First week sales predictions are in for DJ Khaled’s Suffering From Success.
The album is slated to sell anywhere between 19,000 units and 23,000 units in its first week, according to hitsdailydouble.com.
DJ Khaled’s Kiss The Ring sold approximately 41,000 copies in its first week last year, according to hiphop-n-more.com.
Suffering From Success features an array of artists, including Diddy, Meek Mill, Rick Ross, T.I., Swizz Beatz, Wiz Khalifa and Wale, among others.
DJ Khaled promoted Suffering From Success in several ways. In July, Khaled proposed to Nicki Minaj with a $500,000 ring in what was later revealed to be a joke made to promote his “I Wanna Be With You” single. More recently Khaled promoted the album by riding around Harlem, New York while standing on top of a tour bus with a megaphone. As he yelled at people on the streets about the album, several street team members walked around the bus holding up life-sized cardboard cutouts of DJ Khaled featuring information regarding Suffering From Success on them.
DJ Khaled has been speaking about this album for months. In February, Khaled described the project’s sound.
“What separates [Suffering From Success from previous albums] is that I made it to my seventh album,” he said. “After Kiss the Ring, I’m a winner. So I’ma continue winning, but when I was coming up, I didn’t know that when you win, you gotta deal with a lot of this unnecessary bullshit a lot. So my album sound is going to… You’re going to hear different types of anthems: the suffering side, and the success side.”
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yo bigg up shoutout to my duke dj khaled. dude is doing this indepently and he will have the biggest rap album of next week. get it khaled…. and with those numbers it shouldnt be a problem for him to sell more units then kendric…. this kid feel off. i see you khaled. young money. ya bish? ya you bish. ya damn bish!!!!
mad respect fresh!
cosign fresh
cosign fresh and ryan.
big numbers by my man khaled and fresh always spitting the truth
cosign
WHY ARE YOU TALKIN TO YOURSELF? -_- idiot ass nigga lmao
doing this independently with cash money backing him?
Drake gonna have a bigger rap album next week and his shit been out for a month! He’s likely to sell double what DJ Khaled does!
REAL TALK MY NIGGA #FRESH!!!
LMAO my dude you spend too much time on this site if your bigging yourself up with other names for 30 minutes…and dj khaled is on cash money/universal hes not independent
oh hi haters. quick question for yall. do you bish? ya you bish. ya damn bish!!!! nuff said.
immma cosign my dude fresh. respect his game
dont let this game get to you baby. keep it fresh
i cosign fresh. hes cool
hey fresh baby. i c u sweety. doing your thang. keep it up papi
hey fresh my man. get a life.
lmaooooooo
lmao suffering from a flop
Suffering from neglect ! Cause the ppl neglected this shit! FLOP
How the fuck you sell less than 25k on Cash Money records with the entire rap industry featured on your album????
Looks like we have a new contender for FOTY!!
Major Label Flop of Year Nominees for 2013 are as follows
1) French Montana – Excuse My French 56k first week
2) Rich Gang – Rich Gang 24k first week
3) Ace Hood – Trials & Tribulations 37k first week
4) 2 Chainz – B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time – 63k first week
5) MMG – Self Made 3 – 50k first week
6) DJ Khaled – 23k first week (projected)
7) Tyga – Hotel California – 54k first week
To determine the greatest flop it’s important to study the artists previous album sales to see if they’re selling more or less than their last effort!
1) French Montana – N/A – first album, nothing to compare to
2) We Are Young Money sold 142k first week in 2009
3) Blood, Sweat & Tears sold 26k first week in 2011
4) B.O.A.T.S sold 147k first week in 2012 over 600k total
5) Self Made 2 sold 98k first week in 2012
6) Kiss the Ring sold 41k first week in 2012
7) Careless World: Rise of the Last King sold 61k first week
Nah, French floped, period.
true but i dont think we can say he had the flop of the year with khaled and rich gang doing 23k and 24k and 2 chainz selling like 90k than last year
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!
MONSTER NUMBERS!!!
We the best!!
We The Worst!
