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Title: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: MediumL on October 18, 2009, 02:07:02 PM
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Some interesting stats there. Jay was second to DMX at the start of the decade and Luda was selling more than Jay too at one point.
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: BiggBoogaBiff on October 18, 2009, 02:23:00 PM
lol at BloodRaw sellin' those many copies.  i didn't even know he dropped an album.  2claps for Big Blood lol
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: Okka on October 18, 2009, 02:29:49 PM
Thanks for postin' these. Where did you get these from? Do you have any other lists like this for other labels like Death Row Records and others? Damn, i didn't know that "All We Got Iz Us" didn't even go gold, definitely Onyx's best album. "Judgment Day" and "Doc's Da Name" went both platinum, didn't know that either.
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: dubsmith_nz on October 18, 2009, 02:54:37 PM
So this is just American sales I take it? Damn some interesting stats in there, I always assumed all the first generation Roc releases went platinum
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: MediumL on October 18, 2009, 03:02:29 PM
Thanks for postin' these. Where did you get these from? Do you have any other lists like this for other labels like Death Row Records and others? Damn, i didn't know that "All We Got Iz Us" didn't even go gold, definitely Onyx's best album. "Judgment Day" and "Doc's Da Name" went both platinum, didn't know that either.

Scanned from the special edition XXL on Def Jams 25yrs.  You'd be surprised on the international sales as well. None of them outside of Nelly, 50, Em, Kanye and Outkast were doing 500k+.
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: Moe on October 18, 2009, 03:33:39 PM
lol at lil ru
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: krzieg on October 18, 2009, 03:42:13 PM
cool stuff. props for posting
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: Young Old Head on October 18, 2009, 03:45:47 PM
they left out twinz and b.g. knoccout & dre'sta albums ::)
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: BiggBoogaBiff on October 18, 2009, 06:12:48 PM
they left out twinz and b.g. knoccout & dre'sta albums ::)



true... dam
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES on October 19, 2009, 12:48:27 AM
Props.
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: NotoriousTDA on October 19, 2009, 09:36:06 AM
they left out twinz and b.g. knoccout & dre'sta albums ::)


because they didnt sell any albums
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: Dogg Ly Dogg on October 19, 2009, 10:29:24 AM
they left out twinz and b.g. knoccout & dre'sta albums ::)


I checked the scans only for those albums and its not even there wtf
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: green-eyed bandit on October 20, 2009, 03:37:35 AM
Bg Knoccout & Dresta album was not a Def Jam release as far as I can remember??
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: GATMAN on October 20, 2009, 04:06:01 AM
What Happen to BO$$

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Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: Visualize what you can't see on October 20, 2009, 04:32:28 AM
they left out twinz and b.g. knoccout & dre'sta albums ::)


because they didnt sell any albums

yeah they probably didnt sell shit.

Damn Jayo sold 42000 copies only  :-\

and Ja Rule was big at one point.

looks like hard knock life is their biggest selling album with more than 5M copies
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: Leggy Hendrix on October 20, 2009, 04:36:09 AM
Bg Knoccout & Dresta album was not a Def Jam release as far as I can remember??

Outburst Records apparently...
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: Young Old Head on October 21, 2009, 07:06:26 AM
Bg Knoccout & Dresta album was not a Def Jam release as far as I can remember??

Outburst Records apparently...

yeah, outburst/def jam
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: ironmike on October 21, 2009, 03:48:53 PM
i remember reading on the internet like more than 10 years ago, thats the twinz's 1995 conversasion LP, did around 275,000 units.
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: Lunatic on October 21, 2009, 04:23:47 PM
that last row (recent releases) sale #s is depressing.
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: MediumL on October 22, 2009, 12:22:33 AM
that last row (recent releases) sale #s is depressing.

The artists (bar meth and red) in the last row are depressing. lol Ace Hood flopped horribly. If Triple Cs fail Khaled could be out of a job...
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: Leggy Hendrix on October 22, 2009, 04:44:00 AM
that last row (recent releases) sale #s is depressing.

The artists (bar meth and red) in the last row are depressing. lol Ace Hood flopped horribly. If Triple Cs fail Khaled could be out of a job...

yeah, aint really even heard of most of em...Unladylike? Fast Life Yungstaz? Lil Ru?

i always thought def jam were good at promotion, those units are horrible...

thought Deeper Than Rap and Theatre Of The Mind would've moved more too...
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: MediumL on October 22, 2009, 05:09:52 AM
that last row (recent releases) sale #s is depressing.

The artists (bar meth and red) in the last row are depressing. lol Ace Hood flopped horribly. If Triple Cs fail Khaled could be out of a job...

yeah, aint really even heard of most of em...Unladylike? Fast Life Yungstaz? Lil Ru?

i always thought def jam were good at promotion, those units are horrible...

thought Deeper Than Rap and Theatre Of The Mind would've moved more too...

Tbh neither had huge singles. If they'd both had a top 5 single their numbers would be a couple 100,000 more.
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: dubsmith_nz on October 22, 2009, 01:41:26 PM
that last row (recent releases) sale #s is depressing.

The artists (bar meth and red) in the last row are depressing. lol Ace Hood flopped horribly. If Triple Cs fail Khaled could be out of a job...

yeah, aint really even heard of most of em...Unladylike? Fast Life Yungstaz? Lil Ru?

i always thought def jam were good at promotion, those units are horrible...

thought Deeper Than Rap and Theatre Of The Mind would've moved more too...

Tbh neither had huge singles. If they'd both had a top 5 single their numbers would be a couple 100,000 more.

Maino had to number 1 singles, Flo Rider had a heap, big singles don't equate to sales anymore sadly
Title: Re: Def Jam sales revealed in XXL
Post by: MediumL on October 22, 2009, 03:18:46 PM
that last row (recent releases) sale #s is depressing.

The artists (bar meth and red) in the last row are depressing. lol Ace Hood flopped horribly. If Triple Cs fail Khaled could be out of a job...

yeah, aint really even heard of most of em...Unladylike? Fast Life Yungstaz? Lil Ru?

i always thought def jam were good at promotion, those units are horrible...

thought Deeper Than Rap and Theatre Of The Mind would've moved more too...

Tbh neither had huge singles. If they'd both had a top 5 single their numbers would be a couple 100,000 more.

Maino had to number 1 singles, Flo Rider had a heap, big singles don't equate to sales anymore sadly

But Ludacris and Rick Ross have a brand already established and its just the need to promote their names through having a hit single. Florida and Maino are new artists and have yet to fully gain acceptance as album artists. People simply bought their singles for beats, catchy and features. If they could establish themselves as credible album artists then a hit single would help their sales.

Take 50. If he has a hit single his sales would be a lot more than if he dropped his album now hence the delay of his album. 50 can put JT and Timbaland on a single and use it to sell his album because hes already established himself. If Maino were to do it it wouldn't have worked as well.