It's June 16, 2024, 11:55:10 PM
Ah, I think I may have a theory behind these huge numbers. Pre-orders will be placed all over the world, and that doesn't necessarily mean that all two million pre-orders are coming from USA. So, Snoop could end up selling about a quarter of this domestically in his first week and somewhere over two million WORLDWIDE. Still a huge hit for Snoop no doubt, but when I first read this I thought it meant that Snoop was gonna debut on the ''Billboard'' charts with over two mill sold! Same with Em, when I read that he had 3.5 mill pre-oders I assumed that he could do first week numbers of four million! Yeah, that's my guess. Still, even if pre-orders are being counted worldwide I'm assuming that the majority will still come from America - so Snoop is bound to make a great entrance on the charts!Now, I bet I'm the only person who thought that these sales were for USA only. No wonder I found this so...unbelievable [/quotGood theory props! I don't think either that snoop can push these major numbers in his first week. Outselling the marshall mathers lp is only possible if your name is dre, em or fiddy and to be honest I dont even see them selling more units than em's second lp.
Are you guys sure they don't mean orders by the store? Like retailers ordered 2 million for the first week, so that they have some loeft over for a couple weeks. I find it hard to believe that Snoop is going to break the solo record for albums sold in the first week, if Em doesn't break it with 3 million. My guess is Snoop sells 400,000 to 600,000 and Em sells 1.2 million.
Quote from: Shallow on November 12, 2004, 10:58:16 AMAre you guys sure they don't mean orders by the store? Like retailers ordered 2 million for the first week, so that they have some loeft over for a couple weeks. I find it hard to believe that Snoop is going to break the solo record for albums sold in the first week, if Em doesn't break it with 3 million. My guess is Snoop sells 400,000 to 600,000 and Em sells 1.2 million. yep. I was jstu about to post this. There is no way thats first week sales, that just mean the amount the store is ordering in jsut so they dont' run out of copies because they know the em and snoop albums will be pretty big blockbusters, but still when they are ordering that many copies of yer album first week you know it's gonna be huge so i'm guessing 500,000 - 700,000 for snoop and anywhere from 1,000,000 - 1,300,000 for eminem.
^ i'd guess they do count..if a record isnt on sale you cant count the pre-orders... basically a pre-order is a guaranteed first week sale...
Quote from: Overseer on November 12, 2004, 04:39:59 AM^ i'd guess they do count..if a record isnt on sale you cant count the pre-orders... basically a pre-order is a guaranteed first week sale...Sorry Nima, but you are wrong. When they say Pre Orders, they mean what the stores have already ordered. Basically, Snoop is shipping Double Platinum (2 Million). Pre orders have nothing to do with first week sales. That means that there will be 2 million copies in stores, thats all. Trust me, Snoop ain't selling more than Eminem first week. Plus, you have Lil Jon, Chingy, and Destiny's Child out the same week. He'll be in the top 4 with my prediction of 200-300 sold first week.School is dismissed.Itchy
they were explaining that snoop had moved his cd up on billboard.com they said the reason behind the push forward was the heavy demand
Quote from: Itchy Balls on November 12, 2004, 01:18:25 PMQuote from: Overseer on November 12, 2004, 04:39:59 AM^ i'd guess they do count..if a record isnt on sale you cant count the pre-orders... basically a pre-order is a guaranteed first week sale...Sorry Nima, but you are wrong. When they say Pre Orders, they mean what the stores have already ordered. Basically, Snoop is shipping Double Platinum (2 Million). Pre orders have nothing to do with first week sales. That means that there will be 2 million copies in stores, thats all. Trust me, Snoop ain't selling more than Eminem first week. Plus, you have Lil Jon, Chingy, and Destiny's Child out the same week. He'll be in the top 4 with my prediction of 200-300 sold first week.School is dismissed.Itchyhe's selling more than that first week trust me. If the stores ordered more than 2 million for the first week than they are obvoiusly expecting pretty big sales which means in excess of at least 400k most likely over 500.