Def Jam’s fourth quarter showed another dismal result in Sheek Louch’s first major label release in close to a decade, barely making the charts. Meanwhile, Nicki Minaj continues to out-sell Kanye West week-to-week for the third straight time. Will she reach a million first?
Michael Jackson’s Michael entered the charts in the Top 3. The posthumous album that the King of Pop was working with prior to his death last year featured both Akon and 50 Cent, and has been widely criticized by fans, as well as will.i.am for its respect to the artist. The project sold just under 230,000 first-week units.
R. Kelly returned to the charts at #6. The Chicago, Illinois crooner released his tenth studio album, Love Letter. The Jive Records go-round features label-mate, K. Michelle.
After leaving Atlantic Records distribution for Interscope, Diddy and Dirty Money’s Last Train To Paris finally released this month. The love-focused concept album features Drake, T.I. and Rick Ross, and debuted in the Top 10 at #7, selling just over 100,000 units for the Bad Boy Records mogul.
DXnext alum Nicki Minaj also stayed in the Top 10 with Pink Friday. The effort out-sold the critically-acclaimed Kanye West album, which was released on the same November 22 date, falling just two spots from last week. Featuring both Nicki’s brand of singing and rapping, Pink Friday has appearances from will.i.am, Drake and Eminem.
Minaj collaborator Rihanna watched her Loud fell two spots herself this week. With features from Drake, Eminem and the aforementioned Nicki Minaj, Loud continues to attract fans through its multiple singles and happier themes compared to RiRi’s past albums.
* 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 |
| 3 | Michael Jackson | Michael |
228,000 | 228,000 |
| 6 | R. Kelly | Love Letter | 154,000 | 154,000 |
| 7 | Diddy-Dirty Money | Last Train To Paris |
101,000 | 101,000 |
| 8 | Nicki Minaj | Pink Friday | 97,000 | 658,000 |
| 11 | Rihanna | Loud | 84,000 | 579,000 |
T.I.‘s No Mercy stayed in the Top 20 in its second week. The emcee and label owner’s latest album was released while he was incarcerated for probation violations earlier this year, involving drugs. At just under 230,000 units, the latest album from Tip features Kid Cudi, Scarface and Rocko, with production by DJ Toomp, Kanye West and Jake One.
The #21 and #22 spots were held by Eminem’s Recovery and Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy respectively.
Lloyd Banks‘ third solo album, H.F.M. 2 (The Hunger For More 2) sold just under 6,000 units this week. With a gold single and high-profile appearances from Kanye West, 50 Cent, Raekwon and Eminem (on the iTunes version), Banks’ acclaimed comeback album is heading towards the 75,000.
Lastly, after last week’s dismal Redman debut (an album that failed to make the charts in its second week), one of Def Jam Records’ premiere signings, The L.O.X.’s Sheek Louch, snuck into the final two spots of the charts. The Yonkers, New York’s first major label solo in over seven years, Donnie G: Don Gorilla sold approximately 5,400 first-week units. The album features Bun B and Fabolous, in addition to his D-Block brethren.
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 20 | T.I. | No Mercy | 69,000 | 229,000 |
| 21 | Eminem | Recovery | 69,000 | 3,214,000 |
| 22 | Kanye West | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 66,000 | 738,000 |
| 182 | Lloyd Banks | H.F.M. 2 (The Hunger For More 2) | 5,800 | 69,000 |
| 198 | Sheek Louch | Donnie G: Don Gorilla |
5,400 | 5,500 |
Will Ghostface Killah and Apollo Kids raid the charts? Stay tuned to HipHopDX.
YES KNOW I DONT HAVE 2 LISTEN 2 SHEEK LOUCH ANYMORE
lloyd banks should be selling way more than he is!
fuck a lloyd banks
NO!NO!NO! MY FRIEND!!! Lloyd Banks is selling exactly just fine right where he should be and right where everyone expected him to be…Even Game knew that Lloyd was gonna sell 69,000 copies of that shit…RFLMAO! Why the fuck do you think that Game was telling him that they should get G-Unit back together…But nooooo!!! Lloyd shitted on Game because of 50’s orders and nobody wanted to listen to Game and the end result is 69,000 copies…Men lie,women lie,and numbers absolutely don’t so read’em and weep…Game is having himself a field day with this…and it’s funny that they won’t call Lloyd Banks album a flop because I’m sure the media and critics were paid off some money from Fif to protect Lloyd from any insult from injury when it comes to being criticized on for his Hunger For More 2 album…Sorry but it flopped ladies and gents so stop protecting your fellow boy Lloyd…Even Sheek Louch is a fuckin’ flop with that bullshit ass cocaine crack trafficking record…He looks like even more of a clown for putting that shit out there…If he was gonna rap about crack then he should’ve stuck to the script with that his whole rap career and make every album about it so why now…Must be frustrations from not selling…Regardless, Sheek’s shit is a flop…and yes people need to go back to using the fucking word “FLOP!”…sorry but a flop is a fucking flop and these clown ass critics need to stop being afraid to speak their minds and say that it’s a flop…they don’t wanna say it because “Oh,It’ll hurt Lloyd and Sheeks record sells if we say it’s a flop.” but who gives a fuckin’ shit…if you can sit there and love to say that Soulja Boy’s Deandre Way is a flop then you can say the same about Lloyd and Sheek instead of cowardly protecting them…Again a flop is a fuckin’ flop and the word needs to be used and not hidden…
R.I.P SOUJI BOY
LOL, Soulja Boy Who? lol
just sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! smdh
THAT WHITE NIGGA IS STILL SELLING LIKE A BITCH BEING FUCKED IN THE ASS ! BIG UP EM
“white nigga” jesus man. learn to live with a little civility. please for your own well being, get educated and you will succeed in life, or keep being ignorant and you’ll be pushing a fucking janitors mop. that’s if you can even get that type of job which now requires completing high school, which I doubt you have done.
