West Coast Connection Forum
DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: pappy on January 07, 2005, 04:23:16 PM
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This is a great album, SGV will come tho an say it sucks n where all dickriders, but its one of the few albums in the past couple of years to drop i actually like right off the bat. But what do u think his sales will be. I think it will can go either way. I dont think he will have good sales most will expect. It will either be very disapointing or he'll have sales that blow away everyones expectations
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i think it will sell about 2 million copies.
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everyone expectin 3 mill will be disapointed. I wish Game the best but his buzz has been dyin down lately...it MIGHT flop
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i'd say he will go 3 x platinum if promo stays at the same level
they might do some last minute promo which might help him push more units first week
i say he will sell more than 300k first week
i hope game does 50's number
he might not deserve it but i see alotta potential in games talent
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I hope...for game's sake..he sells 6 mil...or he'll look like a fool on some of those tracks ;D
i predict 5 mil! 500K first week! and he has to dorp his next SINGLE NOW
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500k at least 1st week...could be more but I dont think he will do the 800 that Snoop and 50 did...It should sell at least 3 million...
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I would like to see 3 mill, but I'm thinkin' it isn't gonna be as big as eveybody thinks....I think it will take a while to go platnum. Hopefully I wrong though
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3.5 Mill, 500k 1st week
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350k the first week
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2.5 mill i think...he'll prolly move 300k - 500k in the 1st week
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2 millinon....400k first week
peace
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You guys are dreamin'.
It'll go platinum TOPS. Probably sell 250K its first week.
But no way will this album sell 3-5 million.
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2.5 mill i think...he'll prolly move 300k - 500k in the 1st week
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The choice of singles will make or break this album.
Since they're goin' with Dreams as the next single, which is a very hot song, I'll go with 2 mil
If they drop Higher as the 3rd single, then I can see it blowing up to 3 possibly 4 mil. I dunno if Gam gonna go 5x plat like he always says in his rhymes.
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atleast plat
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he's prolly gonna sell about twice as much as X did his first week, i don't see it becoming anything near 50 Cent saleswise tho... none of the G Unit albums have...
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banks hit multi plat didnt he?
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300-350k 1st week, 2-3time plat in total, i hope better but i dont see him doing 50's numbers.
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If he does 2 Million he's lucky. Y'all gotta realize how much Lloyd Banks grinded on the mixtape scene and had a G-Unit CD before his own shit dropped. That's wild right there.
2 Million tops if he does 500 K i'll revoke what I just said.
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id like to see him do 600k-800k in first week but in reality i think he will do 450k.
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kind of echoing some people here..he ain't going to get 50 type numbers, he would of need a crazy club single and heavy promotion.
he'll get 2x platnium, and 300-400k first week.
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I'd say between 2 and 3x platinum. The hype won't reach 50's level, though I'd love to see that.
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HIS BUZZ IS BIG RIGHT NOW AND ON POWER 106 THEY PLAYED HIS WHOLE RECORD AND THEY WERE HYPIN IT UP BIG TIME I THINK HE'LL PRY SELL 3.5 MILL THE WAY ITS LOOKIN AND PICK THE SONG "DREAMS"KANYE PRODUCED FOR HIS NEXT SINGLE AND MY OPINION HOW WE DO SHOULDNT OF BEEN THE FIRST SINGLE PEACE
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I was on point on Xzibit and Eminem's first week sales, but I was way off when I thought Mase was going to have a big first week. My problem is I don't have a television now, so I didn't know that Mase wasn't getting much video play on MTV and BET.
Anyway, I don't know how much video play "How We Do" is getting, but I've been told he hasn't recieved much more than a lukeworm reception. Still, on the strength of being part of the G-Unit/Aftermath team, I think he's gonna be good for 500,000 units in the first week.
So that's my prediction 500,000.
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4 billion
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the need to drop the second vid before the end of week if that drops im saying calvin broadus numbers 700k plus
if not probaly same as banks first week 500k
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I put my vote on 400k, but I think it gone be more like 350..
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why dont you go from there
http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=64594.0
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but I've been told he hasn't recieved much more than a lukeworm reception.
