It's May 25, 2024, 07:17:16 AM
Eminem's last project "Artist: Eminem Album: Presents The ReUp" Flopped. It had _ONE_ video. _With_ 50 Cent on it. If you aren't a total head you would think this was an Em album. That's how it was marketed and promoted as, if not an Em and 50 Collab album.
Quote from: The-Leak aka Kingwell on May 25, 2007, 08:12:50 PMEminem's last project "Artist: Eminem Album: Presents The ReUp" Flopped. It had _ONE_ video. _With_ 50 Cent on it. If you aren't a total head you would think this was an Em album. That's how it was marketed and promoted as, if not an Em and 50 Collab album.It flopped? It went platinum in the US with one video. And it was cheap to make that album. How many hip-hop albums go plat in a year? 10? Maybe?Anyway, it was a mixtape, that went plat. And it was a pretty bad albums anyways.But I agree that Interscope is a shitty label. They got some of the biggest acts in music, and they fuck up almost every release.
And it was Eminem, not 50, who said they didnt even went to the radios and tvs and shit like that to promote the project, they just did it for the streets. They couldve easilly had 1 or 2 more vids but sales clearly wasnt the gold here. And GRODT Ost went 1.5 plat.
I gotta agree with the king here. The Re-up was a pretty big success in my eyes. I also thought this umm...SUCKED, but it did some really good #s, especially off of 1 video. And it wasn't even much of a radio friendly single either. And like the king said, the budget was probably extremely low, besides the dre beats.
A MAJOR BIG FIGURE INVOLVED IN THE MARKETING, PROMOTION AND EVERYONE TO DO WITH BIG INTERSCOPE RELEASES (Especially GTODT) LEFT AWHILE AGO AND WENT TO WARNER BROS AND IS NOW FOCUSED ON PRIMING THEIR ASYLUM RECORDS DIVISION.
Man that album is not a mixtape. I think artists use that as a crutch. If it is sells then oh I did great numbers off of a mixtape. If it doesn't then it was just a mixtape and I wanted to put it out there, its not the real album. LOL! If it is for "promotional use only", give the shit away like what Crazy Toones and Bishop Lamont did.
In today's market it did good numbers. That was on Em and Interscope if they wanted to do a 2nd single, which if you are setting up your new artists and you want people to hear them, it would make sense to have a single or video showcasing them (Booby Creek, Stat-Quo, etc). But it moved units not because of 50, but because Eminem was behind it, people wanted to see if he still had it, and because there was a unreleased Proof verse on there. That is all the promo you need.