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

[Doctor Wily]

Why does this look like an old West Coast Productions DVD

you aint to far off on that

 

[Burger King]

It was just before the internet was at everyone fingertips so it was a bit like Pokemon , gotta collect them all

 

[MajesticLion]

The novelty (at the time) of southern folks hearing people who sounded like them gave No Limit at lot...a LOT...of support. BBTP also kept that New Orleans vibe in the mix, and that bounce translates damn near everywhere. Even Houston didn't have that kind of widespread appeal from their labels.

 

[DOGGFATHER96]

Some of those numbers are exaggerated though. Most No Limit artists were not selling 400-500K. Master P and Snoop were the bank's top sellers with 2 million and above. Silkk and Mystikal had two platinum albums. C-Murder went platinum. The soundtracks for I Got The Hook-Up and I'm Bout It went platinum. TRU had a double platinum album. Mia X, Fiend, Kane & Abel, and Mean Green all went gold. The Foolish soundtrack was gold and Westcoast Bad Boyz II went gold.

Soulja slim first 2 albums went gold too

 

[360dagod]

Soulja slim first 2 albums went gold too

His 2nd album went nowhere near gold breh

 

[JustCKing]

Soulja slim first 2 albums went gold too

Soulja Slim doesn't have a gold album unfortunately.

 

[comatose1]

YOU ARE RIGHT. I DON'T KNOW WHO I WAS THINKING OF. MY BAD.

You were thinking of Suge talking about starting a distribution company with Irv and J-Prince. Never happened though.

 

[comatose1]

Steady Mobbin didn't even get radio spins in the Bay yet they moved units on No Limit.

Ya. People would buy the lesser known No Limit releases just from seeing them advertised in the other No Limit albums they bought. They also stuck out like a sore thumb in stores with the colored spines and Pen-N-Pixel artwork. That was some genius marketing. Unfortunately it was quantity over quality as far as the music goes.

 

[DOGGFATHER96]

His 2nd album went nowhere near gold breh

It sold like 400k right? He said something along those lines in the murda dogg interview.

 

[DOGGFATHER96]

Soulja Slim doesn't have a gold album unfortunately.

Give it to em raw

 

[DANJ!]

marketing, he was basically created the marvel cinematic universe in album form. He promoted all the albums that were coming out in a packet inside the album case. Kids like me were copping every no limit album because of the artwork and songs being played everywhere.

Yeah, the marketing was crazy. There are album covers burned into my mind... I can literally envision the Kane n Abel 'Am I My Brothers Keeper' (the lime green shirts), Mercedes 'Rear End' (that ass), Mr. Serv-On layin' in the casket, Lil' Soldiers poppin' out the box, etc... ain't heard them shyts a day in my life but got photographic memory of the ads

 

[360dagod]

It sold like 400k right? He said something along those lines in the murda dogg interview.

P might have gassed him..
No limit was pretty much done and p was barely going gold...
I want to hear that album actually

 

[Asicz]

Fiend "There is One in every Family" Album!

 

[Kinguno]

I always thought it was like how there’s more black people than what the census says so I figured they got so much love because they spoke to their people

 

[OHSNAP!]

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

They didn't have a big fanbase. They only sold because of the NL logo on the back of the CD/cassette. Lil Italy prolly didn't even hit 50k, Skull and Big Ed never got near gold status, maybe around 200-300k in 98, still when you add up all these smaller acts, NL sold a shytton via genius marketing (as many others stated already), some really good work (Fiend, Mac, Mia, Slim, Mystikal, C, TRU had some excellent albums out, among others) and catering to the black folks/minorities instead of kissing cac booty (Will Smith, Puffy, Wyclef during that time)