Official Nas Thread

[JoelB]

So you are telling me people go to the store to check for artists that they aren't already checking for or who don't make Top 40 records? I guess I only go to the store to buy a specific CD/artist I know is dropping.

You never went to a store and purchased something you didnt intend on buying?

Nas would have sold another 40k if the customers could have seen how clean his taper was on the album cover

At the end of the day we #1 two weeks straight...

 

[Ziggiy]

at the posters who thought he'd do under 70k first week

 

[Illeye buckmatic]

Anybody cop this book?

First day cop

 

[Raiders]

HITS Daily Double: Building Album Sales Chart

low nunbers i guess, but most likely pushing #1 again this week

FRANK OCEAN DEF JAM/IDJ 3,140
CHANNEL ORANGE

 

[iPod Raheem 2.0]

You never went to a store and purchased something you didnt intend on buying?

Nas would have sold another 40k if the customers could have seen how clean his taper was on the album cover

At the end of the day we #1 two weeks straight...

I ain't gonna lie to you. I don't really buy albums from the store. If their not an artist I'm checking for, I have to have heard some/most of the project before I buy it.

 

[Ziggiy]

FRANK OCEAN DEF JAM/IDJ 3,140
CHANNEL ORANGE

That fakkit hype was only going to last but so long

 

[Ziggiy]

Looking forward to next week, I hope we can keep him in the top 5. GFID will surely be number 1 so def jam having 2 top ten albums on the charts is a good look. Keeping Life Is Good sales steady will only help us in our next major goal...


LOST TAPES 2

 

[Tom]

Life is Good was Nas's last album on Def Jam right?

He can release Lost Tapes 2 on whatever label he wants now

 

[Ziggiy]

Life is Good was Nas's last album on Def Jam right?

He can release Lost Tapes 2 on whatever label he wants now

He owes them one more. Distant relatives didn't count against his deal as it was released on Universal

 

[Tom]

I know Wiki may not be a reliable source but

Life Is Good was released by Def Jam Recordings; it was Nas' last album for the label.[17] Three singles were released in promotion of the album: "Nasty" on August 9, 2011, "The Don" on April 3, 2012, and "Daughters" on July 17.[18] Nas promoted the album with television appearances and performances on The Colbert Report, Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and 106 & Park.[4] He also headlined the Rock the Bells music festival and emarked on a three-week European tour during June and July.[4][/IMG]
Life Is Good (Nas album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I didn't even realize 3 singles were already released. Two of them joints were straight directed towards hiphop heads and not the casual radio listener, and one was a conscious track with a semi commercial feel to it. Nas really doesn't give a shyt about commercial appeal but why the fuk would u still put Summer on Smash on ur album tho?




Anyway I think Nas needs to drop Cherry Wine as a single, cacs and the alternative crowd are fiendin for new Amy winehouse music (the usual when someone dies, death is the best promotion) and releasing a video for that song would definitely help the album do more numbers

 

[Jamaro85]

28,757 with 52.57% of the numbers in, not bad at all.

About the debate on people buying an album by somebody they weren't checking for, I know some people who do. They walk into a Best Buy, Target, whatever, may not have heard an artist for awhile but it's somebody they're somewhat a fan of or they've listened to in the past and say, wow, I didn't know he had an album dropping, I might have to check this out. I doubt there's 40k people who would've followed this logic, but hey, I know it happens.

But dead at Frank Ocean only on track to do less than 6.5k. Is the album still digital only? It's gonna be hard to have any kind of legs if so.

 

[JoelB]

I know Wiki may not be a reliable source but


I didn't even realize 3 singles were already released. Two of them joints were straight directed towards hiphop heads and not the casual radio listener, and one was a conscious track with a semi commercial feel to it. Nas really doesn't give a shyt about commercial appeal but why the fuk would u still put Summer on Smash on ur album tho?




Anyway I think Nas needs to drop Cherry Wine as a single, cacs and the alternative crowd are fiendin for the new Amy winehouse music and release a video for that song would definitely help the album do more numbers

Major labels wont give you a release date unless you have a mainstream record they could push...

Same reason why Untitled had Make The World Go Round

 

[King Ming]

Nas must drop Cherry wine as next single!1

:shake:

 

[Ukbrotha]

Was taking a break from listening to the LiG album and playing my whole library on random when Suspects from IWW came on. Had to listen to the whole IWW album. Almost forgot how much I loved this album. I used to bump the hell out of it.

 

[The_Third_Man]

I listened to "Life is good" for the first time 3 days ago, and all I got is one question for people who gave it low scores:

what the fukk is Nas supposed to do to please ya motherfukkas?