11/18/02, 10 a.m. ET) -- Superstar rapper Jay-Z is expected to debut at Number One on the Billboard 200 albums chart for the fifth time in his career with his new release, The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse. When the final tally for first week sales are released on Wednesday (November 20), it has been projected that the rapper will have sold more than 600,000 copies of the album.

 

Jay-Z's string of consecutive Number One releases was broken in December 2001, when the rapper's Unplugged failed to arrive at Number One. The set broke a string of four consecutive Number One bows, including: The Blueprint, which sold more than 425,000 copies in its first week to notch the Number One position in September of 2001; Vol. 2...Hard Knock Life, which debuted at Number One in October 1998; Vol. 3...Life And Times Of S. Carter, which premiered at Number One in January 2000; and The Dynasty: Roc La Familia 2000, which arrived atop the chart in November of 2000......THATS LIKE 300,000 COPIES ANYWAY CUZ REMEMBER ITS A DOUBLE CD

I think Nas is glad he pushed his release forward..

Nah jay-z pushed like 460,000

OFFCIALLY jay sold 570,000, that is the real!

Copies or units?...units I would assume.

snoop will sell 100,000 if that

 

snoop will sell 100,000 if that

relax, buddy... I say 350K to 400K in the first week, like most of his previous releases (NL Top Dogg, Last Meal, etc.)

Jay-z officially sold 545,000 copies...Since it's a double CD he is already platinum...Look for this to go 4xPlat by the end of next month...

last meal sold 400,000 the first week so i guess he'll sell around 500k with paid the cost..