Universal Motown’s Akon scored his first No. 1 hit on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart this week.

"I Wanna Love You" ft Snoop Dogg catapulted up the chart thanks to the combined power of radio airplay and digital downloads.
 

Akon’s other track, "Smack That" featuring Eminem, holds at No. 2 on the chart, making him first male artist in more than two years to occupy the top two slots of The Billboard Hot 100. 

"Smack That" also jumped to No.1 on Billboard’s top European singles and debuted at No.1 in the UK last week. 

In addition to his double success on the Hot 100, Akon’s album Konvicted, on which he wrote and produced all but one of the tracks, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. Following up his triple platinum debut, first-week sales of Konvicted reached 284,000 copies.

Akon is also making waves in the digital realm. He is the #1 Hip Hop/Rap artist on both iTunes and MySpace, and the most searched artist on AOL.