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Kanye Outselling 50 At Best Buy Stores
by JOKESTA
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 2007
The Kanye West Vs. 50 Cent sales battle is officially on and HHNLive.com has exclusively obtained first day sales (as of 4pm EST) numbers for US Best Buy stores.
According to the numbers obtained by HHNLive.com, Kanye West has sold 42,438 copies of his “Graduation” album as of 4pm EST. 50 Cent’s “Curtis” album has moved 32,640 copies as of 4pm EST.
The numbers also show that due to its strong first day sales, there are over 10,000 copies of “Graduation” on order which is 2,000 more than are on order of 50’s “Curtis”.
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i got both; they both hot. wonder who going to take it?
I DONT GIVE A FUCK WHAT YALL SAY.IF U LISTENED TO 50'S RECENT MIXTAPES MOST OF HIS NEW TRACKS FROM CURTIS IS ON THERE..BASICALLY HIS NEW CD IS TRASH!!!!!...NOW KANYE'S SHIT GRADUATION IS HIS BEST ALBUM SO FAR HE PUT OUT..HE STEPPED HIS GAME UP AS A PRODUCER,RAPPER,AND TREND SETTER. I DONT BLAME HIM FOR ACTING LIKE HE DID AT THE VMA'S EITHER BECUZ IF YOU WERE IN HIS SPOT AS AN ARITIST GIVIN IT UR ALL WOULDNT U FEEL SOME WAY IF THERE PLAYING UR TRACK AND THERE NOT GETTIN REWARDED???????
you got to be kiding me thats a damn lie come on i have both and 50s album has 9 good songs and ye has 6
you wont be sayin that in a few days keep listenin
oh shit
this is listed under rumors
WHY THIS NIKKA JOKESTA LYING IS THIS A JOKE ?
hope ye win
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COP BOTH ALBUMS PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK KENNY!
I got kanye. my girl bought 50. 50 album is better than i thought but still he talked about bullshit. kanye was hot but i like college dropout better.
told you....i told you... lol i told you
KanYe was [or should i say is] goin to sell more albums than 50
who the hell goes to best buy for albums
cuz we dont down here
hnnlive be talking bad on ur boi 50
i read one time and it was like they was happy that 50 said he gonna retire
thats funny, b/c hnnlive said ye is winning. but ALLHIPHOP says 50 got a higher pre-order status
just wait till the first week is over. it soon will be over
In The Chi it's either Best Buy, Circuit City or Target cause they all drop the price to 9.99 and offer different exclusives....usually.
dude ur the biggest hidden stan i ever known. its been known that pre-order sales for kanye higher, get over it. none of yall getting paid for these sales are yall? stupid mofo's
apparently 42,438 of Kanye's fans go to Best Buy to get his music...
ok...... kanye is in the lead so everyone go buy curtis now lol
okay well thats where I bought my graduation and the two niggas in front of me did likewise...youre sayin it like best buy is square ville or something.anywho I knew Kan the louis vutton don would do numbers.GO KANYE... clash of the titans my ass
Well i got both albums. And i say, if soo many Tracks off Curtis didn't come out back in the summer, he'd have a more solid Album. Im listening to Kanye now, and i truly like its ok. College Dropout is still the best of the series. I think Kanye got most you ladies to buy it because of all the pink shit on the art-work.
man after listening to some of curtis, i would NOT go out and buy it. Kanyes is a maybe as well...
^^^ "" I truly think its ok "" ^^^
there were no curtis albums left on the shelf at the best buy i went 2
Same here
TO BE HONEST I CAN ONLY LISTE TO YE ALBUM LIKE ONE TIME THAN ILL RETIRE IT UNLESS I WANNA HEAR GOOD LIFE AND THAT JUST A MOTIVATION SONG WHEN IM FEELIN DOWN BUT 50 CENT ON THE OTHER HAND I CAN BUMP DAT SHYT ON REPEAT SHID IM LISTEN TO HIS SHYT NOW ON RHAPSODY...........BUT GO COP BOTH PPL BUT IF YOU CAN ONLY AFFORD ONE THAN COP 50 CENT
If you into that generic blah blah shoot niggas lay'em on the ground, blood hound bout to make a pound, a ton of cash, pull back on the AR, almost got whiplash.. you know I ain't say'n shit music.
I say that to say, if you like your music without depth or any sense of real reflection Cop the Curtis album over KanYe... Me I like good production AND lyrics that take talent to formulate. (I don't care if you say Ye got ghost writers..the shit is hot...ain't nobody accused 50 of that shit cause we all know his shit ain't take that many brain cells to come up with)
I'm just say'n both albums are good and it depends on what you like if you gotta get one or the other. They are both albums that consists of pretty much nothing but singles.
