First week sales for 213 "THE HARD WAY" are in.....

[Eddie G.]

Congrats to 213, I knew that 80k figure was bullshit.  #3 in the country, REAL BIG

[teecee]

Wesside Connection sold more than this right? 

100,000 aint bad, but they dont really have a bonafide second single, nothing even like gangsta nations...........maybe twist ya body or absolutely could do it............

[KING VerbalAssaulta]

  @ groupies giving props for good sales...like you guys are getting profits out of it and making a buck ...missy elliot sells a couple mill does that make her albums any good? same goes for nelly, ja rule, and fat joe....i'd rather have a good album than one that sells commercially...besides im shocked people are still buying cd's...i felt ripped off using a cd-r on it cant imagine buying it

[Lucien]

@ groupies giving props for good sales...like you guys are getting profits out of it and making a buck ...missy elliot sells a couple mill does that make her albums any good? same goes for nelly, ja rule, and fat joe....i'd rather have a good album than one that sells commercially...besides im shocked people are still buying cd's...i felt ripped off using a cd-r on it cant imagine buying it

how can you judge what's good or bad? everybody's got a different taste... I don't like those Nelly & Ja Rule dudes also... but you can respect somebody's opinion and taste 

[AlerG]

i love the album, i think it's real good but i don't think that 100,000 is very good for 213...but i think the sales will be consistant for awhile once people realize what the fuck 213 is in the first place, peace.

[TOOTHBRUSH]

i will say this though is that 100k ain't bad but they dropped the single and the video way late the vid premiered on direct effect the day the album dropped so i think the sales will stay around this for a while or even go up possibly

[soopadoopaflykid]

this is still damn good even with havin shitty promotion but I think this will start to creep up on the promotion and will move some more units and even go platium

[Jome]

1. Lloyd Banks- The Hunger 4 More- 423,058

In 1st week.. debut LP.
Some people called this a flop.. 

[Trauma-san]

100K, that's pretty good, more than I would have guessed they would move.  Plus, all those songs with Nate singing hooks are all single potential, they could go old school and release like 8 singles off the album, lol and end up pushing 2 or 3X platinum.

[Lil Jay]

1. Lloyd Banks- The Hunger 4 More- 423,058

In 1st week.. debut LP.
Some people called this a flop.. 

Yea but you cant really compare Banks buzz with 213...

[R-Tistic]

Damn there are some negative mafuckas on here.

I told my homeboy from LA that it's people hatin on the album, and he was like "who? Everybody I know is feelin it, LA and from everywhere else" and for my homeboys at home, I don't think it's a single one that doesn't like it, and we are the niggs in LA who have been supportin the west forever even tho it "fell off" like people say.

The sales number itself isn't that good, but #3 on billboard is definitely good. I don't know if you realize it, but when some people go to the stores and they see the top 20 albums like at sam goody, they are like "oh shit, its #3? It must be pretty good, I'll check it out" which leads to more sells. And there are definitely 4-5 single potential songs. I donno about y'all, but everybody that I know likes "Joysticc" mainly from the hook and beat. Absolutely is definitely a club track. Lonely Girl definitely has a dope ass vibe to it that is commercial and 106 and park material. Appreciation may even be cool for a single. So this album could go Gold, Platinum, and maybe double platinum.

And who said this album was supposed to "bring the west back?" If you ask me, I don't really think one album alone can "bring a coast back" regardless...it's gonna take a few strong albums to bring the attention to the west that allows other artists to get the attention neccessary to blow, and then five years later when the west is back in the commercial spotlight, we can look back like "the west came back when 213, game, crooked" (just random names) dropped their albums. I mean, what if 213's album was great, classic, produced by Dre and Warren, and everybody liked it, but then the west coast still didn't "come back"? Would that mean that 213 didn't bring the west back?

[Ozir]

report from boston:

"absolutely" no promo!  i've yet to hear "groupie luv" on the radio.

"twist yo body" & "absolutely" should be the next singles.

the album is not a "classic", but it's definitely damn good.  go out and support it (buy it) cuz radio and promo outside of cali don't show the west any luv.

peace. 

[.:Hercy Buggz:.]

213 tHa GaNGstA cLICC WILL BLOW THE FUCK UP^As a SINGLE
absolutly is good but people will get tired of it
twist Ya body is good but not single mATERIAl
Lonely Girl could blow up eaSILY as AN rNB SINGLE sAME As joysticc

SINCE THE GROUP IS ON TVT THEIR SCOND SINGLE WILL PUSH THEM TO PLatinum

but if they waNNa be in competition with ANY LIL JON SINGLE OUT THEY NEED TO RELEase gANGSTA clicc

[SlickPants]

So apparently the second single is gonna be Joysticc (DubCNN.com)... that's an interesting choice.

EDIT:  They might be using it to lead in or promote Nate Dogg as a solo artist, kind of like how G-Unit did with "Smile."

[T-Dogg]

missy elliot sells a couple mill does that make her albums any good? same goes for nelly, ja rule, and fat joe....i'd rather have a good album than one that sells commercially

Straight up. It is nice to see somebody get success with their record that deserves it, but to me at least that's a moot point. The music is the important thing. Hi-C's record didn't get big sales figures but that record is still way better than the 213 record. That's fuckin sad to me too, 'cause Warren and Nate are two among my favourite artists ever.

If they set up maad promotion and pick a good single and make a good video for it, this album could maybe reach gold status, but that needs some work. 'Cause most of the music on the album isn't able to carry the the record there.