Kreayshawn - Somethin' 'Bout Kreay
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Kreayshawn's New Album Is Not, In Fact, the Worst-Selling Ever
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Kreayshawn
[Update: As a commenter notes, Kreayshawn's physical CD is only available at Hot Topic, which makes her supposed worst-ever sales figures look even better.]
The internet is broken again. It's telling us that first-week sales of Kreayshawn's debut Somethin' 'Bout Kreay -- released last week, it moved about 3,900 units -- are the weakest ever for a major label release. Thanks for the misinformation everyone, which has come fast and furious, often with the (also bogus) addendum that the previous record was held by Soulja Boy.
See Also:
*Kreayshawn On Her New Album and the Worst Assholes on Twitter
*The Worst Day Of K-Fed's Life
While Soulja Boy's 13,360 first week for The DeAndre Way wasn't a particularly strong, it's not even as bad as Interscope labelmate Nelly Furtado's The Spirit Indestructible, which sold a mere 5,371 units earlier this month. But the artist who bricked the hardest? Let us tell you about a young man named Jesse Camp.
Jesse Camp
The Connecticut-born Camp won MTV's inaugural "Wanna Be a VJ" contest back in 1998, and after a year on the air, he secured an album deal with Hollywood Records for his band Jesse & The 8th Street Kidz.
Their self-titled album -- which somehow featured Stevie Nicks -- came out on May 25th, 1999, and it made the day's other new releases, by folks including the Insane Clown Posse, Slick Rick and Jordan Knight, look like monster hits. Jesse & The 8th Street Kidz sold a whopping 2,600 copies, failing even to crack the Billboard 200.
To put all of this in perspective, let's consider another artist who's been historically mocked for poor first week-sales: Kevin Federline.
K-Fed's independently-released Playing With Fire sold roughly 6,500 copies after coming out in 2006, debuting at 151 on the Billboard 200. The music industry was already in a tailspin at that point, and it's only gotten worse, which is why Kreayshawn's 3,900 units today lands her at number 112.
Jesse Camp's work, on the other hand, arrived at the industry's absolute peak. The fact that it moved fewer than Kreay's and K-Fed's and didn't chart -- even with the support of Hollywood Records, MTV and a promotional tie-in with Best Buy where every first-week copy sold came with limited edition Jesse Camp Post-It Notes (below) -- makes it a much bigger dud.
Jesse Camp Post-Its, amidst other promo
So, what does this mean for Kreayshawn? Probably not much. She claims not to care, and, let's face it, expectations weren't particularly high, especially since her hit "Gucci Gucci" came out 14 months (aka a lifetime) ago. Oh, and those rumors that she pocketed a million for her deal? Hopefully you didn't take those too seriously either.
If we're to learn anything from this, it's that haterade breeds misinformation. Folks like to hate on Kreay just like they enjoy ridiculing Soulja Boy, which is surely why this story spread. We would never encourage music writers to let the facts get in the way of a good post, but when Jesse Camp needs to be in the conversation one should really should make sure he's in the conversation.
Kreayshawn's New Album Is Not, In Fact, the Worst-Selling Ever - Los Angeles - Music - West Coast Sound
Kreayshawn
[Update: As a commenter notes, Kreayshawn's physical CD is only available at Hot Topic, which makes her supposed worst-ever sales figures look even better.]
The internet is broken again. It's telling us that first-week sales of Kreayshawn's debut Somethin' 'Bout Kreay -- released last week, it moved about 3,900 units -- are the weakest ever for a major label release. Thanks for the misinformation everyone, which has come fast and furious, often with the (also bogus) addendum that the previous record was held by Soulja Boy.
See Also:
*Kreayshawn On Her New Album and the Worst Assholes on Twitter
*The Worst Day Of K-Fed's Life
While Soulja Boy's 13,360 first week for The DeAndre Way wasn't a particularly strong, it's not even as bad as Interscope labelmate Nelly Furtado's The Spirit Indestructible, which sold a mere 5,371 units earlier this month. But the artist who bricked the hardest? Let us tell you about a young man named Jesse Camp.
Jesse Camp
The Connecticut-born Camp won MTV's inaugural "Wanna Be a VJ" contest back in 1998, and after a year on the air, he secured an album deal with Hollywood Records for his band Jesse & The 8th Street Kidz.
