SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Pop singer Keri Hilson's debut
album In A Perfect World has just been RIAA certified GOLD. Her most recent
single, "Slow Dance," rising to #2 on BET's "106 & Park" countdown (October
16); and now this week earning a pair of American Music Awards nominations,
Keri Hilson has shot from "star on the horizon" to "a new star has arrived."
Despite just one album to her credit, Hilson has been AMA-nominated for
Favorite Female Artist (Soul/R&B) along with Beyonce and Keyshia Cole. She
has also been nominated as the T-Mobile Soul/R&B Breakthrough Artist along
with Jeremih.

Hilson will participate as a presenter at the 37th Annual American Music
Awards to be broadcast Sunday, November 22, from 8-11 p.m. ET/PT, live on ABC
from the NOKIA Theatre in Los Angeles. For the third consecutive year, the
winners will be determined by online voting at www.amavote.com and
www.mycokerewards.com.

Coincidentally, Keyshia Cole appears as a guest vocalist on In A Perfect
World... (Mosley Music Group/Zone 4/Interscope). Produced by Timbaland, Polow
Da Don, Danja, and others, the album was released in March 2009 and debuted #4
on the Billboard 200 and #1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. In A Perfect
World... has also spun off two previous hit singles: "Turnin' Me On"
(featuring Lil Wayne) peaked at #15 on the Hot 100 and #2 R&B/Hip-Hop, and
"Knock You Down" (featuring Kanye West and Ne-Yo) reached #3 Hot 100 and #1
R&B/Hip-Hop.

Hilson, named Best New Artist at the BET Awards earlier this year, will be
featured on a pair of tracks, "Maniac" and "What Side You On," on the upcoming
Timbaland Presents Shock Value 2 album due November 24. This follows up to her
appearance on 2007's platinum Timbaland Presents Shock Value, which included
"The Way I Are," the double platinum sensation which hit #1 Pop for three
weeks as well as #3 Hot 100. Most recently, on October 19, after concluding a
sold-out tour of South Africa with John Legend, Hilson performed at the Oprah
Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls near Johannesburg.

SOURCE Interscope Records
http://www.reuters.com/article/press...09+PRN20091023

FINALLY!!

it may not get platinum but this is just as good of an accomplishment

congrats

YEEEEES CONGRATS TO Ms. Keri

!2 tracks!

And

GRATZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ .

Congrats Keri!

I really like KYD.

Congratulations to Keri! She deserves more success!

I hope she goes platinum!

Congrats!!

Finally

Knock you down...everybody went crazy on the dancefloor yesterday

Congrats Miss Keri Baby!

00h. EPIC. very huge album. congrats

finally?
lol

Grats Miss Keri Baby!

yes!!!!!

Finally. Hopefully she catches a break and her next one manages to go platinum or at least gets close.

Not to be a killjoy or anything, but gold isn't "just as good of an accomplishment"... It's the half way point to platinum, so it's quite literally half the accomplishment that platinum is.

yah that's true. but since it's her first album it's still great for her

Well, I think I don't need to remind everyone how known artists with bigger hits, fan base, more promo and well, they couldn't push the numbers she did.

Nor do I think I need to remind anyone how much sales suck these days to make you understand that yes, this is "only" Gold, but with all things taking under consideration, this is really an accomplishment for her.

And cut the "finally?" crap out, she only opened with 94k and than a second week 60% drop] and since than sales mostly dropped or were stable after KYD got huge [not to talk about SD that came after and was a bad choice that made sales drop faster] it's logical she'll take some time to go Gold.

YES!

This is her Music of the Sun
She will come even harder next time

<3 My Keri

yessss

Ok Ker!