18k, big numbers, lmfao
thats just embarrassing and if you check his twitter he had half the industry tweeting and retweeting buy the album buy the album lol
yo every 5 min he practically begging people to buy his album LOL like anyone following him on twitter didnt know that shit is out
why do they keep putting out his albums when they only sell 100k total? do his singles really make that much money anymore? you could add up the sales of all his albums n itd be less than a million
Do your hip hop homework kid. Khaled has had several platinum and gold singles. That’s his bread and butter. Album sales would be nice, but these artists know how bad the marketplace is. No way they would continue putting out expensive projects without a safety net in place.
A few plat and gold singles in no way will cover the budget for a major label flop like this with that many features and producers!!
So far he only got 1 gold single for this album and guess what! he gotta pay Drake, Lil Wayne and Rick Ross a cut!
lmao my hip hop homework its math bruh bruh…i dont think 4 platinum n a couple gold singles are enough to fund 7 albums with multimillion dollar budgets that sell 100k each with a couple 6 figure music videos from each one
on a side note his shows must be fuckin terrible if he does them by himself
how you sell 23k but you got a fucking bus with your name and face on it and
” street team members walked around the bus holding up life-sized cardboard cutouts of DJ Khaled”
this album is never going to get outta the red!
Does anyone else think that hiphopdx made this article because they enjoy our puns about dj khaleds lack of success? Or dentalbitch’s comments about how this is not flopping when it really is.
how is this nicca eating? its not like he can do shows and get that show money everyone always brings up when their fav rapper flops LOLOLOL
Mac Miller and Tyler the Creator both selling like 4-5 times what DJ Khaled did and they’re independent and they didn’t have the entire mainstream hip-hop world featured on their albums!!!!! This is a failure of epic proportions!
How much do DJs normally sell this decade?
If DJ Drama can sell 25k first week Khaled should be able to do 50k atleast! his last one did 41k so hes falling off!!!!
Oh so 25K is what the other DJ did, thanks for the info.
Not even an album full of the hottest and most relevant artists like Lil Wayne, Drake, Rick Ross, Meek Mill, Nicki Minaj etc.. can save him!
I hope he kept the receipt for that 500k ring he bought Nicki
You can’t be this stupid. It has nothing to do with big name artists. In fact, the bigger the names the more people will download it for free. People are stealing music. I’m surprised these artists even bother making new music anymore. Nobody supports hip hop unless it’s a gimmick, or a co-sign.
Khaled out there doing Eminem numbers!
laughable
20k is how much eminem will sell opening week.
em could release a blank disc and sell more than that!
That’s not possible.
Are you 15???
Eminem will sell 20k in 30 seconds.
Sounds like he’s “suffering” album sales…
And obviously, the guys who predict sales are virgin haters that haven’t got laid. The sales are underaccounted. It actually sold 350k copies this week. In the future, once they get laid, the will change the sales total.
is that your new schtick? every comment seems to be about getting laid LOL
this lil kid must have seen his first porno
How is it a schtick? Getting laid will make you like ymcmb more because the overstimulation of the brain will cause your brain to click.
Khaled has unaccounted sales that total around 300k.
dentalbitch, we know you;re lying and trolling. Khaledis about to bomb selling 23k 1st week and no amount of sex will change that.
Y’all should checkout thegrandreport, they have good hip hop and viral videos on there
Dj Khaled Suffering from Failure…
LMAO!!!
His failure lasts a few months until a single goes platinum. Your failure continues steadily throughout your life.
He ain’t getting a platinum single. You fail.
aint no more big singles on this record. No new Friends as big as it gets. he should have put out this album months back when that song was still getting play!
I don’t understand the celebratory behavior over DJ Khaleds first week projections.
Its been a horrible year in terms of sales for traditional HipHop music with artists like Ace Hood, Juicy J, Tyga, Big Sean and others seeing low sales despite having strong singles.
(Poor Pusha T only managed 75ak first week despite rave reviews universal acclaim and Kanye hyping the project.)
On the flip side non-traditional artists like Drake, Mackelmore, Kid Cudi, Tyler the Creator, A$AP, & Mac Miller saw healthy first week sales in excess of 100K.
Their is a shift in HipHop at the present and Hipster-Hop is the new movement and the mainstream sound is becoming less and less Soul/R&B and more POP/Rock.