Their self-titled album -- which somehow featured Stevie Nicks -- came out on May 25th, 1999, and it made the day's other new releases, by folks including the Insane Clown Posse, Slick Rick and Jordan Knight, look like monster hits. Jesse & The 8th Street Kidz sold a whopping 2,600 copies, failing even to crack the Billboard 200.
To put all of this in perspective, let's consider another artist who's been historically mocked for poor first week-sales: Kevin Federline.
K-Fed's independently-released Playing With Fire sold roughly 6,500 copies after coming out in 2006, debuting at 151 on the Billboard 200. The music industry was already in a tailspin at that point, and it's only gotten worse, which is why Kreayshawn's 3,900 units today lands her at number 112.
Jesse Camp's work, on the other hand, arrived at the industry's absolute peak. The fact that it moved fewer than Kreay's and K-Fed's and didn't chart -- even with the support of Hollywood Records, MTV and a promotional tie-in with Best Buy where every first-week copy sold came with limited edition Jesse Camp Post-It Notes (below) -- makes it a much bigger dud.
Jesse Camp Post-Its, amidst other promo
So, what does this mean for Kreayshawn? Probably not much. She claims not to care, and, let's face it, expectations weren't particularly high, especially since her hit "Gucci Gucci" came out 14 months (aka a lifetime) ago. Oh, and those rumors that she pocketed a million for her deal? Hopefully you didn't take those too seriously either.
If we're to learn anything from this, it's that haterade breeds misinformation. Folks like to hate on Kreay just like they enjoy ridiculing Soulja Boy, which is surely why this story spread. We would never encourage music writers to let the facts get in the way of a good post, but when Jesse Camp needs to be in the conversation one should really should make sure he's in the conversation.
Kreayshawn's New Album Is Not, In Fact, the Worst-Selling Ever - Los Angeles - Music - West Coast Sound
Kreayshawn
[Update: As a commenter notes, Kreayshawn's physical CD is only available at Hot Topic, which makes her supposed worst-ever sales figures look even better.]
The internet is broken again. It's telling us that first-week sales of Kreayshawn's debut Somethin' 'Bout Kreay -- released last week, it moved about 3,900 units -- are the weakest ever for a major label release. Thanks for the misinformation everyone, which has come fast and furious, often with the (also bogus) addendum that the previous record was held by Soulja Boy.
See Also:
*Kreayshawn On Her New Album and the Worst Assholes on Twitter
*The Worst Day Of K-Fed's Life
While Soulja Boy's 13,360 first week for The DeAndre Way wasn't a particularly strong, it's not even as bad as Interscope labelmate Nelly Furtado's The Spirit Indestructible, which sold a mere 5,371 units earlier this month. But the artist who bricked the hardest? Let us tell you about a young man named Jesse Camp.
Jesse Camp
The Connecticut-born Camp won MTV's inaugural "Wanna Be a VJ" contest back in 1998, and after a year on the air, he secured an album deal with Hollywood Records for his band Jesse & The 8th Street Kidz.
Their self-titled album -- which somehow featured Stevie Nicks -- came out on May 25th, 1999, and it made the day's other new releases, by folks including the Insane Clown Posse, Slick Rick and Jordan Knight, look like monster hits. Jesse & The 8th Street Kidz sold a whopping 2,600 copies, failing even to crack the Billboard 200.
To put all of this in perspective, let's consider another artist who's been historically mocked for poor first week-sales: Kevin Federline.
K-Fed's independently-released Playing With Fire sold roughly 6,500 copies after coming out in 2006, debuting at 151 on the Billboard 200. The music industry was already in a tailspin at that point, and it's only gotten worse, which is why Kreayshawn's 3,900 units today lands her at number 112.
Jesse Camp's work, on the other hand, arrived at the industry's absolute peak. The fact that it moved fewer than Kreay's and K-Fed's and didn't chart -- even with the support of Hollywood Records, MTV and a promotional tie-in with Best Buy where every first-week copy sold came with limited edition Jesse Camp Post-It Notes (below) -- makes it a much bigger dud.
Jesse Camp Post-Its, amidst other promo
So, what does this mean for Kreayshawn? Probably not much. She claims not to care, and, let's face it, expectations weren't particularly high, especially since her hit "Gucci Gucci" came out 14 months (aka a lifetime) ago. Oh, and those rumors that she pocketed a million for her deal? Hopefully you didn't take those too seriously either.
