50 Cent Blames Leak, Timing For Low 'Destruct' Sales
Date: 11/27/09 | Newsroom
Filed under: Hip Hop News, 50 Cent
50 Cent is not surprised with the sales related outcome of his anticipated album "Before I Self Destruct". In fact, the G-Unit leader says he saw it coming.
"I look at the numbers and am like, 'What is this?' I've already assessed that the album has been out a month before its actual release period [due to an online leak, and the album's early digital release due to the leak]. So when you got that, you go, 'Well, what did you actually expect?'," 50 Cent told DJ Green Lantern during a Sirius Radio interview earlier this week.
While the album encountered a series of push backs, dating back to early 2009, 50 Cent says fans got what they wanted in the end.
"For myself, I'm asking myself, 'What did you expect, bro? Your fans got it when it was available, at the first available opportunity," says 50 Cent.
According to Billboard, "Before I Self Destruct" sold roughly 160,000 copies during its release week, a low number for the "Baby By Me" hitmaker who previously predicted the effort would sell nearly 1 million copies first week.
Since 2003, 50 Cent has consistently opened atop the Billboard 200 albums chart with sales of no less than 500,000 copies. His last album "Curtis" sold 690,000 copies in 2007.
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50 Cent is actually in a space right now, where he can't create interest in his actual project, and the general public doesn't care about the music he actually makes. The general public's actual interest in his actual project has sunk so low that no body even know he has an actual record actually coming out. He can make all the excuses he wants about why the first week numbers are so embarrassing, but the truth is he's completely irrelevant. His actual project actually flopped hard and he can't actually compete with the actual competition.
When an album is repeatedly pushed back and release dates are announced, but changed without much notice, you can pretty much say that the artist is struggling musically and/or the label feels as the music is not up to their standards! 50's first 3 singles were not received well by the music-buying public, but "Baby by me" is steadily climbing up the charts and is in heavy rotation on the radio! Every artist, no matter how big they are, all have challenges musically(Janet, Usher, etc...) at some point in their career, so it was bound to happen to 50!..