SoundScan Weekly Sales 4/3/07
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Heist said:
Real Talk these are sales just for the damn WEEK and niggas are coming on here laughing and hating.
Bigmario23 said:-- 4 MIMS CAPITOL 73,822 --
"This is why he cold"
"This is why he cold"
Nigga can't even reach 100 thousand sold !!!
73K is not cold bruh. Mims is an young Urban act. Limited audience and exposure. For his first week out with a luke-warm single, this actually isn't bad at all. I mean, everyone talks big shit in the media and on a record. No one is going say "Oh, yeah, I'm probably going to sell 50K out the gate...I've got a limited budget and a weak video - now buy my record."
If his second release is a hit, he can easily double this number.
Dudes need to get realistic here. 73K the first week is not a flop for a new artist breaking major.
Heist said:
c/s
Heist said:
Whatever. Sounds like excuses to me. He had the number 1 single in the country. You tell me if 50Cent had In Da Club and only went 73,000 records in his first week that he would be considered a success.
HELL YEAH IF YOU COUNTED THE BOOTLEGED SHIT THESE NIGGAS WOULD BE GOING 10 TIME S PLAT. THE RECORD COMPANIES NEED TO DROP THE PRICE OF CD TO LIKE 4-5 DOLLARS TO KEEP UP.SaKem said:
D-TOWN REP said:I don't think Flip is going plat this timehe had a good run of platinum albums though and no nigga in TX can compete with that. People should really go out and buy that Devin mayne this shit is ridiculous
THANK YOU !!!!! DEVIN IS REDICULOUS Go Get That Album and Keep Hip Hop on the respirator!!!!!!
forcesteeler said:
Are you kidding me. 50 had Em/Dre personally calling in favors and arranging media push along with Interscope.
50 is only as big as he is because he had a SICK budget out the gate. He spent his way to fame, and the bet paid off.
Look at the back of his albums ... it's like a NASCAR with all the label sponsor stickers...Interscope/BMG, Shady, Aftermath.
I mean, in the end, that's really all 99% of the music business is. One giant hedged bet. Only once in a blue moon do you come across talent that can sell itself.
For some reason, Clive Davis and Quincy Jones always have a penchant for picking this kind of talent out.
Blunt said:
New day in business...hot single does not = big album sales. Why buy the album and invest in a new artists when you got wanted for 99 cents.
Basically, the entire music business is going back to 1950 were singles ruled the day and there was no such thing as an album (and I know the guy who invented the format, Lee Abrams).
It's a good thing though for us. For too long artists were making 4 great songs and then throwing in a bunch of bullshit for 6-8 tracks to meet their contract commitment. Kind of like writing a book with a few good chapters and the rest is crap.
Now artists, if you want to sell and album, they have to put together AN ALBUM. A solid collection of music that listenable from beginning to end.
whatever, nigga, Devin sucks ass
puertorock2005 said:
Go listen to your Mims CD and then go play in traffic
What Akon is doing is very impressive to me. that nigga has been basically in the top 5 for 3 straight months. nobody has done that in a while. u see people like Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Nora Jones doing 1 month tops in top 5 very impressive
Heist said:
All I said was that the single wasn't "lukewarm" It was a "hot" #1. I also said that it was heavily downloaded so there wouldn't likely be any great need to buy the album, at least not until after a few more hits had popped out.
"Singles" actually ruled into the late '60s until the "concept album" took off. Albums before that were usually a collection of hits and bland filler, though there were still some classic ones from that time anyway.
"Cassette singles" came back a bit in the '80s and into early '90s (when record companies lowered the priced to $.99). But then cassettes disappeared. And then the CD single pretty much failed in the mid-'90s, which only left the CD album for folks to buy and that's why sales of CDs went through the roof in the late-'90s and peaked at an all-time high in 2000 and has gradually declined since (thanks to the internet).
That was more true, as I said earlier, before the late '60s. Since then artists have generally taken their albums more seriously, with certain exceptions for lighter or "singles" acts. If anything, with all the single downloading now, artists are MORE likely to just put out hits collections since less folks are taking CDs to heart. Singles tend to kill serious albums. The cycle will come back around again eventually. Always does.
Unfortunately, what also happened with CDs was that since there was so much available space on the disc certain artists felt the need to fill it all up. Overlong CDs, even by great artists, tend to annoy consumers, even though they can program their player to just play what they like. There was never a need for a 75-minute Janet Jackson album, with lame spoken interludes, when a tight 50-minute one (which would actually be longish for an old LP or cassette) would've done the trick as well or better. She's just one example of an artist who went hogwild with disc space. Anyway, that kinda stuff has also contributed to the decline of CDs sales, along with, of course, the availabilty of downloadable singles and file sharing. Nonetheless, CDs still sell 10M units a week and aren't gonna disappear (lots of under-20s and over-40s still buy CDs).
There are always gonna be changes in how music is delivered, but the music itself will never stop.
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