Damn i though Diddy would sell more than 100k with his ass being on tv and on the net all of last week promoting his album. Oh well.
Eminem 70K in his 25 week
more than Kanye GAYFISH
hahahahahahahhaahha
OWNED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EMINEM ALBUM IS GARBAGE KANYE WEST ALBUM IS A CLASSIC
No its not classic so hop off homo.
NOBODY BUT WHITE PEOPLE LISTEN 2 THAT GARBAGE AND U CALLING THAT MAN GAYFISH WHEN HE HAD ONE OF THE BADDEST BITCHES ON THIS EARTH
I’m black, i fucks with Ems album harder than Kanyes shit, but i fucks with both, but you cant hate on Em, ur closed minded if yall think only white ppl buy his shit, GTFOH with that bull shit son.
Eminem have 10 grammy nominations, where is kanye with his gay album????
and btw Kanye is selling his album for 4.99 BIACH !!!
Em still no1, Kanye is GAYFISH
WELL FUCK IT I CANT RELATE 2 THAT BULLSHIT AND IM 29 YEARS OLD AND I CANT SEE MYSELF RIDING AROUND BUMPING THAT SHIT AND AND IF U LISTEN 2 THAT SHIT I GUESS ME AND U WERE CUT FROM A DIFFERENT CLOTH BUT TO EACH ITS OWN DO UR THING HOMIE BECAUSE ITS 2 MUCH GOOD MUSIC 2 WASTE MY TIME ON THAT DOPE HEAD HAHA
@ Anonomous
KEEPING YOUR CAPS LOCK BUTTON ON DOESNT MAKE THAT KANYE ALBUM SUCK ANY LESS
THAT SHIT IS A CLASSIC AND FUCK UR OPINON BECAUSE NOBODY CARES BUT UR MOMMY AND THEM DUSTY ASS HOES U FUCKING I DONT WANT 2 LISTEN 2 CRACKHEAD ASS EMINEM THAT SHIT BEEN PLAYED OUT MAN AND FUCK THEM ALBUM SALES AND WHO THE FUCK R U 2 DEFEND THAT CRACKHEAD HIS SUPPLIER AND HOW DO YALL KNOW KANYE WEST IS GAY YALL ACT LIKE YALL KNOW THIS MAN PERSONALLY
I like Em and he has some hard tracks but Kanye is better
If Mike, R. Kelly or Diddy album debuted alone they would have all went number 1. The fact that all those sold over 100K this week and Kanye, Em, Nicki, Rihanna and TIP are all selling over 60K shows that people are buying music….or it’s just the holiday season, either way it’s good.
wat happened to ciara?
CIARA FLOPPED. extra hard.
I thought Kanye would sell 1 Mil. easily, now his loosing against Nicki.
I Hope R.Kelly will continue this strong next week.
Em selling the same as Banks total in his 25th week hahahahhahahahahahaahahahahahhahahahahahaahahaahahhaahahahhahahhahahahaahahahahahhahahaahahahhahahahaahahahahhahahahaahahahahhahhahahahhaa
It’s what you get for having the worst voice in hiphop
Insane. Em is the artist of the year. No doubt.
DIDDY-DIRTY MONEY did a good as job. And Im glad cause the album is actually good.
Im glad R.KELLY proving he’s the King of RnB.. and MJ album did hella good as thought
Say wat yall want and will NICKI again for another st8 week outsell KANYE..and she’s on her way to Plat status..
TI doing well also. to not be out physically promoting…
and Em is yet slaying. he pushing 50 plus units a week… WONDERFUL.
OMFG @ CIARA. SHE’S # 43 even TANK out sold her…He debuted @38
thought when a woman loves whould help kells sale more then that but they dont play the song on hiphop radio stations
EM doing him (NO FAN)
DIRTY-MONEY did aite better then banks with the gold single with no buzz
never got around to buy kanye album (bootleg maybe)
nicki doing units probaly going to catch kanye
(yall cant see us like the bride shoes)
Yall niggas suck…vacuum/ Im always gettin cake…bridegroom/ steady droppin jewels…bible/ baby im on fire…pyro
damn ciara sold 37,000.
