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Flo Rida’s “Right Round” Shatters Digital Singles Record With a Little Help From an ’80s Hook

Photo: Ritchie/WireImage Almost after a year since his “Low” dominated the Singles chart for 10 consecutive weeks, Flo Rida has found himself back on top, and in record-breaking fashion with “Right Round.” In its debut week, “Right Round” was downloaded about 636,000 times according to Billboard.biz, shattering the record Flo Rida himself set in January 2008 when “Low” was purchased 467,000 times in an extended, post-Christmas week. The seven-day record for most downloads was incidentally set last week, when Eminem, Dr. Dre and 50 Cent’s “Crack a Bottle” was purchased 418,000 times. Flo Rida made sure that record was short lived. “Right Round” is the first single off Flo’s second album R.O.O.T.S., due out April 7th. As Coolfer points out, if those 636,000 single downloads are the equivalent of roughly 63,600 copies in album sales, then Flo Rida would have sold enough this week to place eighth on this week’s albums chart, ahead of the resurgent Viva La Vida. Of course, Flo Rida’s “Right Round” came with a built-in hook that almost guaranteed its success, using a sample of ’80s new wavers Dead Or Alive’s “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record),” a song that was popular in its own era but had a late-’90s resurgence thanks to The Wedding Singer. Rihanna similarly has constructed a whole oeuvre of turning new wave and ’80s samples into Top 40 gold: “Don’t Stop The Music” borrows from Michael Jackson’s “Wanna Be Startin’ Something,” “SOS” borrows from Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love” and Rihanna’s “Shut Up and Drive” is a fuzzed-out version of New Order’s “Blue Monday.” Similarly, Kid Rock fused Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London” and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” to form “All Summer Long,” one of the biggest hits of 2008. Consumers evidently are continually willing to shell out money for decades-old hits being reappropriated by contemporary artists, as the success of Flo Rida’s “Right Round” well demonstrates.

Published: 2009-02-18
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News

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Rock Reality Show Recap: Ja Rule Builds a Hit While Irv’s Marriage Crumbles on “Gotti’s Way”

Gotti’s Way tracks Murder Inc. mogul Irv Gotti’s attempts to rebuild his empire and fix his broken home, while our Rock Reality Show Recaps track how many times he breaks out Ja Rule in each episode. Here’s our sixth report: Thirty Minutes in Four Sentences: Irv and Deb have officially made Heidi and Spencer look compatible. After using their daughter’s fashion show as battlegrounds for their nastiest feud yet, Deb begins to consider the “d” word to save herself from a lifetime of misery. In music news, Irv has teamed up with (who else) Ja Rule to record what sounds like the first decent song of the season with a rhyme that preaches that “nobody’s” got “your body.” Now what in the world will he rhyme that with? Does Ja Rule Gotti’s Life?: With an iron fist. After listening to Gotti’s beat for about five minutes, Ja flies out of his seat and begins freestyling around the studio. In two minutes, they’ve got a track. “I got (the hook),” he shouts, repeating a pretty catchy chorus. Gotti is so excited at this point that he begins to physically shake the pint-sized rapper. Irv’s Industry Advice: Gotti uses last night’s episode to explain why the prospect of a hit song means so much to him. “The single is a precious thing cause that’s where we get our money,” he says. Wait. So he’s not in it for the music? Broken Home: Advice: When you find yourself cursing your partner in the middle of your daughter’s first modeling show (because her face is too “stoic” says Irv, he of the consistently cheesy grin), get the hell out. “You fucking idiot!” Deb fires at Gotti, defending her runway coaching. “All you know how to do is make beats. Go make beats.” The constant fighting leads Deb to consider an official divorce, but not without a fight from her children. “I want dad to be in my life forever,” middle child Sonny sobs as a Vanessa Carlton tune warbles in the background. Seriously, is Dr. Phil watching this show? [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2007-11-28
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock Reality Show Recaps

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Nicolas Cage Was Only Borrowing That Chihuahua

Photo: Getty ImagesPlastic-surgery-happy Jocelyn Wildenstein just bought a three-bedroom apartment in the Plaza for $7.96 million. An excerpt of James Frey's upcoming novel, Bright Shiny Morning, is being published in Sex for America, a book of "politically-inspired erotica." Nicolas Cage is suing Kathleen Turner for claiming in her autobiography that he had been arrested twice for DUI and stealing a Chihuahua. Fergie and Josh Duhamel are moving up their wedding date because she's so pregnant. At assorted Grammy parties, Natalie Cole talked smack about Amy Winehouse; Nelly defended Amy Winehouse; Lindsay Lohan tried and failed to hook up with John Mayer, Rihanna got into a fender bender; Rihanna canoodled with boyfriend Chris Brown; and Jay-Z ignored Rihanna. Comic Katt Williams gave each of the 280 attendees to his show at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood $100. Britney Spears may be training for a worldwide tour. ESPN's John Skipper, FCC chairman Kevin Martin, and NCAA president Dr. Myles Brand are among those who will join NBA commish David Stern at this year's NBA All-Star Technology Summit. The New York Giants have been spending a lot of time at Scores and Rick's Cabaret (they are being offered free lap dances at the latter). Donald Trump and U.S. General Assembly president H.E. Srgjan Kerim talked over steaks at Uncle Jack's Steakhouse. Hannah Montana is catching flack for not wearing a seat belt in her latest Disney flick. Siberia owner Tracy Westmoreland will appear on Greg Gutfeld's Fox News program, Red Eye, on Valentine's Day. Thirty-seven-year-old Uma Thurman wants more kids. Famed children's author Judy Blume, now 70, says she played "sex games" with a friend starting at the age of 12 and was a virgin until 21. Posh Spice went to the Gramercy Park Hotel's Rose Bar instead of checking out her bandmate Mel C.'s private show. Diddy, Zac Posen, and a supermodel hung out at new club Mansion. Axl Rose has been a "virtual recluse" in his Malibu mansion for the pa

Published: 2008-02-12
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Flo Rida’s “Right Round” Shatters Digital Singles Record With a Little Help From an ’80s Hook

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