The Game Comes In At #2 On Charts
by on September 4th, 2008
Contrary to reports that The Game's 3rd release, "LAX", debuted on the charts at #1 yesterday, it actually was # 2. The Compton, California MC was surpassed by rock group Slipknot, by less than 2,000 units, based on sales figures released by Nielsen SoundScan.
Although The Game had a great showing of selling over 238,000 copies this time out, it's actually his lowest selling debut of an album. His 2005 LP The Documentary entered the chart on top with 587,000 scans, while the 2006 follow-up, Doctor's Advocate, sold more than 358,000 units, to open at #1.
It was originally reported that LAX had beat Slipknot's "Maggots" for the #1 spot, but that sales information was incomplete according to a representative for SoundScan, who added that the long holiday weekend caused delays in sales data.




























BROOKLYN STAND UP…BEDSTY, NOSTRAND IS DA AVE COME HOLLA
& why peoole always complaining about how they didn’t like the album cuz he name drops, as if you didn’t know he was gonna do it. All I’m saying is, it doesn’t take a genius to not listen to what he doesn’t like. Just stick to what you like, stop hating!
^ thank you man. finally someone agrees with me
Nobody agrees with you because you’re a dumbass who always suckin 50’s dick. HE’S WACK!!! And so dat clown Plies.
http://lilwaynehq.com/blog/lil-wayne-documentary-“the-carter”-in-the-making
Y THE FUCK DO U HAV OMAR AS UR AVATAR…YEA HE WAS THUG WHO ROBBED NIGGAZ ON THE WIRE BUT HE WAS A HOMO FIRST…U LOOK UP TO HIM RIGHT…ITS GOOD TO BE GAY IF U BODIED NIGGAZ RIGHT?
FUCKN FAGGOT
if you’re trying to talk shit to me because I have a fucking ACTOR as my avatar than you’re about as fucking lame as The Game & his stans are
eat a dick kid, stay off my shit
Nas sold less than Game and TOS did really bad numbers. Hahahaha.
Stop using them
Game not going plat once again… – FAIL
surely looked that way from interscope point of view
“I murder mtv raps top 10 and tat my face with 10 tears, Now thats 10 funerals, and 10 caskets, 10 three piece ralph lauren suits, 10 motor bikes stopin traffic, and 10 reasons why i got california hotter than acid, dont you ever ever leave me out the top 10 again you fuckin bastards” Now thats real…
game is doind the same numbers as banks and buck and he has a entire coast relying on him.lol
nyc is way too competitive and game should have done way better than 238k, who else dropping out there in la la land? or west coast.game aint no better off than anyone in g-unit and his ass is about to be broke, can someone say recoup.g-unit had nooooooo guests which mean no one to pay for any features.they only had polo and swiss as big name producers.rap is a business, so while yall laughing about tos flopping, the unit smiling better than your favoite rapper who spent his advance on features because he cant write a song.
Game got a feature on like every song. Some of yall might have excuses for that…EVEN THOUGH 50 SAID HE COULD NEVER WRITE HOOKS..but OK. He got Wayne on a song. 75k right there on the studio budget. Now jus estimate the other features. THEN THE BEATS…it adds up. Plus the record label gon eat a lot.
With T.O.S. they didn’t have big name producers…IT WASN’T A COMMERCIAL ALBUM and they didn’t have features. THEY TOURED AFRICA AND MADE MONEY BASED OF TOURS ALONE.
MATERIAL WISE I GIVE BOTH ALBUM 9/10. I like The Game (music) and G-Unit. Some of yall hate too much and take that beef stuff way to serious and choose sides. L.A.X. is a good album. COULD HAVE PROBABLY BEEN A CLASSIC if it wasn’t for so many features. But still a good album. But facts are facts.
238,000 is a flop! nothin short nothin less. especially when you sold 5 millie on the 1st album…He could at least do 3-4 and that’s understandable…like Dre said
“you don’t recover from Gold records”
hahhhahhaa
Can you just leave this website? You are a tool.
THEN AGAIN DAT WUD NEVER HAPPEN CUZ HE HAS A 1MILLION STANS DAT NO MATTER WAT WUD COP THE SHYT TRUST ME IF KINGDOME COME CAN GO PLAT ANYTHING WIT HIS NAME CAN GO PLAT SHYT JUST DROP SOME INSTRUMENTALS WIT HIS NAME IT GOES PLAT SAME WIT EMINEM
AND ALL YALL GAME STANS AND FANS KNOW THE NIGGA LIKE CHICKS WIT DICKS.
