{"id":145740,"date":"2020-12-20T12:41:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T16:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=145740"},"modified":"2020-12-20T13:17:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T17:17:46","slug":"tom-macdonalds-best-rapper-ever-reaches-top-5-on-all-genre-us-itunes-sales-chart-1-on-rap-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2020\/12\/20\/tom-macdonalds-best-rapper-ever-reaches-top-5-on-all-genre-us-itunes-sales-chart-1-on-rap-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom MacDonald&#8217;s &#8220;Best Rapper Ever&#8221; Reaches Top 5 On All-Genre US iTunes Sales Chart, #1 On Rap Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom MacDonald&#8217;s &#8220;Best Rapper Ever&#8221; continues to make an impressive opening weekend splash on iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>As of press time at 11:30AM ET, &#8220;Best Rapper Ever&#8221; is #5 on the all-genre US iTunes song sales chart. Only Lily Rose&#8217;s &#8220;Villain,&#8221; Mariah Carey&#8217;s &#8220;All I Want For Christmas Is You,&#8221; Nelly &#038; Florida Georgia Line&#8217;s &#8220;Lil Bit,&#8221; and Brenda Lee&#8217;s &#8220;Rockin&#8217; Around The Christmas Tree&#8221; are currently selling at a faster pace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Best Rapper Ever,&#8221; moreover, holds the #1 position on the US iTunes Hip-Hop\/Rap chart.<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald acknowledged the latter achievement in a late Saturday Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WE ARE #1. We beat Eminem\u2019s entire new album,&#8221; wrote MacDonald. &#8220;We INDEPENDENTLY knocked out the biggest rapper in the world from the top spot. I grew up listening to Em. He\u2019s the reason I started rapping. To see our names next to each other&#8230;I\u2019ll never forget this. 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