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Re: Pac is the top selling hiphop artist of all time...
« Reply #15 on: December 22, 2004, 06:04:08 PM »
Double albums count as twice the sales.  So if Eminem puts out a double album he'll most likely get 14 million in sales or so which should be enough to pass 2Pac.   If he puts out 5 double albums like 2Pac did, then forget it about... it won't even be close. 
 

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Re: Pac is the top selling hiphop artist of all time...
« Reply #16 on: December 22, 2004, 06:07:16 PM »
Double albums count as twice the sales.  So if Eminem puts out a double album he'll most likely get 14 million in sales or so which should be enough to pass 2Pac.   If he puts out 5 double albums like 2Pac did, then forget it about... it won't even be close. 

Yea but will he put out that much double albums? will he even put out one? we can't speculate liek that and it makes sense to count a double album as 2 cd's especially before because the prices were so much higher, but nowadays i dont' think double cd's should be counted as 2 because the prices are so close to single disc prices it jsut is rediculous, so yea pac wil remain the best selling rapper for a while i think.
 

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Re: Pac is the top selling hiphop artist of all time...
« Reply #17 on: December 23, 2004, 10:00:57 AM »
A double disk album counts as 2 albums on soundcan.
 

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Re: Pac is the top selling hiphop artist of all time...
« Reply #18 on: December 23, 2004, 01:59:30 PM »
here we go i'm a figure this out

2Pac:

Strictly 4 My Niggaz- Platinum
I Get Around (Single)- Gold
Keep Ya Head Up (Single)- Gold
2Pacolypse Now- Gold
Me Against The World- 2x Platinum
Dear Mama (Single)- Platinum
All Eyez On Me- 9x Platinum
How Do You Want It/Cali Love (Single)- 2x Platinum
R U Still Down- 4x Platinum
Greatest Hits- 9x Platinum
Do For Love (Single)- Gold
Until The End Of Time- 3x Platinum
Better Dayz- 2x Platinum
Still I Rise- Platinum
Resurrection- Platinum

around 37 mill

Eminem:

Slim Shady Lp- 5x Platinum
Marshall Mathers Lp- 9x Platinum
Eminem Show- 9x Platinum
Encore- 3x PLatinum

around 26 mill, peace.

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Re: Pac is the top selling hiphop artist of all time...
« Reply #19 on: December 23, 2004, 02:05:19 PM »
2Pac:

Strictly 4 My Niggaz- Platinum
I Get Around (Single)- Gold
Keep Ya Head Up (Single)- Gold
2Pacolypse Now- Gold
Me Against The World- 2x Platinum
Dear Mama (Single)- Platinum
All Eyez On Me- 9x Platinum
How Do You Want It/Cali Love (Single)- 2x Platinum
R U Still Down- 4x Platinum
Greatest Hits- 9x Platinum
Do For Love (Single)- Gold
Until The End Of Time- 3x Platinum
Better Dayz- 2x Platinum
Still I Rise- Platinum
Resurrection- Platinum

I don't know if you just copy and pasted but you have singles there and a soundtrack.  Also, 9 times platinium for a double CD doesn't equal 9 million copies sold.

Just refer to my post a few spots up.  That's correct.
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Re: Pac is the top selling hiphop artist of all time...
« Reply #20 on: December 23, 2004, 02:06:27 PM »
"All Eyez On Me" is still only at 5 mill after all these years? Its been sayin that for a minute, I woulda thought it woulda been up. Especially after the re-release of it.
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Re: Pac is the top selling hiphop artist of all time...
« Reply #21 on: December 23, 2004, 05:38:06 PM »
so you don't count singles, are you serious, and yes obviously the 9x really means 4.5 mill...i'm prettu sure you can count that soundtrack it's all pac shit  :nahnah:

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Re: Pac is the top selling hiphop artist of all time...
« Reply #22 on: December 23, 2004, 06:01:14 PM »
Singles shouldn't count.  But if you really wanted to count them, then why didn't you include any of Eminem's singles?
 

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Re: Pac is the top selling hiphop artist of all time...
« Reply #23 on: December 23, 2004, 07:03:02 PM »
Singles shouldn't count.  But if you really wanted to count them, then why didn't you include any of Eminem's singles?

because of the simple fact that none of them have gone gold or platinum. Nobody buys eminem singles, he hasn't had any #1 songs on billboard, people jsut rush out to buy his albums not his singles.
 

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« Reply #24 on: December 24, 2004, 12:10:05 PM »
thank you ^^ if they were certified i would've posted them, peace.
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Re: Pac is the top selling hiphop artist of all time...
« Reply #25 on: December 24, 2004, 12:20:09 PM »
fuck counting double albums twice. that kind of system is straight rubbish. Em owns Pac. Encore is not even counted, and he's going to release at least 3 additional albums.

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Re: Pac is the top selling hiphop artist of all time...
« Reply #26 on: December 24, 2004, 01:19:47 PM »
Eminem doesn't deserve to be in the top 10 best selling rappers of all time. And why does it matter how much albums u sell, its about the quality not the quantity.
 

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Re: Pac is the top selling hiphop artist of all time...
« Reply #27 on: December 24, 2004, 04:05:29 PM »
Eminem doesn't deserve to be in the top 10 best selling rappers of all time. And why does it matter how much albums u sell, its about the quality not the quantity.

Exactly! and we all know the quality of 2pac songs shits over the quality of the shit em be releasing, just face it.
 

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Re: Pac is the top selling hiphop artist of all time...
« Reply #28 on: December 24, 2004, 06:14:25 PM »
^that's a matter of taste.. Technically, Em owns Pac. His lyrics are more complex and his beats are better.
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Re: Pac is the top selling hiphop artist of all time...
« Reply #29 on: December 24, 2004, 06:34:52 PM »
^that's a matter of taste.. Technically, Em owns Pac. His lyrics are more complex and his beats are better.

I think em's beats are repetitive and boring, but liek you said it's all a matter of taste so i ain't gonan hate, but i will break it down as i see it:

lyrically - eminem
flow/delivery - 2pac
subject matter - 2pac
charisma - 2pac
voice - 2pac

really lyrics is the only category i'd give to eminem, and when i mean lyrically i'm jsut saying technically em is a better lyricisty but to me 2pacs lyrics are much better because they have meaning and they are deep lyrics that i can relate to, so theres my view on this.