50 homo for putting his damn pubes in the booklet though. haha
^lol! yeah he is!
R u serious. 50 Shit is hot. Kanye shit hot. I dont know who 2 put in my cd player. But to be real, 50 shit is 4 da hardcore niggas. Kanye, you gotta listen 2 his shit 2 get a fell. but 50, u pop it in and u can just bobb 2 it. Im listen 2 kanye shit right now. But I had 2 watch that clash of titans. LOL, the end of dat shit was funny.
WHO'S EVER #1 ON MTV WILL WIN THIS BATTLE"WHO THE WHITE PEOPLE LIKE THE MOST WILL WIN BECAUSE MOST BLACK PEOPLE AINT BUYING WE BOOTLEGGIN"...SMH
sad but true...
AND THAT'S WHY KANYE IS GONNA SELL MORE.. EVERY WHITE PERSON I KNOW THAT LIKES HIP HOP THINKS 50 IS A BULLY/GANGSTA AND THEY LIKE KANYE CUZ HE WELL ROUNDED. I'M SORRY CURTIS I REALLY THINK KANYE IS GONNA DO IT
I think album sales should be judged by past sales. Compare their last albums...for God's sake, 50 sold 12 million records. How many did Kanye sell? Also, do you think 50 will sit down and let Kanye win the sales battle? hahahahaha...I don't think so!
DNA hit the nail on the head. Straight up
i could not even find 50 cd any i went to every store i could to get even look at walmart and kmart for the clean and they where sold out but i saw alot of kanye
Then u snapped back inti reality and realive you were seaching the wrong section so you scrolled down past the hip hop section and there they were hundreds of curtis cd now your thinking to yourself y didn't I go to the R and B section just wasted a shit load of gas and that's really how your day went
i couldnt find a 50 cd to save my life
lol all you dudes are madd stupid all you have to do is go to www.billboard.com and it tells you right there, no bullshittin, if sales keep going the way the first day sales went kanye is on pace to do 575-700 thou, 50 on pace to 500-600, and the country singer Kenny Chesney on pace to 400-550 keeping him neck to neck with 50. Honestly dudes need to hop off 50's nuts, and listen to Jay man "women lie, men lie, numbers don't".
u do know that
numbers are always wrong when the first day hit
jay was supposed to do a mil, then 800k, but came out in 600k
buck was supposed to do 300, but came out with 100k
Humans count numbers...therefore, they can be wrong
man this is a lie there is no way kanye can compete with fifty
cosign...Kanye may have a better album but based on sales, 50 got it on lock!!!!!!
50 is in the lead..he even said it on 106th n Park..and Kanye was right next to him..he would have said otherwise if 50 was lying..he just made this face.."like o well im still doing my numbers Fif"
i think he said that referring to the voting on the show
i heard different
dont think this is true...becuz when i went to bestbuy to buy one 50s shit was sold out...but i both of the albums is good..
FUCK BOTH THEM CDS..I HEARD BOTH OF THEM AND NONE CANT COMPETE WITH CHAMILLIONARIES ULTIMAT VICTORY CD!
don't nobody wanna get chamillionaire bullshit cd. that single he got out right now is supa garbage. he made slick rick look lame.
alright now...it says at BEST BUY DUMB FUCKS!! that means 50 COULD BE outselling kanye...not saying he is...Best Buy isnt the only place that sells cds
people keep saying o 50's album was sold out and i couldnt find it no where, lol
ok well that obviously tells u that they undershipped da album for the first week, and thats not good,
like dude said just check billboard.com idiots
yall indenial lmao
dont think this is true...becuz when i went to bestbuy to buy one 50s shit was sold out...but i think both of the albums is good..
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003638594
I copped graduation.......good luck ye
you gotta be kiddin' me 40,000 in half a day at one store, either way these cats bout to do numbers
kanye all the way
wait till the whole sale sheet come inn
just wait till the first week sale and see whos higher i have not copped ether yet but i will dis thursday at bestbuy.
Damn people getin' really butt hurt cuz 50 ain't out sold Kanye! Bitches get over it that fool ain't puttin' no food on your fuckin' table!
