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T.I. Sets Perennially Broken Hot 100 Record [100 And Single]
Posted on August 29, 2008
Atlanta hip-hop king T.I. vaults 70 places into the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Hot 100 this week with Whatever You Like, a sing-songy, smudgy Xerox of his classic 2006 hit What You Know. With this move, Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. scores his first No. 1 as a lead artist (he was credited two years ago on Justin Timberlake's chart-topper My Love ) and sets a new Hot 100 record for biggest leap to the top spot. T.I. takes the record away from Maroon 5, who set it just 16 months ago when Makes Me Wonder leapt from No. 64 to No. 1 in a single bound. They, in turn, had stolen the record from Kel...
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