The Numbers Game: LL Cool J Lands At #9 (by B-Easy)
September 18, 2008 by nappyafro.com Staff
I don’t know if this week’s Numbers Game was really anticipated. I mean, as far as debuts this week, Kardinal Offishall & LL Cool J didn’t exactly have the Hip-Hop world waiting. Me personally, I’m at least always semi-interested. Let’s look at LL first: For a guy who’s been rapping since 1983, selling 40,000 albums and cracking the Top 10 ain’t bad. I also don’t think it’s reason to throw a party either. If I was LL Cool J and Exit 13 was my final album, I would have went out on my terms and not try to cater to the radio/young folks (And probably took off those damn glitter shirts too. Shit, Ice Cube sold 70,000 acting his age). Kardinal Offishall numbers this week were also bitter sweet. Not 4 Sale was his highest showing ever at #40, but it’s…still #40. You’d think since “Dangerous” was one of the hottest songs in the country, Kardinall would do more than 11,000 right? Oh yeah, does anybody remember the predictions on the comment boards? V-G said Kardinal Offishall would sell 5,000 copies, bigt915 said 20,000, & H20 said 10,000. H20 wins one for the home team! Gym Class Heroes’ new album The Quilt gets them the #14 spot (And to all the requests, we don’t hate Gym Class Heroes, we just not gonna review them). Young Jeezy’s The Recession drops to #2 and almost pushed 90,000. The Game’s L.A.X. drops to #7 and Weezy, fresh off a SNL performance, moves up 2 spots at #8 with Tha Carter III. I also see that Nas has fallen out of the Top 50 and Plies is less than 4,000 copies away from getting that Gold. This week we got albums by DJ Khaled, Ne-Yo, and Nelly hitting the charts. Any predictions?
#2 Young Jeezy/The Recession (Last Week: #1) - 89,941; Total: 350,510 [2 Weeks]
#7 The Game/L.A.X. (Last Week: #3) - 49,241; Total: 377,100 [3 Weeks]
#8 Lil’ Wayne/Tha Carter III (Last Week: #10) - 47,345; Total: 2,409,995 (2X Platinum) [14 Weeks]
#9 LL Cool J/Exit 13 (Last Week: NA) - 43,762; Total: NA [Debut]
#11 Eric Benet/Love & Life (Last Week: NA) - 40,135; Total: NA [Debut]
#12 Rhianna/Good Girl Gone Bad (Last Week: #13) - 34,880; Total: 1,780,360 (Platinum) [67 Weeks]
#14 Gym Class Heroes/Love & Life (Last Week: NA) - 32,196; Total: NA [Debut]
#40 Kardinal Offishall/Not 4 Sale (Last Week: NA) - 11,911; Total: NA [Debut]
#41 Ice Cube/Raw Footage (Last Week: #26) - 11,770; Total: 130,359 [4 Weeks]
#46 Chris Brown/Exclusive (Last Week: #53) - 10,130; Total: 1,788,230 (Platinum) [55 Weeks]
#64 Nas/Untitled (Last Week: #45) - 7,758; Total: 380,419 [9 Weeks]
#67 Plies/Definition Of Real (Last Week: #54) - 7,303; Total: 496,568 [14 Weeks]
I think that Nelly will sell 15,000, DJ khaled sells 20,000 and Neyo will sell 80,000-100,000
I knew I’d win that bet! Kardinal’s song Dangerous was on the radio six months ago; people definitely forgot it by now.
As far as next week…I say Nelly, Khaled and Neyo all make it in the top ten, with Nelly ahead of all of them. Nelly will sell the most next week, just watch.
Damn! lol. But That’s good news I lost. Sorry to say, but he wont sell half of that next week though.
Nas isnt gonna go Gold until bout Week 18, 19….
Jeezy and Game goin toe to toe next week for total numbers.
Apparently niggas don’t care about LL… I know I dont!
Wayne Goin 3x in 9 weeks. Bet.
Nelly might do about 60-70 thou, but not that much.
Khaled’ll pull bout 80 thou…. Hate it for ever bought that shit!
And in bout 2 weeks the Charts will step on this landmine called “Paper Trail”… haha. I can’t deny the “pop” in this album, but that shit is raw.
Nelly will do about 60 just with the ladies sales. Neyo will get 100 and take the top of the chart. I think the word is out that this albun sucks for da beeeeeeehst but he will still do 45.
I say Nelly gets bout 12.5k debut. Nelly needs to make a good comeback, but I heard this album wasn’t the best. Kardinal Offishall? I expected 10k + but, not by much. Dangerous was the only single, and I didn’t like it that much. Akon is annoying, for his voice. I hope Jeezy gets the gold at least. Come on, his album is good. as I said, ne-yo probably will do above 100k this week. mainstreamm.
i think khaled will do around 80.000 , nelly around 100.000 and ne-yo around 200.000
Poor Nas….I keep saying this every week!
Man, you need to stop going off on LL’s glitter shirts! I use to wear shirts like that when I was in middle school!!
ugh i lost!!
which is pretty sad cause his album was pretty good…
and i agree wit King Jerm… it is pretty sad for Nas since his album to me was the best of the year…
as for next week i will say Khaled will sell 80,000, Nelly will sell 95,000 and Ne-Yo will sell 150,000
Hopefully im right this time ;D
Why are you guys saying that Nelly will sell more than Khaled?! Who likes Nelly?! lol.
Nelly got that “pop” crossover appeal that pulls records… I aint liked Nelly in like 5 years lol….
Good article but where is the Nelly review?
@ V-G
Oh yea, that’s true still, & once again, I thought you liked that kind of music?! Like a bit of Pop and Rap and some shit like that.
Not necessarily. I like what ever sounds good. I fucks wit a lil bit of everything, but if it sucks, it sucks. And Nelly, in general, sucks.
I could flip from Rocko to Termanology to Ya Boy to Royce Da 5′ 9″(Happy Bar Exam 2! I’m The Shit Fool! Lol) to Charles Hamilton to 2 Pistols to Ne-Yo to Kardinal to T-Pain and etcetera…. but like I said, if it sucks, it sucks.
Lol alright bro!! Btw, that Bar Exam 2 ‘tape is fire, but the fucking DJ put too many effects and shit!! It’s so annyoing, I hate it when they add some shit and keep rewinding the track…
Haha. Most all DJ do that!
I know eh, fuck!! lol Do you listen to Wiz Khalifa?!
Wiz Khalifa is da shit
@Infamous F
I hate that. Just play the damn song!
I know dawg!! No one wants to hear some fuckin’ effects and rewinding!!
I think nelly will sell 84,000, Khaled 49,000, and NeYo 250,000…
and oh shit! I’m right! haha looks like no one was close for all three of em.
So you want to kill the whole Numbers Game for tomorrow Ebb?
nahh jus speaking mai mind bro haha