On a positive note Khaled did his best with guerilla styled promotion but the climate is bad, and he needed a huge single, all in all he’s still the only DJ in the culture dropping major label albums so salute his effort.
So Tyga and Big Sean are traditional hip-hop artists but ASAP Rocky, Mack Miller and Tyler the Creator are non traditional?
Whats the criteria you base this off of?
“he’s still the only DJ in the culture dropping major label albums ”
DJ Drama would strong disagree!! SHit even DJ Drama’s last album Quality Street Music sold 25k first week and he aint have half the budget or promo!
EXCUSES EXCUSES!
i think mac miller is more traditional hip-hop than tyga, juicy j and ace hood!!!
but @BruthaDee is overtly racist so he would never agree
A$AP is the type of artist to put Skrillex and Florence Welch on his album and wear a skirt to match his rench braids…Hipsters love that shit.
Mack Miller is white, traditional HipHoppers are African American and from the African American community,, he can put Nicki Randa on his album and Hipsters love that shit
Tyler is a weirdo, and the most non-traditional rapper I mentioned, he cross-dresses and makes alternative raps full of rape fantasies and eats cockroaches in his videos and Hilsters love that shit
Tyga & Big Sean you pretty much get your club bangers and usual features nothing too weird or out the norm, not Hipster friendly.
We celebrating cause all he talks about is success this, we the best, we on top, we run this shit, suffering from all this success, kiss my ring,
then the album comes out and he sells half as much as the roots
How did you feel when Officer Ricky put Robin Thicke and Avery Storm on his albums? did you shed a tear???
big sean puts miley in his video hipsters luv dat
HE PUTS EFFORT ON EVERYTHING BUT THE MUSIC!! He’s a muslim selling pork.
@BruthaDee
everyone follow him on twitter and retweet him! he got over 7000 tweets but no one retweets or comments on any! he basically talking to himself! LOL
I just checked his Twitter and he’s got 950 Followers and I checked yours and you have 12….
Why are you posting another dudes Twitter like a groupie? Shouldn’t you be posting your own instead of studying his? Dude you are weird or a homo.
He’s very sexy with those sunglasses on!
Featured Artists: Future, Ace Hood, Rick Ross, Meek Mill, T.I. Swizz Beatz, Diddy, Big Sean, French Montana, Timbaland, Plies, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Wiz Khalfia, Wale, Nicki Minaj, Drake, Mavado, J. Cole, Bas, Scarface, Jadakiss, Akon, John Legend, Anthony Hamilton, Birdman, Vado, Jeremih
Producers: Timbaland, Arthur McArthur, Allen Ritter, Beewirks, Boi-1da, Bkorn, The Beat Bully, Canei Finch, Cool & Dre, DJ Frass, DJ Nasty & LVM, Lee On the Beats, Noah “40” Shebib, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, J. Cole, JA Productions, Rico Beats, Rugah Rahj, StreetRunner, Young Chop, Vinylz
ANDDD 23k first week!!! THAT IS AN EPIC FAIL WITH THAT MUCH HELP HE SHOULD HAVE DONE 60k minimum
Fatty Fat Faggy Fag
I heard Khaled is so balling him and Ricky each bought a little asian lady to wash their backs cause they can’t reach!
23,000 is horrible, but when you realize most people probably downloaded this for free, 23,000 isn’t so bad. He’ll have 1 single go platinum or gold and an 8th album will be in the works. That’s how this dudes operates.
He’s getting boom bap numbers with commercial music no it’s not.
Every album gets downloaded for free, that’s no excuse for low numbers.
DJ Drama did drop, you can call E1 a major if you want to but it’s still Koch if you ask me.
One of the whites asked me how I felt about Avery Storm and Robin Thicke and I have to admit they are solid R&B performers but most idiots don’t know the difference between a POP feature and an R&B feature.
Hipsters don’t like Miley Cyrus, they like Anna Wise, Skylar Grey and Jhene Aiko.
Mac Millers album was rife with Hipster favorites from Odd Future while the more traditional HipHoppers went with more street oriented features.
You won’t hear Mac Miller at the club, the carwash or the cookout, but you are guaranteed to hear some Juicy J.
