The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Vol. 9
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| The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Vol. 9 | ||||
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| Compilation album by Various artists | ||||
| Released | December 7, 2004 | |||
| Recorded | Various times | |||
| Genre | Hip hop, rap, mainstream urban | |||
| Length | unknown | |||
| Label | Image Entertainment | |||
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The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Volume 9 is the ninth annual music compilation album to be contributed by The Source magazine.[2] Released December 7, 2004,[3] and distributed by Image Entertainment,[4] Hip Hop Hits Volume 9 features sixteen hip hop and rap hits (one of them being the bonus track). It went to number 36 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart and number 75 on the Billboard 200 album chart.[5] It is also one of only two Hip Hop Hits albums to be released in the same year; Volume 8 was released six months earlier.
Two songs peaked number one on the Hot Rap Tracks chart: Overnight Celebrity and Slow Motion (which was a number one pop hit). It is the sixth compilation not to feature a number-one R&B/Hip Hop hit.
