Following Tupac’s appearance as a hologram at the Coachella 2012 festival, sales have spiked for the late rapper.
According to Billboard.biz, his performance during Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s headlining set prompted a re-entry for his Greatest Hits album on the Billboard 200 where his album returns at No. 129 with 4,000 copies sold, a 571 percent increase over the prior week. It’s the first time the LP has made it onto the chart since 2000.
Additionally, his albums All Eyez on Me and Me Against the World also saw a sales bump, moving 2,000 and 1,000 units, respectively.
His tracks “Hail Mary” 
and “2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted,” both of which were performed at Coachella, had increased sales as well. The former cut moved 13,000 downloads last week for a 1,530 percent sales increase, while the latter sold 9,000 units.
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And to all the faggits that wer talking shit abt dre and snoop please go screw urselves with a hammer. them boys done added some money for tupacs family. great looking up
man i love posting ignorant shit. now i knw why so many pple comment on this site
+1
Was thinking the exact same thing, people are often so caught up in hating, that they don’t wait to see the beneficial sides. Awesome that many new people might get to hear this legends music. RIP Pac
damn pac is the greatest of all time he sold over 80 million actual albums not downloads 2Pac > Biggie
This is dope. Tupac’s music is being heard by a whole new generation of ears, proving that he truly will live forever.
Mabye now All Eyez On Me can get that diamond for 10’000’000 albums sold, just like the Greatest Hits
It already is diamond.
WE OUT HERE REPRESENTING FOR ALL THE BITCH ASS HOES. IF TUPAC WERE ALIVE, HE’D MURDER ALL OF YOUNG MONEY, CAUSE WE SOME GROUPIE BITCHES OUT HERE.
holopac sold more records this week than snoop and he just put out a new record!!!
So he sold 7000 records combined last week
Congrats to Afeni, but I cant help but be a cynical bastard here, its fucking sad that someone selling 7000 copies of 3 albums is even newsworthy
SMH, record sales are complete Dogshit these days, lol
It’s news b/c 1 he dead 2 thes albums dropped over 15 years ago
Holly shit thats crazy!
2Pac selling more records with old shit than Snoop is selling with new shit LOL
and in related news, people are stupid
Just wait until he comes back as Zombie Pac and release his new album it’s gonna be the best thing in hip hop
ha ha ha! Classic comment
The company that bought the remaining unheard recordings of Tupacs music from Death Row must now capitalize and release those so called thousand of songs….commission Kanye West to reproduce the tracks, and Tupac’s legacy will live Until The End of Time 🙂
kanye?no…eminem yeh
Neither of them should produce a Pac track.
afeni approved of eminem though?..loyal to the game was good…depends on whether u wanna hear unfinished 2pac songs..
u sound stupid… they didn’t do shit fuck is u seyin.. there two of the fakest artist oit.. pac ain’t fuck with them .. dumb ass
& Jimmy iovine’s bank account wins again
Realest statement in the thread
Jimmy Finding new and exciting ways to exploit his deceased asset now that the vault of unreleased songs is running on E
When there officially out of new songs expect action figures
most like a slew of biopics
here’s my question, why the fuck do you care about who gets paid
yeah Jimmy’s fillin it up, so what? almost every single thing happenin in this world, somebody’s gettin money for it. stop thinkin about people’s pockets except your own
Im just laughing at the fact that people didnt have the tupac cd greatest hits until they fuckin saw a coachella performance with his hologram.
Believe it or not, there’s a lot of heads who haven’t given the time to listen thoroughly to a Pac joint. This performance caught their attention through the clouded airwaves of mainstream music. So it’s a good thing I guess.
Right??? Lol
yooo I seen that tupac hologram shit on youtube… that shit amaze me! it like he really there doin his thing
i.e. 4000 dudes who heard pac for the first time at coachella or the youtube clip and thought dude is ill lol… still, this nothing but positive for pac RIP and afeni
loooool exactly what I was thinking.
yes
If people have only started buying 2Pac CD’s now then I take back the statement of him being the most overrated rapper. SMH,who are these idiots.
Most overrated????!!!
Yeah and you probably listen to Lil Wayne driving to your Yoga classes or tanning sessions faggot. There has never been a more meaningful rapper other than Tupac to ever grace this planet. Most rappers rap about nothing but shit, Tupac had meanings to his Songs. Brendas Got a bad, I see no changes, Flying without wings to name a few. Not only that but this man made a whole album in 7 days, an album that was one of his greatest with classics like Hail mary, bomb first, Against all odds, live and die in LA.
