Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania emcee Wiz Khalifa‘s major label debut, Rolling Papers sold approximately 200,000 first-week units as projected. The DXnext alum and Atlantic/Rostrum Records scored 198,000 overall units on the album which features Too Short, Curren$y and production from Jim Jonsin. The release came in at #2, behind only Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale, which sold an additional 80,000 units.
Chris Brown continued to enjoy his F.A.M.E. The Jive Records release passed the 350,000 benchmark, on an album that features emcees Ludacris, Busta Rhymes and Tyga.
West coast Hip Hop icon Snoop Dogg scored a Top 10 debut with his eleventh official solo album, Doggumentary. The Long Beach, California emcee included production from Kanye West and Scott Storch, on an album that includes names like Eastsidaz’ Goldie Locc, Devin The Dude and Kokane.
Climbing three spots to #13, Rihanna’s Loud pushes well past platinum. Lupe Fiasco fell six spots to #16. The Chicago, Illinois emcee may have had his share of disagreements with Atlantic Records over the content and direction of his third album, Lasers, however Lasers pushes past 300,000 units, the first 2011 Rap album to do so. Lupe’s album features label-mate Trey Songz and longtime 1st & 15th singer Sarah Green.
* Please note: figures below approximated to nearest thousandth.
Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 2 | Wiz Khalifa | Rolling Papers | 197,000 | 198,000 |
| 4 | Chris Brown | F.A.M.E. | 91,000 | 362,000 |
| 8 | Snoop Dogg | Doggumentary | 50,000 | 51,000 |
| 14 | Rihanna | Loud | 24,000 | 1,139,000 |
| 16 | Lupe Fiasco | Lasers | 23,000 | 303,000 |
Vallejo, California emcee E-40 took three spots on the chart. For the second straight year, 40 Water released two albums on the same day – complete with a combo pack, all of which charted. Revenue Retrievin’: Graveyard Shift sold slightly better than its counterpart, by less than 1,000 units. The work features Bun B, Slim Thug, T-Pain and Click band-mate B-Legit. Meanwhile, Revenue Retrievin’: Overtime Shift features the entire Click, Devin The Dude and R.B.L. Posse’s Black C.
Another Rostrum Records artist, DXnext alum and Pittsburgh emcee impressed the charts with a #54 debut. Mac Miller‘s On And On And Beyond EP was a digital-only release with little marketing, but the independent project cleared 10,000 first-week units.
Chef Raekwon fell 50 spots to #133 with Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang, a concept in development since 2007. The album has achieved 50,000 overall units. Released on his own IceH20 imprint, and distributed through EMI, the Wu-Tang Clan member’s fifth solo work features Jim Jones, Black Thought and a reunion with Nas. Producers include Evidence, Oh No and legendary House deejay Kenny Dope.
Queens, New York emcee Pharaohe Monch‘s first album since 2007, W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) fell 95 spots to #149. This is Monch’s first album in conjunction with the legendary Duck Down Records imprint, and features production from longtime collaborator Diamond D, Exile and D12’s Mr. Porter. The independent release sold another 4,000 units.
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total | |
| 40 | E-40 | Revenue Retrievin’: Graveyard Shift |
14,000 | 14,000 | |
| 42 | E-40 |
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13,000 | 13,000 | |
| 54 | Mac Miller | On And On And Beyond EP | 11,000 | 11,000 | |
| 133 | Raekwon | Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang | 4,600 | 50,000 | |
| 149 | Pharoahe Monch | W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) | 4,000 |
14,000 |
Can Jim Jones score a Top 25 debut with Capo? Will Brotha Lynch Hung grab the Top 10 his fans claim he deserves? Stay tuned to HipHopDX to find out.
I copped that Pharoahe Monch album. It’s probably the best album this year so far.
Still haven’t gotten around to buying that Shoalin vs. Wu Tang album. I hope it has that old school Wu sound.
For a pop/rap heavy album I kind of liked Lasers. At first I was gonna say it was wack but now that I listened to what Lu was saying its not too bad. It’s just too….mainstream if that makes any sense
definitely get shaolin vs wu-tang. its got a solid dope grimey wu vibe we havent got in years. the production shines we only missing true master, a cut from him woulda been top notch. but yeah its my album of the year so far.
