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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: wcsoldier on November 15, 2006, 12:29:23 PM
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This site is reliable (hitsdailydouble.com)
Geffen Rapper Is Doctoring the Charts at #1, Akon vs. Now 23 for #2
November 15, 2006
This time, he’s on a new label and going without Dr. Dre or 50 Cent, but The Game’s Geffen bow, Doctor’s Advocate, is headed to the same place… the top of the chart.
Based on first-day reports from those retailers still in business around this suddenly Blue State land of ours, the Compton rapper’s sophomore album will soar past 400k and could go as high as 450k, an easy #1. His last album, The Documentary, on G-Unit/Interscope, came out in January ’05 and sold almost 600k its first week on its way to double-platinum.
Right in back of him is Senegal-born, N.J.-raised ex-con Akon, whose new Konvicted album is another winner for Steve Rifkind’s SRC label through Universal Motown. Thanks to a pair of smash duets with Eminem (“Smack That”) and Snoop Dogg (“I Wanna Love You”), the album is set to bow with between 225-250k, more than 10 times the 24k his debut Trouble sold in June ’04. That puts Konvicted into a battle for #2 with Sony Label Group’s Now 23 in its second week.
Interscope’s +44, the new band formed by blink-182’s Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker, bows with their debut When Your Heart Stops Beating, on target for around 65-70k, exactly the same total earmarked for Fat Joe’s debut Virgin effort, Me, Myself & I.
Epic’s Tenacious D emerge with the soundtrack to their new Pick of Destiny film, which is right behind them with between 60-65k.
Warner Bros. Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice is in at around 25k, while both Flip/WB’s Staind and The Firm Music’s Army of Anyone are in the 20k range.
Next Tuesday, Def Jam’s Jay-Z and Capitol’s The Beatles mash up the streets, with Amaru/ Interscope’s 2Pac and Doggystyle/Geffen’s Snoop Dogg also hitting retail shelves. Other major titles on sale include Interscope’s U2 singles collection, RCA’s Idol alum Daughtry, TVT’s crunk rappers Ying Yang Twins and Columbia’s Il Divo also on tap.
The market was up 12% vs. last week, as the holiday season moves into high gear, was basically flat vs. same week in 2005 and now down a little under 5% year-to-date.
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Bastard. I was just about to post this. >:( >:( >:(
:D
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lol 1 mill first week. Some kids have no concept of reality.
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Game Over HA HA HA whut the haters gotta say now Phillyboys name gotta be changed real soon if this is correct
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Good to here. A little surprising since non of his singles did that well. People are just straight up anticiapting what he can do. West Coast. 8)
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Game Over HA HA HA whut the haters gotta say now Phillyboys name gotta be changed real soon if this is correct
He said if DA goes platinum he will delete his account. :D
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Fuck game he's goin to flop. :D
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I was wondering if Game was gonna top Akon, apparently it will be easy for him too
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Good to here. A little surprising since non of his singles did that well. People are just straight up anticiapting what he can do. West Coast. 8)
Game got a great buzz.. I think if he had a top-10 hit, he would have sell 700-800 k without a doubt.. Anyway by today standards , these are GREAT numbers
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and since this a good album... hype will carry him to the top first week... but it will continues selling because people realise its a good album... friends of friends start hearing this shit.
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Interesting. I'll wait till the final sales come out to speak on it though.
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I still haven't bought my copy. Broke right now gonna get it on Friday when I get some cheese.
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lol 1 mill first week. Some kids have no concept of reality.
He will say he sold 1 million WORLDWIDE now. Watch. I was thinking about that yesterday.
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i went to the store thinking i will pay 20 dollars ,when i found 9.99 i bought 2
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Lol at people thinking that Game wasn't playing himself with the 1 Million thing... we are in 06, I doubt there will be a 1 Million week again... even Justin Timberlake can't do that
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Quite suprised since his music didnt create any buzz, I guess all those beefs and promotion payed off.
By Games standards this is a flop, since he said hes gonna do 1 million
By normal standards its not.
T.I. still remains an artists with the highest 1st week sales this year.
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Quite suprised since his music didnt create any buzz, I guess all those beefs and promotion payed off.
By Games standards this is a flop, since he said hes gonna do 1 million
By normal standards its not.
T.I. still remains an artists with the highest 1st week sales this year.
Beilive me, The Game is happy with his first week sales. Even he knew he wasn't going to do a million his first week. He was just talking that normal bs that he has a tendancy of doing.
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Quite suprised since his music didnt create any buzz, I guess all those beefs and promotion payed off.
By Games standards this is a flop, since he said hes gonna do 1 million
By normal standards its not.
T.I. still remains an artists with the highest 1st week sales this year.
Beilive me, The Game is happy with his first week sales. Even he knew he wasn't going to do a million his first week. He was just talking that normal bs that he has a tendancy of doing.
I would of course agree but since Game was clowning Yayo for saying hes gonna sell 700.000 and then sold 300.000, its hard to ignore that. Karma's a bitch.
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He'll def go plat, how did anyone think he wouldn't. But tbh most of the game stans and anyone into hip hop will buy it first week and i cant see many buying it next week. All the songs have leaked all of the internet and its on itunes so people know its out, so i wont be surprised if he does like 100-200k next week.
But it depends on his next single, cause if it blows up then he could do really well.
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Interesting. I'll wait till the final sales come out to speak on it though.
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How can they tell after one day?
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Quite suprised since his music didnt create any buzz, I guess all those beefs and promotion payed off.
By Games standards this is a flop, since he said hes gonna do 1 million
By normal standards its not.
T.I. still remains an artists with the highest 1st week sales this year.
