This single took first place in the Billboard Hot 100 charts for five weeks running, making everyone a lot of money, perhaps enough to even compete with Sinatra. (thanks, Lesekreis)In “Empire State of Mind” (Part I) appearing on the 2009 album The Blueprint 3, the mysteriously infamous hip-hop artist Jay-Z refers to himself as “the new Sinatra.” Although Jay-Z is about as “Frank Sinatra” as Alicia Keys is “Doris Day,” there is something bizarrely apt in his analogy, at least from the music industry’s perspective.
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