Shaolin vs wutang>r.e.k.s.> w.a.r.> sidewalk science> oneriology> sidewalk science>doggumentary>arms and hammers>gutter rainbows>free agent> slaughterhouse ep> lasers>the greatest story never told
shouts to malcolm and martin, verbal kent, dc the midi alien, tech n9ne copywrite madlib freeway statik selektah d-stroy for all putting out dope material this year. its started to pick up this past month from the dry earlier part of the year, there are many releases to cop. i have bought all of these albums and listened to them thoroughly by the way
definitely get shaolin vs wu-tang. its got a solid dope grimey wu vibe we havent got in years. the production shines we only missing true master, a cut from him woulda been top notch. but yeah its my album of the year so far.
Shaolin vs wutang > r.e.k.s. > w.a.r .> sidewalk science > oneriology > sidewalk science > doggumentary > arms and hammers > gutter rainbows > free agent > slaughterhouse ep > lasers > the greatest story never told
shouts to malcolm and martin, verbal kent, dc the midi alien, tech n9ne copywrite madlib freeway statik selektah d-stroy for all putting out dope material this year. its started to pick up this past month from the dry earlier part of the year, there are many releases to cop. i have bought all of these albums and listened to them thoroughly by the way. boom.
definitely get shaolin vs wu-tang. its got a solid dope grimey wu vibe we havent got in years. the production shines we only missing true master, a cut from him woulda been top notch. but yeah its my album of the year so far.
Shaolin vs wutang > r.e.k.s. > w.a.r .> sidewalk science >definitely get shaolin vs wu-tang. its got a solid dope grimey wu vibe we havent got in years. the production shines we only missing true master, a cut from him woulda been top notch. but yeah its my album of the year so far.
Shaolin vs wutang > r.e.k.s. > w.a.r .> sidewalk science > oneriology > sidewalk science > doggumentary > arms and hammers > gutter rainbows > free agent > slaughterhouse ep > lasers > the greatest story never told
shouts to malcolm and martin, verbal kent, dc the midi alien, tech n9ne copywrite madlib freeway statik selektah d-stroy for all putting out dope material this year. its started to pick up this past month from the dry earlier part of the year, there are many releases to cop. i have bought all of these albums and listened to them thoroughly by the way. boom.oneriology > sidewalk science > doggumentary > arms and hammers > gutter rainbows > free agent > slaughterhouse ep > lasers > the greatest story never told
shouts to malcolm and martin, verbal kent, dc the midi alien, tech n9ne copywrite madlib freeway statik selektah d-stroy for all putting out dope material this year. its started to pick up this past month from the dry earlier part of the year, there are many releases to cop. i have bought all of these albums and listened to them thoroughly by the way. boom.
I think the word you’re lookin’ for is “ambivalent”, which pretty much describes my feelings about most new rap LPs like Lasers. The music on that disk and Rollin’ Papers et al is incredibly attenuated and these albums are made purely for avaricous reasons, not to preserve and enrich the hip-hop art-form. Hip-hop’s goldern-era (’86-’96) is missed by thirty-sometnings, not just be it was our halcon days when we were young, but because great acts like Wu, Cypress, Cube and De La made credible hip-hop and also shifted units without compromsin’ their artistry. The only new emcee I can invertin’ hip-hop back to its former glory is Jay-Electronica. Let’s hope Jay can step up to the mantle, and doesn’t suffer the same label politics that befell Saigon and Papoose.
wiz did good but drizzy drake still did better then most new artists
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interesting!!
Damn, Wiz did great the first week. Im a Wiz fan, I aint feeling Rolling Papers that much but Im happy for him. Snoop needs to retire man, for real. Its over.
true words..
I a fuck yo bitch and I’m a player, pimp baby!!!!
but now he is singing R&B music (back to his Say Yeah) and asking groupies to marry him?? smh
YALL I THINK WE HAVE BEEN BAMBOOZLED!!!!
