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50 Cent Makes History on Billboard Charts
03/03/2005 2:07 PM, AP
Beef is selling well these days, at least for 50 Cent.
The feud-loving rapper has three of the top five slots on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart: "Candy Shop" at No. 1; "How We Do," his collaboration with The Game, at No. 4; and "Disco Inferno" at No. 5.
This comes after a recent fallout between 50 and The Game, which apparently led to gunshots on Monday night. As 50 Cent was inside a radio station announcing that he was kicking Game out of his G-Unit clique, bullets were fired outside the station, wounding one man. More bullets were later fired at the offices of 50's management company.
You might remember that 50 Cent built his career on beefs. His first hit song was about how he planned to rob a list of star rappers, and later his record sales climbed as he targeted Ja Rule on wax.
Now 50 is the first artist to hold three of the top five Hot 100 slots since Billboard began using Nielsen and Soundscan data to compile the charts in 1991. "Candy Shop" also has been the greatest airplay gainer for five straight weeks.
It's no coincidence that 50's new album, "The Massacre," hit stores Thursday.
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