Are you kidding? Three weeks before Christmas and the bestselling album doesn't break 200K? That shows rediculous weakness in the industry as a whole. The fact that Jay is going platinum before the end of the year is a testament to his fan base (though that kind of drop in sales is really bad anyway you look at it). The album's really grown on me, though. I might call it his second worst one ever, but it's still good, and to me ages better than the clipse. It's a pretty exciting december for hip hop releases in general.
It's a pretty exciting december for hip hop releases in general.
I agree about this, but thats because its like a years worth of rap releases dropping in Nov.-Dec. to catch the holiday sales bump = rappers are shameless hustlers. I hope T.I.'s next verse brags about how much he sold despite releasing an album in March or whenever it was that King dropped
Are you kidding? Three weeks before Christmas and the bestselling album doesn't break 200K? That shows rediculous weakness in the industry as a whole. The fact that Jay is going platinum before the end of the year is a testament to his fan base (though that kind of drop in sales is really bad anyway you look at it). The album's really grown on me, though. I might call it his second worst one ever, but it's still good, and to me ages better than the clipse. It's a pretty exciting december for hip hop releases in general.
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It's normal for 2nd week albums to take a drop but 81% is high even for that. Looks like word of mouth > hype.
btw - the actual number is 139,933
Getting a little nervous about that wager?
If they were on Koch though...
records are officaly dead!!!!
naw - another 800k in 34 weeks???? that's 24k a week - I'm still looking good.
Jay-Z is not the gauge for NY HIP HOP. He's been POP since Blueprint.
Those are some high standards.