Commercial performance Curtis (50 Cent album)

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publicity on album s release date pitted 50 cent in sales competition against rapper kanye west (pictured).


curtis debuted @ number 2 on billboard 200 chart, selling 691,000 copies in first week. had fourth highest sales week album in 2007 (topping linkin park s minutes midnight sold 625,000, outsold eagles long road out of eden, moved 711,000 units , later alicia keys bringing in 742,000 copies.) had highest sales week album east coast-based artist since jay-z s kingdom come debuted 680,000 copies sold several months earlier. however, curtis brought in third-lowest first-week sales of 50 cent s career, rich or die tryin selling 872,000 , massacre moving 1.14 million copies.


the album sold 143,000 copies in second week of release in us, 71,000 copies in third week, 50,000 copies in fourth week, 38,000 copies in fifth week on chart, , 30,000 copies sold in sixth week, sold 24,000 copies in seventh week, 20,000 in eighth week, 17,000 in ninth week, 17,000 in 10th week, 21,000 in 11th week, 15,000 in 12th week, 17,000 in 13th week, 19,000 in 14th week, , 25,000 in 15th week. in us, curtis sold 1,225,000 in 2007.


competition graduation

in july 2007, kanye west changed release date third studio album graduation september 18, 2007, same release date curtis, september 11, 2007. forced albums go head-to-head , compete higher sales against each other. 50 cent claimed if graduation sold more records curtis, stop releasing solo albums. however, later dispelled comments. when asked again threat retire, 50 cent stated that, if lose, release album every time major def jam artist releases album.


graduation s first-week sales of 957,000 , curtis s first-week sales of 691,000 served second time since 1991, when nielsen soundscan began collecting data, 2 albums sold more 600,000 in week in united states; in 1991, guns n roses released use illusion , use illusion ii, selling 685,000 , 770,000 copies, respectively. first-week sales totals of graduation , curtis outsold first-week sales totals of guns n roses 2 albums. in september 2008, billboard released one-year sales figures both albums: curtis finished sales of 1,336,000, , graduation finished sales of 2,116,000.








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