Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas (who was born October 13, 1980) is an U.S. recording artist, producer, actress, dancer and model who rose to fame in the early 2000s. Ashanti is most famous for her eponymous Grammy Award-winning debut album Ashanti which featured the hit song “Foolish”, and sold over 503,000 copies in its first week of release in the United States in April 2002. The album established a Soundscan record as the greatest opening week sales for a new female artist, outselling debuts by Alicia Keys and Lauryn Hill but, as of November 2009, the opening week female sales record has been broken by Susan Boyle. In the same week, she became the first female performer to hold at the same time the top two places on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with “Foolish”, and “What’s Luv?” (with Fat Joe). Ashanti broke music records again by having three top ten songs, “Foolish”, “What’s Luv?”, and “Always on Time”, on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the same week, being the first female to accomplish this feat and being second only to The Beatles. As of 2007, she has sold more than 23 million records worldwide, with more than 12 million of these records sold in the United States. Ashanti ended the 2000 - 2009 decade as the third top new R&B artist behind Alicia Keys and Beyonce Knowles. She also ended the decade at #41 on the Top Artist of the Decade List.
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