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Title: Snoop Dogg's R&G Is Already 2x Platinum!
Post by: Nima - Dubcnn.com on November 11, 2004, 05:39:32 PM
Man... he had his release party last night daz was there he told me that he was already certified 2x platinum off of pre-orders alone! i didnt wanna believe that so i hit up bing snoops lil bro and he confirmed it !  :o

thats crazy! congrats to snoop
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Post by: GangstaBoogy on November 11, 2004, 06:03:18 PM
u believed Daz huh?
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Post by: Nima - Dubcnn.com on November 11, 2004, 06:07:52 PM
u believed Daz huh?

that shit just sounded too crazy to me, lol.. daddy v just confirmed it too

he got some other plaques for nr1 single and shit too
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Post by: topdogg187 on November 11, 2004, 06:15:43 PM
HOLY SHIT! if that is true that is fucekn unreal, wonder how much he will do up first week than? and i know that the plaques he got for number 1 single are real cause he's number one on basically every one of billboards charts.
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Post by: Sikotic™ on November 11, 2004, 06:21:34 PM
Sorry, Nima. You always come correct but I'll believe this when I see it. That's just unreal man lol

COngrats to Snoop if he pulled it off though.
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Post by: Nima - Dubcnn.com on November 11, 2004, 06:23:24 PM
Sorry, Nima. You always come correct but I'll believe this when I see it. That's just unreal man lol

COngrats to Snoop if he pulled it off though.

well eminem's encore is already 3x plat.

i duno man, it seemed unreal to me too, but first daz said it in the interview, then snoops lil bro said it, then daddy v said it! and all 3 of them were trippin of it too, like damn!

i duno man, unless the shit they presented him at the release party were fake, i duno how this is wrong. i doubt all 3 of these artists saw wrong or lied to me bout the same thing independently lmao.

but yeah it's crazy.
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Post by: LAZY on November 11, 2004, 06:25:38 PM
thats crazy if its true
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Post by: PLANT on November 11, 2004, 06:26:35 PM
This cd is real dope.  Im glad Snoop made a real solid album and the title fits well with the cd.
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Post by: Ozir on November 11, 2004, 06:29:31 PM
big ups and props to snoop for doin' the damn thing!

I'm not one of those 2 mil pre-orders... so he's gonna sell a couple more when the release date rolls around.

I hope this is true... I can believe it with the luv his single has gotten... I've been out in the northeast for almost three years now, and this is the first major west coast hit i've heard played out here in all that time.

PROPS... westup people!!!

The king ain't dead yet.
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Post by: GangstaBoogy on November 11, 2004, 07:10:31 PM
This cd is real dope.  Im glad Snoop made a real solid album and the title fits well with the cd.

oh bullshiet!
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Post by: white Boy on November 11, 2004, 07:40:32 PM
thats wild...
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Post by: krzieg on November 11, 2004, 07:48:29 PM
thatz unbelieveable. Snoopz doin it real big with the Neptunes...Bigg Upz 2 Snoop!!!
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Post by: Sikotic™ on November 11, 2004, 07:52:06 PM
Sorry, Nima. You always come correct but I'll believe this when I see it. That's just unreal man lol

COngrats to Snoop if he pulled it off though.

well eminem's encore is already 3x plat.

i duno man, it seemed unreal to me too, but first daz said it in the interview, then snoops lil bro said it, then daddy v said it! and all 3 of them were trippin of it too, like damn!

i duno man, unless the shit they presented him at the release party were fake, i duno how this is wrong. i doubt all 3 of these artists saw wrong or lied to me bout the same thing independently lmao.

but yeah it's crazy.

