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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: LongBeachsFinest on August 20, 2008, 01:13:35 PM
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Hollywood’s teenpop heartthrobs will get another week to strut their stuff at the head of the class.
The Jonas Brothers will stay #1 A Little Big Longer, even if they lose the usual 60-70% from their first-week total of 515k.
The summer’s surprise smash, Decca’s Mamma Mia! soundtrack, will battle it out for #2 with Atlantic’s Kid Rock and Atlantic’s Staind, the week’s biggest debut, somewhere in the 95k range.
Other Top 50 bows will include The Firm Music/EMI’s Ice Cube (65k) and Suretone/ Interscope’s Shwayze, which is trending toward 45k right now, but could go even higher with multiple showings of the Buzzin’ reality series on MTV this week. Finally, Fueled By Ramen/Decaydance Chicago emo-rockers The Academy Is… looks in the 30k range for their new album, Fast Times at Barrington High.
Overall, the market was up 2% vs. last week, down 13% vs. same week last year, and still hovering around 11% year-to-date, which brings up this thought: Can Michael Phelps sing? How about his mom?
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Well since dude is doin it independently i guess its aight.
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Well since dude is doin it independently i guess its aight.
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damn thats not bad wish it were more
album sounds bangin
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we all know gangsta rap is dead right?
65k is alright for an indie rap album
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hell yeah shit he moved more than tech n9ne and tech should have moved double what he originally did which was 22,000 I think!
its all good tho at least hes movin and hes goin agaisnt the industry
we all know gangsta rap is dead right?
65k is alright for an indie rap album
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Crap sells eh?
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anyone know how much laugh now cry later sold first week?
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anyone know how much laugh now cry later sold first week?
145 000 units, and it went gold
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How much did LNCL sell first week?? I know LNCL seemed like it had a little more promotion, just curios how much he sold last time.
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and its a shame...such a dope album...but he is independent...so shit he'll be ight...plus them movie checks... ;D
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Didn't he do 150 last time?
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i dont get that jonas brothers fuckin shit...who on earth would buy that gay shit everytime i turn on the tv its some gay shit about that homo group..and then i turned it on and it was some cover of the beatles by them...like wtf rediculous shit
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damn thats big
I think this album might do bigger numbers over time
damn believe it or not didnt make the cut?
anyone know how much laugh now cry later sold first week?
145 000 units, and it went gold
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and its a shame...such a dope album...but he is independent...so shit he'll be ight...plus them movie checks... ;D
Ice Cubes filthy rich already homie, album sales dont really mean shit to him anymore, neither do the movies, but he just does em to stay relevent i guess!!!
i dont get that jonas brothers fuckin shit...who on earth would buy that gay shit everytime i turn on the tv its some gay shit about that homo group..and then i turned it on and it was some cover of the beatles by them...like wtf rediculous shit
Hahaha yah man, that shits annoying as FUCK. There literally on every damn channel, those ugly ass white boys have the most groupies too, if they werent famous, they would just look like a regular crew of rugged white boys lol!!!
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i dont get that jonas brothers fuckin shit...who on earth would buy that gay shit everytime i turn on the tv its some gay shit about that homo group..and then i turned it on and it was some cover of the beatles by them...like wtf rediculous shit
yuuup
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I'm glad this album flopped, because it was shit
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you didnt like the album?
I'm glad this album flopped, because it was shit
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all idi
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you didnt like the album?
I'm glad this album flopped, because it was shit
production was garbage, and was worse then his last album which I did not think he could pull off, and his new static flow doesn't help matters
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what is the worst song on the album because i was thinking of buying it?
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"Why We Thugs" was a bigger single than "Do Ya Thang". It got many spins on BET thats prolly why Raw Footage ain't sell as much first week but hopefully Cube will get another gold plaque with this record.
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65k is a bust for someone like Ice Cube. I mean, cmon man, he's ICE CUBE. This was his own fault. This is what he gets for not putting Kanye West, T-Pain, Akon, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Chris Brown, Nas, and DJ Khaled on his album. I mean, cmon man, The Game knows the business and he collabs with the top cats in the business like I just named off. This is why he moves units and debuts at #1 with his first two records. And a lot of people are giving 65k a free pass saying "it's indy." That's just an excuse. If he sold 150k his first week people would be saying "He sold 150k and IT WAS ON AN INDY." People are giving Cube a free pass like the media gives Brett Favre a free pass with his all-time interception record. Cube messed up big time with this one and it's an embarrassment to his album catalog. We all know he can do way better than this and if all the current artists like Nas, The Game, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, all work together, then why can't Cube get with the program instead of wasting his time with small timers -- sorry Cube, but you're not going to put up Lil Wayne numbers when your album headliners are artists like Butch Cassidy. Where is Chris Brown? Where is Bobby Valentino? Where is DJ Khaled? Where is Nas? No T-Pain. No Akon. E-40 making big dollars collabing with T-Pain and Akon and he's repping the West. This just shows E-40, The Game, Too Short, Snoop Dogg are the West Coast and they are miles ahead of Ice Cube. We all know he is capable of doing so much better and that's why it's dissapointing.
