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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: 2dog on October 20, 2009, 06:22:15 AM
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Sales for the Chronic Relit were like 3k right ?
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Sales for the Chronic Relit were like 3k right ?
Probably less, considering NO ADVERTISING. Even The Chronic Re-Lit had a little, but this didn't get shit. Only track I can see getting a Buzz is Doggystyle, but lets face it you can torrent that track alone. :/
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Sales for the Chronic Relit were like 3k right ?
There's never been any confirmation on what Chronic Relit sold. People just guessed the number based on whatever they thought and now people are running with that like it's gospel.
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it didn't chart and that figurewas based on the last entry in the chart
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it will do better the chronic based on snoops name and not being an album people already have. plus at my best buy it had a display and a good amount of copies which relit didnt.
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chronic relit is a rerelease you wouldnt see it on the billboard 200 charts
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CHART DATE: 10/19/2009
LAST UPDATE: 10/20/2009 09:01:17
NOW IN: 69.42%
LW TW artist / album label power index
1 1 MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE 90,370
CRAZY LOVE
-- 2 TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON CHOP SHOP/ATLANTIC 76,484
SOUNDTRACK
5 3 JAY-Z ROC NATION 35,665
BLUEPRINT 3
23 4 BLACK EYED PEAS INTERSCOPE 32,857
E.N.D. (ENERGY NEVER DIES)
8 5 MILEY CYRUS HOLLYWOOD 28,444
TIME OF OUR LIVES
17 6 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 26,753
FEARLESS
4 7 BARBRA STREISAND COLUMBIA 24,984
LOVE IS THE ANSWER
-- 8 MARIO J RECORDS/RMG 23,720
D.N.A.
2 9 KISS KISS RECORDS 23,150
SONIC BOOM
3 10 TOBY KEITH SHOW DOG 22,975
AMERICAN RIDE
6 11 MARIAH CAREY ISLAND/IDJMG 21,064
MEMOIRS OF AN IMPERFECT ANGEL
24 12 ZAC BROWN BAND ATLANTIC 19,082
FOUNDATION
21 13 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 18,946
NUMBER ONES
12 14 BREAKING BENJAMIN HOLLYWOOD 18,876
DEAR AGONY
19 15 MIRANDA LAMBERT COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 17,436
REVOLUTION
32 16 OWL CITY UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 17,118
OCEAN EYES
27 17 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 16,611
FAME
20 18 KINGS OF LEON RCA/RMG 15,456
ONLY BY THE NIGHT
9 19 PARAMORE FUELED BY RAMEN 14,031
BRAND NEW EYES
26 20 SELENA GOMEZ & THE SCENE HOLLYWOOD 14,005
KISS & TELL
15 21 WHITNEY HOUSTON ARISTA/RMG 13,673
I LOOK TO YOU
39 22 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 12,528
WIDE OPEN
-- 23 FLAMING LIPS WARNER BROS. 12,510
EMBRYONIC
-- 24 DEAD BY SUNRISE REPRISE 12,420
OUT OF ASHES
16 25 PEARL JAM MONKEYWRENCH 12,300
BACKSPACER
-- 26 FIVE FOR FIGHTING COLUMBIA 12,156
SLICE
13 27 BEBE & CECE WINANS MALACO 11,946
STILL
7 28 LUKE BRYAN CAPITOL NASHVILLE 11,670
DOIN' MY THING
30 29 DRAKE CASH MONEY/UNIV MOTOWN 11,209
SO FAR GONE
40 30 LADY ANTEBELLUM CAPITOL NASHVILLE 11,195
LADY ANTEBELLUM
36 31 HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE WALT DISNEY 11,100
SOUNDTRACK
14 32 ALICE IN CHAINS VIRGIN 10,872
BLACK GIVES WAY TO BLUE
-- 33 DAVID ARCHULETA JIVE/JLG 10,261
CHRISTMAS FROM THE HEART
45 34 NOW 31 SONY MUSIC 9,575
VARIOUS ARTISTS
33 35 MUSE REPRISE 9,559
RESISTANCE
18 36 HARRY CONNICK, JR. COLUMBIA 8,512
YOUR SONGS
-- 37 WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE INTERSCOPE 8,274
SOUNDTRACK (KAREN O & THE KIDS)
-- 38 NICKELBACK ROADRUNNER 8,240
DARK HORSE
42 39 MAXWELL COLUMBIA 8,216
BLACKSUMMERS'NIGHT
29 40 THREE DAYS GRACE JIVE/JLG 8,209
LIFE STARTS NOW
-- 41 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 7,745
ESSENTIAL
-- 42 DAUGHTRY 19/RCA/RMG 7,702
LEAVE THIS TOWN
50 43 BROOKS & DUNN ARISTA NASHVILLE 7,634
#1S & THEN SOME
31 44 LYNYRD SKYNYRD ROADRUNNER 6,908
GOD & GUNS
46 45 P!NK LAFACE/JLG 6,888
FUNHOUSE
41 46 TREY SONGZ ATLANTIC 6,271
READY
-- 47 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 6,244
TAYLOR SWIFT
-- 48 BEATLES APPLE/CAPITOL 6,181
BEATLES (WHITE ALBUM)
48 49 KID CUDI UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 6,167
MAN ON THE MOON: THE END OF DAY
25 50 MADONNA WARNER BROS. 5,241
LOST SESSIONS is not in the Top 50 :-X
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Sales for the Chronic Relit were like 3k right ?