U dont sell 400-450,000 first week without any kind of buzz. And add to the fact that he did it without any hit singles. T.I had a top 10 single, and not to mention the South is running shit right now. If Game can get 450,000 first week without any help from Dre and/or 50, no top 10 singles, he should be very happy
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How can they tell after one day?
They just fallow trends and patterns of album sales from their first day compared to their first week and predict how future albums are going to sell based on such info. It usually is a pretty accurate measurement.
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That's great news, a West Coast artist doing great numbers, let's hope it opens doors for more artists
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i hope this is true...but we'll see when the soundscan pops up...
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Props to Game. Like people said, it's impressive that he has the #1 album in the country without 50, Dre, or a top 10 single.
While I liked One Blood a lot, I wasn't too fond of Let's Ride. There are a lot more single-worthy tracks on the album, so I expect the sales to hold relatively steady over the next few weeks.
I think it might be worse for a rapper if you have one hot song on the album that's the kick-off single and the rest of the album sucks, since you post big first week sales and then a huge drop off in the subsequent weeks.
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Game Over HA HA HA whut the haters gotta say now Phillyboys name gotta be changed real soon if this is correct
He said if DA goes platinum he will delete his account. :D
and he gave DA 6 weeks to go platinum, phillyfag is a certified dopehead.
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damn good for game, considering he didn't have any big singles. he has some ill promotion though.
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Quite suprised since his music didnt create any buzz, I guess all those beefs and promotion payed off.
By Games standards this is a flop, since he said hes gonna do 1 million
By normal standards its not.
T.I. still remains an artists with the highest 1st week sales this year.
Beilive me, The Game is happy with his first week sales. Even he knew he wasn't going to do a million his first week. He was just talking that normal bs that he has a tendancy of doing.
I would of course agree but since Game was clowning Yayo for saying hes gonna sell 700.000 and then sold 300.000, its hard to ignore that. Karma's a bitch.
Why do you keep overlooking the fact that YOU NEED TO TALK POSITIVE TO GET MORE PPL TO COP THE ALBUM... IT'S GAME TIME, HIP-HOP IS BACK. FUCK ALL OTHER GENRES, WE ARE TAKING OVER. (LIKE WE BEEN DOING)
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That's great news, a West Coast artist doing great numbers, let's hope it opens doors for more artists
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i'm not lettin my breath go yet...i'm still waiting for the soundscan numbers to give praise. i hope they're true!
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Quite suprised since his music didnt create any buzz, I guess all those beefs and promotion payed off.
By Games standards this is a flop, since he said hes gonna do 1 million
By normal standards its not.
T.I. still remains an artists with the highest 1st week sales this year.
Beilive me, The Game is happy with his first week sales. Even he knew he wasn't going to do a million his first week. He was just talking that normal bs that he has a tendancy of doing.
I would of course agree but since Game was clowning Yayo for saying hes gonna sell 700.000 and then sold 300.000, its hard to ignore that. Karma's a bitch.
Yayo didn't do no 300.000 first week and he ain't even certified Gold yet. Get your facts straight.
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CONGRATS TO GAME AND THE WHOLE WESTCOAST ON THIS
*WAITS FOR SOUNDSCAN*
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I'm a little suspicious...is it really possible to calculate those numbers after the album's only been in stores for two days?
One thing is for sure...even IF this is true, expect to see a severe drop-off in 2nd week sales. It isn't that far-fetched to expect that all of Game's self-promoting and controversy has pushed him to stellar 1st week sales, but if you ain't got a successful single on the pop charts (which he ain't had so far), it's hard to keep those numbers consistent for the next week after. No hate, just facts.
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idk but i went to three target stores and two of them were completely sold out and it was around 3:00 pm so im pretty sure other stores sold out aswell because the third one i went to only had two left which i bought
8)
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The haters/Dre stans have been silenced.
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Congratulations to Game ... thats better then I think even he would have expected and is definitely a best case scenario if those numbers are Real..
That being said with Jay and Snoop dropping next week .. well i'll let homeboy finish
expect to see a severe drop-off in 2nd week sales. It isn't that far-fetched to expect that all of Game's self-promoting and controversy has pushed him to stellar 1st week sales, but if you ain't got a successful single on the pop charts (which he ain't had so far), it's hard to keep those numbers consistent for the next week after. No hate, just facts.
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I'm a little suspicious...is it really possible to calculate those numbers after the album's only been in stores for two days?
One thing is for sure...even IF this is true, expect to see a severe drop-off in 2nd week sales. It isn't that far-fetched to expect that all of Game's self-promoting and controversy has pushed him to stellar 1st week sales, but if you ain't got a successful single on the pop charts (which he ain't had so far), it's hard to keep those numbers consistent for the next week after. No hate, just facts.
Does it offend you if a "cracker" agrees witcha?
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Does it offend you if a "cracker" agrees witcha?
Not really, but Allah said I can't spare any of you in the revolution. All of you will have to face the barrel of the AK chopper.
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The album is straight fire...
"Lookin at you" bangs so hard... it's a great intro track.
The whole album is solid and straight west coast.
You'll never be able to please everyone and you'll always have haters, but on the real, Game laced his fans with a great album.
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ALL WE GOT IS FYE AND SAM GOODYS, WHO GOT THE DVD VERISON.... BESIDES TARGET.... DAMN IT...
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I'm a little suspicious...is it really possible to calculate those numbers after the album's only been in stores for two days?
Yes, they do it all the time.
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This is great news for Game, but what I'm more interested is second week sales. Considering all the heat coming out next week it'll be interesting seeing what Game's drop off will be.
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not exactly a million but impressive anyway.