The Adventures of Bobby Ray hits 500,000 units

Dec. 19, 2010 - PRLog -- The album was planned to be released at December 2009, but B.o.B pushed it back to 2010. In November 2009 during an interview, he revealed that his debut album is set to be released in May 2010; on a statement he posted on his Twitter account, B.o.B stated that his album was to be released on May 25, 2010. On February 1, he released a mixtape titled May 25 in honor of his album's release date. The date of the album was pushed up to April 27, 2010 due to the success of his single Nothing On You It was released with the bonus tracks "Letters from Vietnam" and "I See Ya" in the U.S.During the 2009 BET Hip Hop Awards

When asked about his collaboration with pop-punk vocalist Hayley Williams, B.o.B responded "Paramore is the sh*t," instantly driving away the hip-hop purists. He went on to declare that the audience for Williams' band was the same audience for Lupe Fiasco, Common, and himself. That's the rapper/producer/songwriter's attitude in a nutshell, and it's also the genre-free, music-loving, and even starry-eyed attitude of his album, The Adventures of Bobby Ray, a reference to the B.o.B's real name, Bobby Ray Simmons. "Airplanes" is the Coldplay-sized, emo-rap track with Williams that brings reminders of the Dido/Eminem collaboration "Stan," at least when it comes to rock-solid hooks.

Production for the album took place during 2008 to 2010, Atlantic Records executives employed heavy hitting producers and writers like Polo Da Dawn, Eminem, and Spitfiya to work on the project, as a product of The Bullets Production Team Spitfiya is not new to the chess game of Grammy success The Bullets Production Team has already won a Grammy brought home by mega producer and writer Greg for Love Is A Crime from the movie soundtrack Chicago, so technically "the Grammy nomination is well deserved" says William Junebug Lee President of The Bullets Production Team.

the album evolves from a high-caliber collection of singles to a unified body of work. he's an amazing ringmaster for the age of mash-ups and wonky pop, and for his debut album he's equally thrilling as the main attraction.