AND HE STILL YA FAVORITE RAPPER
@Def Sounds Bloggers
New Rule: Don’t send a nigga a personal message talkin about you hate his comment! Lol just trash him or don’t pay him no attention..I had some little faggot ass nigga send me a personal message..It felt like a text, i thought it was a bitch or something tryin to get up lol only to find out it’s some little chump talking about “i don’t like what you said”, lol well nigga I was thinkin about your feelings when I was typing(not)…Next nigga that do that shit give me your bank account, so i can wire you 600 dollars to buy a piece…should have enough left-over for a bullet or two and kill yourself.
LISTEN IF KINGDOME COME WENT A MILL U THINK A ALBUM JUST WIT THE NAME BP3 WONT SELL COME ON HE GOT A MILLION LOYAL FANS DAT NO MATTER IF HE PUT OUT BULLSHIT THEY COPPIN THATS REAL TALK SO U KNOW HOV GOING A MILL BUT NOT FIRST WEEK DATS JUST CRAZI WEEZY HAD PPL BUY HIS ALBUM TRUST ME THIS WEEK 50K PPL BOUGHT HIS ALBUM R U SERIOUS WHO STILL BUYIN CARTER3
He more than doubled sales of T.O.S.
anyway’s, second spot is also good.
this horseshit album will NOT go platinum… all of the game stans have already spent their money
so for games sake dont talk about games fav rapper like that one day hes gonna grow up to be just like jay
While TOS hasn’t sold more than LAX. G-unit will make more of TOS. I think Game might be at a loss.
How many features does he have. Lil wayne, travis barker, K. Cole, Ludacris, Nas. Do you think they were on his album for free? He also picked more expensive producers like cool and dre, kanye, dj quick, dj troomp, trackmasters. I bet he spent millions. He probably didn’t have enough money in the budget to spent on marketing.
The Unit on the other hand kept their album way more street. They had one cheap video, no features, besides swiss beats, all their producers were hungry newcomers that will work for less. Some of them may have even done it for free. I know a friend , pete beatz, who gave a way a beat to Terminology for his next album for free just to get his name out there. Also the Unit are doing under their own label. I don’t know if Game has his own label but if he doesn’t he’s screwed.
If you ask me TOS is more of a success then LAX. With so much effort Game put it he will not get much out.
TOS sold 98k, you guys are fucking retards honestly. In these days 230k is amazing. Half of you just hate Game because your favorite rappers favorite rapper is Game.
i was just confused by this.. are you saying the name of the slipknot album.. because the name of the album is “all hope is lost” and “maggots” are what they call there fans, just wanted to clear that up…
go buy this cd tho along with paper trail and theater of mind
BLACK WALLSTREET BITCH!!!
LAX is full of features and songs about Game’s depression
get the fuck outta here you stan
it sold 238,000 first week COUNTING WORLDWIDE
TOS SOLD 600,000 WORLDWIDE
it DID NOT sell more than tos
Preview
— 18 minutes ago
Ok but what does that have to do with anything. Ever heard of scapegoat?
Stop using them
Game not going plat once again… – FAIL
surely looked that way from interscope point of view
Get off 50 cent nuts!!!!
Doctors advocate been Plat nigga
If you have not seen it, (i know its old but i just found it) please go to youtube and look for “jamie foxx destroys doug williams” i swear it is the funniest thing i have ever seen in my life…
sorry for not keeping it on topic
Just think of the people he has had legitimate problems with… buddens, yukmouth, g-unit ect… buddens was kida cool with pump it up but he beefed with game, now he will never sell. (i know people liked that last mood muzik, but come on..he wont sell) yukmouth.. another one that will never sell, just like lil e and most of the other clows game has had beef with…
but then it brings us to g-unit, i know most of you guys were around for there glory days. They were on top of the world. after get rich or die trying everybody was talking 50 cent and g-unit. now after they beefed with game, look where they are not. Am i saying game did that to them? na of course not, most likely a coincidence. but nobody wants to become the next person to fall hard like gunit did
since games album has only been out a week we can’t do total sales for him, so we will just do first week
GAME
The Documentary: 586,000 first week
L.A.X.: 238,000 first week
thats a 325,000 difference
50 Cent
get rich or die tryin’: 12 million worldwide
curtis: 5 million worldwide
difference of 7 million..
now i know there is a big difference between first week and total but at the end of the day, game will not sell 7 million less copies than his first album did lol
its not about who killed who, its about who fell farther. answer 50 cent
and by the way yayo will never sell, banks next album wont sell and TOS… we all know how that turned out lol
i hope you realize what im saying now… NOBODY wants there album sales cut in half
50 cent’s third album sold 7 MILLION LESS than his first album on interscope…
find me anybody else that has happened to, its a complete travesty from a marketing standpoint
If yall niggas remember, yea 50 sold 700k his first week. But how many records did he sell overall? 1.3 MILLION in the US and 1.7 WW. Yea he went plat, but even 50 himself considered it a flop because he said that if he didnt sell as much as his first 2 albums, then it was a failure. And now u niggas wanna say that Game flopped even though he almost tripled TOS sales? Fuck outta here with that shit. G-Unit will never go gold besides 50 from now on. Even Bank’s last album only sold 350,000.
