Chronic Re-Lit sales? any info on it?

[RugeSeven]

Dr Dre need's to die so he can top MJ

On point lol!

Anyways, it would be interesting to compare Re-Lit's sales vs say.. "2Pac: Nu Mixx Klassics" which got bashed heavily.

[Dre-Day]

imo it was a horrible idea to start off with Death Row's flagship release.  They should have just left it alone, started off with something else.

but there isn't much left.
they have Snoop Dogg & 2pac, but it's not like they'll go diamond with it

[RugeSeven]

imo it was a horrible idea to start off with Death Row's flagship release.  They should have just left it alone, started off with something else.

but there isn't much left.
they have Snoop Dogg & 2pac, but it's not like they'll go diamond with it

Yeah its a tough situation, especially if you got no artists or videos to backup your releases. I mean, how are the general public gonna get into Death Row 1999-2004 releases if they have no idea who the artists really are (I mean, the non-diehardss who still buy hip hop records). This project was kinda fail to begin with... as mentioned earlier, what would compel someone to buy a re-released version of the Chronic if most fans own it. I believe new fans would rather purchase the OG version (if possible) or even the Death Row UK remastered versions with the OG graphics.

Even while owning material that could sell (Snoop leftovers, and the whole Death Row camp in the 90s), you deserve to fail if you can't market such hot material right.

[love33]

imo it was a horrible idea to start off with Death Row's flagship release.  They should have just left it alone, started off with something else.

but there isn't much left.
they have Snoop Dogg & 2pac, but it's not like they'll go diamond with it

I agree, also add N.I.N.A. to that but the longer they don't release the material the more it loses value.  Looking back, Suge didn't do such a bad job when he sold 300k with Dogg Pound "2002" and 200k with Too Gangsta For Radio.  This is why Dre didn't buy the material when he could have.  Dre knows his legacy is cemented with that album whether or not he goes to the grave with the publishing rights.  He also knows it already ran its course and no magic touch is gonna make 'The Chronic' sell another million albums, especially when most can just download "Nuthin But a G Thang" and "Dre Day."

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[The "Untouchable" DJR]

Hahaha that's what you get when getting involved in something you shouldn't Lara!

[MIC]

Hahaha that's what you get when getting involved in something you shouldn't Lara!

You go bankrupt like Suge?
 

[Dre-Day]

Hahaha that's what you get when getting involved in something you shouldn't Lara!

lol, if you believe in karma, then you shouldn't be kissing Suge's ass

[Davizz]

How many people did you expect to buy a product like this? It's 2009 nobody buys CD's anymore (they're vintage, lol). It's only for the true fans and being die hard fans they already have a copy of "The Chronic". So this re-re-release it's only for people who can understand and appreciate the quality of a re-remastered version.
Snoop Dogg will do better number but nothin' more than 10K first week.

[Klue]

aint ont the list :