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Ice cube is a legend, sales don't matter these days hes got his money he said hes making albums now to cater to his fan base he don't care he just enjoy music.
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65k is a bust for someone like Ice Cube. I mean, cmon man, he's ICE CUBE. This was his own fault. This is what he gets for not putting Kanye West, T-Pain, Akon, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Chris Brown, Nas, and DJ Khaled on his album. I mean, cmon man, The Game knows the business and he collabs with the top cats in the business like I just named off. This is why he moves units and debuts at #1 with his first two records. And a lot of people are giving 65k a free pass saying "it's indy." That's just an excuse. If he sold 150k his first week people would be saying "He sold 150k and IT WAS ON AN INDY." People are giving Cube a free pass like the media gives Brett Favre a free pass with his all-time interception record. Cube messed up big time with this one and it's an embarrassment to his album catalog. We all know he can do way better than this and if all the current artists like Nas, The Game, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, all work together, then why can't Cube get with the program instead of wasting his time with small timers -- sorry Cube, but you're not going to put up Lil Wayne numbers when your album headliners are artists like Butch Cassidy. Where is Chris Brown? Where is Bobby Valentino? Where is DJ Khaled? Where is Nas? No T-Pain. No Akon. E-40 making big dollars collabing with T-Pain and Akon and he's repping the West. This just shows E-40, The Game, Too Short, Snoop Dogg are the West Coast and they are miles ahead of Ice Cube. We all know he is capable of doing so much better and that's why it's dissapointing.
you essentially just said you want ice cube to re-make flo-rida's album. theres something called integrity and then theres something else that goes with it called good music. look em up.
indie usually needs something around 10k to recoup, so cubes already making bank.
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Not 2 bad for an Indie, but I thought he'd push more. I mean the album came out yesterday, let's hope the #s pick up.
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65k is a bust for someone like Ice Cube. I mean, cmon man, he's ICE CUBE. This was his own fault. This is what he gets for not putting Kanye West, T-Pain, Akon, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Chris Brown, Nas, and DJ Khaled on his album. I mean, cmon man, The Game knows the business and he collabs with the top cats in the business like I just named off. This is why he moves units and debuts at #1 with his first two records. And a lot of people are giving 65k a free pass saying "it's indy." That's just an excuse. If he sold 150k his first week people would be saying "He sold 150k and IT WAS ON AN INDY." People are giving Cube a free pass like the media gives Brett Favre a free pass with his all-time interception record. Cube messed up big time with this one and it's an embarrassment to his album catalog. We all know he can do way better than this and if all the current artists like Nas, The Game, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, all work together, then why can't Cube get with the program instead of wasting his time with small timers -- sorry Cube, but you're not going to put up Lil Wayne numbers when your album headliners are artists like Butch Cassidy. Where is Chris Brown? Where is Bobby Valentino? Where is DJ Khaled? Where is Nas? No T-Pain. No Akon. E-40 making big dollars collabing with T-Pain and Akon and he's repping the West. This just shows E-40, The Game, Too Short, Snoop Dogg are the West Coast and they are miles ahead of Ice Cube. We all know he is capable of doing so much better and that's why it's dissapointing.
Wtf you talkin about? You dont know shit lmao. Cube doesnt gvie a shit about all that, he has ntn to prove, sales dont matter to him, hes rich. Hes just doing this for his real fans!!!
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lol @ putting all the USUAL guests on his album...
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65k is a bust for someone like Ice Cube. I mean, cmon man, he's ICE CUBE. This was his own fault. This is what he gets for not putting Kanye West, T-Pain, Akon, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Chris Brown, Nas, and DJ Khaled on his album. I mean, cmon man, The Game knows the business and he collabs with the top cats in the business like I just named off. This is why he moves units and debuts at #1 with his first two records. And a lot of people are giving 65k a free pass saying "it's indy." That's just an excuse. If he sold 150k his first week people would be saying "He sold 150k and IT WAS ON AN INDY." People are giving Cube a free pass like the media gives Brett Favre a free pass with his all-time interception record. Cube messed up big time with this one and it's an embarrassment to his album catalog. We all know he can do way better than this and if all the current artists like Nas, The Game, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, all work together, then why can't Cube get with the program instead of wasting his time with small timers -- sorry Cube, but you're not going to put up Lil Wayne numbers when your album headliners are artists like Butch Cassidy. Where is Chris Brown? Where is Bobby Valentino? Where is DJ Khaled? Where is Nas? No T-Pain. No Akon. E-40 making big dollars collabing with T-Pain and Akon and he's repping the West. This just shows E-40, The Game, Too Short, Snoop Dogg are the West Coast and they are miles ahead of Ice Cube. We all know he is capable of doing so much better and that's why it's dissapointing.