that's 2,999 more copies than you moved, fatboy.
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chronic relit is a rerelease you wouldnt see it on the billboard 200 charts
What about all those Michael Jackson re releases which stormed the charts when he died?
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chronic relit is a rerelease you wouldnt see it on the billboard 200 charts
What about all those Michael Jackson re releases which stormed the charts when he died?
he's wrong and you're right. re-releases that are packaged differently count as a different release.
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No shit?
http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/billboard-200
no sign of MJ or Beatles albums you find on hitsdailydouble
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they desperatly need snoop to promote this
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how much didi tha realest album do any one know?
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how much didi tha realest album do any one know?
19k
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were do u go to check that??
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i would have bought it if i was able to get it in canada......hmv only got one copy and best buy didnt have any in to start with it bullshit how do they expect people to buy them if they cant get them
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CHART DATE: 10/19/2009
LAST UPDATE: 10/20/2009 09:01:17
NOW IN: 69.42%
LOST SESSIONS is not in the Top 50 :-X
what did you expect?
it's a North America only release+ it's indie+ it's 2009
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I had the problem of not finding it at best buy here in canada.The hmv had it,but I want the bonus tracks.I phoned four different ones and they had never even heard of it.One store I finnaly talked to someone who knew about it but he said they just hadnt received the product yet.
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Wideawake paid 18 million dollars to get their hands on Death Row's trash can and its contents but their releases don't sell jack shit. I'm not surprised if by the next releases they have Gucci Mane, Soulja Boi, T.I. and other more familiar rappers getting kids interested of these million dollar attic treasures.
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wideawake is going to fail - two albums and they both went wood. The question is when will they fail. I'd be surprised if they last til the summer. Lara working with a known death row bootlegger isn't smart either. She knows am7 has bootlegged but chooses to ignore, she needs his help with the vault, but am7 isn't doing a good job either.
Bets when wideawake fails??
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were do u go to check that??
It sold less than 1,000 units actually..
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were do u go to check that??
It sold less than 1,000 units actually..
Wow less than 1,000 units. LOL.
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wideawake is going to fail - two albums and they both went wood. The question is when will they fail. I'd be surprised if they last til the summer. Lara working with a known death row bootlegger isn't smart either. She knows am7 has bootlegged but chooses to ignore, she needs his help with the vault, but am7 isn't doing a good job either.
Bets when wideawake fails??
I'll admit it's not looking good right now. To make matters worse, the word of mouth these releases keep getting is all bad due to the sound quality issues. The other glaring error I see is that there's next to no promotion for these. These guys may need to consider going strictly digital with some of these releases. At least then, there's not a lot of overhead involved with putting the releases out. I think though, if there's not some kind of major shake up at Wideawake, things could be looking real grim for them.
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I don't buy this is "It sold this many copies because it's not on Billboard" theory. I figure Wideawake didn't release the sales figures because there's no way it sold that poorly.
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wideawake is going to fail - two albums and they both went wood. The question is when will they fail. I'd be surprised if they last til the summer. Lara working with a known death row bootlegger isn't smart either. She knows am7 has bootlegged but chooses to ignore, she needs his help with the vault, but am7 isn't doing a good job either.