I feel ya. I hope it is true to be honest. That means hip hop is just still strong so I can't hate that.
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Post by: Eddie G. on November 11, 2004, 08:35:41 PM
Damn thats crazy
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Post by: topdogg187 on November 11, 2004, 09:54:56 PM
I think it's believable because when they were explaining that snoop had moved his cd up on billboard.com they said the reason behind the push forward was the heavy demand for the album so i guess it makes sense.
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Post by: Sir Petey on November 11, 2004, 10:57:48 PM
I promissed Id never use this word...but nothing else comes to mind except .......CHUUUUCH!!!
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Post by: Darksider on November 11, 2004, 11:39:54 PM
tight.....if its true....
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Post by: Conan on November 12, 2004, 04:29:43 AM
Wow! Hold on, I'm confused - does two million pre-orders necessarily equal two million in first-week sales?? Because I read somewhere that Eminem was approaching four million pre-orders and if him and Snoop do those sort of first week numbers...well that's crazy, particularly for Snoop! But surely that can't be right. I mean, Usher's album sold about a mill in its first week and that was like a record breaking release and the fastest seller of the year so far...

Can anybody clear up this pre-order/first week sales relationship for me ???
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Post by: Don Seer on November 12, 2004, 04:39:59 AM
^ i'd guess they do count..

if a record isnt on sale you cant count the pre-orders... basically a pre-order is a guaranteed first week sale...
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Post by: Conan on November 12, 2004, 04:41:32 AM
OMGU!  :o ;D
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Post by: MOB on November 12, 2004, 07:39:27 AM
damn and u were all saying game would see well more than snoop...
2 millions in a week seems unbelievable though,i will wait for the official numbers
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Post by: C-Swift on November 12, 2004, 07:48:49 AM
Congrats :o
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Post by: Florez on November 12, 2004, 08:05:50 AM
Thats crazy if this is true than he's going to sell numbers like em and nelly.
Can't hate on that! man gotta get this paper
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Post by: CRAFTY on November 12, 2004, 09:26:22 AM
One word: unbelievable.
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Post by: Z the laidback Virus on November 12, 2004, 10:10:32 AM
That's gotta be a mighty heap of dollars!  :o
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Post by: TOOTHBRUSH on November 12, 2004, 10:24:59 AM
wow will this be his highest selling album? maybe now he can feel like he got big without dre so they can work togethor again

btw tobad he didn't have soopafly, daz ect on here cause this album woulda gave them mad exposure
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Post by: A-Trak on November 12, 2004, 10:29:29 AM
damn thats pushing mad units. big ups 2 snoop.
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Post by: platinumk777 on November 12, 2004, 10:35:03 AM
btw tobad he didn't have soopafly, daz ect on here cause this album woulda gave them mad exposure

Well, Soopafly is on "Can you control ya hoe". and he comes off tight. Overall though, this album is down there with PTCTBTB, but at least better than Da Game is to be sold.

3.2/5
Title: Re: Snoop Dogg's R&G Is Already 2x Platinum!
Post by: Shallow on November 12, 2004, 10:58:16 AM
Are you guys sure they don't mean orders by the store? Like retailers ordered 2 million for the first week, so that they have some loeft over for a couple weeks. I find it hard to believe that Snoop is going to break the solo record for albums sold in the first week, if Em doesn't break it with 3 million. My guess is Snoop sells 400,000 to 600,000 and Em sells 1.2 million.
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Post by: .:Hercy Buggz:. on November 12, 2004, 11:00:04 AM
wow will this be his highest selling album? maybe now he can feel like he got big without dre so they can work togethor again

btw tobad he didn't have soopafly, daz ect on here cause this album woulda gave them mad exposure

he got Soopafly doing a beat and on "can you control Ya Hoe" and by the way Daz is talking shit on the end of "im threw witchu"

ITs a nice album Nice DoggyStyle Release...Its good that all his doggystyle roster are on there
Title: Re: Snoop Dogg's R&G Is Already 2x Platinum!
Post by: Conan on November 12, 2004, 11:40:59 AM
Ah, I think I may have a theory behind these huge numbers. Pre-orders will be placed all over the world, and that doesn't necessarily mean that all two million pre-orders are coming from USA. So, Snoop could end up selling about a quarter of this domestically in his first week and somewhere over two million WORLDWIDE. Still a huge hit for Snoop no doubt, but when I first read this I thought it meant that Snoop was gonna debut on the ''Billboard'' charts with over two mill sold! Same with Em, when I read that he had 3.5 mill pre-oders I assumed that he could do first week numbers of four million!

