The total for West's "Graduation" is the largest by any album since 50 Cent's "The Massacre" opened with 1.1 million copies in March 2005. West's own August 2005 album, "Late Registration," was the last album to surpass 800,000 copies when it began with 860,000...
The double punch provided by "Graduation" and "Curtis" also marks just the second time in that era that two albums have bowed in the same week with totals surpassing 600,000 copies.
The last such occasion was in September 1991, when Guns N' Roses' "Use Your Illusion II" led The Billboard 200 with 770,000 copies in the same week that the band's companion album "Use Your Illusion I" bowed at No. 2 with 685,000, a pair of numbers now beaten by West and 50's totals.
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3 Comments:
"The biggest winners: cocaine dealers in Midtown Manhattan."
I don't get it, though you hooked me. Now I have to know: Why are midtown dealers the biggest winners?
Sorry for being little behind the curve.
Ummm, while I don't live in New York, nor have I ever been there, I assume Mr. Chang is making a comment about how, jubilant over the good record sales, record execs will party the night away, fueled with cocaine. Midtown Manhattan must be a place where a lot of record execs live - perhaps a stylish, yuppie neighborhood?
^^^Cocaine dealers in midtown manhattan are going to get a lot of orders from happy record execs.
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