Bets when wideawake fails??
I'll admit it's not looking good right now. To make matters worse, the word of mouth these releases keep getting is all bad due to the sound quality issues. The other glaring error I see is that there's next to no promotion for these. These guys may need to consider going strictly digital with some of these releases. At least then, there's not a lot of overhead involved with putting the releases out. I think though, if there's not some kind of major shake up at Wideawake, things could be looking real grim for them.
the cd would have NOT sold on unit more if the mixing/mastering would`ve been better. that`s a fact
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still nothing at all at best buy anywhere in canada...fucking bullshit...
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at hip hop dx they have it at 4400 sold
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.10000/title.hip-hop-album-sales-the-week-ending-10-18-2009
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so its sellin more than the chronic re-release.
i wouldve thought so, since everybody's got the chronic album, and the snoop album is a whole album of songs from the vault.
if they had some proper advertising for this, i think they couldve maybe done up to 25,000 first week, but because of absolutely no promo, this is expected.
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It would have sold more if they set up distribution in other countries he is big in, like Germany, Amsterdam, UK etc, and he could have carried it rather than just have a twitter ad on there.. Snoop is globally - a recognized name, hence why he tours over Europe, Japan etc. and they fans can't even purchase his album with the bonus tracks on it??? Terrible lol. I still haven't purchased it, because I'm from UK, there's 2/3 less sales right there, and I'm sure there are others on here as well who haven't purchased due to the same reason. If I were to guess I'd say around 3K - 4K copies based on the fact it had very little awareness, and that the previous release had a bigger imprint, and more detail on it, and that didn't do big numbers
The future: Well I'd say they need to start making "excellent" quality records first and foremost, then marketing them correctly using as much free tools as possible - Youtube, other artists, word of mouth, internet, and any additional money should be used in future promotion or to "save" for the big 2Pac release, because without marketing it, and on TV/Radio it wont stand a chance... "Digital only" releases I wont even touch or purchase, ever, but they can make good use by doing a combination of both, or re-releasing some of the older catalouge as digital releases to recoup some money from the existing releases of the old Death Row without having to dip into the vault
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Well i bought it but will prob have to wait ages for it to arrive because of the postal strike.
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2-3 day backlog too. I hope those postman loose all of their shyt in the mail because of it and inconvenience themselves. They always seem to strike before christmas. You don't really hate it until you've got a pregnant gf, or something similar and require the post to find out hospital appointments, receive important things relating to it in general, and they wind up fkn up a weeks worth of mail, some of which gets lost due to the large backlog of it all. Assholes
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2-3 day backlog too. I hope those postman loose all of their shyt in the mail because of it and inconvenience themselves. They always seem to strike before christmas. You don't really hate it until you've got a pregnant gf, or something similar and require the post to find out hospital appointments, receive important things relating to it in general, and they wind up fkn up a weeks worth of mail, some of which gets lost due to the large backlog of it all. Assholes
I hear you man.
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at hip hop dx they have it at 4400 sold
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.10000/title.hip-hop-album-sales-the-week-ending-10-18-2009
Lol what did u expect?? those 4400 are just internet fans, no one else know the existence of the album
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Snoop is globally - a recognized name, hence why he tours over Europe, Japan etc. and they fans can't even purchase his album with the bonus tracks on it??? Terrible lol.
i agree. thats bullshyt how they only have the bonus tracks exclusively at bestbuy stores, which excludes people from overseas who want to buy the album with the bonus tracks.
the bonus tracks should be on all cd's, and not just if you buy it from bestbuy
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Snoop is globally - a recognized name, hence why he tours over Europe, Japan etc. and they fans can't even purchase his album with the bonus tracks on it??? Terrible lol.
i agree. thats bullshyt how they only have the bonus tracks exclusively at bestbuy stores, which excludes people from overseas who want to buy the album with the bonus tracks.
the bonus tracks should be on all cd's, and not just if you buy it from bestbuy
boo hoo. european and japanese releases historically are the ones with bonus tracks (on albums by american artists) so forgive me if i won't buy into your snooop bonus track sob story. bummer that you don't have access to the best buy version but how about you order it online or get it from an intermediate source like us americans have been doing with international releases since the early 90s?