THIS IS THE BIGGEST HOE AND THE FAKEST NIGGA IN THE INDUSTRY!!!
I gone fuck yo bitch and I’m a player, pimp baby type music!!!!
But now he is singing R&B music (back to his Say Yeah bullshit) and asking groupies to marry him?? smh
YALL I THINK WE HAVE BEEN BAMBOOZLED!!!!
THIS IS THE BIGGEST HOE AND THE FAKEST NIGGA IN THE INDUSTRY!!!
“I AM NOT A STAN OR AN INDUSTRY SHEEP!!!”
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I’m gone fuck yo bitch and I’m a player, pimp baby type music!!!!
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But now he is singing R&B music (back to his Say Yeah bullshit) and asking groupies to marry him?? smh
YALL I THINK WE HAVE BEEN BAMBOOZLED!!!!
THIS IS THE BIGGEST HOE AND THE FAKEST NIGGA IN THE INDUSTRY!!!
U call almost 200k great in the first week..Im not gotta hate and i congrat the nigga of having a top ten album and making his money but with 200k in his first week sales r gonna drop alot next week well below 100K and with that sales it will take him a long time to go Gold and he may not reach Platinum…If u think im lieing just look at lupe sales…I think the album was wack but i still give him props for doing his thing and making his money..I cant knock a niggas hustle and wiz is defo getting his paper right…But with the looks of things it looks like he is gonna b another 1hit wonder,He cant ride on black and yellow,Or the remixes for ever.
rollin papers is not what i want to hear so i brought MR. ZONE6 an UGK hits
e40 could hit 50k if he dropped one album on one day haha but still done well these days anything over 10k is a pass i think.. anything around 50k is good and 100k+ is really good unless u lil wayne who has a million white girls who buy his album
Are You fucking kidding me Wiz is fucking trash man this dude hole album is about smoking weed. if you like this album you must be a weedhead
your point?
Im a weedhead, that doesnt mean I listen to shitty music like the wiz album
good answer Jake
smoke everyday to ASHES TO ASHES plus i smoke dutches not papers
some of wiz songs are cool but an whole album nah
why has it stoped mentioning Em he’s lke no. 26 ths week wit 17,000 sold, nd kanye seems to be lucky to sell 10,000 nowadays nd he’s nower near 2mill yet, i dn’t gt it, (or is it a white thng) lol
noone cares about eminems popassx
sad day in hip hop when mac miller and wiz khalifa easily sell more than Raekwon and Pharoahe Monch…
yeah but its not their fault its the fans that are too blame for not supporting the real artists that matter
I wonder why major labels won’t actually go out and find talented MC’s like they used because these new dudes are just one hit wonders. Rae doing pretty good for being on an independent label, can’t wait 4 Nas’s new solo album!!
they do find them sometimes and then they break em down to pathetic idiots who would suck dick for money
No G-unit on the charts. them niggas time is up and E-40 sucks balls with his fat guy, horrible voice. that nigga sucks and comes up with the dumbest lyrics. maybach music mothafuckaz, get on or get run over niggas.
Bawse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
man you cant diss the homie earl like that he be on that other shit
g-unit on the charts is a thing of the past
wait till summer guy, 50 gonna own this summer
50 runnin this summer thats funny keep the jokes comming
i needed that laugh
Rick Ross is NOT HIP HOP…FUCK THE FAKE BITCH
E-40 has 17 albums and lives in a coke white mansion in the Bay. Can’t hate on that shit…Independent Hustler for 20 years!
Rick Loss is wack.
Who came out on G-unit, nobody so why try to diss them dumbass, and its funny how if somebody from G-unit sold 200k u would call it a flop. so just STFU
E 40 IS A MUTHERFUCKIN HUSTLER. RETAIL. EVERY FISCAL. NO MIXTAPES. WHAT A HUSTLER. WONT GET NONE OF 40’S MUSIC FOR FREE, UNLESS U DOWNLOAD!!
That rolling papers is commercially successful but from all the reviews it seems as if Wiz Has lost his audience with this new music he is pushing…just to push some units.
