Love the way you lie question.

[One Mic]

Around 10 mill sold worldwide and 375m youtube views it's certainly gunna be top 5 at least but most likely #1.

Is Not Afraid in the top 5 highest selling hip hop songs of the decade too? well so far anyway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5-yKhDd64s&ob=av3e

[AJS2050]

Around 10 mill sold worldwide and 375m youtube views it's certainly gunna be top 5 at least but most likely #1.

Is Not Afraid in the top 5 highest selling hip hop songs of the decade too? well so far anyway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5-yKhDd64s&ob=av3e

I think so. It's hard to tell these days what gets classed as a hip-hop and what doesn't like the Black Eyed Peas & Flo Rida for example. But yeah i think Not Afraid probably is in the top 5.

Estimated best selling hip-hop tracks worldwide of 2010:

Love The Way You Lie - Eminem feat. Rihanna
Airplanes - B.o.B. feat. Hayley Williams
Club Can't Handle Me - Flo Rida feat. David Guetta
Nothin' On You - B.o.B. feat. Bruno Mars
Not Afraid - Eminem

Airplanes, Club Can't Handle Me & Nothin On You sold slightly more globally but Not Afraid has a much larger viewing then all of them on youtube.

[ColdWindCriminal]

that's the song's core audience

[D Chronic]

that's the song's core audience

[One Mic]

Lose Yourself is by far the most biggest rap song of the decade

2000 - 2009 (Lose Yourself)

2010 - 2019 (Love The Way You Lie)

[ColdWindCriminal]

you can't just say it's gonna be the biggest when the decade's just starting.

[Sukot]

Was Lose Yourself definitely the biggest hip hop song of the previous decade then? Because Stan was more popular than Lose Yourself here in the UK.

Also, worldwide this decade, Love the Way You Lie is the best-selling SONG of the decade altogether, regardless of what genre it is.

Also, if anybody is interested, the 10 biggest rap songs of 2010 in the UK:

1. Eminem - Love the Way You Lie
2. Usher - OMG
3. B.o.B - Airplanes
4. Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
5. Plan B - She Said
6. Flo Rida - Club Can't Handle Me
7. Travie McCoy - Billionaire
8. The Black Eyed Peas - The Time
9. Tinie Tempah - Written in the Stars
10. Eminem - Not Afraid

13 biggest rap songs of 2011 so far:

1. LMFAO ft. Lauren Bennett & Goonrock - Party Rock Anthem
2. Pitbull ft. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer - Give Me Everything
3. Snoop Dogg ft. David Guetta- Wet
4. Example - Changed the Way You Kiss Me
5. Chipmunk ft. Chris Brown - Champion
6. David Guetta ft. Flo Rida & Nicki Minaj - Where Them Girls At
7. The Black Eyed Peas - Just Can't Get Enough
8. Diddy ft. Skylar Grey - Coming Home
9. Ke$ha - We R Who We R
10. Mann ft. 50 Cent - Buzzin'
11. Nicki Minaj - Super Bass
12. Dr. Dre ft. Eminem & Skylar Grey - I Need a Doctor
13. Wiz Khalifa - Black and Yellow

People criticize Alex Da Kid, but he seems to be the only person who can produce a rap song and get it in the charts without it being full of club/synth/electro beats at the moment.

[SG.]

Who produced Champion? Cuz that song is pretty good.

The 2011 list is pure shite compared to the 2010 list.

[Trimss]

Lose Yourself is the biggest song of the past decade? Is there any proof?

And I don't think LTWYL is the biggest song of the decade. Biggest rap song yes though.

[EG.]

2. Usher - OMG
1. LMFAO ft. Lauren Bennett & Goonrock - Party Rock Anthem
9. Ke$ha - We R Who We R

They classify those as rap songs?

[Sukot]

Who produced Champion? Cuz that song is pretty good.

The 2011 list is pure shite compared to the 2010 list.

Agree. 2011 is dreadful so far in the UK. Urban music has been practically non-existant this year. There's a lot of rap songs, but pretty much 90% of them like pop-rap, like Flo Rida/Pitbull-type stuff. Radio is just a pain to listen to, because everything sounds the same. The same generic synths, again, and again, and again.

Anyway, rant over.

About Champion, yes, it is quite a good song. Chipmunk isn't an amazing rapper imo. He's been using the same flow as Lil Wayne on a lot of his songs recently, and his recent collabs with Chris Brown, Keri Hilson and Trey Songz have a lot of people thinking he's desperate to crack the US. But I like the song as it's got very good production, as you said, and it's one of the few rap songs that actually sounds vaguely urban anymore.

There was a fair bit of complaining about Champion when it was popular aswell, because Chris briefly refers to his beating up of Rihanna in his verse, and some of the public over-reacted to it, especially since it was Chris's first big hit since 2009.

To actually answer your question, it's apparently produced by a guy called H-Money, who I've never really heard of tbh. I doubt he's produced for many US rappers.

[WakeUpShow]

Why not? Because it doesn't talk about fat rides and fine bitches?

Because its core audience are these kind of people



You telling me you can listen to LTWYL with a straight face, and in front of other human-beings?

Makes ya look like a complete faggot

[Drug.Ballad]

Also, if anybody is interested, the 10 biggest rap songs of 2010 in the UK:

2. Usher - OMG
5. Plan B - She Said
6. Flo Rida - Club Can't Handle Me
7. Travie McCoy - Billionaire
8. The Black Eyed Peas - The Time

How are they even on the list
She Said is not a rap song. Its a shame really cuz i wouldnt have minded another Plan B rap album.
And the others just shouldnt have made the list full stop.

[SliK]

Was Lose Yourself definitely the biggest hip hop song of the previous decade then? Because Stan was more popular than Lose Yourself here in the UK.

It was #1 for 12 consecutive weeks here in Australia which matched the all time record that still stands to this day. That's a quarter of a year

[mdemaz]

Yeah..And all the girls had it as their ringtones..