Tuesday, October 09, 2007
The Clash of the Titans
Kanye West and 50 Cent will share the same release date for their third solo albums as the Chicago rapper's forthcoming project, Graduation, has been pushed back. This being 50 Cents third album by the title of "Curtis", it has high expectatoins as usual. Trying to live up to the results of his first album, 50 says he will either out sale Kanye West in the first week of album sales, or he will retire.
Kanye West's last album "Late Registration," has sold 2.8 million to date, but 50 Cent's "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" has sold nearly 8 million.
Like candidates trying to sway voters on Election Day, Kanye West and 50 Cent appeared on BET's 106 & Park September 11, 2007, when both their heavily anticipated albums hit the stores. West and 50 Cent have hyped the albums as an epic battle of the rap titans. Kanye West album "Graduation" sold 957,000 copies, easily surpassing the 691,000 copies sold by "Curtis," according to the SoundScan.
Kanye West's total is the highest first-week sales for an album in more than two years, when 50 Cent's sophomore effort, "The Massacre," opened with 1.1 million copies in March 2005, the last album to reach the seven-figure mark. Not since 1991 have two albums registered first-week sales of more than 600,000 copies in the same week.
"Graduation" accounted for one out of every 10 albums sold in the U.S. last week. Combined, the two releases also gave some much-needed life back into the hip-hop sales, which were down more than 30% for the first half of 2007 compared with a year earlier.
Kanye West's last album "Late Registration," has sold 2.8 million to date, but 50 Cent's "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" has sold nearly 8 million.
Like candidates trying to sway voters on Election Day, Kanye West and 50 Cent appeared on BET's 106 & Park September 11, 2007, when both their heavily anticipated albums hit the stores. West and 50 Cent have hyped the albums as an epic battle of the rap titans. Kanye West album "Graduation" sold 957,000 copies, easily surpassing the 691,000 copies sold by "Curtis," according to the SoundScan.
Kanye West's total is the highest first-week sales for an album in more than two years, when 50 Cent's sophomore effort, "The Massacre," opened with 1.1 million copies in March 2005, the last album to reach the seven-figure mark. Not since 1991 have two albums registered first-week sales of more than 600,000 copies in the same week.
"Graduation" accounted for one out of every 10 albums sold in the U.S. last week. Combined, the two releases also gave some much-needed life back into the hip-hop sales, which were down more than 30% for the first half of 2007 compared with a year earlier.
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