September 24th, 2008
Ne-Yo Debuts With 250k Records Sold While Nelly Sells 84k
Starting right behind at No. 2 is Ne-Yo’s “Year of the Gentleman” with 250,000. The Def Jam effort comes on the heels of two No. 1 bows for the artist: 2006 debut “In My Own Words” (301,000) and 2007’s “Because of You” (251,000).
Nelly’s “Brass Knuckles” (Derrty/Universal Motown), the rapper’s first studio set since 2004, enters at No. 3 on The Billboard 200 with 84,000. Four years ago, he dropped two separate albums on the same day — “Suit” and “Sweat” – which debuted at Nos. 1 and 2 with 396,000 and 342,000, respectively.
Source: BillBoard
Ne-Yo stays consistent and a buy each of his albums. Nelly was gone for way too long and lost a lot of his audience. None of his songs really popped of, although, “Body On Me,” was cool in my opinion.
September 24th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Nelly will struggle to go Gold.
September 24th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Good for Ne-Yo!!! He’s one of my favs and the other 2 albums plus all of the songs he has written for other people have been very well put together and written. I even like that new song he wrote for Old Kids on the Block lol!
I’ll cop it this week.
September 24th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Damn Nelly, After Droppin Like Three Singles, And Havin Like Half Ya Album Leaked ..And Still Sale 84k? ..Cosign Realtalk ..He’s Been Gone For To Long, People Just Stopped Checkin For Him.
September 24th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Nelly needs to reinvent himself artistically in my opinion, and focus on hit making. “Body On Me” was a cool listen.
September 24th, 2008 at 11:16 am
hang it up! this dude was played out back in da 90s when he started..dude been trash..he is irrelevant and universal makin wayne cosign it didn’t help but it was an lol moment..nelly need to go in a time capsule and hibernate till his music is all the way dumb enough for his songs…PADDED ROOM IS UPON US!!!
September 24th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Good For Nelly And Ne-Yo..
It Seems The Magic Number Is 300K First Week For All Hip-Hop Artist Not Named Lil Wayne..So Ill Say T.I. Will Have Similar Numbers In That Range..
September 24th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Nelly deserves them sales which they were lower he calls himself a artists yet apart from one song its all features ? What does that say about him ? He can barely make a album without features like Fabolous and The Game. They need features to make their shitty albums hot. Good for Ne-Yo don’t really listen to him but his taken the pedo’s crown and he done it without pissing on 14 year old girls.