(ThyBlackMan.com) So, shall we say that a new rap-star is in the making or already we are seeing a star there? Fetty Wap has grabbed the number one spot on the Billboard 200 chart with his debut studio album, named under his own name. The album was released only on September 25th, and within just 2 weeks it seems to have touched the sky of popularity.
“Fetty Wap” the album moved a mind grabbing 129,000 units in its first week and Wap ended as the chart-topper last week. One more thing that we have to note here is that, Wap was not the only big release in this span. Six more albums debuted in this time frame, but none of them seem to have been able to make any effect on the rising popularity of Fetty Wap.
This latest album from Fetty has actually taken him to stardom for which he has been working really hard. The singer surely has some potential and the increasing number of fans rightly indicates about the rise of the new star. It is also there in the news that right after the release of his album, Fetty Wap was injured in a nasty accident, but to the delight of his fans now he has recovered and doing quite
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The first single of Fetty Wap “Trap Queen” was released during the early 2014. To be particular it was released in the month of February of the year. However, amazingly, the single went on without any notice till the late 2014 and it was only in the mid November of the year when it started to get recognition.
Currently it has over 80 million plays on the SoundCloud and has grabbed the title of platinum record. In the month of June, 2015 the second single of the rapper “679” was released. “My Way” Fetty’s next single made its place amongst the top 10 hits in the Billboard Hot 100.
Fetty Wap, who started taking interest in music only since 2013, has already bagged the MC100 award in June 2015 for his single “Trap Queen”. After Eminem, Fetty Wap became the first male rapper with three of his singles in the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100. Currently one more single from the rapper “Again” has made an entry to the top 10 chart of the Hot Rap Songs, which is the first time in the history for any single singer to have four entries at the same time on the chart.
Staff Writer; Shawna Brown