Kid Cudi projected to sell 110-120K, Drake 55-60K

[Blood$]

http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=57601

The projections are in and XXL Freshman alumnus Kid Cudi is ahead of the class.

Industry inside source hitsdailydouble.com has the Cleveland native’s Universal Motown debut, Man on the Moon: The End of Day, at around 110-120,000 in sales for his first week based off of one-day sales figures.

Cudder’s Motown label mate Drake also has an impressive first week numbers. HitsDailyDouble has the Toronto upstart set for a 55-60K debut with the retail version of his critically-acclaimed mixtape So Far Gone. Lil Boosie is projected to sell 24-50K with his new album Superbad and Trick Daddy’s Finally Famous LP is estimated to move about 12,000 units on next week’s Nielsen SoundScan report.

Over the past couple of days, Cudi has showed up onstage alongside Jay-Z at the rap superstar’s 9-11 benefit show, as a musical guest on Late Night with David Letterman and performed at the MTV Video Music Awards.

XXLMag.com asked the Cleveland rookie how he feels these looks are gonna help his album. “I think it’s gonna make a lot of people more aware,” he said. “I think it’s gonna make a lot of people a lot more interested because in these last couple of days like you said, each of those moments has been different demographics, the Jay-Z was definitely a hip-hop show, and later on seeing me on David Letterman, which is a very mainstream show, you know you don’t see a lot of hip-hop artists on a Letterman type show, so each thing I did was very monumental.”

Stay tuned to XXLMag.com as the official Nielsen SoundScan sales report will be released on Wednesday, September 23. –Max G

[Blood$]

not bad numbers for Boosie either... his last album did like 40K first week if I recall correctly, and Trick I expected about that much lol

[Chamillitary Click]

decent numbers from Cudi, i expected more out of him; Day & Night was huge.

Drake's shit doesn't really count, i'm kind of surprised it sold that many, because wasn't it avaliable for free download for the longest time?

[westside159]

Drake is garbage ..

[RingMan]

Chamillitary Click: two songs are new, rest is on the free mixtape

[Chamillitary Click]

Chamillitary Click: two songs are new, rest is on the free mixtape

lol, who would spend money on that then?

but, shows he has a strong fanbase; his real album's numbers will be impressive.

[Jaydc555]

I bet anything 85 percent of the people that bought both cudis and drakes album were white girls under the age of 20.

[StevenQBosell]

I bet anything 85 percent of the people that bought both cudis and drakes album were white girls under the age of 20.

Aint that the truth

[Detox Iz Not Active]

that's way more then I expected for cudi to be honest, glad he's pushing good numbers

[AnybodyKilla]

Damn, i thought Cudi would of sold less then that, i was thinking around 50k, good shit!!!

[Detox Iz Not Active]

I bet anything 85 percent of the people that bought both cudis and drakes album were white girls under the age of 20.

it's bitches like you who make hip hop seem like a joke 90% of the time

[Reventón Bogotá Rolla]

glad cudi sold decent !!

[GangstaBoogy]

Drake's shit doesn't really count, i'm kind of surprised it sold that many, because wasn't it avaliable for free download for the longest time?

Yeah I'm shocked it sold that much too. The mixtape has been up for free since like January

[Jaydc555]

I bet anything 85 percent of the people that bought both cudis and drakes album were white girls under the age of 20.

it's bitches like you who make hip hop seem like a joke 90% of the time

No its people like you that do,.Your favorite artist is snoop a guy who fell off over 15 years ago.And dont get mad because its the fucking truth.

[Detox Iz Not Active]

I bet anything 85 percent of the people that bought both cudis and drakes album were white girls under the age of 20.

it's bitches like you who make hip hop seem like a joke 90% of the time

No its people like you that do,.Your favorite artist is snoop a guy who fell off over 15 years ago.And dont get mad because its the fucking truth.

yeah, Snoop fell off so bad on his last album he had the #7 song on billboard