First Week Phonies

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There's an old pro wrestling term for the folks who believe Lil' Wayne's first week numbers are real; marks. This post isn't going to be about all the ways I feel those numbers have been falsified, though, rather I'm going to turn my attention to the actual importance of first week sales numbers and why, in the long run, we'd all be better off if we didn't know them. [link]

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Please Don't Shoot Me Down
Published 6/25/2008 by Enigmatik (noreply@blogger.com) at Boo Goo Doo Boom
... it out of the question to think that perhaps Universal copped a few copies for C3 in order to fluff up their sales total? 50 accused Jay of doing that with Kingdom Come...I wonder if he'll pop off at the mouth about Weezy's second week decline. Scratch that, I wonder WHEN he'll pop off at the mouth. Just to be fair, Weezy wasn't the only one who dropped in week 2 - Plies fell 68%, selling 68,000 copies of his sophomore project Definition of Real . Check out Adam 's post, " First Week Phonies ", for more insight on the phenomena of the second week slump. See: ...

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