Yeah, that's my guess. Still, even if pre-orders are being counted worldwide I'm assuming that the majority will still come from America - so Snoop is  bound to make a great entrance on the charts!

Now, I bet I'm the only person who thought that these sales were for USA only. No wonder I found this so...unbelievable ;D
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Post by: Florez on November 12, 2004, 11:45:42 AM
Ah, I think I may have a theory behind these huge numbers. Pre-orders will be placed all over the world, and that doesn't necessarily mean that all two million pre-orders are coming from USA. So, Snoop could end up selling about a quarter of this domestically in his first week and somewhere over two million WORLDWIDE. Still a huge hit for Snoop no doubt, but when I first read this I thought it meant that Snoop was gonna debut on the ''Billboard'' charts with over two mill sold! Same with Em, when I read that he had 3.5 mill pre-oders I assumed that he could do first week numbers of four million!

Yeah, that's my guess. Still, even if pre-orders are being counted worldwide I'm assuming that the majority will still come from America - so Snoop is  bound to make a great entrance on the charts!

Now, I bet I'm the only person who thought that these sales were for USA only. No wonder I found this so...unbelievable ;D
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Good theory props! I don't think either that snoop can push these major numbers in his first week.
Outselling the marshall mathers lp is only possible if your name is dre, em or fiddy and to be honest I dont even see them selling more units than em's second lp.
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Post by: geezy on November 12, 2004, 11:51:34 AM
I HAVE JUST ONE QUESTION.  IS THE ALBUM BETTER THAN PAID THE COST?
Please i need to know,coz thats was the only snoop album i didnt listen to up to 10 times.
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Post by: topdogg187 on November 12, 2004, 11:55:30 AM
Are you guys sure they don't mean orders by the store? Like retailers ordered 2 million for the first week, so that they have some loeft over for a couple weeks. I find it hard to believe that Snoop is going to break the solo record for albums sold in the first week, if Em doesn't break it with 3 million. My guess is Snoop sells 400,000 to 600,000 and Em sells 1.2 million.

yep. I was jstu about to post this. There is no way thats first week sales, that just mean the amount the store is ordering in jsut so they dont' run out of copies because they know the em and snoop albums will be pretty big blockbusters, but still when they are ordering that many copies of yer album first week you know it's gonna be huge so i'm guessing 500,000 - 700,000 for snoop and anywhere from 1,000,000 - 1,300,000 for eminem.
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Post by: Theodore on November 12, 2004, 12:02:05 PM
thats alot
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Post by: Suffice on November 12, 2004, 12:06:33 PM
Are you guys sure they don't mean orders by the store? Like retailers ordered 2 million for the first week, so that they have some loeft over for a couple weeks. I find it hard to believe that Snoop is going to break the solo record for albums sold in the first week, if Em doesn't break it with 3 million. My guess is Snoop sells 400,000 to 600,000 and Em sells 1.2 million.

yep. I was jstu about to post this. There is no way thats first week sales, that just mean the amount the store is ordering in jsut so they dont' run out of copies because they know the em and snoop albums will be pretty big blockbusters, but still when they are ordering that many copies of yer album first week you know it's gonna be huge so i'm guessing 500,000 - 700,000 for snoop and anywhere from 1,000,000 - 1,300,000 for eminem.