If we're to learn anything from this, it's that haterade breeds misinformation. Folks like to hate on Kreay just like they enjoy ridiculing Soulja Boy, which is surely why this story spread. We would never encourage music writers to let the facts get in the way of a good post, but when Jesse Camp needs to be in the conversation one should really should make sure he's in the conversation.
Kreayshawn
[Update: As a commenter notes, Kreayshawn's physical CD is only available at Hot Topic, which makes her supposed worst-ever sales figures look even better.]
The internet is broken again. It's telling us that first-week sales of Kreayshawn's debut Somethin' 'Bout Kreay -- released last week, it moved about 3,900 units -- are the weakest ever for a major label release. Thanks for the misinformation everyone, which has come fast and furious, often with the (also bogus) addendum that the previous record was held by Soulja Boy.
See Also:
*Kreayshawn On Her New Album and the Worst Assholes on Twitter
*The Worst Day Of K-Fed's Life
While Soulja Boy's 13,360 first week for The DeAndre Way wasn't a particularly strong, it's not even as bad as Interscope labelmate Nelly Furtado's The Spirit Indestructible, which sold a mere 5,371 units earlier this month. But the artist who bricked the hardest? Let us tell you about a young man named Jesse Camp.
Jesse Camp
The Connecticut-born Camp won MTV's inaugural "Wanna Be a VJ" contest back in 1998, and after a year on the air, he secured an album deal with Hollywood Records for his band Jesse & The 8th Street Kidz.
Their self-titled album -- which somehow featured Stevie Nicks -- came out on May 25th, 1999, and it made the day's other new releases, by folks including the Insane Clown Posse, Slick Rick and Jordan Knight, look like monster hits. Jesse & The 8th Street Kidz sold a whopping 2,600 copies, failing even to crack the Billboard 200.
To put all of this in perspective, let's consider another artist who's been historically mocked for poor first week-sales: Kevin Federline.
K-Fed's independently-released Playing With Fire sold roughly 6,500 copies after coming out in 2006, debuting at 151 on the Billboard 200. The music industry was already in a tailspin at that point, and it's only gotten worse, which is why Kreayshawn's 3,900 units today lands her at number 112.
Jesse Camp's work, on the other hand, arrived at the industry's absolute peak. The fact that it moved fewer than Kreay's and K-Fed's and didn't chart -- even with the support of Hollywood Records, MTV and a promotional tie-in with Best Buy where every first-week copy sold came with limited edition Jesse Camp Post-It Notes (below) -- makes it a much bigger dud.
Jesse Camp Post-Its, amidst other promo
So, what does this mean for Kreayshawn? Probably not much. She claims not to care, and, let's face it, expectations weren't particularly high, especially since her hit "Gucci Gucci" came out 14 months (aka a lifetime) ago. Oh, and those rumors that she pocketed a million for her deal? Hopefully you didn't take those too seriously either.
If we're to learn anything from this, it's that haterade breeds misinformation. Folks like to hate on Kreay just like they enjoy ridiculing Soulja Boy, which is surely why this story spread. We would never encourage music writers to let the facts get in the way of a good post, but when Jesse Camp needs to be in the conversation one should really should make sure he's in the conversation.
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It's kind of crazy Nelly Furtado didn't even hit 6,000 units. Her last english album went platinum and she's a multi-grammy winner.
No wonder these labels are trying to sue the fuck out of uploaders lol. They are going the way of dinosaurs faster and faster each year. Whatever though fuck them. I like giving money directly to the artist anyways for their product whenever possible (which is becoming easier and easier these days) seeing they make a lot more off each sale.
I still love you though Nelly Furtado baby. I hope you are all right through this. If not call me
No wonder these labels are trying to sue the fuck out of uploaders lol. They are going the way of dinosaurs faster and faster each year. Whatever though fuck them. I like giving money directly to the artist anyways for their product whenever possible (which is becoming easier and easier these days) seeing they make a lot more off each sale.
I still love you though Nelly Furtado baby. I hope you are all right through this. If not call me
Kreayshawn's New Album Is Not, In Fact, the Worst-Selling Ever - Los Angeles - Music - West Coast Sound
Kreayshawn
[Update: As a commenter notes, Kreayshawn's physical CD is only available at Hot Topic, which makes her supposed worst-ever sales figures look even better.]
The internet is broken again. It's telling us that first-week sales of Kreayshawn's debut Somethin' 'Bout Kreay -- released last week, it moved about 3,900 units -- are the weakest ever for a major label release. Thanks for the misinformation everyone, which has come fast and furious, often with the (also bogus) addendum that the previous record was held by Soulja Boy.