So that's my prediction 500,000.
So a Lukewarm recption sells 500,000 copies in it's first week?! Crazy!
I'd say having the number 9 single in the nation isn't too lukewarm.
http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/hot100.jsp
I hope he sells 500,000 in his first week, but I'm gonna go with 200~300 thousand with a very strong second week as well.
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427,822
;D
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Overall, maybe 3-4 Mil, maybe more or less depending on promotion.
First week....ehh..............ahh..sii.....I mean fi.....damn......wtf......I really donno off hand for the first week.
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I doubt he's going gold first week.
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As far as first week sales and overall sales go, here are some things that I think we should all look at before estimatin his sales, and just some things to think about period regardin the album.
-Down south, most people are gonna buy it bootleg instead of buyin it in stores, other than the actual Game fans. The ones who just like the single are just gonna get it bootleg
-East coast, a lotta people will buy it, but not like they would to 50. Many of them will buy it because of his affiliation, and because of the producers on it.
-West coast, most of his fans will buy it, a lot of the haters are gonna still get it bootleg and still front like it's not all that hot, and a lot of people are gonna buy it when they realize it's hot. But Many people who are west coast fans period are gonna buy it, hopin that we can do somethin else in the future.
-Overall, his hype now versus 50 when he came out isn't quite as high but it almost is if you think about it overall. 50 had all the hype because of the mixtapes, Wanksta and In da Club, and the whole controversy. But he didn't have as much TV time, magazine articles and covers and all that BEFORE his album dropped.
-How we do isn't as big as single as In Da Club at all, and even at that, a lot of people are sayin 50 outshined Game on the track (and if I told you all somethin about that song, y'all would probably be pissed off at Game) so people may not buy the album just from that one song like they would have if it was just Game on it
-Many Dre fans are gonna buy the album because they think he's producin it all, and they will be disappointed to see he only did a few tracks, but they'll still enjoy the album. Somewhat similar to when 213 fans realized Warren G didn't do any of the beats. But still, the fact that Dre is behind it, and people love damn near anything Dre does, people are gonna buy it.
-They are playin the whole album on MTV and advertisin for people to hear it all after a lot of their shows.
-He's "part" of G-Unit, and they aren't as hot as they were a year ago but people are still on em kinda hard, so some of their fans will buy it to "complete" their collection
-The album leaked sorta late, which is good for his sales, but people are still bootleggin it like hell. However, the fact that it is a good ass album will actually have people who got the leaked version spreadin word about it bein great.
-I pretty much explained 50's hype before his album...comparin him to Snoop, Snoop had the hype comin from one of the biggest albums in history, and had a whoooooole lotta anticipation. Game had some anticipation from mixtapes and just the fact that people on the west want somebody new to take over, but Snoop had the world in shock because of how different he was, and the fact that it was a new sound comin out. So comparin his hype to Snoop is a bit unfair but it's nothin close personally.
So...with all that said, here's my opinion about the first week sales...
200,000 or less - Complete disappointment. Still decent for any other artist's debut, but with this much hype and promotion, this will be considered a flop from the jump, even if it sells a lot later.
200,000-400,000 - Definitely not bad, but people will still see it as being disappointing. It could still sell a lot later, especially if singles are pushed hard, but this will not be too good.
400,000-600,000 - Pretty damn solid, and about what I'd expect (somewhere between 450-500 to be exact) bein very realistic. Although I hope it does better, this is very good for a debut, and even with his promotion, it will be a lil bit disappointing but it will still be hope and it's nothin close to bein a flop.
600,000-800,000 - Very Good, and this will have everybody on the dick of him and the west coast. Many people are expectin this because of 50's sales, and I definitely hope it does this, but I don't know for sure if it'll happen because of the things I mentioned. If this does happen, get ready to see a LOT more west coast artists come out following. Just to let y'all know, almost every major record label has at least one west coast artist who's either signed, or on the verge of being signed, and as sad as it may be, the companies are just waitin on Game's numbers to see if it's "worth" investin and promotin a west coast artist. So if he does this, then there is a whole lotta hope for the west coast, and that's just fact. A year from now, we will be able to go back to this post and read this here and say damn....that shit was true.