Co sign... i don't think Snoop will hit platinum in the USA his first week. Em might break a little bit past platinum. Neither album will go past 5x in the US
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Post by: eS El Duque on November 12, 2004, 12:08:53 PM
Are you guys sure they don't mean orders by the store? Like retailers ordered 2 million for the first week, so that they have some loeft over for a couple weeks. I find it hard to believe that Snoop is going to break the solo record for albums sold in the first week, if Em doesn't break it with 3 million. My guess is Snoop sells 400,000 to 600,000 and Em sells 1.2 million.

yep. I was jstu about to post this. There is no way thats first week sales, that just mean the amount the store is ordering in jsut so they dont' run out of copies because they know the em and snoop albums will be pretty big blockbusters, but still when they are ordering that many copies of yer album first week you know it's gonna be huge so i'm guessing 500,000 - 700,000 for snoop and anywhere from 1,000,000 - 1,300,000 for eminem.

Eminem dropped today...he has 3 daysto sell so im guessing he'll sell around 300K copies...but the full week next week should be around a mill
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Post by: Itchy Balls on November 12, 2004, 01:18:25 PM
^ i'd guess they do count..

if a record isnt on sale you cant count the pre-orders... basically a pre-order is a guaranteed first week sale...

Sorry Nima, but you are wrong.  When they say Pre Orders, they mean what the stores have already ordered.  Basically, Snoop is shipping Double Platinum (2 Million).  Pre orders have nothing to do with first week sales.  That means that there will be 2 million copies in stores, thats all.  Trust me, Snoop ain't selling more than Eminem first week.  Plus, you have Lil Jon, Chingy, and Destiny's Child out the same week.  He'll be in the top 4 with my prediction of 200-300 sold first week.

School is dismissed.

Itchy
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Post by: Bramsterdam (see ya) on November 12, 2004, 01:33:38 PM
thats a surprise... congrats to snoopthough....
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Post by: topdogg187 on November 12, 2004, 01:47:43 PM
^ i'd guess they do count..

if a record isnt on sale you cant count the pre-orders... basically a pre-order is a guaranteed first week sale...

Sorry Nima, but you are wrong.  When they say Pre Orders, they mean what the stores have already ordered.  Basically, Snoop is shipping Double Platinum (2 Million).  Pre orders have nothing to do with first week sales.  That means that there will be 2 million copies in stores, thats all.  Trust me, Snoop ain't selling more than Eminem first week.  Plus, you have Lil Jon, Chingy, and Destiny's Child out the same week.  He'll be in the top 4 with my prediction of 200-300 sold first week.

School is dismissed.

Itchy

he's selling more than that first week trust me. If the stores ordered more than 2 million for the first week than they are obvoiusly expecting pretty big sales which means in excess of at least 400k most likely over 500.
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Post by: Jome on November 12, 2004, 09:49:34 PM
they were explaining that snoop had moved his cd up on billboard.com they said the reason behind the push forward was the heavy demand

Better known as "been on the internet for a week".  :D
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Post by: acbaylove on November 13, 2004, 03:59:28 AM
So if Spider Loc signs with the Neptunes he'll go platinum? ;D
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Post by: Lil Jay on November 13, 2004, 07:34:47 AM
thats huge...but i somewhat expected him to sell more than paid tha cost which had beautiful on it, cause EVERYONE i know is feelin that drop it single
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Post by: Don Seer on November 13, 2004, 07:38:35 AM
^ i'd guess they do count..

if a record isnt on sale you cant count the pre-orders... basically a pre-order is a guaranteed first week sale...

Sorry Nima, but you are wrong.  When they say Pre Orders, they mean what the stores have already ordered.  Basically, Snoop is shipping Double Platinum (2 Million).  Pre orders have nothing to do with first week sales.  That means that there will be 2 million copies in stores, thats all.  Trust me, Snoop ain't selling more than Eminem first week.  Plus, you have Lil Jon, Chingy, and Destiny's Child out the same week.  He'll be in the top 4 with my prediction of 200-300 sold first week.

School is dismissed.