you essentially just said you want ice cube to re-make flo-rida's album. theres something called integrity and then theres something else that goes with it called good music. look em up.
indie usually needs something around 10k to recoup, so cubes already making bank.
wat a fukin idiot, it doesnt matter who the fukin legend that started this shit puts on feats on his album...its gon be wat its gon be....
LOLLLLLLLL CRHIS BROWN FEATURIN CUBE LOLL
LOL................ WHO IS MILE AHEAD OF ICE CUBE? DO U KNO HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE NWA?????? HIS FIRST TO CLASSIC ALBUMS?????????? PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE
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He made another Southern album ::) What kind of sells do you expect?
Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It and Stand Tall are the only real standouts. Too much South.
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65k is a bust for someone like Ice Cube. I mean, cmon man, he's ICE CUBE. This was his own fault. This is what he gets for not putting Kanye West, T-Pain, Akon, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Chris Brown, Nas, and DJ Khaled on his album. I mean, cmon man, The Game knows the business and he collabs with the top cats in the business like I just named off. This is why he moves units and debuts at #1 with his first two records. And a lot of people are giving 65k a free pass saying "it's indy." That's just an excuse. If he sold 150k his first week people would be saying "He sold 150k and IT WAS ON AN INDY." People are giving Cube a free pass like the media gives Brett Favre a free pass with his all-time interception record. Cube messed up big time with this one and it's an embarrassment to his album catalog. We all know he can do way better than this and if all the current artists like Nas, The Game, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, all work together, then why can't Cube get with the program instead of wasting his time with small timers -- sorry Cube, but you're not going to put up Lil Wayne numbers when your album headliners are artists like Butch Cassidy. Where is Chris Brown? Where is Bobby Valentino? Where is DJ Khaled? Where is Nas? No T-Pain. No Akon. E-40 making big dollars collabing with T-Pain and Akon and he's repping the West. This just shows E-40, The Game, Too Short, Snoop Dogg are the West Coast and they are miles ahead of Ice Cube. We all know he is capable of doing so much better and that's why it's dissapointing.
Dude, you're a douche... ::)
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65k is a bust for someone like Ice Cube. I mean, cmon man, he's ICE CUBE. This was his own fault. This is what he gets for not putting Kanye West, T-Pain, Akon, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Chris Brown, Nas, and DJ Khaled on his album. I mean, cmon man, The Game knows the business and he collabs with the top cats in the business like I just named off. This is why he moves units and debuts at #1 with his first two records. And a lot of people are giving 65k a free pass saying "it's indy." That's just an excuse. If he sold 150k his first week people would be saying "He sold 150k and IT WAS ON AN INDY." People are giving Cube a free pass like the media gives Brett Favre a free pass with his all-time interception record. Cube messed up big time with this one and it's an embarrassment to his album catalog. We all know he can do way better than this and if all the current artists like Nas, The Game, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, all work together, then why can't Cube get with the program instead of wasting his time with small timers -- sorry Cube, but you're not going to put up Lil Wayne numbers when your album headliners are artists like Butch Cassidy. Where is Chris Brown? Where is Bobby Valentino? Where is DJ Khaled? Where is Nas? No T-Pain. No Akon. E-40 making big dollars collabing with T-Pain and Akon and he's repping the West. This just shows E-40, The Game, Too Short, Snoop Dogg are the West Coast and they are miles ahead of Ice Cube. We all know he is capable of doing so much better and that's why it's dissapointing.
In the words of Bobby "The Brain" Heenan: "Enjoy yourself. No one else does."
PEACE!
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"only" 65,000?
looks good to me
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the album is dope as fuck. i doubt anyone can make a cd as good this year..... period. every song dope except the first one wit jeezy
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Thats good as fuck for a indie album.g-unit did 90,000 they first week and they major.65,000 is hell of good.he a end up going gold.
