The Numbers Game: Foxy Drops A Dud (by B-Easy)
May 22, 2008 by nappyafro.com Staff
Here we go again. It’s here that we check out who’s album did what on the Billboard 200 (Well, the R&B & Hip-Hop in the Top 50 only). This week, we see the return of Mr. Keith Sweat, the fall of Foxy Brown, the “ignoration” of Kidz In The Hall, the disappearance of Lil’ Scrappy, as well as a debut from R&B group Cherish. It’s getting hard out here people.
#6 Mariah Carey/E=MC2 (Last Week: #5) - 59,000; Total: 887,800 (Gold) [5 Weeks]
#10 Keith Sweat/Just Me (Last Week: NA) - 37,000; Total: NA [Debut]
#17 Lyfe Jennings/Lyfe Change (Last Week: #12) - 31,700; Total: 112,100 [3 Weeks]
#23 Jordin Sparks/Jordin Sparks (Last Week: #18) - 17,600; Total: 758,000 (Gold) [26 Weeks]
#27 Rick Ross/Trilla (Last Week: #34) - 15,600; Total: 517,000 (Gold) [10 Weeks]
#35 Alicia Keys/As I Am (Last Week: #29) - 14,400; Total: 3,467,400 (3x Platinum) [27 Weeks]
#38 The Roots/Rising Down (Last Week: #28) - 13,400; Total: 88,000 [3 Weeks]
#40 Cherish/The Truth (Last Week: NA) - 13,000; Total: NA [Debut]
#46 Amy Winehouse/Back To Black (Last Week: #40) - 12,400; Total: 1,950,000 (Platinum) [62 Weeks]
#49 Mary J. Blige/Growing Pains (Last Week: #45) - 12,100; Total: 1,474,000 (Platinum) [22 Weeks]
#50 Keyshia Cole/Just Like You (Last Week: #54) - 12,000; Total: 1,394,500 (Platinum) [34 Weeks]
#83 Foxy Brown/Brooklyn’s Don Diva (Last Week: NA) - 9,000; Total: NA [Debut]
(Not In Top 200) Kidz In Da Hall/The In Crowd (Last Week: NA) - 4,000; Total: NA [Debut]
Foxy’s on an indie label, so you can’t really judge what she sells. Nor does it matter one bit. Fuck, I’ll listen to Cannibal Corpse sometimes. It really doesn’t matter what you sell and there are fairly few high selling artists that I truly respect (Gnarls Barkley and Jay-Z are about it).
Yea, but when artist like Foxy and Prodigy always rap and talk about how many albums they sold in the past, this shit is mad humbling. The rappers are the first ones to talk about getting plaques, now its just biting them in the ass.
True. But that’s them in the past, and they did get plaques in the past, just not now when they’re both in the indie system. Foxy could have committed less crimes and she would be fine now. Prodigy just made an ass of himself on the recent Mobb Deep albums and recent G Unit mixtapes.