Ice Cube has now shipped gold

[d-nice]

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?f=The+Billboard+200&pageNumber=Top+51-100&g=Albums

1st 40 water now Cube. 2nd half of 06 is shaping up to be nice for the west

[westkoastanostra]

 

[suckaa free]

congrats to cube.

west= 

[rik]

nice

[wcsoldier]

it's deserved, that's a dope album 

[Intriago33]

Congrats Cube, you got my contribution.

[Brazemac]

 

[HD]

 

[djkoast]

Props to Cube...there is in arcitle in Forbes or one of those business magazines that has a whole piece about Cube and this album.  Basically they are talking about how big of a power move it was for Cube to rls this album independently and how he is making twice as much money as anyone in the industry right now.

Honestly tho, cool on the gold plaque but fukka soundscan.....this album is great start to finish regardless if it sold 1 album or 100,000,000!  Thats real talk.  The fact he said fuck a major deal and went independent to still move 500,000 should be applauded.  That is a huge power move.

[Darksider]

nice

[d-nice]

Cube has definitely shown the hip hop industry how you gotta handle your business. Alot of these artists are going on a label like Koch and are not working it to their advantage. Granted most rappers do not have the financial bank that Cube has but you gotta advertise and promote, not just throw a date out there and hope is sells. Cube was promoting the album for 8 months. 

[Turf Hitta]

Thats good for Cube. But I think a lot of you who are saying independent is the way too go are being a little short sighted. An artist can make more money per unit independent but wont get hardly anything for shows and wont be doing many shows. An artist on a major who makes much less per unit but sells way more units will have a larger fan base, get waaaaayy more money for shows, and will be doing way more shows than an indie artist. Look at it like this:

Indie artist - 100,000 units (highly successful for an indie release) x $5 per unit =$500,000


+ 10 shows at 5,000 a show = $50,000

grand total - $550,000


major artist 2,000,000 units x .40 a unit = $800,000

plus 20 shows at $20,000 a show = $400,000

grand total = $1,200,000

[d-nice]

^^^Well said. Indie is not for everyone and you have got to get your hustle on for promoting.

[Dog The Bounty Hunter]

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