It's Official: Kanye West Massacres 50 Cent in Soundscan Showdown

Billboard is officially reporting that Kanye West's Graduation had first week sales of 957,000 "posting The Billboard 200's largest sales total in more than two years."

50 Cent's Curtis moved 691,000 units in what should be a week of celebration for the artist who seems to be dealing with a lot of conflicting emotions at the moment.

One would hope that Kanye could calm down now but he will most likely take these sales figures as vindication for his poor behavior.  Feed the ego, get more of the ego.

Lots of interesting stuff in the Billboard article:
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..."Graduation" also rings up the largest week yet by a digital album download, starting with 133,000, beating the prior record of 102,000, set earlier this year by Maroon 5's "It Won't Be Soon Before Long."

Kenny Chesney Pirates & Poets [& Whatnot] moved a respectable 387,000 copies.

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