FINAL SALES ARE IN: Yeezus - 330K, Born Sinner-300, Mac -100K

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You call people talkin about something on a message board or on Twitter as promo? :childplease:

Promo is the record label spending money to market an album, in the various ways I laid out, as well as the artist interacting with the media to raise awareness. This album had very little.

If you dropped an album it would have no promotion.

Kanye's face projected on the side of buildings in Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, and Toronto is promotion. That shyt cost money. Just because it's not magazine ads or SNL appearances don't mean it's not promotion.

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:laff: at Yeezuz not having promo,tmz talked about it multiple times and I don't even watch it every dayalong wth the fact everybody had an opinion on it....whether sum of the negativity about the quality of it is hurting him is another story,he does have that working against em....people won't be that outspoken on their feelings on jcoles album.
 

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:blessed:

fukk them nikkas the dynamic duo is back :noah:

:ooh:

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that sum low ass numbers for cac west tho :yeshrug:


hes no drake thats for sure


so the highest selling hip-hop artist in 013

PLAT ARTIST

EM
Drake - he aint hip-hop but :yeshrug:
Kendrick
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Gold Artist
Jay
Kanye
Cole

aftermath got 2/3 PLAT rappers in the game :blessed:


jay/kanye :flabbynsick:

WTT sold 1.5 mil and BP3 is double plat. Hard to say Jay isn't a plat artist.

Also Ross and Jeezy are gold artists. Ambition went Gold but I'm not sure The Gifted will.

Plat:

Eminem
Drake
Jay-Z
Kendrick (on the plat/gold borderline)
Kanye

Gold:

J. Cole
Rick Ross
Young Jeezy
2 Chainz
 

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WTT sold 1.5 mil and BP3 is double plat. Hard to say Jay isn't a plat artist.

Also Ross and Jeezy are gold artists. Ambition went Gold but I'm not sure The Gifted will.

Plat:

Eminem
Drake
Jay-Z
Kendrick (on the plat/gold borderline)
Kanye

Gold:

J. Cole
Rick Ross
Young Jeezy
2 Chainz

It's saying something when the hottest rappers in the south..that are on the radio 24/7 ..are getting passed up by J Cole


the people want substance...

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If you dropped an album it would have no promotion.

Kanye's face projected on the side of buildings in Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, and Toronto is promotion. That shyt cost money. Just because it's not magazine ads or SNL appearances don't mean it's not promotion.

Fred.
How much did it cost?
To lease 10 projectors and speakers for 1 night and 20 people to take care of it?
And how much does twitter cost?

He had the same type of budget for his promo as Papoose has for his mixtapes minus the SNL performance. Of course it's promo, but I didn't know that we were in court here and had to be completely literal. But it's a new day, social media, blogs and the super fast information flow is enough promo for someone of Kanye's caliber. Of course he won't maximize his sales, but it's enough to let all the fans know what's good.
 
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His albums pretty much catered to hip hop heads and hip hop heads only, son just wants to rap. Maybe if he releases that joint Pharrell produced as a single, but I think those numbers are good, album should have legs.

But the problem is... Mac shouldn't do that. Because no one who listens primarily to hip-hop wants to hear that motherfukker rap. :heh:

He needs to stick to that hipster, pop, corny crowd that loves being edgy without actually doing anything edgy. Get on that Macklemore route and start putting out those pop singles that white people eat up like candy.

Let's be honest. There is no reason a damn near 30 year old rapper should be outselling a 21 year old reaching his "prime" so to speak. Macklemore is almost platinum yet Mac has never went gold. Something isn't adding up here with Mac's career thus far. :dwillhuh:
 
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