Does 50 Cent plan to do a big tour for, ” Before I self Destruct”?”
“I was gonna kill a couple rappers, but they did it to themselves. I was gonna do it with the flow, but they did it with their sales.” –Jay-Z, who must have seen this coming To think, Curtis was considered a flop, and it sold 600 some-odd thousand copies its first week out. Yeah, part of it was that it still sold way less than the million or so copies Kanye West’s Graduation sold, thus handily defeating Fiddy in their first week sales battle, not to mention the million-plus copies Fiddy’s own The Massacre sold two years before. Then there was the fact that sales of Curtis fell way the fuck off after that first week. It was really those next several weeks that cemented Curtis’ status as one of hip-hop’s all-time great commercial failures, even though it did eventually go platinum. (Some African kids must have saved up their Sally Struthers money.) This new Fiddy album looks like it’s about to redefine what it means for a 50 Cent album to be unsuccessful. Never mind Curtis taking months
50 Cent’s fourth album, Before I Self Destruct, may give the rapper his lowest first week sales ever. The album is projected to sell only around 160,000 copies by next week, according to Hitsdailydouble.com, which will likely leave it out of the running for the number one spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Before I Self Destruct, which features appearances from Eminem, Ne-Yo and R. Kelly, hit stores on Tuesday. The record leaked to the Internet prior to its release, which may have impacted sales. Fif has boasted successful first week sales since his 2003 debut, Get Rich or Die Tryin’. The album sold 872,000 copies in its first week, 2005’s The Massacre sold 1.5 million and 2007’s Curtis sold 695,000. Meanwhile, 50 Cent will take time away from promoting his new album to kick off an essay contest for single mothers. The competition, called “50’s Money for Moms,” will give entrants a chance at one of three $10,000 top prizes fo
