T.I. MAKES BILLBOARD HISTORY WITH NUMBER #1 ALBUM PAPER TRAIL

Congrats to T.I.!  The hip-hop star topped the charts and made history with the release of his album Paper Trail.  This is great news for the King.

PAPER TRAIL," the new album from Grand Hustle/Atlantic recording artist T.I., has made a phenomenal arrival atop the Billboard 200, marking the multiple Grammy Award-winning superstar's third consecutive #1 chart entry (following 2006's platinum-certified "KING" and 2007's platinum-certified "T.I. VS. T.I.P."). With total first-week sales in excess of 568,000, "PAPER TRAIL" also enters at #1 on a number of additional Billboard charts, including "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums," "Top Rap Albums," and "Top Digital Albums." The album's unparalleled first-week sales success represents a personal best for T.I., as well as Atlantic Records' biggest-ever one-week scan since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991.   

As if all that weren't enough, T.I. has literally exploded into the top spot on Billboard's "Hot 100" with "Live Your Life (Feat. Rihanna)," the second single from "PAPER TRAIL." In only its second week on the chart, the single has ascended into the pole position from last week's ranking at #80 -- the biggest-ever one-week leap to the top. The #1 success of "Live Your Life" shatters the previous record for largest ascent to #1 -- a feat set just six weeks ago by T.I.'s own "Whatever You Like," the RIAA platinum certified first single from "PAPER TRAIL." That track rocketed to #1 from #71 the week of September 6th and has remained there until this week. This remarkable achievement establishes T.I. as the first artist to replace himself at #1 since Usher in 2004. With sales of nearly 335,000, "Live Your Life" has logged the biggest-ever first-week digital singles sales in history. "Live Your Life" is now rocketing up the airplay charts at Urban and Rhythmic, where it earned the week's "Most Increased Plays." What's more, the single received this week's "Most Increased Plays" at Urban Mainstream -- T.I.'s biggest increase to date at this format. A companion video clip for "Live Your Life" is now in post-production and will premiere sometime in the coming weeks. The first solo chart-topper of T.I.'s remarkable career -- and second overall following "My Love," his Grammy-winning collaboration with Justin Timberlake -- "Whatever You Like" is currently dominating multi-format radio outlets nationwide. The single is now in its fifth week atop the Urban airplay ranking, as well as its fourth week at #1 on the Rhythmic airplay chart. "Whatever You Like" is also blowing up at CHR/Top 40, where it is poised to enter the top 10 after only four weeks on the chart. In total, the single's combined national radio audience is nearly 140 million, with a cumulative audience for all tracks from "PAPER TRAIL" exceeding 200 million.

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