seems to me that it's an excuse not to buy or just to whine about a problem that is easily fixed.
at hip hop dx they have it at 4400 sold
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.10000/title.hip-hop-album-sales-the-week-ending-10-18-2009
Lol what did u expect?? those 4400 are just internet fans, no one else know the existence of the album
even if it's 4400 that's still a low number. a better tracklist that would appeal to the general public and not just death row zealots, paired with a decent marketing campaign, could have saved this release. surely there are some snoop videos locked away that they could have finalized or even slum it and make a changes type video out of random clips.
if i loaned WA money to buy the DR assets right about now i'd start wondering if i was ever going to see it back, let alone with interest.
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wideawake is going to fail - two albums and they both went wood. The question is when will they fail. I'd be surprised if they last til the summer. Lara working with a known death row bootlegger isn't smart either. She knows am7 has bootlegged but chooses to ignore, she needs his help with the vault, but am7 isn't doing a good job either.
Bets when wideawake fails??
I'll admit it's not looking good right now. To make matters worse, the word of mouth these releases keep getting is all bad due to the sound quality issues. The other glaring error I see is that there's next to no promotion for these. These guys may need to consider going strictly digital with some of these releases. At least then, there's not a lot of overhead involved with putting the releases out. I think though, if there's not some kind of major shake up at Wideawake, things could be looking real grim for them.
the cd would have NOT sold on unit more if the mixing/mastering would`ve been better. that`s a fact
Well, my point is that the word of mouth the past two releases have gotten has been mixed at best. There is a lot of negative reaction to the mixing/mastering. While I don't know that that contributed to "The Lost Sessions" poor sales, it doesn't help Wideawake going forward. In other words, it's going to be difficult for them to generate any kind of buzz when there has only been a lukewarm reaction to the first two projects. Regarding the sales of "The Lost Sessions" (and "Chronic: Re-Lit" for that matter), I stand by my original statement that lack of promotion was a big contributing factor. I think there are a lot of people that still aren't aware that these releases even exist. While I think you can attribute some of that to the lack of Dre and Snoop's involvement, I don't think Wideawake did enough to promote the albums either.
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Just drop something like Say Hi To Tha Bad Guy, update it with bonus tracks featuring artists that are currently hot like T.I., Yung Berg and Shortyo. That will move units for them.
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Just drop something like Say Hi To Tha Bad Guy, update it with bonus tracks featuring artists that are currently hot like T.I., Yung Berg and Shortyo. That will move units for them.
lol shortyo. What a talentless blob.
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ah yes i forgot that shortyo was hot :D
(http://www.phillynative.com/Sabri,%20Big%20L,%20Sho%20and%20Shortyo.jpg)
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Just drop something like Say Hi To Tha Bad Guy, update it with bonus tracks featuring artists that are currently hot like T.I., Yung Berg and Shortyo. That will move units for them.
lol shortyo. What a talentless blob.
I take it you haven't heard his new album out now on Koch?
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ah yes i forgot that shortyo was hot :D
(http://www.phillynative.com/Sabri,%20Big%20L,%20Sho%20and%20Shortyo.jpg)
Yea but you have to give credit to Koch, they have done a great job with his album. That's Philly right there, that's Sho next to the big man!
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ah yes i forgot that shortyo was hot :D
(http://www.phillynative.com/Sabri,%20Big%20L,%20Sho%20and%20Shortyo.jpg)
Yea but you have to give credit to Koch, they have done a great job with his album. That's Philly right there, that's Sho next to the big man!
Richard just give it up. You're not fooling anyone. Your 360 deal will actually have you paying Koch you big baller you. Fuck your shit ass album with unauthorized features. I should hit up too short and let him know whats going on.
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I take it you haven't heard his new album out now on Koch?
Didn't Koch officially change its name to E1? Something don't seem right here, though given the nature of the individual involved, I guess it's to be expected.
