Nas sells 355.000 and debuts at number 1 !

[Don Jacob]

Are you telling me that Nas and Jeezy can move more units that Snoop?  Snoop is a household name.  I don't buy it.  I'd believe these numbers easily a couple years ago, but the way shit is selling now, there's no way.

and Nas...everyone in New York knows Nas..fuck everyone knows Nas...not to mention he releases an album before christmas time..plus his cd is pretty cheap to buy at best buy = good first week numbers.....350k aint fuckin amazing..but still good

yeah, it's like 9 bucks at target (first week of release) but even if it's not on sale, it's NAS , people respect him on the west coast and people worship him on the eastcoast. plus his album is pretty solid so that's going to spark some people to buy it.

[Tanjential]

Let's face the facts, Nas hasn't been selling well his last few albums. 

What are you talking about?  Every album Nas has released (including his last few) has gone Platinum.  Nas has long ago joined the ranks of MCs who are reliably profitable.  As far as Jeezy goes, it sounds odd, but notice how "I Luv It" jumped pretty quickly into the Top 20 when it was released.  Also, if you live in the South, you'll hear Jeezy's shit being bumped everywhere.  For now at least, he has enough fans that it's not too surprising to see him do those kinds of numbers.

As far as Snoop goes, it is kinda unusual "TBCT" is selling kinda slowly, but then again, remember that "Drop It Like It's Hot" was one of 2004's biggest hits, yet even so, "R&G" still didn't sell any better than most of Snoop's records.  Part of the problem I think is that while Snoop has lots of fans, they're still West Coast cats for the most part, and the West is not nearly as supportive of its artists as the East and the South.

Cause we're broke out here on the west homey! fuckin' air is expensive out here! But they tell me it's cause there's so much THC in it. 

-T

[Sikotic™]

How many did Jigga buy this week?

[Just Another Sunny day in California]

damn that's good shit for nas

[WestCoasta]

How many did Jigga buy this week?

he's really diggin into that bank account

[Sikotic™]

How many did Jigga buy this week?

he's really diggin into that bank account

lol

but on a serious note, congrats to Nas. The album is dope.

[Hatesrats™]

Congrat's to Nas...

carry on tradition...

[Eddie G.]

Are you telling me that Nas and Jeezy can move more units that Snoop?  Snoop is a household name.  I don't buy it.  I'd believe these numbers easily a couple years ago, but the way shit is selling now, there's no way.

where have you been the past two years? Everyone knows who Jeezy is...every dealer in the world knows who Jeezy is and thye love his music (I personally don't)

and Nas...everyone in New York knows Nas..fuck everyone knows Nas...not to mention he releases an album before christmas time..plus his cd is pretty cheap to buy at best buy = good first week numbers.....350k aint fuckin amazing..but still good

Every dealer knows Jeezy, so what?  How many drug dealers are there period, and then of the drug dealing population, how many are gonna go out and support an artist the first week?  300,000 copies is gonna include a great majority of people that aren't "in the know" of hip hop.  Same goes for Nas.  EVERY even casual rap fan knows who Nas is, but is he really that big of a figure in the mainstream to do these kinds of numbers in his first week?  I hadn't seen the sales chart for this week when I first replied in this thread, it looks like everything was way inflated cuz of Christmas, so maybe this is why the numbers are what they are.  But on a regular week, in THIS climate of CD sales, I couldn't see either of them moving more than 100-150K.  Also, Snoop's CD was 9.99 at Best Buy the first week too, so I doubt that prices had anything to do with it.

[Detox Iz Not Active]

good to hear this

[Tanjential]

I think he meant CD stores, like places that put in the orders for shipments of records. Like if they know Nas by name they'll know to order a gang of Nas' record= high sales first week. It counts how many CDs the dealer buys not the individual.

-T

[WestCoasta]

Every dealer knows Jeezy, so what?  How many drug dealers are there period, and then of the drug dealing population, how many are gonna go out and support an artist the first week?

hah good point

[Chief]

Every dealer knows Jeezy, so what?  How many drug dealers are there period, and then of the drug dealing population, how many are gonna go out and support an artist the first week?

LOL wtf are people talking about drug dealers for? LOL

[eS El Duque]

^^lol i was tryin to make a point...since Jeezy is the role model to every new coke mule out there...there's a lot of idiots that love his music.

Anywayz...I pretty sure his numbers will fall next week to under 100K

[Dj Eskimo]

im really suprised by them numbers, thats more than i expected but as someone said a lot of people know Nas, i work at a small HMV and we got about 50copies of the album, thats quite a lot for a hiphop artist, we only got 30 copies of the games album and about 50 of snoops...

props to Nas for making a solid album still.

[MIAMI4LIFE]

record sales go down every year so 355k when you think about it is more like 500k would've been just a few years ago...Game, Jeezy and Nas all sold around the same 1st week, there is no way Jay-z sold 680k when in his peak he usually sold 450-550k...