Comments on: Lol..ouch: “The Real” addresses that confounding Rick Ross #1

By: tC

tC — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:16:09 +0000

I knew something was up.

By: The Hoodlum Bunch

The Hoodlum Bunch — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:58:18 +0000

Trilla was the best album that dropped that week. He deserved to be number one. Snoops and Fat Joes werent bad either, but I dont think 100,000 records calls for yelling buybacks.

By: bon1bon

bon1bon — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:35:47 +0000

Ok heres an artical from the hommie Wendy Day from the Rapcoalition :

Wednesday, December 20, 2006
SoundScan has a tremendous image problem and they do NOT seem to care. I called at 8:30 this morning to find out Young Jeezy’s first week’s numbers (352,392 thanks to Warner Music Group and a BIG fuck you to SoundScan!!!)and some corporate idiot told me I could “buy a report” because they “don’t give info away for free.” Buy a report, Chris? To find out how many CDs one artist sold in his first week to mention on a free Blog? You are a joke, sir! Chris is an idiot who “works” in Client Services at SoundScam: (914) 684-5525–ClientServices@soundscan.com. Way to tote the corporate line, you dweeb!

So I called a friend at Warner Bros and we had a long talk about why SoundScan is so hated in the industry. Aside from the fact that their numbers are not 100% accurate in urban music (yet they repeatedly claim they are), and that one can even affect the charts by “buying” soundscan scans from stores (I have personally done this in the past so I know it’s possible), they charge exorbitent rates from the labels to access this less than perfectly accurate data. Perhaps that’s why Universal told them to “fuck off” last December, and got rid of their soundscan access until SoundScan came back to them with a reasonable price to access their data… I can’t blame them. SoundScan has gotten crazy with their policies and pricing.

They have always been all about the money, but they’ve gotten REALLY outlandish with it lately. So the moral of this story is that if you want some quick info from Soundscan about an artist, don’t bother. They are assholes and proud of that fact!! Better to call a friend at a label and get the information… or pay those dweebs at soundscan close to $20K a quarter to access their not-so-accurate data that they seem to feel is worth more than it really is.
posted by Wendy Day

By: bon1bon

bon1bon — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:26:45 +0000

@ agnostic I know its hard to believe but trust me why I tell you they do buy the records back. Lest say mmm Shaq or a Def Jam artist had an album out and to get it to number one on Billboard / in the country they have to make sure that the sound scan reflects it a hot selling album that other will buy based on number and it being number on. So lest say Walmart orders 100,000 units said record label will buy the records and this will count as a sale for Walmart So without anyone buying any records they have “officially” sold 100,00 units.

By: me

me — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:42:02 +0000

is dat surprising! come on people if aint no hit single in rotation you already know what time it is! i was thinkin like damn,how did he out sell snoop like dat! def jam should’ve payed 4 radio spin and some video spin and it might wouldve worked! it was 2 damn obvious,so dats why they jump on it like dat! respect da game doe

By: black ice

black ice — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:59:50 +0000

17 miss info i think the thing is you can sell more if folk see the album as the no1 on the shelf in shop then sell some later at a smaller price to recoup some of the money back, and yes true do think def jam is not the record company that has done this.
there you are, it is the best protected secret in the business

By: agnostic

agnostic — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:28:05 +0000

Red dirt says:

i worked at a tower records in the mid 90s for a couple of years. every promotional poster and/or cd on display costs hella loot to put up. a promotional poster? that’ll cost you a couple of stacks. cd on a listening station? you don’t even want to know how much that shit costed. ever notice how there was hardly any titles from indie labels on those blue listening stations?
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Exactly!!!

By: red dirt

red dirt — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:41:44 +0000

i worked at a tower records in the mid 90s for a couple of years. every promotional poster and/or cd on display costs hella loot to put up.

a promotional poster? that’ll cost you a couple of stacks. cd on a listening station? you don’t even want to know how much that shit costed. ever notice how there was hardly any titles from indie labels on those blue listening stations?

By: red dirt

red dirt — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:37:52 +0000

industry rule #4080…

By: chills

chills — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:56:39 +0000

i dont know !! theres not alot of bootleggers in miami i never chilled up in wet willies sipping on a call-a-cab and had a someone stroll up there trying to sell me some bootlegs cd-dvd-cd-dvd !lol !! and miami they stand behind there artist ross is to miami what jay is to us true story !

ps that album is fire that “maybach music” oh man ! a problem