I have Diddy and nem doing 87,000. SO does hitsdailydouble http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi
Hits are off sometimes
not bad nicki did more then rihanna. T.I. album go hard. Weezy C4 gonna do atleast 2milli and he probably drop a fire ass mixtape soon.
C4 is not gonna do 2 Mill.
Weezy’s hype peaked a long time ago, that album might struggle to reach plat.
nah, President carter gonna sell as much as recovery for sure, plus dedication 4 and valentines day….and of course em is outselling Ye, its been out longer and has singles like i love the way you lie and not afraid, what do you hear of ye? and nicki fen to reach a mil so pucker up haters
How the hell hasnt Kanye gone platinum yet, with all that promotion, damn, that sucks… for him.
AND I USE 2 LISTEN 2 EM BUT NOW IM GROWN
Kanye has the best fucking album of the year so all the fucking haters can eat a dick and lets get serious here Eminem’s recovery is shit compared to MBDTF
In your humble opinion, lets get serious not everybody has to agree with you, that album is G-A-Y
i wush DX would stop posting numbers ALTOGETHER.
yall got fans playing label head, looking over the weeks soundscan numbers as if they gain anything from it.
another way to fracture the fanbase. fans arguing over album sales. never thought id see the day. hip hop is for the people but niggas wanna play executive. industry is dying as a whole, but niggas wanna fight over whats selling and what isnt. sad thing is, most of the lames making a deal out of album sales, dont buy albums.
shame on yall celebrating flops/sellers. celebrate the music, or leave it alone.
co-sign
i hear u but the fact of the matter is in todays environment numbers matter. you all wanna say f the numbers but the numbers = production in this field of work. if you aint making no money you gone get dropped so unless you grinding it out underground your numbers do matter bc bad numbers equals getting dropped. not saying the ppl with the best numbers are the best artists by any means, just the facts…
straight up. If anything people should be raising awareness for records that get no promotion or distribution. Too many high quality records get sleapt on because people only paying attention to high profile releases.
Only reason I like looking at Numbers is because there the only thing on a site like this that are concrete and cant be argued with
I could sit here and post summin like
“Bizzare from D12 >>>>>> Jay Z”
……and what could you really say about it, that my opinion is wrong??…. By Definition an opinion CANT be wrong, so when people argue about that kinda shit, its like a dog chasing his tail. But these numbers cant be argued with, there facts.
(By the way, I dont really think Bizzare is better then Jigga, just an extreme example
FUCK DEF JAM!!!!
They should officially go pop.
I fucking hope Ghost gets more love
Redman should go to shady records.
sheek bout to get dropped. yo i’m a fan of sheek i didn’t hear the album yet but i’ll be real about the situation, with numbers like that you about to get dropped.
like i said i didn’t hear the album yet, nigga you better have like five more singles on there dude.
ok i been seeing ppl hate on banks who to me cd is banging and is judging him by number sales saying ricc ross out saling him . does that mean that yezzy shit is wacc if em is out saling him with recovery just asking lol
no but if yeezy’s numbers were the same as banks the answer would be yes… not sayin banks album is bad, i havent even heard it but we all knwo the only reason ye’s numbers arent higher is bc some ppl that supported him in the past refuse to do so now bc of the taylor swift incident. at you can hardly call 700k a flop…
Banks is the leader of the new school. album of the year.
next album is gonna be even better.
man shut the fuck up banks been trying for 8 years. he’s not new school. are you retarded
lol.. at this rate banks not gone even reach 100k. minaj will be plat in about a month, no more than 2.. YMCMB hataz…
if banks goes 100k inpedndently thats like him going gold on a major plus touring overseas brings in more sells..so ya i guess he floped like rick ross gucci mane waka and diddy…tobad bansk mad more money on his album then all those people i just named u lames
LOL @ Kanye falling behind Em on the charts, if this were twiiter I would write #Kanyefail
I gues bribing all those music critics for them rediculous reviews didnt fool anybody, hat album is aiight but it aint no 5 stars, Illmatic is 5 stars, you telling me MBDTF could even stand in that albums shadow??
GTFOH……RS and The Source got paid
Dude, everyone and their mother knows MBDTF is 100x better than the trash that is ‘Recovery’ so who cares if it fell behind Em’s album.
If it’s quite impressive that an album with no hit singles went gold in 10 days. When Rihanna who has two huge singles is selling a snail’s pace.
*If anything
*at a snail’s pace
@ GameOver
Recovery >>>> MBDTF
So much for your theory about everybody knowing summin, lol
Dude Eminem made a Good Comeback, but Recovery is in no Way Better then MBDTF! I cannot Listen to Recovery without Skippin tracks like i can with Kanye’s Album, and Musically its just not as Good! And Eminem always did Lady Gaga Numbers when it comes to sales, because his fans don’t turn on him, even when he admitted to bein a CrackHead, go figure, but everybody wants to turn on Kanye for every little thing, and hes still is gonna go Platinum, so he’s Doin his thang! And Song For Song Eminem Can’t Touch Kanye, Real Music will always Trump Comedy and Craziness!
Recovery/Relapse/Encore all trash. However, I ain’t an Em hater, so I’ve gotta admit each album after Encore has been another step in the right direction.