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Snoop is globally - a recognized name, hence why he tours over Europe, Japan etc. and they fans can't even purchase his album with the bonus tracks on it??? Terrible lol.
i agree. thats bullshyt how they only have the bonus tracks exclusively at bestbuy stores, which excludes people from overseas who want to buy the album with the bonus tracks.
the bonus tracks should be on all cd's, and not just if you buy it from bestbuy
boo hoo. european and japanese releases historically are the ones with bonus tracks (on albums by american artists) so forgive me if i won't buy into your snooop bonus track sob story. bummer that you don't have access to the best buy version but how about you order it online or get it from an intermediate source like us americans have been doing with international releases since the early 90s?
seems to me that it's an excuse not to buy or just to whine about a problem that is easily fixed.
at hip hop dx they have it at 4400 sold
you are right for once cheesefry. they always get bonus tracks & when they don't they cry like little bitches about & say it unfair but you don't hear us complaining in america about it.so it fair for once. best buy is the only store putting out bonus tracks on cd's in america. so that means best buy has some kind of special deal in music industry in american . also shouldn't america get bonus tracks over other countries because it is american product not another countries product. so all you cry babies in other countries cry about not getting the bonus tracks should shut up & get over it.
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Just drop something like Say Hi To Tha Bad Guy, update it with bonus tracks featuring artists that are currently hot like T.I., Yung Berg and Shortyo. That will move units for them.
LOL. Who is going to want some fat talentless moron like Shortyo on something like "Say Hi To The Bad Guy" just to degrade it with his worthless mumblings?? Crooked I is more recognized through out the internet a hell of a lot more than some fat dude called Richard, the same guy who claims to be a "baller" yet rents his office space, and draws out savings to lay around ready for a 'retaliation' youtube video response to the people questioning him before returning it.
That fake accent, swagger, and 'Outlaw' tattoo aint fooling anyone either. Wait until you hear how different his accent is from 9-5, it's laughable...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMQSToKRUiI
Watch at 0:11 and see how pathetic he is, and how hard he "tries" to be down lol, by throwing some random hand symbol.. It's straight GANGSTA :P
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Snoop is globally - a recognized name, hence why he tours over Europe, Japan etc. and they fans can't even purchase his album with the bonus tracks on it??? Terrible lol.
i agree. thats bullshyt how they only have the bonus tracks exclusively at bestbuy stores, which excludes people from overseas who want to buy the album with the bonus tracks.
the bonus tracks should be on all cd's, and not just if you buy it from bestbuy
boo hoo. european and japanese releases historically are the ones with bonus tracks (on albums by american artists) so forgive me if i won't buy into your snooop bonus track sob story. bummer that you don't have access to the best buy version but how about you order it online or get it from an intermediate source like us americans have been doing with international releases since the early 90s?
seems to me that it's an excuse not to buy or just to whine about a problem that is easily fixed.
at hip hop dx they have it at 4400 sold
you are right for once cheesefry. they always get bonus tracks & when they don't they cry like little bitches about & say it unfair but you don't hear us complaining in america about it.so it fair for once. best buy is the only store putting out bonus tracks on cd's in america. so that means best buy has some kind of special deal in music industry in american . also shouldn't america get bonus tracks over other countries because it is american product not another countries product. so all you cry babies in other countries cry about not getting the bonus tracks should shut up & get over it.
The difference this time, is that it's not a current mainstream release this time. It's previously unreleased tracks from the Death Row vault, and when it's that that's in discussion here the albums are bought for entirely different purposes. People will buy it because it's "unreleased" tracks from a golden era in Hip Hop music and fans will want the full lot possible.
I know that Japan has had a lot of bonus tracks in the past. Some that I have had to get imported for extra, most recent probably being the 2Pac release for an example, but it didn't seem to bother me at all whether or not I bought the US or the UK version. This is material or albums people have waited patiently for for almost ten years or longer though, and they want the one with the most available. I agree that it's not too difficult to get one, but it would be good to see some worldwide distribution out there to help achieve higher numbers, because a lot of people seem to be holding off making purchases in order to not buy what they may feel is a weaker version because it misses 3 tracks.
Best way is to become a WIDEawake collector and buy up everything lol
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i betchu that no1 will buy that Pac album either. U can't capitalize on tha past like that. Now 6/7 years ago they would've probably made their money back off of these two releases alone but i just don't see a Pac album in 2010 being huge. Yeah i'm sure we'll all hear about it on the net but no1 will buy it. It'll be just like this Snoop album that no1 talks about or buys except us and the DR forum members (half of which i'm SURE is ppl on here)
i'm tellin' u. the only thing that could give DR/WA a huge boost in PR is releasing the Dr. Dre shit. A Dre album, a compilation of Dre beats with niggaz rappin' on 'em, and a Dre album w/ only features from 2Pac & The DPG.
