Nelly blame label for low album sell
Nov 30th, 2010 by Bilal Ali
Nelly tweeted away his anger about his album sales. Find out what the rapper had to say about his record label
Nelly’s latest project, ‘5.0′, debuted November 16th and took the #10 spot on the Billboard’s Top 200 albums. However, ‘5.0′ only sold 63k in it’s first week. In comparison, label mate Kanye sold 530k of ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ the following week. Â Nicki Minaj’s ‘Pink Friday’ also sold over 400k in it’s first week.
Nelly vented via Twitter about Motown/Universal’s lack of marketing for his album.
The rapper tweeted, “A record deal is a 50/50 partnership!As a artist its your job to provide the record company with music that they(record company) can sell,Thing about the partnership is that n the public eye the responsibility is not 50/50!the artist is always the 1who catches 90% of the blame.”
He continued tweeting saying, “If u only ship 200 thound [thousand] of an album how many are u f#cking tryen [sic] to sell?? the artist does control that nor does he or she control marketing.”
Nelly’s previous album, ‘Sweat/Suit’ dropped in 2005 and sold over 400k in its first week. And he dropped Brass Knuckles in 2008 which didn’t push many units.