Kanye sells loads. No argument. Kanye makes quality music. No argument.
Clean out your ears and remove Eminem’s dick from your mouth.
who the fuck keeps buying nicki’s shit? are there really that many fags and hoes in this world?
I guess so Dukey Boy. Oh well what can you do?? Hatin ass bum.
Teenage Girls are the all time #1 market to sell anything too, I’m actually surprised she hasnt sold more honestly
i am not a nicki fan and i’m sure nicki knows this (hey ma, what’s up i know you love me boo) but you angry for the wrong reason. the greatest lie this girl ever told was that she was a rapper, that she makes hiphop.
anybody with half a brain knows what she’s doin isn’t hiphop it’s pop and she’s gonna sell like a pop artist. you cant be mad at that, you just have to see it for what it is, she’s a popstar pretendin to be hiphop
SMH @ Kanye, no words need be said, all that promotion and them equal results equal epic, epic………………epic fucking fail
T.I under-performing too, oh well, I like No Mercy, people just missing out
Em stay winning, crybabies will cry online as they have all 12 years of his career but he gonna keep winning, must suck to be an Eminem hater, having to see him win all the time.
SMH @ Sheek, he pushed Fat Joe #’s, between Redman, Sheek and the Kanye disaster, I think we can safely say Def Jam aint what they use to be
Yea, ye failed… SMH
He went from one of the most hated people, to making a universally acclaimed 4.5/5 – 5/5 album. If you just look at the sales (which are hardly fail) then you might as well call How I Got Over a piece of shit compared to Recovery. I hope you don’t think like that, for your sake.
So are you Trying to Say that Kanye’s Album Won’t Go Platinum, because in this Day and Age with all the Bootlegging and people Selling CD’s for a Dollar, Going Platinum is Great! Even Goin Gold is Doin Good now days! What Eminem is Doing is Ridiculous, and that’s what the Black Eyed Pea’s Did Last Album, so if he can do this twice Back to Back, then he’s Killin the Game! But Kanye is Doing Great, because he’s still one of the few black artists that can go platinum. The others are Jay-Z and Probably Lil Wayne and Maybe Drake!
@ Chupps
Get over your opinion for 2 seconds and look at the facts, as heavily promoted as that album was and it might not even go platinum, is a fucking F-A-I-L on a success level
I’m not talking bout my opinion on the music( even tho I dont like Kanye honestly) but I expected him to sell more after all that promo, even my fucking grandmother knew he had an album droppin after he performed the Thnaksgiving day parade, lol
Kanye’s album is not a commercial album.. it should drop below eminem’s cd.. kanye fail? never! He’s got the album of the year.. respect is worth more than a pay check, and by the way.. ye doesn’t need money.. he’s sick with it already, he’s making money on his label and as an artist.. album of the year, without question.. this was about making a statment for the next century.. not making bubble gum for teenagers to chew up and spit out.
peace to the brother kanye! you did what no other artist ever did with those back to back numerous collabs songs of monster and so appalled. thank you for bringing back art into this hiphop.
LMAO @ Not Commercial
30 minute music video that premiered prime time on MTV??…… Check
Every Guest appearence under the sun, from Drake to Elton John…… Check
Tons of TV Promo…….. Check
Oh, and lets not forget that he performed at the fucking Macy’s Day Parade, lol
If you dont see that as a failure your just lying to yourself, real talk, even Kanye knows it
@WHOSHOTCAM
R u on kanye’s d*** so much you deny his album being commercial…wow. I’ll sum it up with one word(person actually)for u, Rihanna
oh yeah @STFU drake wasn’t on the album,but Elton john,fegie,alicia keys,rihanna,kid cudi,kanye west on a track sounds more like a VMAs or Grammy line up
I wanna slap 101,000 people right now…Line ’em up
that diddy dirty money album is garbage
I guarantee that puffy brought at least 60,000 copies of his own album. What a lame! White people aren’t even fooled by him. I know he bought most of those records himself!
hhdx writer keep saying Niki is out selling kanye but he clearly has more units sold more than her, and until hers truly surpass him they need to stop saying that. Anyway didn’t know R.kelly had another out, not like I would buy it but interesting to know.
Co Sign
Didnt even know the R dropped summin
this time he defecates on the girl
What a load of trash!!!
i am shocked at how succesful eminems album is, for the last 8 weeks? hes been selling 30-50k, definate 4x platinum
Kanye gonna wind up being the Hip Hop version of that “Prince” character, where his only fans will be the music critics who rate his shit off the charts and no one else listens to it.For real, I have yet to hear one positive word about that album outside the web, word of mouth down here aint been good to it
Your dumb,just because YOU dont like his music doesn’t mean he has no fans. Would down here refer to the south where rap consists of dancing and meaningless lyrics being repeated over and over. thought so
^^^^
just what i was thinking. they to dumb to even support their good artist. Big boi, bun b and scaface can’t even break 250,000
What people did you talk to about the album a bunch of 15-17 year olds
LOL @ no one listens to prince albums. i guess selling 100 million albums with 10 platinum albums, 7 gold albums and 40 top 10 singles aren’t enough huh?
