Freedom – “Beautiful”

“Beautiful” was released to US Top 40 radio on 6th January 2009, it is the third single from album “Freedom” of Akon. The version on the album was joined by Coldy O’Donis and Kardinal Offishall. In 2008, it showed at the number twenty one on Australian Top 40 Urban Singles, number sixteen on Canadian Hot 100, number thirdty two on New Zealand Singles Chart, number twenty eight on Swedish Singles Chart, number fifty two on UK Singles Chart, number fifteen on UK R&B Chart, number nineteen on U.S. Billboard Hot 100, number fifteen on U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles, number twenty four on U.S. Billboard Pop 100.

In the single, he saw a girl in a club, she attracted him, and he wanted to go over and meet her. He describes her as “you’re so beautiful, so damn beautiful!” in the song. The song shows on the top twenty hit in 2008 before its official release. It is his eight top twenty hit as a lead artist, and his seventeenth top twenty overall. It showed at number seven on the Hot Digital Songs chart with selling over 91,000 copies on the week of 10th December 2008.

On YouTube, there is a video that Akon is shooting a video for “Beautifull” song, which he “wants the best music video”. In early January, with an MTV contest sending a winner to be in the video, an official video was made. It will all be made appreances by Colby O'Donis, Kardinal Offishall, Tyrese and Sean Kingston. Also there is also joined by A.R Rahman in the video. On 24th Febuary, the video was premiered on Yahoo!Music.

Another single “Holla Holla” also showed at number fifteen on U.S Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles. On 25th November, it was released as a digital download on iTunes, and on 17th November 2008, it showed on the internet. It is the seventh on his album “Freedom”