Man rappers these days can’t even make an album in 1 year with 3 goods songs on them let alone a whole album with most songs being classic. Overrated my ass. The dead Tupac died real hip hop declined. Now hip hops full of a bunch of faggots, fakes and little girls.
wtf
when should they get it then? when it’s 50 years past his death? when Dre makes a 180 and milks the hologram for all its worth?
Pac is legendary but that doesn’t mean every nigga on the street bought all of his albums or greatest hits when it dropped… some people choose to go by individual record choices
Tell me when rappers didn’t care about money? Drugs, money and bitches. That’s what new rappers rap about. Tupac was real and he wasn’t a studio gangsta.
Why would seeing a hologram make you want to go out and buy an album? If I see an old Elvis movie on cable, I’m not going to rush over to Itunes to buy Love Me Tender.
maybe because they’ve had a rush of nostalgia? you know, the same thing some hip-hop heads on here are too much coked up on.
Word. Im a 2pac fan but alot of these ppl are just zombies yo.
GOAT still selling and he ain’t breathin
Tupac greatest of all time. And I’m guessing it’s mostly white teens barely listening to Pac, probly came up on some country shit that there parents listened too.
The Good Doc MUST GET all the credit.
good people remembering good hiphop
“maybe because they’ve had a rush of nostalgia”
Maybe, but if someone hasn’t heard Pac’s Greatest Hits by now there’s not much that can be done to help them.
Hated this from the very fucking start. I’m still against exploitation of fallen artists like Tupac Amaru Shakur
I was one of the 1000
JIMMY IOVINE IS A BITCH. I FEEL LIKE RAPPERS FUCK WITH HIM ONLY FOR BUSINESS. IF YOU STUDY HIS LIFE,YOU’LL SEE WHAT I MEAN. BACK IN THE DAY HE TOOK ALL THE MONEY EARNED FROM SUGE KNIGHT’S AND DR.DRE’S LABEL(DEATH ROW) AND STARTED HIS OWN LABEL AND THATS HOW INTERSCOPE RECORDS STARTED. HE PRETTY MUCH TOOK SUGE KNIGHTS MONEY/RECORD LABEL AND HIS ARTIST(DR.DRE) AND BURIED SUGE KNIGHTS CAREER. DR.DRE IS LEGENDARY BUT HE’S LIKE A HOUSE NIGGA/PAWN IN A WAY. SUGE KNIGHT HAD A SUCCESSFUL BLACK LABEL AND JIMMY IOVINE DESTROYED THAT AND TOOK HIS ARTIST/LABEL AND DR.DRE JUST WENT ALONG WITH IT JUST FOR THE MONEY. JIMMY ENDED DEATH ROW AND TOOK THEIR BRAINS BEHIND THE LABEL(MUSICALLY AND BUSINESS WISE) JIMMY KNEW DEATH ROW WASNT GONNA LAST WITHOUT DR.DRE SO HE MADE IT CLEAR HE WANTED TO MAKE DEATH ROW RECORDS NOT EXIST AND HE WANTED TO SIGN DR.DRE TO INTERSCOPE WHICH HE EVENTUALLY DID. SO NOW HE HAS DR.DRE SIGNED TO HIS LABEL THEN DRE BROUGHT EMINEM THEN EM BROUGHT 50 CENT IN SO EVEN THOUGH 50 IS SIGNED TO SHADY AND EMINEM IS SIGNED TO AFTERMATH,ALL 3 IS SIGNED TO INTERSCOPE SO JIMMY WAS SET FROM THE DAY HE SIGNED DR.DRE CUZ OBVIOSLY TALENT KNOWS TALENT. PLUS WILL I AM WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO EVER THINK OF BEATS BY DRE,HE CAME UP WITH THE IDEA AND JIMMY TOOK THE IDEA AND TOLD DRE HE SHOULD DO IT NOW JIMMY GETS A LARGE PART OF THE SALES OF THE HEADPHONES??? WHY? CUZ HE’S THE CEO? HE IS RAPING THESE NIGGAS AND THEY DONT CARE CUZ THEY DEALING WITH MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BUT ONCE THOES MILLIONS RUN OUT,YOU GON SEE THEM BROKE,ALL OUT ON THE STREETS SAYING HOW UNFAIR THE INDUSTRY IS WHILE JIMMY IS A BILLIONAIRE STILL MAKING MONEY OFF OF BROKE RAPPERS OR DEAD RAPPERS LIKE TUPAC.