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Billboard’s Greatest Pop Star of 2008: Lil Wayne
Lil Wayne is Billboard's Greatest Pop Star of 2008 for how he dominated all of music with his career year.
So when Lil Wayne sold a million copies of Tha Carter III in a week — the fastest-selling album since 50 Cent’s The Massacre in 2005 — he bucked all industry trends, in part by cashing in all the goodwill he’d accrued with acclaimed free mixtapes like 2006’s Dedication 2 and 2007’s Da Drought 3. Weezy soon used his platform to spread the success around to artists on his Young Money imprint, and the next year he’d begin introducing the world to the signees who’d go on to become his two most famous protégés, and two of the biggest stars of the 2010s: Drake and Nicki Minaj. Honorable Mention: Rihanna (“Take A Bow,” “Disturbia,” T.I.’s “Live Your Life”), Taylor Swift ( Fearless, “Love Story,” “White Horse”), Chris Brown (“Forever,” “No Air” with Jordin Sparks, Lil Mama’s “Shawty Get Loose”)
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