Itchy


why are you calling me Nima?

and secondly.. i was responding to the original poster who said that the 2 mill _were_ pre-orders. get your facts straight mr itchy 'cant get off deez...' nutz
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Post by: Itchy Balls on November 25, 2004, 11:07:48 PM
^ i'd guess they do count..

if a record isnt on sale you cant count the pre-orders... basically a pre-order is a guaranteed first week sale...

Sorry Nima, but you are wrong.  When they say Pre Orders, they mean what the stores have already ordered.  Basically, Snoop is shipping Double Platinum (2 Million).  Pre orders have nothing to do with first week sales.  That means that there will be 2 million copies in stores, thats all.  Trust me, Snoop ain't selling more than Eminem first week.  Plus, you have Lil Jon, Chingy, and Destiny's Child out the same week.  He'll be in the top 4 with my prediction of 200-300 sold first week.

School is dismissed.

Itchy

he's selling more than that first week trust me. If the stores ordered more than 2 million for the first week than they are obvoiusly expecting pretty big sales which means in excess of at least 400k most likely over 500.


Should I still trust you?  I predicted it exactly.  Believe me when I say I know my shit.  I work in this business, I'm not just a fan. 
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Post by: Machiavelli on November 26, 2004, 12:02:30 PM
This will be the fastest selling rap album ever then. The current record holder is Snoops "Doggystyle".
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Post by: Jome on November 26, 2004, 12:04:57 PM
This will be the fastest selling rap album ever then. The current record holder is Snoops "Doggystyle".

Read this:

http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=62337.0
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Post by: Ras Kass' Toothpick on November 26, 2004, 03:08:53 PM
This will be the fastest selling rap album ever then.

no

The current record holder is Snoops "Doggystyle".

no
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Post by: Wessia4LiaNia Chieee Chieee on November 26, 2004, 03:43:58 PM
That's wack,  2xplatinum already...foe this shit?
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Post by: Ras Kass' Toothpick on November 26, 2004, 03:52:25 PM
That's wack,  2xplatinum already...foe this shit?

Try reading the posts in the thread instead of just the title. 
The album isn't even gold yet.
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Post by: israelihiphop on November 26, 2004, 04:01:03 PM
i have a friend who works with Billboard magazine and he told me that Snoop actually shipped 1.2 milllion, not 2 million...so when his album is first eligible for certification 30 days from its release date he will be certified platinum not 2x platinum...
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Post by: Machiavelli on November 26, 2004, 05:04:49 PM
i have a friend who works with Billboard magazine and he told me that Snoop actually shipped 1.2 milllion, not 2 million...so when his album is first eligible for certification 30 days from its release date he will be certified platinum not 2x platinum...


not if he sells 800,000 units in 30 days
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Post by: israelihiphop on November 26, 2004, 06:54:01 PM
i have a friend who works with Billboard magazine and he told me that Snoop actually shipped 1.2 milllion, not 2 million...so when his album is first eligible for certification 30 days from its release date he will be certified platinum not 2x platinum...


not if he sells 800,000 units in 30 days

certifications are based on units shipped to stores, not actually albums sold...so regardless of how many albums Snoop sells in the next month he still will get the platinum plaque...
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Post by: SlickPants on November 26, 2004, 11:40:03 PM
I actually kinda like the album... its kinda soulful and funky... its no Doggystyle, but its got a few tight tracks on it too.
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Post by: eS El Duque on November 27, 2004, 03:06:55 PM
i have a friend who works with Billboard magazine and he told me that Snoop actually shipped 1.2 milllion, not 2 million...so when his album is first eligible for certification 30 days from its release date he will be certified platinum not 2x platinum...


not if he sells 800,000 units in 30 days

certifications are based on units shipped to stores, not actually albums sold...so regardless of how many albums Snoop sells in the next month he still will get the platinum plaque...

wow..didn't even know that :o
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Post by: Denial! Is Actively Joinin The Revolution on November 28, 2004, 06:02:39 PM
So the album ISN'T 2X platinium i woz kinda gettin convinced to buy it rather jus spend it on sum other shit and still bump doggytyle