-CreamBmp
snoop dogg flopped big time only 50k in the first week lol, but hey at least his album made the top ten so that’s 1 thing to be proud of
its an improvement. his last album came out on like 25k first week.
damn i was so close i was predicting rolling papers to sell over 200k in the first week and i was off by only 3k LMAO
you were off by 10 k
yeah e-40! get yo money!
other websites say wiz only sold 191 000 where do you get these numbers
E-40 a total of 27,000 sold first week, independent. gd job. LEGEND
GET NOW FULL ALBUM FOR FREE
http://www.DownloadMixtapes.Org/WizKhalifa
I’m gone fuck yo bitch and I’m a player, pimp baby type music!!!!
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But now he is singing R&B music (back to his Say Yeah bullshit) and asking groupies to marry him?? smh
YALL I THINK WE HAVE BEEN BAMBOOZLED!!!!
THIS IS THE BIGGEST HOE AND THE FAKEST NIGGA IN THE INDUSTRY!!!
“I AM NOT A STAN OR AN INDUSTRY SHEEP!!!”
LOOK AT ALL THEM BUSTS.. I WAS A BIT UPSET WIT THE WIZ KHALIFA SALES HONESTLY.. THE PAST 2 MONTHS HE WAS ON THE COVER OF 20PLUS MAGS HAD EVERYONE INTERVIEWIN HIM LIKE 50 IN 03, BUT HE DID ALMOST 200K SO BIG UPS TO WIZ.. IM A MAJOR FAN OF HIM AND HIS TAYLOR GANG MOVEMENT.. OH AN BY THE WAY PEOPLE EM ALMOST AT 3.8 MILLI AND YOU SAID NOBODY SELL ALBUMS.. EM JAY AND WAYNE AND THE REST IS HISTORY..
Kanye sold while the Industry is trying to blackball him. Coca-Cola will not sponsor his tour.
Live Nation gave Lil B a tour just as a slap in Kanye’s face!!!!
Haha he shat on that estimated total.. dumb fucks
he the estimated total was 200 000 and he sold 191 000, how did he shit on it when he didnt even reach what was projected? fucking dick riders, nice raps by the way
after hearing prince of the city, wizes first mixtape, its fucken sad to hear his new music. that prince of the city tape is fucken classic.
PEEP GAME: Mac Miller sells over 10,000 digital EP units. 10,000 x $7 from itunes = $70,000 – Rostrum Records is doing it’s thing.
Yes but iTunes keeps a cut as well as Atlantic and Wiz probably gets a cut. Fans need to realized rappers get pennies on the dollar for their albums. Unless of course you go indie which is why so many are taking that route. Push your own music with no limitations or retarded label structures and you can make much more but sell much less.
why would wiz get shit? he didnt do anything for mac. he got his own deal, wasnt featured on any of wizes songs, and did his own thing.
wiz is featured on macs songs, sings his hooks
mac is riding on wiz khalifas coat tails
mac miller is the jewish wiz khalifa
wiz 200k man good numbers he be platnum. i still need to get the cd. but i got it n the itunes. it was ok so fuck the cd. alot off his mixtapes were beetter then that shit. but hope the nigga sell his on the top 5 right now.
LUPE HTE GOAT….LISTEN TO THE WORDPLAY ON LASERS………………
My self-portrait, shows a man that the wealth tortured….(atlantic)
Doctor, doctor please, the fame ain’t painless enough
That’s ’cause you ain’t famous enough
You got a little game but your name ain’t ringin enough……..killin it
Uh, uh, everything hooks
Everything works, you’re a real good chorus
I’m a real good verse, freestyle unrehearsed
So clean, no curse
You’re now tuned into the weakest, frequency of fear
Keep you locked right here
And hope you never leave this, never be a leader
Think inside the box and follow all procedures
Never ever believe that, you will never need this
Hit up all your friends and tell ’em to repeat this
“Hi, you’re on the air, now what you want to hear?
Well we ain’t got the truth but how about a remix?”
Different is never good, good is only what we pick
You ain’t got a hit, unless it sounds like these did
Not too smart, you will be a superstar
And if you dumb or something, maybe you could be number one…(it worked, but it would have happened regardless)
LUPE THE G.O.A.T……
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Bitch, you’re stupid.
