The Numbers Are In...GoodBye 50 Cent!!!

[synyster]

Kanye thrashes 50 Cent in first-day sales race

By Geoff Mayfield
Wed Sep 12, 4:01 PM ET



LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Kanye West looks set to win the closely watched duel with rival rapper 50 Cent for the No. 1 slot on next week's U.S. pop album chart, according to preliminary sales data issued Wednesday.

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West's "Graduation" sold an estimated 437,000 copies during its first day of release Tuesday, ahead of 310,000 for 50 Cent's "Curtis" and 107,000 for country star Kenny Chesney's "Just Who I Am: Poets and Pirates," according to a new "Building Chart" devised by tracking firm Nielsen SoundScan.

The Building Chart gives an early look at how the race is shaping up for SoundScan's final charts, which post projected national sales each Wednesday morning, extrapolated from a panel of merchants representing more than 90% of the U.S. music market.

Some pundits project West will surpass 750,000 copies for the week, breaking the 2007 record of 623,000 copies held by rock band Linkin Park's "Minutes to Midnight." But West did better with his last album, 2005's "Late Registration," which debuted with 860,000 copies. 50 Cent also will fall far short of the 1.1 million start for his last album, 2005's "The Massacre."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070912/music_nm/kanyewest_dc

 

[LSN]

50 already had his excuse lined up remember...?...let's wait and see what happens in week 2...

 

[Jagi]

50 already had his excuse lined up remember...?...let's wait and see what happens in week 2...

agreed with that statement

the kanye hype is getting out of hand

there is a dude at my job who is trying to break into the media writer world

and his biggest topic last week was prediction of sales

but then this dude threw me for a loop, mind you there were a bunch of female interns in the room etc co signing and getting excited about kanye

then i had to leave the room when the guy said........


"kanye is an amazing MC, i'm going on the record to say that he might be as good if not better than Jay Z"


i raised an eyebrow, shook my head, told him he stupid and walked out the room and went back to work

 

[LSN]

..."kanye is an amazing MC, i'm going on the record to say that he might be as good if not better than Jay Z"...

Yo slap season is in...next time a nigga says something that stupid you have the right to slap them...police won't even press charges...don't quote me on that if you get locked up...dumbest shit I heard...I'm not a huge Jay-Z fan cause I think he suffered from overkill around the height of his career...but I can't deny that he is a for real MC...Kanye is not...he's a fukkin producer in a dumb downed era of MCs...

 

[bionicbrown]

Yo slap season is in...next time a nigga says something that stupid you have the right to slap them...police won't even press charges...don't quote me on that if you get locked up...dumbest shit I heard...I'm not a huge Jay-Z fan cause I think he suffered from overkill around the height of his career...but I can't deny that he is a for real MC...Kanye is not...he's a fukkin producer in a dumb downed era of MCs...

It would be funny as hell if Leroy Soup Nutz is the "dude at his job who is trying to break into the media writer world"

Leroy would go in tomorrow talkin up Kanye, thinkin "I wish a muthafucka WOULD slap me!!"

 

[freaky_1]

kanye is an amazing MC, i'm going on the record to say that he might be as good if not better than Jay Z

I said it, what?

 

[BDR]

Damn B this fanboy shit is crazy. Shit is only the 1st day and ninjas getting super moist

 

[Tazirai]

"kanye is an amazing MC, i'm going on the record to say that he might be as good if not better than Jay Z"


i raised an eyebrow, shook my head, told him he stupid and walked out the room and went back to work

Shold aslapped that fool. Kanye is a Good producer with crazy ideas and production values. Thats it. Still like his CD better than 50's

 

[Jagi]

It would be funny as hell if Leroy Soup Nutz is the "dude at his job who is trying to break into the media writer world"

Leroy would go in tomorrow talkin up Kanye, thinkin "I wish a muthafucka WOULD slap me!!"

i always wonder who in the building and area i work in frequents bgol

i swear there is a dude where i work, who does lighting or something like that, nothing fancy, i really mean lighting, changing the light bulbs in the lobby and hallways that looks just like the pikestreet pic used here

every now and then while switching elevators i see him and want to yell out



"PIKESTREEEEET"

 

[sludem]

im not taking no sides but what 50 said is true lets see how the sales look a week from now or at the end of the month we seen niggas sell 700,000 first week then the next do 90,000. and those are just us sales for both albums what about the rest of the world.lets wait for sound scan next week hope they both do good niggas making money cant hate on that

 

[LennyNero1972]

Damn no wonder so much faggotry runs amok in the black community. The niggz is practlcally lubed up and ass cheeks spread for these rappers. Fuck all these moist ass groupie nuccas

 

[Calhoun Tubbs]

Yo slap season is in...next time a nigga says something that stupid you have the right to slap them...police won't even press charges...don't quote me on that if you get locked up...dumbest shit I heard...I'm not a huge Jay-Z fan cause I think he suffered from overkill around the height of his career...but I can't deny that he is a for real MC...Kanye is not...he's a fukkin producer in a dumb downed era of MCs...

not to go off topic or anything, but I was looking for a pic from smackfest to support ur post and came across this shit!

u can see the wire going in it, so u know that shit actually spins!

