Kanye Well Ahead Of 50 Cent In First-Day Sales Race

[Tha West-Coast]

Kanye West looks to top next week's The Billboard 200 chart, according to results that will be posted later today (Sept. 12) on Nielsen SoundScan's new Building Charts feature.

All eyes are on the Sept. 11 album schedule, with anticipated new releases by West, 50 Cent and Kenny Chesney. SoundScan's recently launched Building Charts post unweighted tracking-week sales from eight leading accounts through close of Tuesday each Wednesday at 5 p.m. ET, and sales through Thursday each Friday afternoon.

Billboard has learned that today's SoundScan Building Chart indicates first-day sales of 437,000 for West's "Graduation," 310,000 for 50 Cent's "Curtis" and 107,000 for Chesney's "Just Who I Am: Poets and Pirates." The Building Charts offer an indication of how races shape up each week for SoundScan's final charts, which post projected national sales each Wednesday morning, extrapolated from a panel of merchants that represents more than 90% of the U.S. music market.

Retailers now contributing data to the Building Charts include Trans World Entertainment, Best Buy, Borders, Circuit City, iTunes, Target, Anderson Merchandisers and Handleman Co. The last two mentioned are rackjobbers that place music into mass merchants, including WalMart's stores. More retailers will be added to that panel in the near future.


Some pundits project West will surpass 750,000. His own August 2005 release, "Late Registration," was the last album to start above that mark. It bowed at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 with opening sales of 860,000 copies and led the chart for two weeks. The largest sales week this year belongs to Linkin Park's "Minutes to Midnight" with 623,000, while Rascal Flatts' "Me and My Gang" had the biggest frame of 2006 when it started at 722,000.

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/..._id=1003639442

Fuck Kanye!

[Gottahatedizpimp]

Originally Posted by Gottahatedizpimp

Kingdom Come Sold 680,000 First Week.............. Then Fell 70 % Second Week............. Then Jeezy's The Inspiration Opened At Number 1............. Second Week Had The Biggest Second Week Drop Off In History To About 24............... Sounds Like Def Jam Buys Records............

Originally Posted by Gottahatedizpimp

You One Of The Few People That Know World
Wide Sales Is The Total Sales, Not Just US. Those Are Pretty Big First Day Numbers Though I Think Their Might Reach Higher Than Projections But If Both Numbers Are Remotely Close In US That Mean 50 Won Total Sales

Originally Posted by Gottahatedizpimp

P.S. Wasn't 50 And Chesney Supposed To Be Head And Head According To Yesterday's Billboard Report. Now It's Not Even Close ? I Don't Know What Their Doing.


Curtis Number 1 On iTunes

My Responses To This

[r-mac]

omggg wow

[rahuLL]

Originally Posted by ThaWestCoast

Fuck Kanye!

[eatpooz]

haha if kanye wins West Coast is gonna have to cry himself to sleep for a long time. get off 50's dick your embarassing yourself

[chesbomb]

curtis might be number 1 on itunes, but the deluxe edition of graduation is number 2, and then the regular version of graduation is number 4.

[lifeofpi]

fuck these whack ass rappers....

[Tasc0]

Originally Posted by lifeofpi

fuck these whack ass rappers....

Co-fucking-sign.

[C-Money]

yaaa but dosnt 50 put up huge numbers internationally? and wasnt jay z suppose to sell 1 mil accordin to first day sales...gonna go buy both tomorrow

[bdaking222]

Kanye Beatin 50... PERIOD. No if, ands, or buts about it - woman lie, men lie, NUMBERS dont.