NAS album sales (usa) for every one of his 11 solo albums to date.

[MiC]

Illmatic Columbia 1994 1,654,000

It Was Written Columbia 1996 2,595,000

I Am… Columbia 1999 2.178,000

Nastradamus Columbia 1999 1,262,000

Stillmatic Columbia 2001 2,179,000

God’s Son Columbia 2002 1,362,000

Lost Tapes Columbia 2002 361,000

Street’s Disciple Columbia 2004 724,000

Hip Hop Is Dead Def Jam 2006 785,000

Untitled Def Jam 2008 480,000

Life Is Good Def Jam 2012 380,000

TOTAL: 14 million
-3 albums 2x platinum
-3 albums platinum
-2 albums gold
-3 albums below 500k

 

[PIFF101]

Which tells me he's had a solid core fanbase for 20+ years in the music industry

 

[mortuus est]

can we look at jays from 96-03?

 

[MiC]

5,299,000, "Vol. 2...Hard Knock Life"
3,345,000, "Black Album"
3,093,000, "Vol. 3...Life and Times of S. Carter"
2,608,000, "The Blueprint"
2,521,000, "Dynasty Roc La Familia (2000 -)"
2,069,000, "The Blueprint 2: The Gift and the Curse"
1,934,000, "Collision Course" (with Linkin Park)
1,514,000, "Reasonable Doubt"
1,510,000, "Kingdom Come"
1,412,000, "In My Lifetime, Vol. 1"
1,131,000, "American Gangster"

 

[MouseTeeth]

pretty good ...hell never go platinum again tho

 

[Flav]

Respect to Nas for those numbers




Damn Hov

 

[EducatedBrothaFromTheBank]

i thought IWW went triple plat

 

[the cool]

i contributed to all those numbers

 

[Big Mel]

shame on you stans for not rallying the final 20K to get Untitled a plaque.

 

[ORDER_66]

StillMatic is one of the GOAT's im surprised it went double plat...

 

[stealthbomber]

pretty good ...hell never go platinum again tho

by choice, not because he can't

 

[Big Mel]

^^^^lolololololol

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

SD is counted as 1,4 mill since it's a double album, btw

 

[Regular_P]

SD is counted as 1,4 mill since it's a double album, btw

I think he fell below the time requirements to count as an official double album for sales.

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

I think he fell below the time requirements to count as an official double album for sales.

IDK, RIAA list it as a plat album