800,000-1,000,000 - Cot damn.......amazing. All I said in the previous one, plus some. Only difference is he'd become somethin like an Icon of rap and 2005, meaning we're gonna see him so much that people who aren't really fans will get tired of seein him, and people who didn't know about him will be on his dick hard.
1,000,000+ - Um.................damn......I guess that would mean that the west coast is single handedly put back on the map, and we will see everything from Game toys to Game clones. Only bad thing would be that every single bad thing he ever did in his life would come to life, and many many many people would just hate on levels higher than they already do.
So that's just how I see it...not sayin I'm 100% accurate at all. I think first week sales mean a lot more than people may realize, especially when everybody has anticipated that first day for a long time. Some CDs start slow, but those are the ones that don't really get hyped up for that release date like this one.
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great breakdown, me personally i think they were stupid for releasing How we do when they did, they shouldbe done it earlier, have it be his street joint, like 50s wanksta then drop a second single around now right before the albums released. cuz musically, the mainstream hasnt heard no Game. On How We Do, the only other single he was rappin on was Jim Jones certified gangstas
i think it will sell 150,000-400,000
i see it doing real low........its a possibility that shouldnt be dismissed
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I still don't understand why they didn't release Higher commercially. People know would know about his affiliation even without 50 Cent on the first single. In Da Club was a solo track too right?
Higher is a banger whereas I still can't get into How We Do.
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people don't know about game out here in germany yet... when 50 cent was about to drop the whole world was talking about him
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people don't know about game out here in germany yet... when 50 cent was about to drop the whole world was talking about him
same here in holland...
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dont kill the messenger but:
Interscope label projection: 2.5-3X Plat in 05
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dont kill the messenger but:
Interscope label projection: 2.5-3X Plat in 05
im not saying anything about the sales all i said was that his hype is nowhere near 50's becaue 50 had hype all over the world, everybody was talking about him. game no1 knows him outside the country like that, and if they do it"s g-units new dude... ranked under banks and buck lol
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dont kill the messenger but:
Interscope label projection: 2.5-3X Plat in 05
im not saying anything about the sales all i said was that his hype is nowhere near 50's becaue 50 had hype all over the world, everybody was talking about him. game no1 knows him outside the country like that, and if they do it"s g-units new dude... ranked under banks and buck lol
yea, but i heard they're gonna be hitting europe hard soon with game. dedicato said something like they havent even officially dropped a single in Europe yet, so thats probably why.
i think theyre plan is divide and conquer. they want to focus on America/Canada first, then hit international later instead of doing it all at once.
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So a Lukewarm recption sells 500,000 copies in it's first week?! Crazy!
I'd say having the number 9 single in the nation isn't too lukewarm.
http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/hot100.jsp
I hope he sells 500,000 in his first week, but I'm gonna go with 200~300 thousand with a very strong second week as well.
My post said that I had heard his video hasn't recieved much more than a lukewarm reception. Read the post carefully.
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-How we do isn't as big as single as In Da Club at all, and even at that, a lot of people are sayin 50 outshined Game on the track (and if I told you all somethin about that song, y'all would probably be pissed off at Game) so people may not buy the album just from that one song like they would have if it was just Game on it
what 50 wrote the whole song?
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-How we do isn't as big as single as In Da Club at all, and even at that, a lot of people are sayin 50 outshined Game on the track (and if I told you all somethin about that song, y'all would probably be pissed off at Game) so people may not buy the album just from that one song like they would have if it was just Game on it
what 50 wrote the whole song?
lol, damn man....u guys dont wanna know
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probably 300k seems reasonable.
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-How we do isn't as big as single as In Da Club at all, and even at that, a lot of people are sayin 50 outshined Game on the track (and if I told you all somethin about that song, y'all would probably be pissed off at Game) so people may not buy the album just from that one song like they would have if it was just Game on it
what 50 wrote the whole song?
LOL hell nah, never that.