Till I collapse I’m spilling these raps long as you feel em
Till the day that I drop you’ll never say that I’m not killing them
Cause when I am not then I am stop pinning them
And I am not hip-hop and I’m just not Eminem.
Subliminal thoughts when I’m stop sending them women are caught in webs spin and hauk venom
Adrenaline shots of penicillin could not get the illing to stop.
Amoxacilin is just not real enough.
The criminal cop killing hip-hop filling minimal swap to cop millions of Pac listeners.
Your coming with me, feel it or not you’re gonna fear it like I showed you the spirit of god lives in us…..EMINEM IS THE GOAT
My mindstate rewinds wakes
And fast-forwards bullets makin’a B-line for my face
Then they stop like Neo
Laugh at me throw some cash at me then fly pass me
But one ricochette off the wall to come ask me
Am I scared of him or the “nigga that blast me”
Or maybe just the hammer that goes to be a hole in an innocent bystander
My eye’s a camera my ear’s a microphone
My mind is Pro Tools my head is a stool
Whats recorded in my dome gets reported when I zone
My mouth is a speaker I’m anchoring the misery
There’s no friends my enemy of my enemy is my enemy
Beekers and test tubes full of memories
In my labatory I create stories
Doze off then wake up surrounded by Forties
Wit glocks tucked in they labels
And they caps is baseball hats
Playin poker at a table
Cigarrets massage they shoulders in belly tops showin off they navels
A dime sack side bets, a tech is runnin’ for president
Jesus pieces walk around with niggas hangin from they necks
Monoploy is playin’ chess
I just picked up an obituary of a bullet proof vest
Put the headphone on my mouth speak into my ears
Yea microphone check, check, check, check, check
Check, a pair of Air Forces told me Rims’ve been extinct for years
Been ethnic cleansed by Jersey’s tryna take over the set
And Television is on deathrow for killing BET and MTV over a dice game
And paralyizing CNN for knifing him in the neck
I hear Clear Channel’s been fightin him in the rec
Who’s in for givin’ grape Kool-Aid laced wit STRY 9 to Mixtapes and arm robbin cassettes
Dope told me Weed was a crack fiend but Crack told me Dope was a base head
Hi-hats told police he was just a soldier he did what the Bass said
The Snare and the Kick didn’t make it out alive
The Sample made it out with some money but he died in the ride
The 808 got caught wit some work (He ain’t never comin’ home)
So the MPC’s and the MP3’s is fightin over his turf
Sean Don just gave birth
But she’s thinkin’ bout leavin it on the doorstep of a church
Cristal can’t have kids she plottin’ to kidnap it that she orchestrated with a purse
But Gucci told Fendi and Fendi turned and around and told Henny
And Henny is Moets baby’s father
But she tried it anyway disguised as nurse
In the newspapers it says “Hip-Hop called Rock n Roll racist”
The Six ripped the Five and the Maybach taped it
A Hundred dollar bill just signed a record deal
But blew all his money on the Braceletes
And givin’ the Gold Dollar a face lift
A Button Up just drove by in a 6-4 Impalla
All the Rolex’s is hatin’ you see the smirks on they faces
The Havatampas is defending the Dutches they keep catchin cases
But the judge is a Swisha he just give em iBonds and community service with the Papers
so the Newport’s is gettin mad at the ZigZags then out come the razors
See the Kool’s is killers on the creep
Rush up on the Philly, leave his guts spillin on the street
Some Gold Grills burned down a building of some teeth
Some Sharpened Tooth Brushes is holding the trampoline cuz some children finna to leap
I just seen Rocawear rock Sean John to sleep with the same heat that Baby Phat carried
Sprint is pimpin Nextel she just gave head to a Black Berry…
I heard she go two-ways
But he was skeetin on her face as it was beepin on my waist
This is the mind of Lupe
Just make sure my mic’s on when I Twilight Zone, Zone, Zone, Zone
SHEEP..HAHA…EMINEM SWALLOW….THIS IS MY OPINION LOSER FUCKS….
