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KanYe: Chart update!!
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Flashing Lights just debuted on the Hot 100!!
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Not just did it debut but it came storming in at #75 and #24 at RnB/Hip Hop!!
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Mainstream
7 11 KANYE WEST Stronger 5880 6803 -923 32.064
20 18 KANYE WEST Good Life (f/T-Pain) 3966 3762 204 24.863
75 67 KANYE WEST Flashing Lights (f/D... 213 144 69 2.893
Urban
3 3 KANYE WEST Good Life (f/T-Pain) 3268 3500 -232 33.995
30 23 KANYE WEST Flashing Lights (f/D... 1210 869 341 11.966
69 79 KANYE WEST Stronger 161 231 -70 1.057
Rythmic
3 4 KANYE WEST Good Life (f/T-Pain) 5319 5631 -312 46.389
35 26 KANYE WEST Flashing Lights (f/D... 1611 892 719 13.961
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Kanye, Amy, Bruce, Daughtry, Feist, Taylor: Grammys could turn into Graduation ceremony.
West has an excellent chance of walking away with Album of the Year when the 50th annual Grammy Awards are presented at Staples Center in February.
GREIN ON GRAMMYS
Veteran Awards Show Soothsayer Consults the Tea Leaves, Finds Kanye, Winehouse, Springsteen, Daughtry in the Lead
November 30, 2007
Two years ago, when U2 won the Grammy for Album of the Year for How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, Bono paid tribute in his acceptance speech to each of the losing nominees. To Kanye West, who had been a bridesmaid in the category two years in a row, he said, “Kanye, you’re next.”
Bono probably just meant it as a gracious, consoling remark, but it may very well turn out to have been prescient. West has an excellent chance of walking away with Album of the Year when the 50th annual Grammy Awards are presented at Staples Center in February. The rapper’s third album, Graduation, is one of three “sure things” to be in the running for Album of the Year when the nominations are announced on Thursday. The other two are Amy Winehouse’s critically lauded debut Back to Black and Daughtry’s eponymous debut album, which is the year’s top seller.
Bruce Springsteen has a good chance of snaring his third Album of the Year nomination with Magic. And there will be a fierce battle for the final slot on the ballot. Contenders include Maroon 5’s It Won’t Be Soon Before Long, Rihanna’s Good Girl Gone Bad, Avril Lavigne’s Best Damn Thing, Feist’s The Reminder, Paul McCartney’s Memory Almost Full, Norah Jones’ Not Too Late, Sugarland’s Enjoy the Ride and Timbaland’s Timbaland Presents Shock Value.
The Robert Plant/Alison Krauss collaboration Raising Sand is made-to-order for the Grammys, but it was released too late to qualify for this year’s ballot. Chart-topping albums by the Eagles and Alicia Keys were also released after the Sept. 30 cut-off date. But the lead singles from the Eagles and Keys albums, “How Long” and “No One,” respectively, are eligible for Record of the Year. They’re among the leading contenders, along with “Umbrella” by Rihanna featuring Jay-Z, “Good Life” by Kanye West featuring T-Pain, and Plain White T’s’ “Hey There Delilah.”
Singles or tracks with a good chance of stealing one of those spots include “Kiss Kiss” by Chris Brown featuring T-Pain, “The Way I Are” by Timbaland featuring Keri Hilson & D.O.E.; Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” Feist’s “1,2,3,4,” Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable,” Maroon 5’s “Makes Me Wonder,” Avril Lavigne’s “When You’re Gone” and Sean Kingston’s “Beautiful Girls.” (West’s “Stronger” and “Apologize” by Timbaland featuring OneRepublic weren’t entered in the Record of the Year category, presumably so they wouldn’t siphon off votes from the artists’ other entries.)