 HITS & SoundScan Top Albums (September 8-September 14, 2009)
NOW IN: 54.02%



LW TW artist / album label power index
-- 1 WHITNEY HOUSTON ARISTA/RMG 266,314
I LOOK TO YOU
2 2 MILEY CYRUS HOLLYWOOD 137,248
TIMES OF OUR LIVES
-- 3 TREY SONGZ ATLANTIC 89,022
READY
4 4 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 43,437
NUMBER ONES
1 5 COLBIE CAILLAT UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 26,379
BREAKTHROUGH
10 6 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 25,311
FEARLESS
12 7 HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE WALT DISNEY 23,312
SOUNDTRACK
18 8 ZAC BROWN BAND ATLANTIC 22,850
FOUNDATION
-- 9 PITBULL J RECORDS/RMG 22,820
REBELUTION
5 10 KINGS OF LEON RCA/RMG 22,099
ONLY BY THE NIGHT
8 11 GEORGE STRAIT MCA NASHVILLE 21,891
TWANG
9 12 BLACK EYED PEAS INTERSCOPE 21,567
E.N.D. (ENERGY NEVER DIES)
11 13 NOW COUNTRY 2 SONY MUSIC 21,103
VARIOUS ARTISTS
16 14 NOW 31 SONY MUSIC 20,995
VARIOUS ARTISTS
7 15 REBA MCENTIRE VALORY 20,973
KEEP ON LOVING YOU
17 16 MAXWELL COLUMBIA 19,251
BLACKSUMMERS'NIGHT
-- 17 CHEVELLE EPIC 18,942
SCI-FI CRIMES
24 18 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 18,158
WIDE OPEN
14 19 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 18,023
ESSENTIAL
13 20 DAUGHTRY 19/RCA/RMG 15,281
LEAVE THIS TOWN
20 21 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 13,404
THRILLER
35 22 DARIUS RUCKER CAPITOL NASHVILLE 12,315
LEARN TO LIVE
31 23 NEIL DIAMOND COLUMBIA 11,926
HOT AUGUST NIGHT/NYC
25 24 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 11,215
FAME
45 25 SUGARLAND MERCURY NASHVILLE 10,510
LOVE ON THE INSIDE
34 26 NICKELBACK ROADRUNNER 10,507
DARK HORSE
27 27 HANNAH MONTANA 3 WALT DISNEY 10,449
SOUNDTRACK
-- 28 BLACK CROWES SILVER ARROW 10,217
BEFORE THE FROST... UNTIL THE F
41 29 SUGARLAND MERCURY NASHVILLE 9,926
LIVE ON THE INSIDE
44 30 LADY ANTEBELLUM CAPITOL NASHVILLE 9,826
LADY ANTEBELLUM
43 31 WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE WALT DISNEY 9,409
SOUNDTRACK
42 32 SHINEDOWN ATLANTIC 9,330
SOUND OF MADNESS
-- 33 MICHAEL JACKSON MOTOWN 9,129
DEFINITIVE COLLECTION
40 34 JUSTIN MOORE VALORY 9,113
JUSTIN MOORE
15 35 LETOYA CAPITOL 9,102
LADY LOVE
-- 36 INSANE CLOWN POSSE PSYCHOPATHIC 8,620
BANG! POW! BOOM!
-- 37 THE USED REPRISE 8,441
ARTWORK
37 38 DEMI LOVATO HOLLYWOOD 8,435
HERE WE GO AGAIN
49 39 KEITH URBAN CAPITOL NASHVILLE 8,267
DEFYING GRAVITY
-- 40 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 8,190
TAYLOR SWIFT
21 41 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 7,959
BAD
-- 42 KENNY CHESNEY BNA/RCA NASHVILLE 7,702
GREATEST HITS II
32 43 EMINEM SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT 7,680
RELAPSE
38 44 KIDZ BOP KIDS RAZOR & TIE 7,551
KIDZ BOP 16
30 45 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 7,545
DANGEROUS
-- 46 BRAD PAISLEY ARISTA NASHVILLE 7,013
AMERICAN SATURDAY NIGHT
-- 47 BEYONCE COLUMBIA 6,691
I AM... SASHA FIERCE
33 48 FABOLOUS DEF JAM/IDJ 6,550
LOSO'S WAY
-- 49 GLORIANA ATLANTIC 6,439
GLORIANA
47 50 LEDISI VERVE 6,412
TURN ME LOOSE

[UCC]

First off, they don't get paid by the radio stations to play old Death Row singles, when the radio plays the single, it benefits the record label so they send them singles and hope the radio will play it.  

You get paid royalties every time your song is played on the radio, regardless of whether you had to send the actual copy to them free to try to get them to play it. And you get royalties when it's used in movies, video games, tv shows, etc - they have a lot of classics in the catalog, so they'll get a reasonable amount steadily just from that

[3331]

i find it funny dre rejected michael jackson a man whos got 5 albums steady doing over 2-3x what a new version of chronic is.

[Dre-Day]

i find it funny dre rejected michael jackson a man whos got 5 albums steady doing over 2-3x what a new version of chronic is.

i'm glad it never happened.
then again, they missed out on a controversial song about kids, featuring Eminem