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50 Cent Loves 2003 Like A Fat Kid Loves Cake
12.29.2003 8:04 AM EST
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Photo: John Shearer
It's a good thing 50 Cent bought that spacious mansion in Connecticut a few months back. The year's best-selling artist is going to need at least one of its 52 rooms to display all the gold and platinum albums he's amassed.
50 Cent's major-label debut LP, Get Rich or Die Tryin', has been certified six-times platinum for sales of more than 6.4 million, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Although one more week's worth of record sales has yet to be counted by SoundScan, Get Rich or Die Tryin', which dropped in February, stands to be the top-selling album of 2003.
Include the plaques he earned for his work with the G-Unit, whose debut, Beg for Mercy, was certified double platinum, and 50 beats out the act next in line, Outkast, as far as RIAA certifications go.
Although Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below has sold 2.7 million copies since September, its six-times platinum certification stems from the fact that it's a double album, and the RIAA counts units, not whole albums, as the criteria for gold (500,000 units shipped) and platinum (1 million shipped) certifications.
While both can boast three-times platinum status, it looks like Linkin Park will edge out Evanescence for 2003's best-selling rock act. Meteora, which has sold more than 3.3 million since March, gives Linkin Park a perfect platinum streak through their first three releases. Reanimation, their 2002 remix album, was certified platinum, and their 2000 debut, Hybrid Theory, earned an eight-times platinum plaque.
Lord Funk:
Good for them. Just finished reading their cover story in the new XXL and I gotta say - they work hard for what they got. Bank's talk about Biggie changing the pitch of his voice between his albums shows how seriously he takes his music. And whatever some peoples views, Beg For Mercy was a great album for me. And that's 'great' as in 'better than just good' :)I was expecing nothing from that album and it pretty much blew me away.
Darksider:
cool
GangstaBoogy:
"Beg For Mercy" was garbage. Too bad Yayo aint around to celebrate with them :'(
CRAFTY:
That's good news...thanks for the article.
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