And oh yea, HOUSTON get off the West Coast’s scrotum u hater. How the FUCK is the West Coast over? U dont even know what the fuck u talkin about.
and 1 mo tyme. yall ak like record sales aint ben down. who goes gold or plat n e more. Ye and 50 went cuz of da publicity stunt dey used. if dey wood have came out different dayz than each other. it woodnt have ben as big as it wuz. dats common sense. it wuz da hype. da same as C3.
game aint talk shit bout dis album sellin cuz he nu how da game wuz. cant wait 4da mixtapes doe. LAX aint gotta b called classic but itz 1of if not da hottest album of da year. best 1 he did.
and no, TOS wuznt ah bad album, i wuz surprised actually but numbers lie. numbers dnt mean ah album sucks.
where all tha niggas at that was sayin he doin a MILL tha first week??
this nigga FLOPPED!!
haha
an ya’ll niggas tlkin bout game doin way better than TOS this nigga sold LESS than tos tha first week. TOS 300,000 tha first week
he still had a couple cool songs tho…
P.S. TOS was a good album to LOKEY but you GAME dick riders said it sukked
SOO SHUDDUP
nas sells 187..
and nas doesnt repetitively suck dre’s dick and rhyme about the same shit over and over
HHID
r u serious niga??
they were juss tlkin bout it on KUBE 93. nigga my figures are straight. an they sold 700,000 first week
LAX was still a flop tho no matter what
the figure i found was 102k first week in the united states.. i just doubt they sold 600k in the rest of the world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate_On_Sight
you wld go to WIKIPEDIA. that site ISNT real. people can change that.
and yes i know. im wrong. it sold 600,000 – 602,000 the first week. but anyway my point is.
game DIDNT beat 50. he tlked all that shit bout 50 not sellin at summerjam an he kldnt even beat um
but yeah wit all the hype this album got it should hav sold more i think
BUT I WOULD HAVE NEVER MADE THAT JUDGEMENT BASED ON SALES. THAT JUST GOES TO SHOW FAKE MOST OF YOU PEOPLE ON THIS SITE IS
game sold 238,000 first week counting worldwide.
so he DIDNT beat 50. lol
he tlked all that shit at summerjam for no reason lmao
godam. u niggas is stupid.
it sold 238,00 counting worldwide. TOS sold 600,000 WORLDWIDE
http://www.sohh.com/2008/08/hip-hop-charts.html
/> OMG look at this quote this proves that all G-Unit fans are idiots for thinking this actually sold 700 K worldwide. “After five weeks, 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo can’t be happy the porous overall number of 185, 000 copies sold.” LMFAO!
when did game EVER sell 7 millon even when he was with g-unit??
an please dnt tell me u were tlkin bout him sellin 7 million with LAX
when did game EVER sell 7 millon even when he was with g-unit??
an please dnt tell me u were tlkin bout him sellin 7 million with LAX
^ nigga u didnt make no point at all, who every 50 cents fucks with is going to be destroy, He destroyed Ja rule, He destroy fat joe, Made jadakiss beg for his 50 forgivness cuz D-block aint making no sales, made the game quit the rap game and all of 50 cents album out sold games, and made young buck look like a bitch, the only person he didnt fuck with was NAS, G-unit bitch, Houston aka rap south capital
atlanta is the southern rap capital you clown….and jadakiss bodied 50 cent on wax,how old are you 11???, get curtis jackson’s dick out of your throat…d-block recieves more respect than banks/gayo and 50 snitch than g-unit will ever recieve…the only person 50 cent beat in a battle was ja-rule and fat-joe which NEITHER of them are punch-line rappers so your statement is pointless…go listen to jadakiss’s diss [checkmate] and listen to 50’s [i run new york] and than come holla at me because you sound mad ignorant right now fo’real foreal…..
jadakiss is a hella good rapper. i listen to him alot. bu checkmate was not good enough. 50 cent (piggy bank, i run new york) were better