The Numbers Game: Nas Gets #1 Spot (by B-Easy)
July 24, 2008 by nappyafro.com Staff
Okay, of course we all expected Nasir to grab the top spot from Weezy on the Billboard 200. I’m still suprised that after all that publicity Nigger/Untitled recieved from main media outlets, that it only pulled in around 180,000. I guess everybody can’t leak 2 weeks before the official release date and still sale a million copies. In other chart news, Tha Carter III continues to do crazy numbers, David Banner cracks the Top 10, and the rest is the whatever….
#1 Nas/Untitled (Last Week: NA) - 187,078; Total: NA [Debut]
#2 Lil’ Wayne/Tha Carter III (Last Week: #1) - 105,490; Total: 1,912,053 (Platinum) [6 Weeks]
#8 David Banner/The Greatest Story Ever Told (Last Week: NA) - 51,902; Total: NA [Debut]
#10 Rhianna/Good Girl Gone Bad (Last Week: #8) - 41,269; Total: 1,482,574 (Platinum) [59 Weeks]
#19 Usher/Here I Stand (Last Week: #11) - 26,071; Total: 906,641 (Gold) [7 Weeks]
#24 G-Unit/T.O.S. (Terminate On Sight) (Last Week: #9) - 21,219; Total: 159,369 [3 Weeks]
#26 Plies/Definition Of Real (Last Week: #17) - 20,522; Total: 400,789 [6 Weeks]
#29 Three 6 Mafia/Last 2 Walk (Last Week: #16) - 18,431; Total: 156,835 [4 Weeks]
Some folks are still looking for “NIGGER” to drop. LOL. Like, seriously, they really don’t know he changed the name.
Lol @ thic. Maaaan… I’m surprised that he sold so few, I thought A LOT of people were gonna go cop it. It’s crazy how Wayne sold a millie and Nas didn’t, smh… and wayne is still moving units like crazy!! like damn…
I Was Hoping For Mr. Nasir To Pull At Least 250,000… I Would Have Been Happy For Him, But Then Again,These Days 187,000 Aint Bad!
Amazingly, I know people who have never even heard of Nas. Reason he didn’t sell much is because apparently many of the new listeners to hip-hop have only heard of people like Lil Wayne and Souljah Boy and don’t recognize who are the bigger names in the game, like Mr. Nasir.
Untitled was a pretty unknown album to a lot of people. I mean, 187,000 ain’t bad, but this is Nas people! He deserves better. I wasn’t expecting him to beat Weezy with the numbers Wayne has been doing, but he did!