Winehouse and Daughtry are also the front-runners for Best New Artist. Five acts—Feist, Plain White T’s, Sean Kingston, Colbie Caillat and Taylor Swift—will duke it out for the remaining three spots. Miley Cyrus and Elliot Yamin have an outside shot. Grammy trivia notes: Caillat’s father, Ken, won a Grammy for Album of the Year for co-producing Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. Cyrus’ father, Billy Ray, was nominated for Best New Artist in the year of “Achy Breaky Heart.”
Paul Grein writes the weekly Chart Watch blog for Yahoo.com. He has been forecasting and analyzing the Grammys longer than Alicia Keys has been alive.
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BILLBOARD HOT DIGITIAL SONGS - TOP 50
12 17 WEST*KANYE STRONGER 35594 -27 48447 2071419
18 24 WEST*KANYE FEAT. T-PAIN GOOD LIFE 28368 -23 37014 596009
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Kanye most likely to win album of the year! 
That's what I'm talking about! Go Kanye!
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^NO!It's Amy's 
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^LOL. Sorry it's going to be Kanye if that's the early report then that's what it's going to be. Kanye finally gets the award he deserves after not getting it for so long
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Oh and no disrespect to Amy I think she's great as well and deserves to be nominated. But Kanye's album came out in 2007 her's came in 2006.
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It went out in US in 2007, i know.anyways, it has made its biggest impact in 2007 so we can count it in 2007
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Amys album is one of my all time favorites. BUT it failed to hit in the US beyond Rehab...KanYe is currently seeing a FOURTH single shoot up the charts...that shows his albums depth...I personally love Amys albums and the singles all SHOULD have succeeded BUT they didnt...
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well, i don't listen to hip/hop or rap so i didn't listen to kanye's album fully.i won't judge it but Amy deserves some grammy's and i'm addicted to her album so i want her to win album of the year...
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I agree that Amy should walk away with something...but I just dont think thats the exact category for her. I would like to see her win Pop album for sure though...is she considered pop or RnB in the grammy considerations? I dont even know...regardless, there wasnt a better pop or RnB album than B2B anyways so it doesnt really matter. But KanYe should be picking some up for Album of the year, Rap Album of the Year, Rap song of the year, Rap/sung collabo...blah blah ...hahah
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In my book Amy is R&B. Anyways besides Kanye dominating these grammy's this year and will probably have a total of 9 or 10 grammys he's won overall after 2008's. One song I think should get nominated for Record of the Year. Justin Timberlake - Until The End of Time. Yeah I know I know
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MTV.coms top 33 songs of 2007
6. Kanye West, "Stronger"
We've spent nearly all of 2007 hearing about Kanye the egoist (buy his book!) and Kanye the insufferable (stand clear backstage!). But perhaps we should also give it up for Kanye the total genius, the guy who foresaw the emergence of French electro before it happened; the guy who got the rights to sample the best track from the forefathers of French electro, Daft Punk; the guy who got them to appear in his video; and the guy who also cast Cassie in the video just so he could kiss her. A driving, powerful, unadulteratedly over-the-top piece of hip-hop history, as only West could do.
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I think Kanye will lose it again, but if he wins it'll be a good win cause "Graduation" is by far his best album. "CD" and "LR" had too many tracks so you could easily pick out the bad ones, but "Graduation" is short and sweet and every song (except "Drunk...") is good.
But all in all, Amy deserves. Yeah "Rehab" was her only hit, but she sold 1m albums off of only 1 single. Kanye sold nearly 1m in a week, yes, but that's not really impact. A record breaker and huge feat to beat for anyone in the future, yes, but IDK. We'll see, and if he doesn't win I hope he doesn't go ballistic again.
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KanYe: New Billboard Peaks!
Hot 100
Good Life up to #7 from #8
Flashing Lights explodes up to #57 from 75
Stronger holds at #13
RnB/Hip Hop
Good Life slides one spot to #4 from #3
Flashing Lights improves to #17 from #24
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"Good Life" sadly won't make top 5.
But "Flashing Lights" will most likely. 
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