 

[Varis]

all this really means is that Kanye has fans willing to buy his stuff and 50 has fans willing to bootleg his stuff

 

[Blunt]

This is kinda silly. If 50 Cent only moves 600,000 units (which he's on a pace for) then he's still right there with Linkin Park for the year's best first week total (pre-Kanye). Nothin' wrong with that for an artist whose time has clearly long-since past. I expected much worse from him (like 150-200,000 for the week).

 

[yungpipeslinga87]

This is kinda silly. If 50 Cent only moves 600,000 units (which he's on a pace for) then he's still right there with Linkin Park for the year's best first week total (pre-Kanye). Nothin' wrong with that for an artist whose time has clearly long-since past. I expected much worse from him (like 150-200,000 for the week).

cosign

 

[RoyalKing718]

TO BE HONEST. IT DOESNT MATTER. 50 cent WILL NOT RETIRE, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS. PEOPLE SEEM TO FORGET THAT HE HAS A 5 RECORD DEAL. AND HE ALREADY HAS AN ALBUM FULLY MADE OR CLOSE TO BEING FINISH, "BEFORE I SELF DESTRUCT". HE HAS TO MEET HIS ALBUM REQUIREMENT AND HE HAS TO RELEASE BEFOE I SELF DESTRUCT. IN FACT HE ALREADY ANNOUNCED THAT HE WILL RELEASE IT IN FEBRUARY, ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF "Get Rich or Die trying". GET REAL PEOPLE.

STOP BUYING INTO THE HYPE. THIS WAS ALL A PUBICITY STUNT TO RAISE ALBUM SALES.

 

[trumacadocious]

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STOP BUYING INTO THE HYPE. THIS WAS ALL A PUBICITY STUNT TO RAISE ALBUM SALES.

Yup. And it worked. Like a charm.

Don't worry fools. 50 and his nigggarish albums will be with us for years to come.

 

[Dallas Bueller]

***blah blah blah***

I don't think people would have made a big deal about it if 50 had just kept his fucking mouth shut with all of those retarded proclamations about retiring if Kanye outsells him the first week and such. I thought this cat was a follower of The 48 Laws of Power?

Law 4: “Always Say Less than Necessary: When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control.†Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less.†The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.”

 

[keone]

Yo slap season is in...next time a nigga says something that stupid you have the right to slap them...police won't even press charges...don't quote me on that if you get locked up...dumbest shit I heard...I'm not a huge Jay-Z fan cause I think he suffered from overkill around the height of his career...but I can't deny that he is a for real MC...Kanye is not...he's a fukkin producer in a dumb downed era of MCs...

but really we should wait and see fifty told that would happened that kanye would sell about 700 cause of def jam if you look at it closely jay sold that too first week so next week we will see.

and i want to see worldwide sold copys to i heard fifty sold a million here in my country dont know about kanye maybe he did the same

 

[380snubnose]

the masses have spoken

 

[JerZ]

I wonder what the international numbers are going to be. A lot of the foreigners swear by 50s music.

 

[JCharades]

can we all just wait til next tuesday....ya kno when the first weeks sales are done....

Both cd's are enjoyable and i really dont care...

A lot of ya just forgot about 9/11 and what it meant....Another reason hip-hop is dead...











PS: GO! Kanye

 

[oldschoolkat]

Yay!!!!

 

[slam]

Yay!!!!

 

[smiffnwessun]

fuck kanye

 

[dkrismoneymaker1]

Bye Bye 50!!!

 

[TAYLORMADE]

REALLY.......WHO CARES ??

 

[DANGEROUSBLACKMAN]

Kanye Should Be In The Lead, I Still Don't Understand Who In The Hell Purchased The Curtis Album People Spend Money On That Shit I Would Never Support 50 Cent lol.

The Funny Thing Is 50 Cent Still Sells More Then An Average Rap Album Even If His Album Is Garbage.

 

[LADYTEE]

Yup. And it worked. Like a charm.

Don't worry fools. 50 and his nigggarish albums will be with us for years to come.

 

[FIVEFIVE]

I don't think people would have made a big deal about it if 50 had just kept his fucking mouth shut with all of those retarded proclamations about retiring if Kanye outsells him the first week and such. I thought this cat was a follower of The 48 Laws of Power?

Law 4: “Always Say Less than Necessary: When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control.†Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less.†The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.”

He went with "Court Attention At All Costs".

 

[furlough]

kanye is an amazing MC...
I said it, what?

You are joking right?

 

[ScottyPiffen745]

This has to be the record for most BGOL threads with "50 Cent" in the title within the last two weeks. I know the nigga album dropped but damn.

 

[GOLDIE]

The classy have won

 

[gatorthaking]

i really like both artist. but i want 50 to win-------im just not feeling them gucchi man bags kanye be having. niggas might think thats ok in the hood.
this is a good week for hiphop. everyone talks about this shit all day.when is the next time hiphop is going to get all this press, oh yeah the next time 50 come out

 

[DreDee]

man 50cent was bullshitting with that whole "I'll quit if he sales more" stuff. He ain't go no where, if anything we'll see more of his sorry ass.



And please NO MORE 50 vs Kanye threads.....