With iTunes and what not there's I rarely ever buy CD's anymore, but if I had to buy one i'd pick up 50's album over Kanye's. Sorry, Kanye just annoys the hell out of me. He's like a little attention craving little high school girl.
This song has been out for years, I think this version is way better then the one with Chris Martin on the new album. His flow doesn't sound as good with the Chris Martin beat. Like it's off rhythm.
Kanye - 1 50 Cent - 0 regardless the challenge was for Kanye to sell more on Sept.11 anything after that is just for boasting.
Kanye West savors victory over 50 By Nekesa Mumbi Moody The Associated Press Article Last Updated: 09/20/2007 02:48:55 PM MDT Just hours after he was crowned the victor in his much-hyped sales battle with 50 Cent, Kanye West turned up at GQ's 50th anniversary party as the featured performer. But the evening was more like a coronation for West, whose "Graduation" widely outsold 50 Cent's "Curtis" in first week sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan: 957,000 copies to 691,000 copies. "To be a champion, you've got to take out a champion," West declared Tuesday night, as an all-star crowd including Jay-Z, Beyonce and Diddy cheered him on. Things couldn't be much better for West, who gave the struggling music industry its best debut of the year with "Graduation," besting the year's previous first-week champ, Linkin Park, which sold 623,000 of "Minutes to Midnight" when it debuted in May. "It feels overwhelming," West told The Associated Press earlier in the day. "Everyone is coming up to me and telling me how proud they are of me." Though selling almost 700,000 copies in the first week is a sterling achievement, it was still a considerable letdown for 50 Cent. His last album, 2005's "The Massacre," sold 1.1 million in its first week. In fact, West's "Graduation" is the only other album to come close to that figure since. Last month, 50 didn't think of West as much of a competitor: "It's great marketing on Def Jam's part, by putting us out there at the same time and make like we can actually be compared on some level," he told the AP. In another interview, he said he would retire if West outsold him. Fifty, who is planning a world tour for his album, was conciliatory in defeat. In a statement to the AP, which didn't address whether he planned to make good on his vow to retire, he said: "I am very excited to have participated in one of the biggest album release weeks in the last two years. Collectively, we have sold hundreds of thousands of units in our debut week." Indeed, Billboard.com reported that the top four-selling albums, including Kenny Chesney's "Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates," and "High School Musical 2," sold 2.2 million copies, more than the top 200 albums had sold in the previous week combined. But while West is enjoying a No.2 position on the charts with his hit "Stronger," 50 has struggled to connect with radio. None of his songs has matched past smashes like "In Da Club"; even his single "Ayo Technology," featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland, is languishing at No. 19. Fifty's album was originally scheduled to be released in June on Interscope Records, a division of Universal Music Group, but was pushed back to Sept. 11. Soon after, Kanye West, whose album was supposed to come out sometime in late summer, pushed his date to Sept. 11 as well. West said it was his idea to go directly against 50. "I was the underdog because I sold less records in the past, so it was a win-win for me," he said. "If I lost, everyone would be happy that I even went up against him."
the only reason 50 lost is because he put some ****ty singles out...if he wants to do better in the future then he needs to make some quality songs.
That's what happens when celebs surround themselves w/ a bunch of 'yes' men. It's pretty obvious Kanye has much more mainstream appeal. I don't know how 50 could be so confident beforehand (he must've otherwise he wouldn't of started this in the first place).
50 figured that because he had sold so well before and Kanye hadn't, he could easily sell more this time. The problem for 50 is exactly what BrieflySpeaking said, he put out ****ty singles, that are boring and repetitve. I swear I have heard that "I Get Money" beat somewhere before....oh yea.. it was called "Lean Back." I hope this sends a message to the industry and makes them realize that people will still choose real music over the same old repetetive garbage being put out. Chalk one up for the good guys.
Not only did he put out sh1tty singles, and not nearly as good of an album as Kanye, BUT announcing publicly he would retire if Kanye outsold him didn't help. I'll bet Kanye got an extra 50,000 net sold because of that statement. (whether people went out and bought Kanye's or refrained from buying 50's.)
I didn't buy either, even though I was planning on buying Kanye's. After I saw that Rolling Stone mag photoshoot, I figured it was just a huge marketing ploy and they both are best friends. So I did not buy it.