Dude you’re almost 40!! Why do you continue to argue with kids on a hip-hop website?
You’ve already been banned from more hip-hop websites and and forums than most people ever visit for being a racist troll!!!
I would expect that shit from a teenager but not a grown ass man!
anna wise singing backup on a few kendrick tracks is a pop feature for hipsters? LOL But if Rick Ross does a track with Robin Thicke it’s a solid R&B collabo
Theres gotta be some kind of MMG/YMCMB fanclub website where this weird racist old guy could hang out on and get along with everyone who likes shitty music like him.
this racist tries to discredit Kendrick Lamar’s success because a white skinned woman no one ever heard of sang some back up vocals on 2 tracks uncredited… claims thats interscope and da machine pushing making sure kendrick goes plat by any means… calls it Operation Infiltration!
But if Rick Ross does song with whites like Robin Thicke and Avery Storm its somehow acceptable and more legit because he wasnt as successful!!
@Dylan
You are a 50 year old white pedophile that follows strangers around on random blogs trying to flirt with them and pretend like you know them. You don’t know me, my age, or my politics and by pretending that you do only makes you seem like a deranged stalker ashamed of his true identity.
You hide your true identity becaue you know the world would ridicule you because you are a wretched and disgusting peice of human filth.
You can’t discuss HipHop politics with a sick deranged psycopath that can repeat verbatim random posts you made, LOL, I’m not even trolling this freakish dude but he’s the only person weird enough and weak enough to allow my posts or my opinion to affect his behavior.
LOL, I scrambled this freaks brain with words on a computer screen.
yo he said 50 year old white pedophile!!! some classic @BruthaDee shit
So Drama sold more on Koch records than Khaled did on Cash Money???
“DJ Drama would strong disagree!!”
He’s nowhere near as high profile as Khaled is, and I’m sure people downloaded Drama’s album for free as well.
thats why its funny that he sold more, DUH!!!!
what are you even arguing dude? For someone who’s ‘nowhere near as high profile’ to sell more albums first week than DJ Khaled is not a good look!!!
DJ KHALED BEST DJ IN THE WORLD SALUTE. ALBUM SALES DONT MATTER WE GETTIN THAT SINGLE MONEY
one gold single LOL
gotta split that money up with Drake, Wayne, Ross, Boi-1da, Vinylz, and 40
I got split up shit bitch!
I don’t agree that Khaled is the best DJ in the world, he’s multi-talented and accomplished but Herc & Flash are the greatest IMO.
Khaled eats good, he’s still getting an executive A&R check from Def Jam, he gets 25K and up to host parties, plus he eats off every record that Ace Hood sells on WTB and “Bugatti” just went Platinum
Just to keep it 1-hunnid Khaled got about 90 ongs in his BMI catalog eating off the publishing.
You have to salute the mans hustle and hard work.
” eats off every record that Ace Hood sells ”
LMAO
no one believes that khaled is an A&R for def jam
he was at def jam south years ago but i dont think thats the case no more
You don’t have to believe Khaled works for Def Jam but normal people actually do.
Just like the handicapped guy that didn’t know Ace Hood was signed to Khaleds WTB.
I doubt people are really this ignorant, they are just lonely and seeking some attention and interaction.
ace hood records sell about as much as this album so he aint eating much off those
Khaled has no talent.
i just called def jam they say they claim they havent paid him in years
dentalbitch, we know you;re lying and trolling. Khaledis about to bomb selling 23k 1st week and no amount of sex will change that.”
He sold 350k this week. Its just that the guys projecting salws are haters that never had pussy. Once they get laid, a switch in their brains will flip and they will post the correct numbers.
Nope. He’s gonna sell 23K. The people who make these predictions are experienced industry experts, not trolls on the internet like you. No sex is gonna change their predictions at all.
Its just soundscans opinion. In my opinion, it sold over 300k 1st week.
well soundscan or Hitsdailydouble are usually dead on with that shit, you’ve never proven yourself yet
how bad you think Khaled smells on a scale of 1-10?
Just had to laugh
im sure he masks his body odour pretty well with various colognes and sprays but that only goes so far!!
you see this nicca at the grammys in his penguin tux he was sweating his ass off and he wasnt even nominated for anything!!!