Sheek took a beating. Bars of soap in the pillowcase style….LMAO!
lmao
ALL WACK MAINSTREAM POP CRAP… EXCEPT A FEW
Betrayal; Can’t trust so called friends these days. Some are two-faced even worse so are rats. Over the past few days I’ve come to find out someone has been trying to ruin my name. However, he has never said anything to me and even blocked me so I couldn’t see his updates. Exposing: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000470711377
No one cares about that gay shit.
Shut up retard
NO!NO!NO! MY FRIEND!!! Lloyd Banks is selling exactly just fine right where he should be and right where everyone expected him to be…Even Game knew that Lloyd was gonna sell 69,000 copies of that shit…RFLMAO! Why the fuck do you think that Game was telling him that they should get G-Unit back together…But nooooo!!! Lloyd shitted on Game because of 50’s orders and nobody wanted to listen to Game and the end result is 69,000 copies…Men lie,women lie,and numbers absolutely don’t so read’em and weep…Game is having himself a field day with this…and it’s funny that they won’t call Lloyd Banks album a flop because I’m sure the media and critics were paid off some money from Fif to protect Lloyd from any insult from injury when it comes to being criticized on for his Hunger For More 2 album…Sorry but it flopped ladies and gents so stop protecting your fellow boy Lloyd…Even Sheek Louch is a fuckin’ flop with that bullshit ass cocaine crack trafficking record…He looks like even more of a clown for putting that shit out there…If he was gonna rap about crack then he should’ve stuck to the script with that his whole rap career and make every album about it so why now…Must be frustrations from not selling…Regardless, Sheek’s shit is a flop…and yes people need to go back to using the fucking word “FLOP!”…sorry but a flop is a fucking flop and these clown ass critics need to stop being afraid to speak their minds and say that it’s a flop…they don’t wanna say it because “Oh,It’ll hurt Lloyd and Sheeks record sells if we say it’s a flop.” but who gives a fuckin’ shit…if you can sit there and love to say that Soulja Boy’s Deandre Way is a flop then you can say the same about Lloyd and Sheek instead of cowardly protecting them…Again a flop is a fuckin’ flop and the word needs to be used and not hidden…
The real joke is that game cant even get a buzz to get a release date for an album
kanye, pop album.. nicki minaj, pop album, Mj, pop album, Diddy, pop album, TI , pop album, (it features Christina Aguilera, thats pop my friends) Rihanna, pop album..sheek louch..straight garbage
ya’ll kill me with the “pop” argument. so i guess raekwon is pop to cause he did a song with justin beber” as is jada caus ehe did a song with ne-yo? gtfoh
when u say “pop album” does that translate to record sales? it sure looks like it
I knew that Sheek’s album would flop. He thought he would sell shitloads on Def Jam. But the ugly cover scares people away. LMAO, this nigga is weak as fuck. They gonna drop him soon.
I BUMPED THAT SHEEK LOUCH, AND I WON’T HATE NO MANE FOR DOING THEY THING CAUSE I WOULD DIE FOR THE SAME OPPORTUNITY HE HAS! IT SEEMS LIKE ARTIST WITH THESE OPPORTUNITIES ARE NOT HUNGRY! THEY DON’T HAVE THE PASSION TO WANNA ACHIEVE GREATNESS! YOU HAVE TO CREATE MUSIC THAT WILL SELL, MUSIC US AS THE CONSUMER WANT TO GO BUY! WE’RE WAITING ON THAT ARTIST THAT KNOWS HOW TO TELL IT LIKE IT REALLY IS! WE’RE ARE TIRED OF HEARING I GOT THIS AND I GOT THAT! WE’RE TIRED OF THE FLIP FLOP PAINT JOBS AND ALL THAT BURRR BULLSIT! THIS IS FOR THE MUSIC EXECUTIVES AND A&R ALL OVER THE COUNTRY! THE FORMAT THAT YOU’RE USING TO SIGN ARTIST IS BULLSHIT! THE RECORD LABEL AT 57TH AND BROADWAY KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!
nicki minaj,drake,gucci mane,wacka flocka,souja boy and chidy bang are the sorriest excuse for rappers ever
man, nobody outside of yonkers must have bought that sheek louch. i don’t want to hear nothing about these east coast fans mad at the south cause if that was the case, i don’t see anyone picking up that redman, ghost or sheek.
BTW. kanye’s album will still have sale value 10 years from now, while recovery won’t. that’s why i think numbers are worthless. Jay may have sold millions, but other than a few albums, his catalog is worhless cause no one will be checking for dynasty etc. in long run, while dudes liek kanye and outkast will always sale old albums out the catalog.
