"Low (Feat. T-Pain)," the blockbuster hit single from Poe Boy/Atlantic recording artist Flo Rida, has hit #1 on this week’s CHR/Top 40 national airplay chart. The track’s massive mainstream success is indeed momentous – "Low" is officially the first-ever debut single by a rap artist to reach the top spot in chart history, as well as only the fourth rap title to ascend to #1 since 2005.
Flo Rida – whose hugely anticipated debut album, “MAIL ON SUNDAY,” is set to
street on March 18th – has instantly catapulted the upper ranks of
hip-hop superstardom. Along with its CHR/Top 40 triumph, “Low” continues to
light it up at Rhythmic outlets nationwide, maintaining the #1 airplay ranking
for 8 uninterrupted weeks and counting. The track’s success marks the
longest-reigning debut track from a male artist since Nelly’s classic “(Hot
S**t) Country Grammar” held the top spot for 10 weeks in 2000.
The Carol City, FL native will celebrate the amazing accomplishment of “Low”
with an eagerly awaited live performance on NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay
Leno, scheduled for tonight, February 6th (check local
listings). In addition, Flo Rida will appear on MTV’s TRL on Wednesday,
February 13th. Both appearances come in tandem with the single’s
inclusion on this week’s Atlantic Records release, “STEP UP 2 THE STREETS –
ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK,” the musical companion to the upcoming
Touchstone Pictures dance film which debuts in theaters nationwide on February
14th.
The “Low” companion video is proving equally unstoppable, coming in this week as
the #1 most-played clip on both BET and MTV. “Low” – which also topped the
countdowns on BET’s 106 & Park and MTV’s TRL– is now in “Heavy”
rotation at BET, “Big 10” rotation at MTV, “Elite 8” rotation at MTV2 (where it
is the network’s #2 most-played video), “Summa Cum Laude” at mtvU, “Blazin’” at
MTV Jams, a top 5 “Power” rotation smash at MTV Hits, and the #1 ranked clip on
MTV.com. As if all that weren’t enough, “Low” is also a top 10 success on Fuse.
Flo Rida is also breaking big online, where he is currently MySpace’s #2-ranked
Top Indie Artist, logging a remarkable 8.5 million total streams thus far at his
www.myspace.com/officialflo page. At YouTube, the video for “Low”
has received more than 6 million views via Flo’s official channel,
www.youtube.com/user/officialflo.
Without question one of 2008’s most anticipated albums, “MAIL ON SUNDAY” sees
Flo Rida teaming with some of today’s biggest hit makers, including Timbaland,
The Runners, J.R. Rotem, and Atlanta’s DJ Montay, who produced “Low.” He’s also
recruited a who’s who of A-list collaborators like Atlantic Records labelmate
Trey Songz, Lil’ Wayne (who appears on the street savvy “Guns And Roses”), Yung
Joc (featured on the raucous party anthem “Furniture”), and Timbaland, who shows
up on the album’s second single, “Elevator.”
For more information about Flo Rida, visit
www.officialflo.com,
www.myspace.com/officialflo,
www.youtube.com/officialflo, and
http://florida.imeem.com.
"Low (Feat. T-Pain)," the blockbuster hit single from Poe Boy/Atlantic recording artist Flo Rida, has hit #1 on this week’s CHR/Top 40 national airplay chart. The track’s massive mainstream success is indeed momentous – "Low" is officially the first-ever debut single by a rap artist to reach the top spot in chart history, as well as only the fourth rap title to ascend to #1 since 2005.
