The latest album from 50 Cent far outpaced the competition to debut this week at No. 1 on The Billboard 200. Particularly notable is that 1.14 million copies of "The Massacre" (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope) were sold in just four days, yet it still ranks as the sixth largest opening week since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking U.S. sales in 1991.

2009 follow-up Consider that the album's first-week numbers of 691,000 units sold -- before streaming equivalent albums and track equivalent units (SEA & TEA) were accounted for in Of course, a decade ago, album sales were more robust across the board; even with equivalent album units added to In total, the album did still represent a downturn for 50 Cent: The set's first week was still off the mark set by the debut weeks of his first two albums, 2003's Nonetheless, if nothing else, the blockbuster debut week of Till today Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP was the fastest selling album by a solo artists in USA with almost 1,800,000 copies sold in the first week. The Massacre sold 1.15 million copies in its first four days of release, becoming the 6th-largest opening week for an album at the time since But the man born Curtis Jackson's career never quite recovered -- his moment in the limelight had seemingly passed, with Kanye's global, genre-blurring, masculinity-redefining artistry pointing the way more towards hip-hop's next decade, as Jackson's defiantly New York-based, more tradition-based rap model appeared quickly outdated.

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The latest album from 50 Cent far outpaced the competition to debut this week at No.

1 on The Billboard 200. [Discussion] First Week Album Sales Since 1991 & The Top 100 Hip-Hop First Weeks of All Time (2019 Edition) 1991 was the first year that Nielsen started tracking music sales data. The Biz premium subscriber content has moved to Billboard.com/business.To simplify subscriber access, we have temporarily disabled the password requirement. There were also other rappers who made multiple appearances for best-selling first-week sales in the the top 20, including Kanye West, Lil Wayne and 50 Cent. Billboard is part of MRC Media and Info, a division of MRC. 1 Song on the Billboard Hot 100 Since 2000 RELATED: Pigeons & Planes - 10 … I find it super interesting to look at this and see how current artists stack up against artists of the past so I … The Biz premium subscriber content has moved to Billboard.com/business.To simplify subscriber access, we have temporarily disabled the password requirement.

These are The 25 Biggest First-Week Album Sales in Music History. John Bolton's book "The Room Where It Happened" is the best-selling Trump tell-all in two years, according to week one sales figures. 50 Cent's 'Curtis' Lost Its First-Week Sales Battle, But Did So in Historic Fashion. 50 Cent performs at Tweeter Center in Boston on June 3, 2007.As remembered by no shortage of fans and critics today (Sept. 11) on the 10th anniversary of the album's release, the album was involved in a high-profile, much-hyped -- perhaps by no one more than 50 himself -- first-week sales battle, in which the rapper set his sights on Kanye West's third LP Of course, 50 didn't actually retire from music at that point, and he wrote off the L as an everybody-wins exercise in proto-viral marketing. RELATED: Every No.

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