released in the United States on October 2, [ 16 ] peaking at number four on both the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. [ 17 ]
"Soldier Boy" is a song written by Luther Dixon and Florence Greenberg and made famous by the girl group the Shirelles. Released as a single in 1962, it met with great success, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 for three consecutive weeks. [1] Billboard ranked it as the No. 10 song for 1962. [2]
"Soldier" won in the category for Best R&B/Soul Single by a Group, Band or Duo during the 2005 Soul Train Music Awards. [28] At the 48th Annual Grammy Awards, the song received a nomination for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration but lost to "Numb/Encore" (2004) by Jay-Z and Linkin Park. [29]
The song later debuted at number 71 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on the week of January 10, 2009 and peaked at number three, making it Soulja Boy's second top five hit on the US charts since 2007's "Crank That". Also it would eventually start to chart on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in the top ten at number four. The song has also debuted at ...
The song is widely regarded as one of Blondie's best; in 2017, Billboard ranked the song number two on their list of the 10 greatest Blondie songs, [16] and in 2021, The Guardian ranked the song number seven on their list of the 20 greatest Blondie songs. [17] Blondie re-recorded the song for their 2014 compilation album Greatest Hits Deluxe Redux.
The song peaked at numbers 32, 13 and 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, respectively. [8] It was able to peak at number 10 in New Zealand. The album's third single, " Yahhh! " featuring Arab, was released on December 31, 2007.
The original version was named "Turnt Up", produced by Vybe Beatz / DJD and features Atlanta rap group Travis Porter and rapper YT. This version started the feud of Travis Porter and Roscoe Dash because Travis Porter made Roscoe Dash (ATL was Roscoe Dash's stage name at the time) a featured artist of the song on one of the group's mixtapes in 2009; after finding this out Dash removed the group ...