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i thought Lloyd Banks wasn't going to sell a lot first week cause i didn't hear his single at all on radio..but then agian i dont listen to radio ;D
and he sold 420K...im gonna sya..Game is gonna go gold
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Im gonna say about 350,000. I dunno, gold is pretty damn hard to get first week, but ya never know "How we do" is blown up pretty big. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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so tell us man quit being a beez natch
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A lot of cats I talked too that liek the song think How We Do is the new 50 Cent single.
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Yeah, I've heard people say "Dr Dre looks so much younger and thugged out in that How We Do video with 50 Cent"
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people don't know about game out here in germany yet... when 50 cent was about to drop the whole world was talking about him
yep
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Yeah, I've heard people say "Dr Dre looks so much younger and thugged out in that How We Do video with 50 Cent"
what's up with Dre's eye though then :D
@R-Tistic: come out of the closet! don't swing the bait when you aint gonna give the bait..
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Nah I can't tell all the inside info I know, especially on a internet board like this and where people know that I kno the truth and just don't make up bullshit. If I told half the shit I know, dudes wouldn't tell me shit anymore. I just have to tease y'all a lil bit!
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game wrote the whole track perhaps?
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Nah, I hope he didn't do that.
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game wrote the whole track perhaps?
shit that would be crazy if he did, but nah thats impossible. but shit just doesnt happen like that. 50 would be exposed if something like that were tru
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why bring it up if you wasnt plannin on sayin what?
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people don't know about game out here in germany yet... when 50 cent was about to drop the whole world was talking about him
same here in holland...
Naw man, Juize FM are even advertising using Game's joint How We Do lol ;D
Then again, the other radiostations and tv channels don't seem to know him at all. I heard the How We Do video wasn't even available for request on The BOX like a week ago... wtf? It's a good thing most hiphop fans don't need BOX or the dutch radio to stay up to date tho.
Well, that's it for Game in Europe...I don't expect him to sell much outside of the USA, and like 600.000 in the USA during the first week. Will be good for the west anyway!
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banks hit multi plat didnt he?
as far as i know, he's only plat once. i expect game to outsell banks no matter what. like 600.000 in the 1st week, and 3 times plat in total.
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300,000
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Some one wrote games lyrics on "How we do"
It has to be
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Don't think so.. Game's Lyrics on How We Do are below his standards.. and he talks about Air Force.. again.
My theory is: Game didnt want 50 on that Track, because he stole the show and he is Eastcoast and what not. But Jimmy forced him to have it no other way. Im probably right, what do you think?
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nelly worte game lyrics
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maybe Game didnt want 50 on the song at all?
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It will be between 200k and 300k. I'm gonna say around 280,000.
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270,000 - 305,000
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i think he might hit 400000 but dreams will push him platnum i think
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Well dont count on me to buy this ''wick wick wack album'' & when i say this Im far of the truth
thi alb is unlistenable lol
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game first had dre on the song but then put 50 on it instead??
I was thinkin the same. The original was probably 10 times better.
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I predict 500,000.
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hype is really building by the second. i heard in NY at some places they are starting to sell it and there was a long line. i cant go anywhere without hearing westside story or how we do bumping in someones car.
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people don't know about game out here in germany yet... when 50 cent was about to drop the whole world was talking about him
same in the uk.theres been little things here and there and the vids just started playin.but 50 was real big weeks be4 he dropped...the album drops on the 17th but fuck knows how it will do...
EDIT-looks like its been put back aweek to the 24th...
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i think it will sell 300-350k hopefully it will sel just as much as 50s did. :)
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you know platinum+
i'm thinking 85 million copys in the first 2 minutes the stores are open
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Don't think so.. Game's Lyrics on How We Do are below his standards.. and he talks about Air Force.. again.
My theory is: Game didnt want 50 on that Track, because he stole the show and he is Eastcoast and what not. But Jimmy forced him to have it no other way. Im probably right, what do you think?
lol game did not ever want 2 be on gunit, but they made him sige.so u could be right...
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im goin with 600 000 just cuzz its aftermath/g-unit realase