Comments on: Jay Sean the Highest Ranking Asian Recording Artist in Billboard History

By: Big Bang Tonight | K-pop | Top 10 iTunes Albums | 21CB

Big Bang Tonight | K-pop | Top 10 iTunes Albums | 21CB — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:20:43 +0000

[...] singer Jay Sean — who also released a song titled “Tonight” — was the first artist of Asian descent to reach #1 on the Billboard Top [...]

By: 8Asians.com » Asian American Grammy Nominees: Apl.de.Ap and DJ Replay

8Asians.com » Asian American Grammy Nominees: Apl.de.Ap and DJ Replay — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:25:19 +0000

[...] Ryan is listed with his DJ name, DJ Replay. I wondered if Jay Sean would be nominated after getting a number #1 song, but he did [...]

By: 8Asians.com » Dawen covers Jay Sean’s “Down”

8Asians.com » Dawen covers Jay Sean’s “Down” — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:37:55 +0000

[...] curse of a great song like Jay Sean’s “Down,” the kind which hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, is that it gets played it like a million times on the radio until you don’t want to hear it [...]

By: Philip

Philip — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:18:08 +0000

Well in the USA, race is subjective.

I think Michelle Branch is 1/4 Indonesian, while Enrique Iglesias is apparently half Filipino.

Since Jay Sean is from the UK, he would be known as an Asian while others like Stevie Hoang would be seen as Oriental.

By: Philip

Philip — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:18:08 +0000

By: blahhuh

blahhuh — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:38:55 +0000

"an Asian British (is that what they are called?)"

No, it's British Asian.

And to the person who mentioned Michelle Branch. She's barely Asian. Isn't she like 1/8?

By: Philip

Philip — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:00:28 +0000

wow he beat Michelle Branch!

By: invasian

invasian — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:31:33 +0000

And it took till 2009 for it to happen.
Anyway, congrats! This is good.