G-Unit first week sales

[GangstaBoogy]

Lloyd Banks first week - 433,000
Young Bucks first week - 261,000
The Games first week - 586,000
Tony Yayo's first week - 214,687

[ωεεźγ ғ]

Lloyd Banks first week - 433,000
Young Bucks first week - 261,000
The Games first week - 586,000
Tony Yayo's first week - 214,687

did 50 really feel threatened? 

[WestCoasta]

it's because they had good singles.... Banks had that one pop shit "On Fire" where he mumbles like a bum but everyone loved and then Game had "How We Do" and "Hate It Or Love It" which was another radio pleaser.....

Young Buck's shit was wack, the crap with him rapping in that junkyard, whatever the fuck, that beat sucked and he was pure shit 
and fuckin Yayo had some "Curious" bullshit and that one gay song with 50... "It's Tony Yayo up in this - bitch" 

[West Coast Veteran]

Top 10 Hip Hop First Week Sales:

1. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (1.7 million)
2. 50 Cent - The Massacre (1.1 million)
3. 50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin' (872,000)
4. Kanye West - Late Registration (860,000)
5. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle (800,000)
6. Nelly - Nellyville (714,000)
7. Eminem - Encore (710,000)
8. DMX - And Then There Was X (698,000)
9. The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death (690,000)
10. DMX - Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood (670,000)

Runners-Up:
Makaveli - The 7 Day Theory (664,000)
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever (612,000)

[ωεεźγ ғ]

pretty good numbers fom Em and Fif considering those albums were released in or around the internet bootlegging era

[WestCoasta]

50 Cent - The Massacre (1.1 million)

people are so stupid 

[EastsideLBC]

pretty good numbers fom Em and Fif considering those albums were released in or around the internet bootlegging era

Also have to consider that rap music now appeals to the masses and is more TV and radio friendly. In the 90's rap music was still on the climb, but nowdays it is the music industry. 

[BizzyR.I.P.]

pretty good numbers fom Em and Fif considering those albums were released in or around the internet bootlegging era

Also the MTV groupie era/the 12 yr. old white girl

[EastsideLBC]

pretty good numbers fom Em and Fif considering those albums were released in or around the internet bootlegging era

Also the MTV groupie era/the 12 yr. old white girl

Word. 12 year olds savin' up they allowance just to go out and buy that new shit they saw on MTV. 

[rafsta]

Top 10 Hip Hop First Week Sales:

1. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (1.7 million)
2. 50 Cent - The Massacre (1.1 million)
3. 50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin' (872,000)
4. Kanye West - Late Registration (860,000)
5. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle (800,000)
6. Nelly - Nellyville (714,000)
7. Eminem - Encore (710,000)
8. DMX - And Then There Was X (698,000)
9. The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death (690,000)
10. DMX - Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood (670,000)

Runners-Up:
Makaveli - The 7 Day Theory (664,000)
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever (612,000)

yeah i remember when MM lp came out... do you remember the publicity the album was getting ? it was all over the news, everywhere, no wonder it hit 1.7 mill, i thought it did better than that though... controversy sells.

[wcsoldier]

Didn't The Eminem show sell 1.3 million 1st week ? I know it was out a Sunday so considering 2 days a first week is kinda irrelevant

[WestCoasta]

goddamn 12 year old white girls! 

[West Coast Veteran]

Didn't The Eminem show sell 1.3 million 1st week ? I know it was out a Sunday so considering 2 days a first week is kinda irrelevant

The Eminem Show first week (2 days) did 284,000 but in it's first FULL week (7 days) it did 1.3 million. Soundscan counts the 2 day period as his first week sales for that album. I think that was the first hip hop album where the date was pushed forward.

"Encore is Eminem's second album to be released early. Its predecessor, The Eminem Show, was released two days early, on Sunday, May 26, 2002. That album, which also debuted at #1, moved just 284,000 copies in its first week — but fueled by a full seven-day sales cycle the following week, the album sold more than 1.3 million."

[G funker]

Top 10 Hip Hop First Week Sales:

1. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (1.7 million)
2. 50 Cent - The Massacre (1.1 million)
3. 50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin' (872,000)
4. Kanye West - Late Registration (860,000)
5. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle (800,000)
6. Nelly - Nellyville (714,000)
7. Eminem - Encore (710,000)
8. DMX - And Then There Was X (698,000)
9. The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death (690,000)
10. DMX - Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood (670,000)

Runners-Up:
Makaveli - The 7 Day Theory (664,000)
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever (612,000)

where can you find this

[Conan]

Top 10 Hip Hop First Week Sales:

1. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (1.7 million)
2. 50 Cent - The Massacre (1.1 million)
3. 50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin' (872,000)
4. Kanye West - Late Registration (860,000)
5. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle (800,000)
6. Nelly - Nellyville (714,000)
7. Eminem - Encore (710,000)
8. DMX - And Then There Was X (698,000)
9. The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death (690,000)
10. DMX - Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood (670,000)

Runners-Up:
Makaveli - The 7 Day Theory (664,000)
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever (612,000)

That can't be right...The Eminem Show sold more first week than Encore. Suspicous...

EDIT: My mistake...didn't see that post about the Em show being released 2 days before SoundScan