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2-3 day backlog too. I hope those postman loose all of their shyt in the mail because of it and inconvenience themselves. They always seem to strike before christmas. You don't really hate it until you've got a pregnant gf, or something similar and require the post to find out hospital appointments, receive important things relating to it in general, and they wind up fkn up a weeks worth of mail, some of which gets lost due to the large backlog of it all. Assholes
full of shit, the last strike was 2 years ago and it was june, july time. any strike before that happend pre 2000.
so its ok that they havnt had a pay rise in nearly 2 years? royal mail agreed to give them the pay rise, then backed out. not to mention that al the jobs they have cut and never replaced. postman now basicly do 2 peoples work per day. upuntill today its only been mail centres who have on strike, today was the 1st day a 'postman' who walks the streets has been on strike. its only 1 day strikes anyway, only a days work is lost. different units of the busines have been out at different times. sorry your dole mony has been delayed a day.
do you want your post delivered at 7 at night because thats what royal mail want. its bad enough that it gets delivered by 2 or 3 now (again royal mail changing the times) shit postmen used to get finished by 10 years ago.
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2-3 day backlog too. I hope those postman loose all of their shyt in the mail because of it and inconvenience themselves. They always seem to strike before christmas. You don't really hate it until you've got a pregnant gf, or something similar and require the post to find out hospital appointments, receive important things relating to it in general, and they wind up fkn up a weeks worth of mail, some of which gets lost due to the large backlog of it all. Assholes
full of shit, the last strike was 2 years ago and it was june, july time. any strike before that happend pre 2000.
so its ok that they havnt had a pay rise in nearly 2 years? royal mail agreed to give them the pay rise, then backed out. not to mention that al the jobs they have cut and never replaced. postman now basicly do 2 peoples work per day. upuntill today its only been mail centres who have on strike, today was the 1st day a 'postman' who walks the streets has been on strike. its only 1 day strikes anyway, only a days work is lost. different units of the busines have been out at different times. sorry your dole mony has been delayed a day.
do you want your post delivered at 7 at night because thats what royal mail want. its bad enough that it gets delivered by 2 or 3 now (again royal mail changing the times) shit postmen used to get finished by 10 years ago.
Dole money?? ::) I work a full time job, and attend college at nights. I have never been on the dole in my entire life, so quit being a condescending little rogue because I hit a nerve. It's not good modernising any business from an employees point of view when it'll affect working conditions but when you work for the public, and at times when unemployment is on the rise, and competition is climbing sometimes the people have to swallow a bitter pill.
Also, Royal Mail have been on strike a number of times, and they did strike last year I could tell you that for a fact. My sons 3rd birthday (last year) present arrived late due to a strike up this end last year by Royal Mail, but hay because it wasn't throughout the entire UK and all over the news it didn't happen right??? It's clearly happened more times than you're aware of or choose to acknowledge
I don't know how old you are, but I'm old enough to realize that times have changed, and businesses are more competitive than ever before, and because of the recession, businesses must make cuts, and put processes in place to ensure they remain operational. I work for a company that's main customer is the UK & US navy, and due to the talks about defense budget cuts, this could potentially harm our work, so we know that sometimes in order to stay on top, we have to do things and have done things such as, work shifts, or do additional work, or procedures we don't necessarily like, but we're mature enough about it to understand that there are others out there that the UK/US can easily go to for the same business.
Obviously The Royal Mail is different and I understand that but what you have to understand is that when you carry out a service to businesses AND the national public and that when you inconvenience them, on an annual basis, you aren't going to gather large support from them when you create difficulty for them, especially with so many being out of work at the moment with families who would gladly change places with the grumbling postman in a second, and you may say it's only for a day or two, but people depend on certain things, important crucial things in the mail, not just a Will Smiff Dogg CD that they want to hear or a DVD.
The more and more Royal Mail do this kind of thing, the more businesses will eventually pick other mail service providers to carry out the work, and because of the strike, other mail service providers have had a massive boost in sales this week and as a result, may have generated enough money to finance growth and opportunities which could cause further trouble for Royal Mail. Good Luck