I was happy to hear that Soulja Boy has kicked Fergie’s mushmouthed “Big Girls Don’t Cry” as out of the Billboard Hot 100’s top spot, but then someone showed me this: “How young is Soulja Boy, the artist who has the new No. 1 song on the Hot 100? So young, that he wasn’t even alive when Madonna’s “Vogue” was No. 1. Soulja Boy was born July 28, 1990, and is thus the second artist born in the ’90s to occupy the penthouse of the Hot 100. The first was Sean Kingston, who achieved it just six weeks ago when he captured the top spot with “Beautiful Girls.” Kingston was born Feb. 3, 1990 and was 17 1/2 when he advanced to No. 1. Soulja Boy is even younger, as he is not quite 17 years and two months old.” [Billboard]
