On March 24, 1956, the legendary Harry Belafonte hit No. 1 on Billboard‘s first weekly albums chart — then billed Best Selling Pop Albums in Billboard magazine’s pages — with his smash set 'Belafonte.'
The Grammy and Emmy Award-winning Belafonte would continue to chart albums through 1970 and remain a cultural force, thanks, in part, to his social activism and philanthropy. Later generations would become familiar with Belafonte in striking ways: He helped organize the 1985 charity single “We Are the World,” a four-week. In 2011, “Day-O” became a hit yet again, sampled in Lil Wayne’s top 10 Hot 100 hit “6 Foot 7 Foot.
Belafonte told BET in 2011 that he appreciated the continued success of the iconic “Day-O”: “I’m just glad to see that the younger generations have picked it up and are carrying the song forward in their own way, just like I picked it up in my time.”
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