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2649045, RE: I feel like 2001 Jay only. Black Album came out in 2003, which was 50 Posted by Goose, Thu Jan-12-12 11:51 PM
i'd say late 02/early to mid 03 was 50's. by November Jay had it on lock. Black album outsold the G-Unit album, and was numebr 1 in 2 non-consecutive weeks.
his group album, while did very well was not as talked about as the black album:
In its first week of sales, Beg for Mercy sold 377,000 copies. It placed third, behind Tupac Shakur's eighth posthumous release, Tupac: Resurrection, which moved 430,000 albums, and Jay-Z's The Black Album, which sold 463,263 copies (from wiki).
Jay was pretty big from late 03 til 04. im not sure if he was bigger than 50, but he was close at soem points in 03 and certainly in 04 (when "Dirt off my Shoulder" and "99 Problems" starting getting a lot of play).
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