Current News Items: Susan Who?

"Big News" from Rolling Stone about Susan Boyle's debut:

The Big News: In a week that featured new releases by Rihanna, Adam Lambert, Lady Gaga and Shakira, it was a 48-year-old British woman [emphasis mine] plucked out of absolute obscurity a year ago who topped the Billboard Top 200 on its most competitive week of the year. Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed a Dream far exceeded any expectations in the U.S., selling 701,000 to give The Britain’s Got Talent runner-up the best-selling debut week of 2009, and the best-selling week for a debut album by a female artist in the history of the Nielsen Soundscan era. Boyle beat out Eminem’s Relapse, which sold 608,000 copies in its opening week back in May, to become the year’s biggest seller.

So this woman sold more records than Eminem:

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When Tha Carter III was released in June of 2008, Lil Wayne had one child, Reginae, which he had when he was 15.

As of November 30, 2009, he now has three sons, all from different mothers:

Dwane III (Oct 22, 2008)
Lennox Samuel Ari (Sept 9, 2009)
Neal (Nov 30, 2009)

That means he had two pregnant women to answer to during 2009.

I'm not here to judge. I'm just intrigued. And vaguely impressed.

(Also, watch The Carter).