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How did Interscope put out this record with no Death Row involvement?I also cannot understand how Makaveli CD has sold only 4 million albums when All Eyes has sold 9x million.Was the album title too confusing or was it that Suge was in jail and unable to promote the CD properly?
BTW Death Row stopped paying for soundscan to keep track of albujm salesAEOM was certified 9x platinum back in the late 1990s lolits gotat be diamond by now
I mean personally, I would release a double album containing his recording on Death Row. It would be a mix of original and remix production from those original producers (Johnny J, QD3, Hurt-em-badd, etc.). Oh, no edits and no touching of the mixes after the producers are done! I'll release some singles along with videos. Do some cool promotion for the album. As a business, I'm pretty confident that that album would sell because it'll be going back to the bench mark of All Eyes On Me. I just believe that the fans want that kind of stuff rather than, remixed stuff and collaboration with people the man never knew. That material can be released on singles (as rarities/b-side) or even a digital release but, not on the album. If it's really about money than, common sense would say repeat the format of R U Still Down and Until The End Of Times. I mean, those were his biggest selling albums after his death besides the Greatest Hits? Those albums released from 1997-2003 were successful, after that it went down hill. If it ain't broke don't fix it, that's just my opiniion.
Quote from: sms130 on March 31, 2011, 06:59:43 PMI mean personally, I would release a double album containing his recording on Death Row. It would be a mix of original and remix production from those original producers (Johnny J, QD3, Hurt-em-badd, etc.). Oh, no edits and no touching of the mixes after the producers are done! I'll release some singles along with videos. Do some cool promotion for the album. As a business, I'm pretty confident that that album would sell because it'll be going back to the bench mark of All Eyes On Me. I just believe that the fans want that kind of stuff rather than, remixed stuff and collaboration with people the man never knew. That material can be released on singles (as rarities/b-side) or even a digital release but, not on the album. If it's really about money than, common sense would say repeat the format of R U Still Down and Until The End Of Times. I mean, those were his biggest selling albums after his death besides the Greatest Hits? Those albums released from 1997-2003 were successful, after that it went down hill. If it ain't broke don't fix it, that's just my opiniion. But you're talking about repeating things that might not neccesarily be capable of being repeated. Putting out an unaltered double album is not returning to the "bench mark of All Eyez On Me". All Eyez was an original album of new material recorded when Pac was still alive and able to promote the album. It was done in the brief period at Death Row were just about everybody was there and came off the strength of a monster collabo between Pac and Dr. Dre but also featured nearly every Death Row artist and a legit who's who of other West Coast talent. The other posthumous releases you mentioned owe a great bit of that success to the time in which they were released. They were put out before Internet downloading ripped the industry a new asshole and at a time when Pac's core fanbase were still youngsters. I was in high school when "R U Still Down" came out and was not legally old enough to drink when "Until The End Of Time" was released. Putting out an album of original vault material will never reach "All Eyez" because the fact was those records WERE changed before being finished. A lot of the Pac vault stuff was rough material that might have still needed additional production. The business model has just changed. Pac's biggest posthumous singles were songs that were changed to adapt to a popular formula. I can't hate on it. They were good songs and it worked. As a business move, you wouldn't put out multiple videos for a Pac album. The only people pushing for that are hardcore Pac fans who would already have bought the album anyway. Pac's been deceased for going on 15 years now. You just don't have that enitial commercial momentum anymore.