LUPE FIASCO IS THE GOAT…
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i remember when i copy and pasted a whole song..
obviously moron….i didnt type it…stupid fuck….go fuck ur mother
Isnt Lupe a black punk-rock skateboarder?
all yall typin out lyrics and shit like we actually care are actin like 14 year old britney groupies right now. embarrassing.
i got all of 40s ol n new shit, glad to see ol boy on the charts. yay area stand up!
If this is the sound of the culture, the next generation gone be pro gay!!!!
LOL wiz got more radio play and sold less than lupe
your a dumbass. lasers came out before rolling papers. of course its gunna have more sales.
its also his rookie album, so people would download his album more than lupe, and lupe has 100k gay emo fans who would take it in the butt for him
he’s talking about 1st week sales duh
rookie album? NAW the homie has at least 2 albums out where he talking about smoking blunts and being a thug
I hope lupe and edge it out long enough to go gold again. I was just hoping he be able to go platinum this time around…. I don’t think so. And tell me why niggas selling 70% less there second week, while these wack country stars sells decrease only by 30-40%. WTF
Yea I feel that the numbers are screwed a little bit for 1st wk sales…that drop off is crazy
Raekwon’s “Shaolin VS Wu-Tang” and “Greatest Story Never Told” by Saigon still the best of 2011.
chuuch
CUNNIN LYNGUISTS Oneierology, Pharoahe Monch W.A.R must be on that list. Wonder if Crooked I’s solo debut LP will EVER officially drop. Patiently waiting on that, Slaughterhouse Shady LP debut, ELZHI/ONE BE LOs/DIABOLIC/LOUIS LOGIC/TONEDEFF’s next LPs as their all super duper ILL
I’m gone fuck yo bitch and I’m a player, pimp baby type music!!!!..
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But now he is singing R&B music (back to his Say Yeah bullshit) and asking groupies to marry him?? smh
YALL I THINK WE HAVE BEEN BAMBOOZLED!!!!
THIS IS THE BIGGEST HOE AND THE FAKEST NIGGA IN THE INDUSTRY!!!
“I AM NOT A STAN OR AN INDUSTRY SHEEP!!!”
Wiz flopped straight up. Drake and Minaj put out sick numbers. Why, because the labels promoted the artist not the single. Atlantic goofed on promoting Wiz. They just pumped money into black and yellow instead of developing Wiz. Wiz went away from the music that got him the buzz in the first place. He started sucking industry dick and his sales hurt as a result. His album sucked, if he stuck to his guns he could have had much better sales.
maybe its just because wiz just isnt as good as an artist? this dude sounds the same in every single song, and talks about the same shit every verse. maybe the dude should stop coasting and try change up his shit. drakes album is great, whereas this wiz one is just OK
200k Units is NOT a flop. I could see if Jay or Em sold 200k units, then itd be flop cuz they normally do better. But for a major label debut, new artist, and in this climate where niggas barely going gold? This was sucessful.
There is some awful newjack rappers poping up everywhere with this swagg type shit. Nothing wrong with abit of style and swagger but these suckers look mighty colourful, even their names.
What about showing off the depth of knowledge that your brain has the capacity to hold and speak the truth about whats going on in the universe
200k 1st wk hardly a flop…especially off the strength of 1 single
http://theverbalist.bandcamp.com/releases
check out this up and coming new artist he’s dope.
you can say what you want about wiz but i been ridin with him for about four years and he was never a great lyricist but always had good music to listen to you can tell his album was label satisfactions but its not like its shit music
Wiz can eat a dick!!!
im not hating on wiz but i cant stand rolling papers , his mixtapes are always dope but rolling papers seems too commercial and shit !
why u americans not buying albums yal the reason hip hop is dying…jst buy the albums!!!! i know some of these rappers are not worth the money..but kanye and nikki shud be on double platinum or some
BLACK N YELLOW ALREADY 3X PLATINUM
200K IN 1 WEEK, STILL TOURING, AND SNOOP IS TRYING FOR 75K.
PLEASE LET THIS SKINNY NIGGA GET PAID FOOLS
Anybody seen them Jennifer Hudson numbers…(crickets)