Last week, Nielsen SoundScan reported that weekly album sales reached an all-time low of 5.3 million sales, a number unmatched since Nielsen first began analyzing sales in 1991.
At the top of Billboard’s charts was Justin Bieber’s My World 2.0 with 60,000 sales, beating out the 2007 soundtrack to Dreamgirls as the lowest selling number one album by only 300 copies. Following behind Bieber was country trio Lady Antebellum’s Need You Now with 54,000 units sold and rock group the National’s new release High Violet with 51,000 units sold.
Despite the low numbers, Nielsen Entertainment president Eric Weinberg remains confident sales will pick up during the summer. With the past week yielding few popular album releases, Weinberg says that the coming weeks promise a number of highly anticipated releases.
“While there’s a lot of talk of declining album sales, a number of highly anticipated albums are scheduled for release in the next few months and we expect sales to trend upward,” he said.
this is great news to me. “that shit was the worst/ rhyme I ever heard in my life/ cause the greatest rapper of all time died on march 9th”
Lol cannibus Round 2. Btw, cannibus ate LL up on that track
TIMES IS HARD SON NIGGAS IS GOIN DOUBLE PLASTIC N SHIT. EATIN FLAKES WITH NO MILK NIGGAS IS REAL BROKE. AND I KNOW YALL NIGGAS POSTIN ON HERE BROKE AS HELL TOO. SHIT, GET YO GRIND ON AND HUSSLE SOME OF DAT GOVAMENT CHEESE. IM DA BLACK CHUCKY CHEESE IN THIS MUHFUCKA TAKIN ERBODY SHIT. IMA STEAL YO SHIT TOO SON.
lol
Well, thank you for at least having the courtesy for telling me you’re going to rob me beforehand. That’s very kind of you.
NO PROBLEMS NIGGA THATS THE WAY I ARE. I WAS BUILT LIKE DAT. GOD MADE ME THAT WAY. WHATCHU KNOW BOUT DIVINE INTAVENTIONZ, NUGGGUUUUUUHHH???
well this is encouraging news…
well this is no surprise
there’s no new gucci
gucci gon save the rap game for the THIRD FUCKIN TIME this year
so chill on all this bullshit
Ha haha ha ha haaaa ah shit what you smokin nigga?!
I second ganjarelli….whatever he smoking, I don’t want it if it’ll have me thinking some bullshit like what BRRRR put on here.
Nigga listen gucci ain’t savin no hip hop he ain’t savin shit! That nigga bearly made past 200thou and you say the reason there’s low sales is becuz of cuuchi mane fuck outa here with that bullshit!!!! It’s coons like him that make sales so fucking low!! Burrrrrrr to that niiiiiiggggggaaaaaaa!!!!!!
people arent buying cds, their downloading them online from places, like amazon, itunes, etc. the music is still selling numbers, Nielsen SoundScan arent reporting the rite units that are moving and thats digital!!!
That’s a popular misconception homie, SoundScan does indeed track Amazon mp3 sales as well iTunes.
get the fuck outta here…just cuz that lil wigga is putting out wack ass album soon everybody got to be talking about low sales…
nigga if the dude can’t sell just leave him alone stop making excuses for his bitch ass,he can’t compete lil wayne! so it’s because of sales god damn…
this recovery shit will flop like a motherfucker,niggaz don’t wanna buy that childish shit,there’s no g stuffs in it..why do u want it to sell when it can’t\won’t fucking sell…
let’s see if this recovery shit could sell 100k first week,C3 will make a fool out of this new wack shit just like it did on relapse…
lil wayne! is da greatest of all da time fuck haters
Handdyyyyy ur a fuckin bone head if you think recovery’s only gonna sell 100k. U just wait and see homie…
hahahahaha lil wayne….BAHAHAHAHAHAHAA ur a fukin joke, fuck you, AND ur opinion
your fuckin lame, eminems fan base is the same size or even bigger then waynes, eminem is back on his shit and bringin in a new type of audiance, so he is gonna pass waynes sales, cuz tha carter 3 is gonna be but compared to recovery. Eminem is the best don’t hate on him cuz he is white. he has TRUE skill, not just punch lines
again, what the fuck is with the warring fanbases? can you not like wayne and em? i don’t fucking get it? i love them both, some of my favorite rappers right there all of you stop the hate. and recovery is def gonna sell alot more then 100k just like waynes next album. stop hating and learn to love good music u troll fucks
Handy how long will you keep annoying people with your bullshit about Wayne? I mean dude your starting to sound like you might be gay for this nigga.