THATS A FLOP NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT IT!!
I KNOW RAPPERS WHO SOLD MORE OUT THE TRUNK
That’s what you get when your album is FULL OF TRAP BEATS!!! That’s why this shit isn’t selling! TRAP MUSIC WILL BE THE DEATH OF HIPHOP. That shit is so unoriginal, non-creative, and redundant it’s no wonder no one will buy albums anymore. DEATH TO TRAP BEATS!!! You all are wack for even liking any of it.
AMEN
“thats why its funny that he sold more, DUH!!!!
Khaled has gold and platinum singles. Does Drama? I didn’t think so. Duh!!!
uh but drama is independent though…khaled moves 20k thats is split so through= universal/republic/cash money/we the best
given that he is about to generate about 200k how much do u think is going 2 his pockets….how much was spent on those features and production? smh
“For someone who’s ‘nowhere near as high profile’ to sell more albums first week than DJ Khaled is not a good look!!!”
That would be like comparing a football team that scores 6 points to another one that scored 3. Who cares if Drama sold more. Khaled has way more money, and a roster of hit singles that lace his pockets. He’s not sweating 1st week sales. Drama is.
according to those stupid celebrity networth websites you like to use DJ Khaled is worth 10 M and DJ Drama is worth 12 M!!!
how do ya like them apples fuck boi
“Every album gets downloaded for free, that’s no excuse for low numbers”
But years ago that wasn’t the case. Non event albums would go gold all the time, some even platinum. Downloading is a major factor in why alot of rappers aren’t eating as good as say Eminem, Jay Z or Drake.
Make all of the excuses you want. Downloading doesn’t even hurt artists at all.
uptil I looked at the paycheck which had said $6538, I didn’t believe that my mom in-law really making money in their spare time on their apple labtop.. there moms best frend haz done this 4 less than seventeen months and resently paid the dept on there home and bourt a top of the range Ford. see here now http://smal.ly/YntWC
but this device does not have the popular Apps that your friends use. I’ll take you to the Apple store later.” Well can I do anything with it Dad? “Well, you can type reports on it with Office.” Dad I’m only in Third grade.
DJ KHALED GETS $35,000 A CLUB APPEARANCE BEST BELIEVE WE EATEN OVER HERE YMCMB OVO MMG WTB
i feel sorry for any club that pays 35k for this guy to shout we the best, this shit special over every song!
i also feel sorry for anyone who paid a cover to get into said club
I don’t think he could have picked a more ironic album title for this one!
well maybe if he titled it “Never Flopping”
At least his albums come out. Where’s Curtis’s?
clowns try to bring up irrelevant ass 50 cent to take away from their man dj khaled flopping
i bet you 50’s worst selling album sold about as much or more than all 7 khaled albums put together
Who gives a shit about this mickey D
Eating Taco supreme deluxe ass ninja
He’ll be dead in 2 years you high cholestrol
Fuckboy.
“Downloading doesn’t even hurt artists at all”
You are a fool. It costs labels millions.
No, it doesn’t.
“according to those stupid celebrity networth websites you like to use DJ Khaled is worth 10 M and DJ Drama is worth 12 M!!!”
One of the most popular DJs of today Dj Khaled net worth has been announced to reach a little bit over 30.5 million dollars.
DJ Drama can keep his little $12 mill lol
so now you think khaled is worth more than ross?
never seen khaled on the forbes list…..
“One of the most popular DJs of today Dj Khaled net worth has been announced to reach a little bit over 30.5 million dollars.”
You made that up.