See Also:
*Kreayshawn On Her New Album and the Worst Assholes on Twitter
*The Worst Day Of K-Fed's Life
While Soulja Boy's 13,360 first week for The DeAndre Way wasn't a particularly strong, it's not even as bad as Interscope labelmate Nelly Furtado's The Spirit Indestructible, which sold a mere 5,371 units earlier this month. But the artist who bricked the hardest? Let us tell you about a young man named Jesse Camp.
Jesse Camp
The Connecticut-born Camp won MTV's inaugural "Wanna Be a VJ" contest back in 1998, and after a year on the air, he secured an album deal with Hollywood Records for his band Jesse & The 8th Street Kidz.
Their self-titled album -- which somehow featured Stevie Nicks -- came out on May 25th, 1999, and it made the day's other new releases, by folks including the Insane Clown Posse, Slick Rick and Jordan Knight, look like monster hits. Jesse & The 8th Street Kidz sold a whopping 2,600 copies, failing even to crack the Billboard 200.
To put all of this in perspective, let's consider another artist who's been historically mocked for poor first week-sales: Kevin Federline.
K-Fed's independently-released Playing With Fire sold roughly 6,500 copies after coming out in 2006, debuting at 151 on the Billboard 200. The music industry was already in a tailspin at that point, and it's only gotten worse, which is why Kreayshawn's 3,900 units today lands her at number 112.
Jesse Camp's work, on the other hand, arrived at the industry's absolute peak. The fact that it moved fewer than Kreay's and K-Fed's and didn't chart -- even with the support of Hollywood Records, MTV and a promotional tie-in with Best Buy where every first-week copy sold came with limited edition Jesse Camp Post-It Notes (below) -- makes it a much bigger dud.
Jesse Camp Post-Its, amidst other promo
So, what does this mean for Kreayshawn? Probably not much. She claims not to care, and, let's face it, expectations weren't particularly high, especially since her hit "Gucci Gucci" came out 14 months (aka a lifetime) ago. Oh, and those rumors that she pocketed a million for her deal? Hopefully you didn't take those too seriously either.
If we're to learn anything from this, it's that haterade breeds misinformation. Folks like to hate on Kreay just like they enjoy ridiculing Soulja Boy, which is surely why this story spread. We would never encourage music writers to let the facts get in the way of a good post, but when Jesse Camp needs to be in the conversation one should really should make sure he's in the conversation.
Kreayshawn
[Update: As a commenter notes, Kreayshawn's physical CD is only available at Hot Topic, which makes her supposed worst-ever sales figures look even better.]
The internet is broken again. It's telling us that first-week sales of Kreayshawn's debut Somethin' 'Bout Kreay -- released last week, it moved about 3,900 units -- are the weakest ever for a major label release. Thanks for the misinformation everyone, which has come fast and furious, often with the (also bogus) addendum that the previous record was held by Soulja Boy.
See Also:
*Kreayshawn On Her New Album and the Worst Assholes on Twitter
*The Worst Day Of K-Fed's Life
While Soulja Boy's 13,360 first week for The DeAndre Way wasn't a particularly strong, it's not even as bad as Interscope labelmate Nelly Furtado's The Spirit Indestructible, which sold a mere 5,371 units earlier this month. But the artist who bricked the hardest? Let us tell you about a young man named Jesse Camp.
Jesse Camp
The Connecticut-born Camp won MTV's inaugural "Wanna Be a VJ" contest back in 1998, and after a year on the air, he secured an album deal with Hollywood Records for his band Jesse & The 8th Street Kidz.
Their self-titled album -- which somehow featured Stevie Nicks -- came out on May 25th, 1999, and it made the day's other new releases, by folks including the Insane Clown Posse, Slick Rick and Jordan Knight, look like monster hits. Jesse & The 8th Street Kidz sold a whopping 2,600 copies, failing even to crack the Billboard 200.
To put all of this in perspective, let's consider another artist who's been historically mocked for poor first week-sales: Kevin Federline.
K-Fed's independently-released Playing With Fire sold roughly 6,500 copies after coming out in 2006, debuting at 151 on the Billboard 200. The music industry was already in a tailspin at that point, and it's only gotten worse, which is why Kreayshawn's 3,900 units today lands her at number 112.
