^ "Top 5 Brasil Música - Semanal: à " (in Portuguese).^ "Akon - Don't Matter Remixes (CD) at Discogs"."Top 100 Hits List" Archived December 22, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. "The 100 Best Songs of 2007" Rolling Stone. List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2007 (U.S.).List of Romanian Top 100 number ones of the 2000s.List of number-one singles from the 2000s (New Zealand).List of number-one singles of 2007 (Ireland).List of Canadian number-one singles of 2001–07.Lauv covered the song on his 2017 release Spotify Singles.ĭ'Prince and Kehlani interpolate "Don't Matter" in their songs "Bestie" (2015) and " Undercover" (2017), respectively. Brazilian singer Claudia Leitte did a cover of "Don't Matter" live in Festival de Verão Salvador with Akon in January 2010.īrazilian band Bonde do Maluco also did a cover version of "Don't Matter" which has the chorus used by Claudia Leitte on her live version with Akon. Canadian singer Lights often covered the song for her live shows. They also performed the song at their June 12, 2007, concert, the night after their bassist Pete Wentz got in a fight with a fan. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.įall Out Boy performed a cover of "Don't Matter" for their live album, **** Live in Phoenix. * Sales figures based on certification alone. "Don't Matter" (Original Radio Edit) - 4:09.It has a cameo appearance by Cuban-American rapper Pitbull. Notably, in the video's final scene, the music becomes much more lively, with a Caribbean style rhythm playing under the song's chorus. It is set in a Caribbean beach style community at social places such as the beach, village market, and a dance. The video continues with Akon singing "Don't Matter" throughout the course of his date. As he leaves with this date, an old man (presumably a relative of the date) is shown both reading a magazine about Akon partying at local clubs and staring at the two with an angry look. The video was directed by Gil Green and starts with Akon picking up his date which happens to be his cousin ( Klari Aniz) at a location. As of 2011, the song has sold 5,600,000 copies both in the United States and internationally. Bizzy Bone made a remix with this song, so did Candace Jones, Jadiel and Nivea. As of January 2008, the song has been certified 3 times platinum for 3,000,000 digital sales. Following the song's debut inside the top ten on the singles chart in Canada, it peaked at number one for a period of three weeks. In the United Kingdom, it debuted on the singles chart at number forty-five, based solely upon downloads, and late peaking at number three following a physical release. The song made its debut at number seventy-nine on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number one after ten weeks on the chart, in large part due to its substantial airplay, the song topping the Hot 100 Airplay chart for two weeks. His excursion into Latin music on 2018’s El Negreeto also saw him tap into his limitless energy as a performer, one whose career has shifted beyond music into movies, philanthropy, and even developing his own cryptocurrency (called Akoin, of course)."Don't Matter" was released in the United States in mid-January 2007. But despite all the starry partnerships and his larger-than-life presence, Akon’s greatest asset remains the vulnerability displayed in the gentle lilt of his vocals. A starmaker in his own right, he helped launch Lady Gaga and T-Pain via his Konvict and KonLive labels and mixtape series.
His silky tenor was the thread that linked hits as diverse as Gwen Stefani’s effervescent “The Sweet Escape” (which he also co-wrote and co-produced) and David Guetta’s inescapable “Sexy Bitch.” In 2006, he got top billing on his match-ups with Eminem (“Smack That”) and Snoop Dogg (“I Wanna Love You”), two highlights of his second album, Konvicted. In the years that followed his 2004 breakthrough single, “Locked Up,” Akon was everywhere at once. Louis, Missouri in 1973-devoted himself to music, leaving behind the troubles that led to prison time as a young man. In the second half of the 2000s, it seemed like there were two magic words attached to the titles of just about every pop, dance, and hip-hop track on the charts and in the clubs: “featuring Akon.” Akon’s productivity is a testament to the drive he’s displayed ever since the Senegalese-American singer-born Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam in St.