I agree about Jay but Kanye sucks… I have every album of his other than 808’s and they all became outdated fast.. I agree that recovery will lose value also… 1 year from now his older albums will have more value than it will… of all the albums I bought this year Kanye has been the biggest disapointment… recycled soul beats and mediocre lyrics…
hov’s catalogue is redic, not the complete catalogue but it’s still crazy. the first trilogy he did is forgettable.
dynasty was a solid record
blueprint 2 was like a club compilation (take what you wantout of that)
blueprint 3 (take what you want out of that)
american gangster (take what you want out of that)
kingdom come was slept on hard
those i didn’t mention are classics
@ANONYMOUS WTF you talking bout aint no south rappers on the charts except for Tip you dick…
Nicki on the charts selling like crazy she from NY even though I think she overated..Diddy on the charts 100,000 his 1st week and hes from NY.. Eminem and Kanye are midwest… T.I the only south nigga on the charts and his second week sales are pathetic.. Banks and Sheek aint sell that much but they dropped on Independent labels and they from NY as well.. Gucci and Waka only sold 5,000 each their 1st week and they get crazy promotion and they still flopped so get your facts right because the south hasnt been selling all year because niggas are tired of hearing the same beats, weak ass hooks and non lyrical nonsense….
i copped that ghost, not coppin red(one of my favorite emcees), and although i dig sheek im not copin. The dudes that you mentioned have older fans who have kids and mortgages, those two things will definitely hinder sales.
Eminem don’t sell any catalog numbers?
Curtain Call 156,000 (2010) US
Marshall Mathers LP 93,000 (2010) US
Eminem Show 87,000 (2010) US
Slim Shady LP 52,000 (2010) US
Encore 50,000 (2010) US
Thats just this year, and just the US. Kanye don’t sell old albums like that.
my point wasn’t that em’s catalog is worthless, it’s just that 10 years from now, people nobody will buy recovery. they will check for marshal mathers first. that’s why i think it’s useless to compare kanye and emine’s numbers at this point.
i think that’s where the money is gonna be. look at mike, beatles, madonna, etc. they got albums that will always get them a check. these rappers right now won’t have anything to eat off of 10 years from now.
btw kingdom come was slept on. jay tried to grow up but hi-hop wouldn’t let him. prob his best lyrical album besides blakc album
Kanye album will sell 10 years from now? Not by any real numbers. Like I said Kanyes first two cd’s arent selling like that so why should his latest? Kanyes cd will not go 2x platinum in the next 5 years, yet Eminems cd will be 4x platinum in 8 months. THAT is where the money is. Do you think an artist want his cd to sell 2 million in 10 years or 4 million in one year? Recovery will stall out on 7.5 million ww. Im pretty sure thats like Kanyes entire catalogue. 😀
eminem>>>>kanye
get off kanyes dick….faggot
dang ppl must be feelin Nicki’s album more than Kanye’s
http://usershare.net/wlgwahpvk8eo
I agree about Jay but Kanye sucks… I have every album of his other than 808’s and they all became outdated fast… I agree that recovery will lose value also… 1 year from now his older albums will have more value than it will… Of all the albums I bought this year Kanye has been the biggest disapointment…recycled soul beats and mediocre lyrics…
You are retarded
bought all his albums but he suck smh ^^^^^^^^ very right
Couldn’t agree more man tried to listen to it several times to see what all the hype was about still dont know
@ANONYMOUS WTF you talking bout aint no south rappers on the charts except for Tip you dick…
Nicki on the charts selling like crazy she from NY even though I think she overated..Diddy on the charts 100,000 his 1st week and hes from NY.. Eminem and Kanye are midwest… T.I the only south nigga on the charts and his second week sales are pathetic.. Banks and Sheek aint sell that much but they dropped on Independent labels and they from NY as well.. Gucci and Waka only sold 5,000 each their 1st week and they get crazy promotion and they still flopped so get your facts right because the south hasnt been selling all year because niggas are tired of hearing the same beats, weak ass hooks and non lyrical nonsense…. And Jay catalog is priceless you reject all his albums still get played worldwide and are still selling, his body of work tops Eminem’s work anyday!! Eminem was always nice but he was a comedian rapper his whole career until 2009 and Kanye 1st and 2nd album were the only good ones hes dropped the rest sucked so go kill yourself…
Are you on dope or dog food? First off Donnie G Is on a Major IE Def Jam. And Waka’s first week was 45k(not 5k) And Gucci was like 69k(not 5k).And t.i. dropped like 50% 2nd week like they usually do(160k first week)And Diddy bought all those units.Get ur facts straight Mr!
Bottom line is this young music generation sucks they dont know what Hip hip is they just think its party music with no substance,stupid dances and idiotic hooks… I know time changes but Hip Hop nowadays sounds like generic techno/ dance music…. It was called Hip Hop because it had its own unique sound thats why mid to late 90s and early 2000s was the best time in hip hop cause the genre was equal.. We had songs with knowledge and great storytelling thanks to Biggie,2pac,Nas,Jay-z etc and we had good Party music that had an urban feel that was respectable thanks To Bad boy,Ruff Ryders and Rocafella and RNB was at its best thanks to R.Kelly,Ginuwine,Musiq,Carl Thomas,Donnel Jones,Mary J Blige,Faith etc Thats when music had a feeling that mad you happy and was worth listening too…
Agreed
realest post
I don’t understand how Eminem can be outselling Kanye, even though Recovery has been out for so long now. Who the fuck is still buying it?