Shit coped that ye had to go to two diffrent stores cause that shit was sold out and the shits full of curtis I don't know about yall statr but that nigga killem curtis in north carolina
damn these dudes went GOLD in one day... WTF LOL
no they didnt u idiot
yo i went to Best Buy up here in Tampa and they had 3 Graduations left in the whole store by 3:30...they had bout 86 Curtis', real talk...Kanye all day
Ye gonna do damage so long fiddy!!
those haters went out strong to show their dislike for curtis. not so much of the love they got for ye ,but to see the king go down. but we all know ,the king aint going down. I'm waiting for Payday this friday so i can cop that curtis. by the way, did any of u gangsters see how 50 son big brotha and little brotha on some shit.,hola
Bruh u must be broke as hell if u don't have 999 shit get your life together
^^^lol
if u want to compare ye , compare him to talib .
compare j hov to 50. hov fuk cause now 50 gonna drop on the same day he drops his next shit. hip hop aint dead neither did it move to the south. it just got a face lift and a tec.
man when i went to circuit city like 20 people was there wit me buying 50 CD and them niggas was trying to hide the cd cause i had to look under the damn CD thing to get it
ALL THE GAME, NAS,FAT JOE, D BLOCK, HOVA, LIL WAYNE, JA RULE FANS WENT TO COP THAT KANYE SHIT. THE FUK UP PART ABOUT ,THEY AINT EVEN GONNA PLAY THAT SHIT. YA HATYERSD NEVER SEEMS TO AMAZE ME. 50 IS GONNA SMASH NUMBERS AGAIN CAUSE YA HATER AINT BUILD FOR THE LONG RUN THATS WHY YA FAVORITE ARTIST AINT SELLIN SHIT BUT BOOTLEGS.
um u will eat ya words come DEC 18th
history will be made
ya diigg
Dis is only 4 best buy and its a rumor BITCHES
50 GOT IT!
amazon had higher numbers too
Curtis is Hip-Hop
kanye is Hip-Pop and a crying bitch.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAAAAAAA
you forgot curtis is a snitch.
every one knows lil white girls buy 50 ive gon to the candy shop once he aint gonna rob me of my hard earned $$$ again not even a lil bit
even wit dre beats its still crap dre needs to save his beats 4 bishop lamont n busta or maybe just put out detox already
way to many people give a shit about Kanye and 50 record sales.Even if Kanye out sells fifty on this record.Fifty has already won when it comes to record sales in general.Its already been said no competition,get in your head.
i just copped curtis and i'm honestly let down, why? production - one dre beat, one em beat and all the rest is subpar cheap ass production, aside from 3 or 4 tracks. Also the fact that half the fucking songs where out months before the album takes away from the whole event, fuck 50 messed up this time
kanye has more sales on amazon.com too. i copped kanyes joint. solid album. not his best work but its solid. i give it a 4 out of 5. i heard 50's album on his myspace page. sounded like hot garbage. all the beats sound similer. and he still talking about the same ol shit. but seeing that 50 have never been known as a great lyricist they should have atleast gave him hotter beats. its like dre said i got some other shit to do, look in the vault and use them shits.
50s album was good...production was KRAZY to me...but kanyes album was wayyyy betta lyrically and production wise...i expected kanye to sell more
i wonder if ye gettin outsold in chicago, and fifty gettin outsold in new york
YA STOP LYIN,WE AINT GONNA KNOW WHO OUT SOLD WHO UNTIL MONDAY JACK ASSES. PLUS WE HAVE TO INCLUDE THE REST OF T5HE WORLD SALES BUTT HEADS. AND THEN WE HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE AFTER MONTHS GO BY DICK HEADS.
haha u pissed? i just wanna see ye outsell fif so he throws in the towel, but fuck i woulda bought that knaye today but i got the leak and im pretty much sick of the cd by now
curtis is a great album
ima get graduation and see what its all about
hopefully it dont disappoint me
ok ok the first week gunna deside dis shit .. all the fans of both sides gunna cop the cd of theyr choice forsure..but the ppl who dont know which is worth it..who they gunna come 2 when you have a Curtis song bootlegged after 3 times you done wit..ya get bored of it..they all sounds the same on eveyrtrack still kill with akon got routine after 3 listens for me ..kanye west production was 2 sick every song differnt n u dont get bored of ez..ppl will buy into that shit with a month when all the kids first cop the 50 cd
I don't give a flying fuck if that Punk sells more than 50. But I tell you wut thoe 50 is the realest and 50 is Hip-Hop not fucking Hip-Pop and you have to thank your boy kanye for that. Hes fucking up the musik and its ovious that hes got a lot of listeners that dont know shitt about real RAP. FUCK WUT CHA HEARD~!!
man.. this 50 album's wack. sorry to u 50 fanz, but he sucks now. nuttin like i expected. the man made too much of an ass out himself. and it's obvious he's not hip-hop. hes about exploiting hip-hop for cash. theres a big difference. hes a joke, hes losing and hes as fake as alot of sellouts are these da