Ayo.... How Did No Limit Sell So Many Records?

[OHSNAP!]

No Limit Records discography - Wikipedia


They never had any hit singles until 98 (and Make Em Say only reached 16)

P had every artist selling 500k minimum. But they had no cash cows

Juvenile was with Birdman right?

So they had Silk, Mystikal and a bunch of no names.
Im trying to understand this phenomenon. The bad album covers, the mediocre MCs... how did P flip that into platinum records?

Mediocre MCs huh? Fiend, Mystikal, MAC, Snoop, Mia X, Soulja Slim are mediocre huh? Gfy tonedeaf peabrain

 

[MR. SNIFLES]

Y'ALL DON'T UNDERSTAND BECAUSE THERE IS NO TANGIBLE MEDIA THESE DAYS. EVERYBODY I KNEW HAD AT LEAST 100 CD'S AT HOME. 20-30 IN THE CAR AND A HANDFUL AT WORK. THE AVERAGE JOE WAS COPPING 5-10 ALBUMS A YEAR. MY CD COLLECTION WAS EASILY IN THE 2-300'S AT ONE POINT. I PROBABLY HAD 15 NO LIMIT ALBUMS AND I WASN'T EVEN A BIG FAN LIKE THAT. IF YOU HAD PROMOTION YOU WAS DOING NUMBERS. MASTER P WAS GOOD AT PROMOTION.

 

[zayk35]

Every Marine from the south and mid west that I knew had damn near the entire No Limit catalog. Myself included. They took up about 12 pages in my CD booklet. Too bad the fall began in late 98- early 99.

 

[Stick Up Kid]

In 1997-1999 nobody in my neighborhood was listenin to No Limit

It was all Wu Tang, Nas, Mobb Deep, Outkast, Big Pun, DMX, Hov

 

[CrimsonTider]

That's why you da WOAT

Nope

No limit was going to pop off no matter who they had doing the beats

 

[Jplaya2023]

In 1997-1999 nobody in my neighborhood was listenin to No Limit

It was all Wu Tang, Nas, Mobb Deep, Outkast, Big Pun, DMX, Hov

Where you from?

 

[JustCKing]

Nope

No limit was going to pop off no matter who they had doing the beats

This isn't true (no pun). No Limit existed before Beats By The Pound. They didn't blow up until Beats By The Pound. "I'm Bout It" (original and remix) was No Limit's first taste of mainstream success. Those songs were produced by Beats By The Pound. Most of No Limit's main roster came to No Limit with KLC of BBTP. Soulja Slim, Mystikal, Mia X, and Fiend were KLC's artists.

 

[InGodWeTrust]

Yes, in a nutshell it was the UPC barcode scam

 

[Stick Up Kid]

Where you from?

Jersey, but was living in Hunts Points BX at the time.

 

[ThaRealness]

They used to hustle the barcodes from what I heard where a CD with the same barcode would could for duplicate sales

And probably used to buy their albums too

If Master P was out now he’d have a crazy streaming farm

These dudes dont understand... Im not even hating. Look at No Limit's 98 record sales

List of No Limit artists who sold 500k that year

Big Ed

Magic

Skull Duggery

Master P (5 million with no singles)

Fiend

Ghetto Commission

Gambino Family (platinum)

Mystikal (triple plat)

Prime Suspects

Young Bleed (Platinum)

Man get the fukk outta here

 

[ThaRealness]

Mediocre MCs huh? Fiend, Mystikal, MAC, Snoop, Mia X, Soulja Slim are mediocre huh? Gfy tonedeaf peabrain

I never said those artists were mediocre. Im wondering how the Skull Duggery, Lil Italy and Big Ed's managed to sell 500k

Yall so sensitive

 

[JustCKing]

These dudes dont understand... Im not even hating. Look at No Limit's 98 record sales

List of No Limit artists who sold 500k that year

Big Ed

Magic

Skull Duggery

Master P (5 million with no singles)

Fiend

Ghetto Commission

Gambino Family (platinum)

Mystikal (triple plat)

Prime Suspects

Young Bleed (Platinum)

Man get the fukk outta here

Big Ed, Prime Suspects, Skull Duggrey and Magic did not sell 500K. Gambino Family never touched platinum or even gold for that matter. Mystikal has never gone triple platinum even when he left No Limit. Young Bleed only went gold.

 

[ThaRealness]

Big Ed, Prime Suspects, Skull Duggrey and Magic did not sell 500K. Gambino Family never touched platinum or even gold for that matter. Mystikal has never gone triple platinum even when he left No Limit. Young Bleed only went gold.

No Limit Records discography - Wikipedia

 

[Complexion]

There was a void in the game and P slang CDs like dope to fiends who had previously had limited product. Each release was like a label compilation of features vs an independently crafted album and people picked them up like mixtapes because he was ahead of the game with his market saturation techniques.

Real clever to mix up anticipated artists with unknowns as it got them shine with a lot of people just getting releases on principle because they new they'd like something.

Plus back then you had to buy the album if you liked one jam as it took nearly an hour to download one song.

 

[JustCKing]

No Limit Records discography - Wikipedia

That Wiki page is bogus. Most of the information on it is false. If you look that information up on RIAA, the entity that certifies albums gold and platinum and the Soundscans.