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65k is a bust for someone like Ice Cube. I mean, cmon man, he's ICE CUBE. This was his own fault. This is what he gets for not putting Kanye West, T-Pain, Akon, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Chris Brown, Nas, and DJ Khaled on his album. I mean, cmon man, The Game knows the business and he collabs with the top cats in the business like I just named off. This is why he moves units and debuts at #1 with his first two records. And a lot of people are giving 65k a free pass saying "it's indy." That's just an excuse. If he sold 150k his first week people would be saying "He sold 150k and IT WAS ON AN INDY." People are giving Cube a free pass like the media gives Brett Favre a free pass with his all-time interception record. Cube messed up big time with this one and it's an embarrassment to his album catalog. We all know he can do way better than this and if all the current artists like Nas, The Game, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, all work together, then why can't Cube get with the program instead of wasting his time with small timers -- sorry Cube, but you're not going to put up Lil Wayne numbers when your album headliners are artists like Butch Cassidy. Where is Chris Brown? Where is Bobby Valentino? Where is DJ Khaled? Where is Nas? No T-Pain. No Akon. E-40 making big dollars collabing with T-Pain and Akon and he's repping the West. This just shows E-40, The Game, Too Short, Snoop Dogg are the West Coast and they are miles ahead of Ice Cube. We all know he is capable of doing so much better and that's why it's dissapointing.
peep the new allhiphop interview with cube. he clearly said that he was tired of people telling him what to do and who to collab with just cause that cat is hot at the moment. cube is not aiming for all that, and he's not aiming for big sales either. he's trying to make a statement and reach his core audience. so why get a song from t-pain?!
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Good sales for a indie record
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HIS LAST DID BOUT 500K , I THINK RAW FOOTAGE WILL MAKE LESS (in few numbers) cuz of progressive internet leaking and link spreading.
the numbers modern artists make today, cuz of rnb elements or t-pain voices (bitches like this so they buy albums), neither of them contains raw footage - so bitches aint interesed in gangsta rap/baracuda swag. so it will be hard to sell 200k.
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i dont get that jonas brothers fuckin shit...who on earth would buy that gay shit everytime i turn on the tv its some gay shit about that homo group..and then i turned it on and it was some cover of the beatles by them...like wtf rediculous shit
my lil sister listens to that bullcrap ;/ omfg what a gay ass music
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HIS LAST DID BOUT 500K , I THINK RAW FOOTAGE WILL MAKE LESS (in few numbers) cuz of progressive internet leaking and link spreading.
the numbers modern artists make today, cuz of rnb elements or t-pain voices (bitches like this so they buy albums), neither of them contains raw footage - so bitches aint interesed in gangsta rap/baracuda swag. so it will be hard to sell 200k.
and it will continue to get worse, and worse.. now pookie from down the street knows how to use Blogspots.. the music industry makes for a great hobby, but a lousy business.
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Hip hop records don't really sell anymore - unless it's Lil Wayne or Kanye. Even Terminate On Site has sold less than 200k and it's been out for a while and it's got no less than 50 Cent, until recently thought of as the biggest star in hip-hop, all over it.
I'm a bit concerned about LAX' sales prospects. I think Game should be happy if he goes gold this time around, even though the album is amazing.
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im wit all the positivity but damn.....he should be able to break a 100 in cali alone......but then again he really didn't push this album....like his lat one.
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Lench Mob (cubes record label) will be getting around $6.00 an album!
$6 x 65.000 units - = $390.000
budget (production, features, studio, staff, promo) $150k - maximum
remaining = $240.000 first week
40k will go to the next video and promotion
so thats somewhere around $200k FIRST week, and he could max out around 350.000 units . .you do the math
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the album is dope as fuck. i doubt anyone can make a cd as good this year..... period.
I kinda agree with you, but let's see what Westurn Union and Paris can do.
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He made another Southern album ::) What kind of sells do you expect?
Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It and Stand Tall are the only real standouts. Too much South.
u a dumb ass dat don't have shit 2 do with it .
dat single he put out was shit , the one with
him in the drop top . fool stop groupin da south together
cuz they southern inspired beats he picked was bad and dat single
was a bad westcoast beat . bad is bad and them beats don't come
from my southern city , Houston u bitch .
Lol at some random Southern trash dissing me just to get a rep. Stop claiming Houston. McGrady was cool until he joined your squad and started catching feelings. Now he's literally crying every May over some first round loss $hit. I'm left assuming your whole city is bitch made.
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Lench Mob (cubes record label) will be getting around $6.00 an album!
$6 x 65.000 units - = $390.000
budget (production, features, studio, staff, promo) $150k - maximum
remaining = $240.000 first week
40k will go to the next video and promotion
so thats somewhere around $200k FIRST week, and he could max out around 350.000 units . .you do the math
You hit the nail on the head. But still, why would cube waste his budget on a wack muthafucka like Young Jeezy? especially money better suited for premier producer ....*cough D.R.E.*