Word: platinum
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...years drifted by, Hanson went on to two Grammy award nominations, three platinum-selling singles and innumerable marriage requests scrawled in glitter-marker and ink on posters held by the hoardes of screaming female fans who showed up at every single public appearance...
...deference to Hong Kong's "big heavenly Kings," four Canto-pop idols who have long dominated the industry. But Chou, who has given hip-hop a Chinese accent, may finally be ready to ascend into their realm of superstardom. Each of his first five albums has gone triple platinum, he blitzed the box office with his summer film debut Initial D and unlike most idols, he can actually write his own music. Chou will be mixing beats and ballads again in his sixth album, which comes out in November. All hail the king. ?By Keane Shum
When West finally got a deal (in the end, Roc-A-Fella overcame its institutional bias against Polo shirts), he shattered the myth that he was too soft, too weird and too bourgeois to fit the mold of a platinum-selling rapper. His 2004 debut album, The College Dropout, went nearly triple platinum, topped all the major critics' polls, earned 10 Grammy nominations and made rap accessible to audiences that hadn't paid attention in years. "That record restored my faith in hip-hop," says Jamie Foxx, who lent comic vocals to West's No. 1 hit Slow Jamz...
...there--and start talking," says Benjamin. "Paul Thomas Anderson and I were tripping for hours," he says, recalling his meeting with the director of Boogie Nights and Magnolia. The informal conversations covered a lot of different ground, but Benjamin always made a point of explaining that Andre 3000--the platinum blond superfreak put together from the spare parts of George Clinton, Rick James and Prince--is nothing like André Benjamin, the person named Esquire's best-dressed man in the world. "Andre 3000 is wild and crazy. He's got the energy of a little kid," says Benjamin...
...Showtime president Robert Greenblatt told Ridley he wanted Barbershop to be a kind of urban-comedy M*A*S*H--a sitcom that would take a hit movie in a new direction. Before Greenblatt took over at Showtime, his production company made Ridley's UPN drama Platinum, a savvy look at the hip-hop business. Ridley also wrote Undercover Brother, a 2002 send-up of blaxploitation movies. "He's a really funny writer but also very intelligent," says Greenblatt. "I thought he would bring the right combination of humor and analysis to the series...