Soundscan is wack. The new ILLUS album- Feel Good Music sold 230,000 copies already and it has only been out a couple of months…no airplay, no major label, just touring, hardwork, blood and sweat and great music. But they don’t report real sales like that so dude doesn’t get his props. But Illus is killing it out there and his new album is going to be even better.
Recovery will go gold in a week
yep
the recording industry is so dead
the recording industry is so dead
It’s true they dont account for online sales
yes they do.
Em will go gold the first week…recovery might be dope…probably wont be…but i’m hoping it is…first single is decent…compared to his last 5 years in the game…it’s his best…not saying much though…album sales will rise when MATERIAL and CLASSIC ALBUMS/WORKS OF ART drop…not a couple hot tracks and filler with no REAL concept or attention to feel and emotion.
That’s kind of surprising considering all of the dope shit that dropped last week.
I really thought Distant Relatives was going to debut @ #1.
People suck.
distant relatives will be on the charts this week, it was realeased last week
there no good albums out there just singles. and if some do drop a good album they might have a E1 deal.
GREAT NEWS!
the record industry doesn’t support me or any of you so I don’t know why you support them.
numbers are so low there gonna soon to decide to stop reporting the record sales
Even in a recession, the film industry has made billions so far in 2010. You just have to give people a reason to go out and buy albums again. Stop delaying release dates, and promote key albums. If they do this, then downloading won’t matter. Don’t give into lazy people who are too cheap to part with ten bucks.
On release day or even even weeks before you can get leaked music for free that’s the same quality as the retail release.
Same isn’t true for films. On day one all you’ll find is a shitty cam or ts version of the film or if you’re very lucky maybe a dvd screener during oscar season. So you have to go the theater if you want to see it in good quality. Either that or wait months for a dvdrip. Plus movies have much larger file sizes than albums. The film industry will be in trouble once the avg internet speeds in the US start to increase,
By the way did you like my role(s) in the movie Precious?
Damn people need to get out and start coppin albums cuz if this shit keeps up niggas gone be selling double grass.
Wh gives a fuck.
yo hiby you fuckin greedy selfish faggot i give a fuck. cause i actually have respect for the craft and art and essence that truly is hip hop. not the bullshit you probably listen to. you realize the only reason your favorite rappers can talk about their faggot ice is because they got kids out there still barely supportin em. i for one don’t want my favorite artists to ever quit. especially if its because fucks (like you) were too greedy to buy they shit and they just staying in they houses snatching album after album off the net, you herb. i love all kinds of hip hop and what it stands for, it is the purest sound to me, i know i will be listening to this when i am in my fifties plus. it’s fucked up, i constantly break my bank keeping, up wih and supporting the underground camps like AOTp, Psycho+logical-/uncle howie, duck down, fat beats records releases are pretty good, maldib, oh no, stonesthrow records, old school releases i slept on, producer albums, j-zone count bass d, pete rock, large professor, j dilla, etc. way too much to list here, thast was a quick glance at my collection. go anywhere any time any period in hip hop an i gotcha. i love this shit, its the reason i spent thousands and thousands on music for a wall of cds.
BTW last week was a huge release week for me, i copped Necro, Reflection Eternal, OJ Simpson, Styles P and Bizarre (lol for real tho’)
Well I read Distant relatives is expected to sell like 50K on the first week…Even if they don’t have any single on radios and a poor promotion they deserve to sell more than that…From the comments I’ve seen about this album on internet I thought they were going to do good numbers…It seems there are a lot of people liking this album but nobody’s buying it. Hopefully, here in Europe we have a lot of respect 4 Nas and Damian and they’re going to sell more than in the US..I’m going to see dem with NNeka at the summerjam in Germany, shit’s gonna be tight..I just hope people arround the world gonna give this album the praise it deserves and buy it…Peace!
dont none of these rappers personally know who your are..these rappers aint payin my bills..we paying them for them to live there life..fuck them lol..download the shyt, pop in the whip, and act like u bought it! simple
I bootleg everything except for Nas
CUZ EVERY ALBUM SUX. SH*T SOUND STALE. BEATS IS COMPUTERIZED SOUND CHEEZY/ RAPPERS HAVE NO FLOW/FLAVA/CONTENT WHATEVA YOU GO BY.