notice how he didnt respond at all once he got called out on his lies!!! he just pretends it didnt happen and responds to some other portion of a comment with more nonsense
Hiphop album sales 2013 (updated)
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TOP 10
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JAY Z – Magna – Carta Holy Grail : 1,034,000
DRAKE – Nothing Was The Same : 947,000
JCOLE – Born Sinner : 618,000
LIL’ WAYNE – I Am Not A Human Being II : 567,000
KANYE WEST – Yeezus : 553,000
A$AP ROCKY – Long. Live. A$AP : 421,000
WALE – The Gifted : 326,000
KID CUDI – Indicud : 251,000
MAC MILLER – Watching Movies With The Sound Off 192,000
TYLER, THE CREATOR – Wolf : 162,000
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TOP 20
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TYGA – Hotel California : 159,000
2 CHAINZ – Based On A True Story 2 : 143,000
FRENCH MONTANA – Excuse My French : 141,000
JUICY J – Stay Trippy : 126,000
BIG SEAN – Hall Of Fame : 116,000
TECH N9NE – Something Else : 113,000
PUSHA T – My Name Is My Name : 95,000
MMG – Self Made Volume 3 : 80,000
JOE BUDDEN – No Love Lost : 80,000
EARL SWEATSHIRT – Doris : 64,000
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Other albums (more than 1k sold)
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A$AP FERG – Trap Lord : 60,000
ACE HOOD – Trials & Tribulations : 55,000
YMCMB & FRIENDS – Rich Gang : 50,000
LONELY ISLAND – Wack Album : 48,294
LL COOL J – Authentic : 34,892
GHOSTFACE KILLAH – Twelve Reasons To Die : 34,129
RITTZ – Life & Times Of Jonny Valiant : 29,924
KID INK – Almost Home EP : 26,965
TALIB KWELI – Prisoner of Conscious : 24,687
NELLY – M.O. – 23,000
BROTHA LYNCH HUNG – Mannibalector : 22,113
VARIOUS ARTISTS – Mud Digger Vol 4 : 22,087
WATSKY – Cardboard Castles : 21,820
EVE – Lip Lock – 21,248
DANNY BROWN – Old : 15,000
U-GOD – The Keynote Speaker : 14,843
LACS – Keep It Redneck : 14,460
GUCCI MANE – Trap House 3 : 14,074
GOODIE MOB – Age Against The Machine : 13,000
CES CRU – Constant Energy : 11,928
ACTION BRONSON – Saaab Stories : 11,777
DA’ T.R.U.T.H. – Love Hope War : 10,967
LENNY COOPER – Mud Dynasty : 10,740
KEVIN GATES – Stranger Than Fiction : 10,209
DOM KENNEDY – Get Home Safely : 10,000 DEBUT
KUTT CALHOUN – Black Gold : 9,249
R.A. THE RUGGED MAN – Legends Never Die : 9,225
PAPOOSE – Nacirema Dream : 8,388
GUCCI MANE – Trap God 2 : 8,310
JAKE MILLER – The Road Less Traveled EP : 8,292
SAGE THE GEMINI – Gas Pedal EP : 8,227
W.L.A.K. – W.L.A.K. : 8,176
DELTRON 3030 – Event 2 – 8,000
KRIZZ KALIKO – Son Of Sam : 8,000
QUASIMOTO – Yessir Whatever : 7,538
SHO BARAKA – Talented 10th: 7,360
PRODIGY & ALCHEMIST – Young Einstein : 7,125
KEVIN GATES – Luca Brasi Story : 6,823
WREKONIZE – War Within : 6,792
WAX – Continue : 6,423
YOUNG DRO – High Times : 6,000 DEBUT
MAYDAY – Believers : 5,858
DESSA – Parts Of Speech : 5,800
STATIK SELEKTAH – Extended Play : 5,674
RICH HOMIE QUAN – Still Goin In : 5,108
THE GAME – Operation Kill Everything : 5,000 DEBUT
INSPECTAH DECK FT 7L & ESOTERIC – Czarface : 4,854
STEVIE STONE – 2 Birds, 1 Stone : 4,700
RAEKWON – Tonight Show : 4,627
SWOLLEN MEMBERS – Beautiful Death Machine : 4,406
FREDDIE GIBBS – Evil Seeds Grow Natural : 4,313
STARLITO – Cold Turkey : 3,800
DEMIGODZ – Killmatic : 3,179
ALPOKO DON – The Ol’ Soul EP : 3,036
DRE MURRAY – Gold Rush: Maybe One Day : 2,905
SHWAYZE – Shwayze Summer : 2,738
LIL WYTE & JELLY ROLL – No Filter : 2,735
MADCHILD – Lawn Mower Man : 2,664
ILL BILL – The Grimy Awards : 2,515
TONY TOUCH – The Piece Maker 3 : 2,400
CHAMILLIONAIRE – Elevate : 2,351
PHILTHY RICH – N.E.R.N.L. 2 : 2,127
ACEYALONE – Leanin’ On Slick : 1,823
RICO CALHOUN – Before The Deal Vol. 1 : 1,703
YONAS – The Black Canvas : 1,569
GHOSTFACE KILLAH – Twelve Reasons To Die (The Brown Tape) : 1,555
HIEROGLYPHICS – The Kitchen : 1,506
CHAMILLIONAIRE – Reignfall EP : 1,473
PROBLEM & IAMSU! – Million Dollar Afro : 1,396
J. STALIN – Return Of The Body Snatchers : 1,358
WALLPAPER – Ricky Reed Is Real : 1,237
SOCIAL CLUB – Rejects EP : 1,212
IAMSU – Kilt II : 1,200
MIGOS – Young Rich N****s – 1,126
REDNECK SOCIAL CLUB – We’ve Got Friends, We’ve Got Ammo, We’ve Got Plans : 1,007
NIPSEY HUSSLE – Crenshaw : 1,000
cool story bruh, what does that have to do with khaled flopping?