Jesse Camp's work, on the other hand, arrived at the industry's absolute peak. The fact that it moved fewer than Kreay's and K-Fed's and didn't chart -- even with the support of Hollywood Records, MTV and a promotional tie-in with Best Buy where every first-week copy sold came with limited edition Jesse Camp Post-It Notes (below) -- makes it a much bigger dud.
Jesse Camp Post-Its, amidst other promo
So, what does this mean for Kreayshawn? Probably not much. She claims not to care, and, let's face it, expectations weren't particularly high, especially since her hit "Gucci Gucci" came out 14 months (aka a lifetime) ago. Oh, and those rumors that she pocketed a million for her deal? Hopefully you didn't take those too seriously either.
If we're to learn anything from this, it's that haterade breeds misinformation. Folks like to hate on Kreay just like they enjoy ridiculing Soulja Boy, which is surely why this story spread. We would never encourage music writers to let the facts get in the way of a good post, but when Jesse Camp needs to be in the conversation one should really should make sure he's in the conversation.
It dont matter. Krey is still garbage and the worst rapper in mainstream and nobody cares about her music but you. she failed get over it she will be dropped from SONY soon and will be back working at IKEA.
They dropped the ball on kreyshawn not only bc she shitty but they waited til her lil buzz diappeared to drop the album. her shit shouldve dropped over a year ago then she may have had some success. instead they waited too long and that gave her time to ruin her career by opening her mouth wreckeless also the incident with rick ross. Its obvious SONY lost interest in her so thats why they dropped her album to limited quaninty bc they knew that shit wasnt gonna sell and they didnt have confidence in her no more.
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It's kind of crazy Nelly Furtado didn't even hit 6,000 units. Her last english album went platinum and she's a multi-grammy winner.
No wonder these labels are trying to sue the fuck out of uploaders lol. They are going the way of dinosaurs faster and faster each year. Whatever though fuck them. I like giving money directly to the artist anyways for their product whenever possible (which is becoming easier and easier these days) seeing they make a lot more off each sale.
I still love you though Nelly Furtado baby. I hope you are all right through this. If not call me
No wonder these labels are trying to sue the fuck out of uploaders lol. They are going the way of dinosaurs faster and faster each year. Whatever though fuck them. I like giving money directly to the artist anyways for their product whenever possible (which is becoming easier and easier these days) seeing they make a lot more off each sale.
I still love you though Nelly Furtado baby. I hope you are all right through this. If not call me
Nelly Furtado new album didnt have no promo or a real strong single. First time i heard of her dropping a new album was the day it leaked.
Its not the uploaders fault its more of the artist 15 minutes of fame being up or majority not being interested.
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True, but she still has a really loyal and solid fanbase. Her spanish album did over 100,000 in the US alone with damn near no promo a few years back. Plus she has been around a lot longer than "15 minutes" breh. I see what you are saying but it's obvious the record labels are dying and as of right now they don't know how to save themselves even though there are some pretty clear ways to but they are stuck in the old times and won't budge. Oh well. Sucks for them but all empires come to a end at some point.
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It's kind of crazy Nelly Furtado didn't even hit 6,000 units. Her last english album went platinum and she's a multi-grammy winner.
No wonder these labels are trying to sue the fuck out of uploaders lol. They are going the way of dinosaurs faster and faster each year. Whatever though fuck them. I like giving money directly to the artist anyways for their product whenever possible (which is becoming easier and easier these days) seeing they make a lot more off each sale.
I still love you though Nelly Furtado baby. I hope you are all right through this. If not call me
No wonder these labels are trying to sue the fuck out of uploaders lol. They are going the way of dinosaurs faster and faster each year. Whatever though fuck them. I like giving money directly to the artist anyways for their product whenever possible (which is becoming easier and easier these days) seeing they make a lot more off each sale.
I still love you though Nelly Furtado baby. I hope you are all right through this. If not call me
seems like nelly didnt give a shit about this new album though it probaly was her last album for interscope so she wanted out her contract. i havent seen her make no promo or tv appearences about the album. also she on timberlands label but he didnt do no beats or appear on her new album it dropped on his label and interscope though. do u remember though her last album had the one song timbaland produced and it was a club banger especially down in miami I forgot teh name of teh song but i used to hear that song everywhere.
you know what thats true imo rihanna sounds like futado, nina sky and lumidee mixed. i remember rihannas first two albums didnt do shit when they dropped then she started getting slutty and got a buzz and sold then chris whooped her ass and turned her into a superstar
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