First off soundscan counts for almost half of sales. Does anyone really get the business side of selling records? Doing over 2,000 first week(what cognito did) Do you even understand that most of these mom and pop stores that sold major units first week and will continue to sell units DONT soundscan as well. I have said it before and I will say it again, Cognito is an artist that reaches WAY MORE FANS than just siccness fans. You can love or hate him, BUT Strange knows exactly what they are doing with signing this guy for the LONG RUN. I understand there are a bunch of unsigned rappers in these threads that hate and sit around holding each others dicks all day BUT when someone like Cognito sells and attracts the bitches AS WELL, he will continue to sell and sell and sell. Strange knows it aint about topping all these other major labels with first week sales. 6 months down the road Cog will have STACKED plenty of units sold so quit hating. Keep in mind Stevie Stone and Cognito are very close homies so I dont understand why people in these threads always act like they compete or that Stevie has any plans of trying to get Cog booted off the label so he can join Strange. I know for a fact Stevie called Cog the day automatic dropped and told him he just bought a copy and that the album was so crazy and he couldn't stop knocking it. I was on the phone with Cog when he did. Haters you better keep hating because Cognito aint going anywhere. Strange will make sure of that.