"Crack a Bottle" is a hip hop song by Eminem, Dr. Dre and 50 Cent for Eminem's album Relapse. On February 12, 2009, the song broke the first week digital sales record with 418,000 downloads, topping the previous record held by "Live Your Life" by T.I. featuring Rihanna. This record was once again broken in the following week by "Right Round", a song by Flo Rida featuring Ke$ha, which shifted 636,000 copies in its first week of sales.
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"Crack a Bottle" is a hip hop song by Eminem, Dr. Dre and 50 Cent for Eminem's album Relapse. On February 12, 2009, the song broke the first week digital sales record with 418,000 downloads, topping the previous record held by "Live Your Life" by T.I. featuring Rihanna. This record was once again broken in the following week by "Right Round", a song by Flo Rida featuring Ke$ha, which shifted 636,000 copies in its first week of sales.
"Crack a Bottle" initially gained attention in December 2008, when an unfinished version of the song was initially leaked under the name "Number One" on the mixtape 4th Quarter Pressure Part 2, while a final working version was leaked on January 6, 2009. Various media outlets had reported that the recording was to be the first single from Eminem's 2009 album Relapse, however the Italian branch of Universal Music Group, owner of Interscope Records, later denied this, stating that "Crack a Bottle" was only a promotional recording. Despite all this, the song...
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