Not that I give a fuck about album sales, but I do chuckle when an artist responds to their album flopping with some of the following excuses.

BY EDWIN ORTIZ | APR 30, 2014 | 11:41 AM

"My album was undershipped."
Asher Roth
Album: Asleep in the Bread Aisle
First Week Sales: 65,000

"My album leaked."
Angel Haze
Album: Dirty Gold
First Week Sales: 857

"I made this album for myself."
Eve
Album: Lip Lock
First Week Sales: 8,600

"My label failed to properly promote my album."
Soulja Boy
Album: The Deandre Way
First Week Sales: 13,400

"My fans don't want to hear me grow musically."
Nelly
Album: M.O.
First Week Sales: 15,000

"I don't measure my success by album sales."
Maino
Album: If Tomorrow Comes...
First Week Sales: 18,000

"My album will gradually sell more over time."
Diggy Simmons
Album: Unexpected Arrival
First Week Sales: 21,100

"My album was only sold by select retailers."
Nicki Minaj
Album: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded - The Re-Up
First Week Sales: 34,500

"My fans aren't supporting me at SoundScan."
Ghostface Killah
Album: The Big Doe Rehab
First Week Sales: 36,000

"I don't care about record sales."
French Montana
Album: Excuse My French
First Week Sales: 56,000


http://www.complex.com/music/2014/04/10-excuses-rappers-make-when-their-album-flops/

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>"My fans aren't supporting me at SoundScan."
>Ghostface Killah
>Album: The Big Doe Rehab
>First Week Sales: 36,000


I'm still a fan of Ghostface, but I won't buy anything from him unless I hear good things about it first. Dude has like 14-15 official projects (including Theodore Unit, Wu-Block & Wu-Massacre). I've purchased half of them and I'm content with that.
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People like to bring out the conspiracy theory welcome mats for cats like Chief Keef and Montana, but the amount of press she got compared to how many fans of her I saw in real life didn't jive at all.

>"My album leaked."
>Angel Haze
>Album: Dirty Gold
>First Week Sales: 857

That album did have different records (i.e. positive ones w/more singing) and no one wanted it. Once he went back to tracks for girls to dance to he got (somewhat) successful again.

...and didn't that Nicki record end up going Plat?

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i don't think Re-Up sold a million copies. but the original album did and its sales are combined w/RU.

fuck you.

I can understand if it was independent acts prior to the internet-era where you *literally* couldn't find the album in the stores due to bad distribution-expecting people/stores/whatever to special-order the record without too much info available is a bit much. Additionally, I can give debutants a pass because it's important to make a mark so that people notice you in the first place and without promotion, that is hard.

However, it's always been such a lame excuse for acts with like 2-3 records or more out. If you have made a big enough impression on people initially, that fanbase *will* find out about a new record, if not, you were either a trendy one-hit-wonder thing, simply fell off or only had casual fans. Seriously, hearing shit like that from acts like, say, Aerosmith crack me up; they shouldn't need too much promotion to sell to their substantial fanbase and they shouldn't need to gain new fans either in order to sell-it's a lame excuse...

...you're at the point of not needing any heavy push compared to some new artist or group. Not saying you shouldn't get any promo but at that point, it should be where your fans will easily know about your next album.


Since 1976

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LMAO @ French. i'm pretty sure i heard him say quite the opposite before.

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