christmas and grammy publicity are 2 perfect reasons why
You all a bunch of stupid ass mutha fuckers. Kanye’s later work was MILES ahead compared to his first 2 albums. While Graduation was a good album, production wise it was his best (at that time), but something was missing from that album lyrically and on a level of subject matter. Kanye has surpassed the lame repetetive stupidity of his first 2 albums. The College Dropout and Late Registration were both pieces of Black Man’s shit. There was nothing special about those albums that was never done before. You mean to tell me that all you gotta do to make a CLASSIC Hip Hop album is fill a CD with 20 Soul/R&B-sampled beats and rap about how the White Man hold niggas back and stupid mindless niggas will call that shit a good album? It’s niggas like yall that’s the reason why this country is in a recession. Lupe Fiasco is a good rapper and he don’t always rap about being oppressed by the White Man and he STILL put out 2 classic albums. I’m from the hood, I’ve went without alot of necesseties and still am, so why the fuck would I wanna hear about another nigga’s struggle through the same living conditions as myself on an album? No wonder the White Man will never treat us as equals, Hell, I wouldn’t either if niggas wanna hold onto that negative ass frame of mind. If REAL Hip Hop is suppose to be about niggas rapping about how hard it is living in the hood then Hip Hop is without question the weakest, most immature, narrow-minded and flawed form of music there has ever been. Fuck the College Dropout and Late Registration, and whoever thinks those albums are good I hope they burn in Hell with their piece of shit forms of music.
take dat man penis out yo mouth sheesh
College Dropout > My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
your dumb as fuck if you think that college dropout was repetitive. Late registration wasn’t repetiitive either, None of his albums were. Swallow sperm and more sperm, you’re a joke. His best album was his first period.
why u so mad son
aint there a character of u on the boondocks?
BRO U GOT SUM SERIOUS ISSUES LOL HIS FIRST 2 ALBUMS WERE CLASSICS HE TALKED THE TRUTH IF U CONSIDER THE TRUHTH TALKED ABOUT “THE MAN” WHATEVER HIS NEW ALBUMS LACKS HUNGER AND SUBSTANCE THE OLD KAYNE WAS MUCH BETTER
kanye new shit is for white nerds. its for hipsters that are embarrassed by hip hop. they cant believe somebody got guitars on jungle music. they dont even know, kanye uses ghostwriters, and co-produces all his shit. college dropout was for hip hop fans. dark fantasy is for rolling stone fans.
Typical. Dumb ass niggas always say College Dropout and Late Registration were Kanye’s best albums but they never give any examples why. They’ll say little trivial shit like “his best was his first” or “Late Registration > My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”. No in-depth analysis at all. You all are a buncha sheep. You probably don’t even know why you think The College Dropout and Late Registration were his best, probably copying what you heard another nigga say. Fucking pea-brained Hip Hop listeners. You all make Black people look bad.
His first 2 albums were better beacause it had better lyrics and were more hip hop. Kayne talked about deep things like gettting out the hood and doing somrthing with ur life. On his new album he raps like everybody else thas y people say that. And ur obiviously white because all were (black people) doing is giving our opinion which is a facr
if a artist already has wealth or money or whatever I JUST BURN THEY MUSIC LOL, i only support local artist
so what happens when/if youre “local artist” blows up? are you gonna quit buying their shit then? straight faggotry.
WACK RAPPERS ALL SUCK COCK
it pisses me off that ppl are still buying taylor swift, can’t believe this shit
And what baffles me about Taylor Swift is how her album sales jump up and down like that. For the last 2 weeks she sold 198,000 and 180,000 now all of a sudden this week she went UP to selling 285,000?! WTF is that possible? I thought Rednecks already had her album! Watch, she gonna sell ANOTHER million in a week next week!! LOL
can’t really hate when other people support the fav artist, the question is are you supporting yours?
LOL and i can’t believe R. Kelly outsold Diddy, UNBELIEVABLE
That R. Kelly album brought it back to the Chocolate Factory which in my opinion was one if his personal best. It sounds like a mix of Chocolate Factory type songs & songs he wrote for the late great King of Pop. Diddy’s album didn’t showcase any heart or essence of the art form. Dude was trying to cash in like he usually does but this time it didn’t work like it used to. Maybe he should have gave those girls a better name and put them out there instead of just calling them Dirty Money as a group. Karma is a B**ch.
ALL U BITCH NIGGAS CAN SUCK MY DICK, RESPOND IF U LIKE PUSSY
so you want a bunch of guys to suck you dick? whats the matter you didn’t get enough gay sex in county?
LMAO I find it funny how Diddy somehow sold 101,000 copies after last week it was projected to sell 65,000 copies. Diddy bought the other 36,000 copies himself so it could more respectable to break 100,000 for the first week. With as much money as Diddy has, It isn’t hard for him to buy just 36,000 copies….
HAHAHA, you guys claim Kanye had the best record but he keeps losing to Nicki Minaj? Nicki is way better than that gay fish. Gucci Mane knows real talent.