last song i liked by him was WE TAKIN OVER and it was special because it had WAYNE, ROSS and TI all on the same track and that was rare back then to see that! DJ Khaled unified them all and got shit poppin. Problem is you can only make the same type of song over n over so many times when you only have 10-15 artists to choose from. Plus his screamin over songs is terribly annoying!
suffering from everything BUT success
“No, it doesn’t”
Consider these staggering statistics:
-In the decade since peer-to-peer (p2p) file-sharing site Napster emerged in 1999, music sales in the U.S. have dropped 47 percent, from $14.6 billion to $7.7 billion.
-From 2004 through 2009 alone, approximately 30 billion songs were illegally downloaded on file-sharing networks.
-NPD reports that only 37 percent of music acquired by U.S. consumers in 2009 was paid for.
-Frontier Economics recently estimated that U.S. Internet users annually consume between $7 and $20 billion worth of digitally pirated recorded music.
One credible analysis by the Institute for Policy Innovation concludes that global music piracy causes $12.5 billion of economic losses every year.
downloads affects everyone though. to try and say its only hurting certain artists is wrong. truth is if there was no illegal downloads those artists would sell more but so would all the big names that are still going plat and gold… so they would still be a joke no matter what!!!
“i bet you 50’s worst selling album sold about as much or more than all 7 khaled albums put together”
Nobody brings up stats like that though lol Khaled is successful enough to keep putting out albums. How they do is irrevelant because we all know how his formula works. 50 with all his money and past credentials doesn’t even have a formula he can use now. He’s just a regular guy now, no different that Ja Rule, Fat Joe and all the other rappers he laughed at for having low sales.
“no different that Ja Rule, Fat Joe and all the other rappers he laughed at for having low sales.”
i can think of about 100 million differences
“i can think of about 100 million differences”
But what’s money without respect?
What’s respect if you don’t even have it.
he got respect from anyone who matters
That ain’t respect; that’s ass-kissing.
why would anyone kiss his ass if he’s irrelevant?
QUOTEMAN SAID KHALED IS WORTH MORE THAN RICK ROSS!! LOL
“downloads affects everyone though. to try and say its only hurting certain artists is wrong”
They only hurt the bigger artists in that instead of selling 4 or 5 million, they sell 2. What do the broke rappers do who have no realistic shot at success? Their albums are DOA before they even hit a store shelf. No excuses. A flop is a flop. Ross not going platinum is partly his fault, but downloading killed the concept of an album being an event. Even Detox was shelfed. Dre knows even he can’t compete with freeloaders killing his buzz.
“QUOTEMAN SAID KHALED IS WORTH MORE THAN RICK ROSS!! LOL”
No half a man. The internet said it. Cry to the cyber gods.
makes no sense. he would have been on forbes
“What’s respect if you don’t even have it”
How do you know Rick Ross doesn’t get respect? You aren’t part of his inner circle. Neither am I, but most of the industry, including the biggest businessman, Jay Z, works with the guy when he could just as easily tell him to get lost.