{"id":17140,"date":"2012-10-01T15:55:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T19:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17140"},"modified":"2012-10-01T15:55:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T19:55:06","slug":"lil-wayne-breaks-elvis-presleys-billboard-hot-100-chart-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17140","title":{"rendered":"Lil Wayne Breaks Elvis Presley&#8217;s Billboard Hot 100 Chart Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lil Wayne&#8217;s<\/strong> meteoric rise to fame is astounding when one considers his humble beginnings as a teenaged phenom on his native New Orleans recording label Cash Money. Along with five platinum albums and four gold albums over the course of a stellar 13-year career,<strong> Lil Wayne<\/strong> can now add a most significant boast to his tally. According to Billboard, the Young Money captain has surpassed rock and roll icon<strong> Elvis Presley<\/strong> as the top solo artist of the magazine&#8217;s Hot 100 charts.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, Billboard didn&#8217;t start taking notice of the chart numbers until 1958 and <strong>Elvis<\/strong> certainly had hits earlier than that time period. From that first year until 2003, the singer amassed 108 placements on the charts. Still, <strong>Weezy F. Baby&#8217;s<\/strong> achievement is certainly noteworthy considering his status and longevity in the game. <strong>Wayne<\/strong> just edged <strong>Presley<\/strong> out at 109 \u2013 this after <strong>Game&#8217;s<\/strong> newest single<em> \u201cCelebration\u201d<\/em> featuring C<strong>hris Brown<\/strong>, <strong>Tyga<\/strong> and <strong>Wiz Khalifa<\/strong> debuted at #82 this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lil Wayne&#8217;s meteoric rise to fame is astounding when one considers his humble beginnings as a teenaged phenom on his native New Orleans recording label Cash Money. Along with five platinum albums and four gold albums over the course of a stellar 13-year career, Lil Wayne can now add a most significant boast to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}