It’s Gucci Time!
Who fucked u in the head, boy?
try harder
weird recovery sold 69kand popped out again this week last week he wasn’t on the list or maybe i missed it or something i guess people are getting them for christmas presents or something
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Sheek louch sucks terrible !
ROTFLMAO @ Diddy because of all of that promotion he used didn’t add up to shit. I didn’t even know that R Kelly was dropping an album and that shit sold 53k more units Bwahaa.
Glad to see the white boy back on top, selling more than yo favorite rapper! Hahaha. Another thing, a lot of ya’ll comments here is stupid as fuck sometimes. “Nigga, nigga” this, “RECOVERY ALBUM WACK. KANYE ALBUM CLASSIC”, gtfo with that ol’ bullshit!!
these sales are still bad for r kelly, but the album is awesome. dnt give a fuck bout puffy, or diddy or popa diddy puff. Minaj’s album is trash, kanye is back and em is embarrassing T.I, this is tips second week and he selling as much as em’s what….100th week
cant believe diddy sold dat much….fuck dat nicca
dat recovery=dope
dat mbdtf=dope
dat mike album shouldnt have had been made
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More cats should have bought that sheek louch album, it was straight. Ghostface still spittin’ fire!
Sheek Louch is a Lame azz coon.. No respectable human being would support such an Uncle Tom Sell Out Industry Whore. But if thats what you like…. U know what they say, Monkey see Monkey do!
^^ No need man. Each to their own. Having your own opinion don’t make you a monkey lol – despite the album cover!
I wasn’t gonna comment but that shit was funny LMFAO
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So is Eminem coming out with new material any time soon or what… They said he would before christmas but they lied… Anyone know what’s up with that?
I wonder how many more albums Banks would of sold if Christian Denim Dior Flow made the made Kanye album bet more people would of saw that Kanye was on the Banks album too and copped the Banks album lil shit makes the big differences
Man this aint mid 90’s any more dawg,we got old we need to accept that the youths are takin over though hip hop is losin it substance truly
That Kanye album is slipping pretty rapidly. People aren’t falling into the hype given to the album by the lame over-hyped reviews.
notice all the outlets fawning over it..
rollingstone
spin magazine
pitchfork
hipset faggots that dont buy albums, that dont like hip hop. kanye is finsihed as a multi-plat artist. time to get back to PRODUCING. kanye hardly even a producer anymore, co credits on everything, he needs to focus. blessing in disguise. album sales are depressing, damn sheek. 5,000 homie? i know sheek moves 5,000 plus mixtapes out his trunk. he gonna keep working though, real niggas stick it out. knock him all you want, em got loyal fans, that go out and buy his shit. they get the bootleg too. but they support dude time and time again.
CALLING ALL PEOPLE THAT DON’T KNOW REAL HIP HOP:
JUST BECAUSE THEY’RE BLACK, DON’T MEAN THEY’RE A HIP HOP ARTIST!!!!!!!
Sheek Louch is a monkey azz nigga! hahahaha
LOL FUNNY DAS EXACTLY WAT I TOLD YA MOMS
Why were you telling his mom tha Sheek Louch was a monkey azz n?
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There are currently 3524 signatures but thats not nearly enough considering this is Nasir Jones.
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Eminem is nearly hitting 40, and he has been in the game for 11 years, and hes still selling 69,000 in his 25th week, outselling kanye (who had the best album of the year, apparently) who is in his 3rd week, and t.i who is in his 2nd. Just shows that shady is the only rapper that can survive even while the genre is changing, and if your gonna hate him or shit and say his making pop music, dont complain put his old cd’s back on, people grow, this aint the 90’s
LMMFAO!!!! At all the butthurt on this site lol! God damn how the fuck did P Dicky sell 100k???!!!! He is ass on the MIC hah! Also fuck the haters kanye album = classic lol! Fuck Em and Sheek hahahah! And this is why I listen to japanese and korean rap. They actually care about furthering the genre and yet all these stupid niggas wanna hold it back! Talking bout real hip hop SMH move the fuck on!!
Real HipHop= Sir mix a lot, mc hammer, run dmc, beastie boys, Busta, Lil Wayne, TI, Luda, 2pac, LL Cool J, Eminem, Big, Tag Team, Naughty by Nature, 50 Cent, All of NWA, Public Ememy, Jay-Z…………. Fake HipHop= Nas, Canibus, and that’s about all I can think of off the top… Since when is looking up big words in the dictionary and rhyming them out of context real hip hop? Last time I checked all you needed for “real hiphop” was a beat, a fun flow, and maybe some dancin… Why does it have to be that the “best rapper” is the guy who uses the biggest words and talks politics that he knows nothing about?? I know this comment will stir up a lot of controversy but I believe its true…
Okay that was bullshit but i do have to say it’s nice you talked about the beasty boys.
Im suprised sheek louch sold 5000 thats too many. he should have sold less. he has always been wack as fuck.
Not True, Cats aint buying records at the store no more, everybody bootleggin. Im suprised nobody responded to your comment in 5 days. Sheek goes hard. Try again