Check out AKON for free today!

[akonfan]

Akon will be on Fuse's "daily download" in new york city TODAY from 430-7pm.

for all those interested in being in this live studio audience, call 212-324-3461

ASAP to reserve a spot! space is limited so hurry!

[slum_goddess]

where to begin?

[DudeAsInCool]

According to their website, Akon has the top billboard single and album in the UK, and the number 3 single in the US. Who would have figured?

http://www.akononline.com/

[Mister Spong]

According to their website, Akon has the top billboard single and album in the UK, and the number 3 single in the US. Who would have figured?

http://www.akononline.com/

He did have.... Oasis knocked him off the singles' charts this week, while Van Morrison, Faithless and System of a Down pushed him down to number 4 in the albums.

Not that I'm smug or anything......

[DudeAsInCool]

Thomas Bartett features Akon's Bobby Vinton track on his daily download column today---

Akon's "Lonely"

I doubt that anybody expected to hear Bobby Vinton, the '60s crooner who sang "Blue Velvet," on top 40 radio this summer, but there he was, courtesy of the Senegalese-born R&B and hip-hop singer Akon, who built his latest hit, "Lonely" (iTunes download), around a sample of Vinton singing one of his biggest hits, "Mr. Lonely." Of course, this being an R&B song in 2005, the sample is sped up, a technique that has become extraordinarily prevalent in the last few years, sparked largely by Kanye West, who seems to use it on nearly every song he produces. The thing is, West uses it with a good deal of subtlety, teasing and tweaking the samples so that they can be woven seamlessly into the fabric of the song. Ditto Eminem when he sampled Martika for "Toy Soldiers." Akon's use of the Vinton sample is hilariously blunt, as if he'd just pressed a double-speed button and then started singing. The simplicity of it is appealing, though, and adds to the laid-back charm of Akon's nicely understated vocals. The secret pleasure of this song is the strange, rhythmically unexpected tinkling piano way up high in the background behind Vinton's vocal.

http://www.salon.com/ent/audiofile/index.h...akon/index.html

[slum_goddess]

Not that I'm smug or anything......

you can afford to be, Nath. you're on to the music industry's best kept secret. :)