soundscan #'s for underground artists

[Jake]

maybe this will be a reality check for people that dont seem to understand album sales.before you judge somebody for seling 700,000,shit,even 100,000copies check out what some of the elite of the underground are pushin. these are some of the best out there,well known....these are kinda old and more than likely not accurate today but gives you an idea

the #'s are just overall totals

2 Mex B-Boys... 1,117 2/22/2005
2K6 - NBA Compilation 2K6 - The Tracks 4,661 6/1/2005
9th/Buckshot Chemistry 17,410 7/12/2005
Aesop Rock Fast Cars..EP 29,382 2/22/2005
Atmosphere You Can't Imagine... 64,793 10/4/2005
AZ AWOL 42,068 4/26/2005
Big Shug Who's Hard? 4,141 9/13/2005
Black Market Militia Black Market Militia 4,036 03/2005
Blackalicious The Craft 37,901 9/27/2005
Blockhead Downtown Science 3,076 10/18/2005
Blueprint 1988 10,985 03/2005
Boom Bap Project Reprogram 5,381 6/21/2005
C Rayz Walz Year of the Beast 8,390 05/2005
Cage Hell's Winter 11,303 9/20/2005
Casual Smash Rockwell 3,039 9/6/2005
Cesar Comanche Squirrel... 724 9/20/2005
Dangerdoom Mouse and Mask 82,706 10/11/2005
Edan Beauty and the Beat 9,102 03/2005
Felt Felt 2 23,176 7/2/2005
Ge-ology Ge-ology... 976 6/21/2005
Grayskul Deadlivers 6,079 2/12/2005
J-Live The Hearafter 5,543 5/24/2005
JuJu Mob Black Candles 793 5/17/2005
Jus Allah All Fates Have Changed 4,995 5/10/2005
Kev Brown I Do... 1,863 9/20/2005
Lady Sovereign Vertically Challenged 4,745 11/15/2005
Ladybug Mecca Trip the Light Fantastic 2,352 6/7/2005
Lawless Element Soundvision... 1,679 9/20/2005
Little Brother Chitlin Circuit 19,902 6/21/2005
Little Brother Minstrel Show 56,629 9/13/2005
M.O.P. St. Marxmen 8,783 10/18/2005
Maspyke Static 321 9/20/2005
Mathematics Problem 11,797 6/28/2005
MED Push Comes... 4,228 3/22/05
Muggz/GZA Grandmasters 25,244 10/25/2005
Necro Sexorcist 6,039 8/2/2005
Ohmega Watts The Find 3,067 9/13/2005
One Be Lo Sonagram 13,313 02/8/2005
Perceptionists Black Dialogue 16,567 3/22/2005
Platinum Pied Pipers Triple P 6,334 5/10/2005
Pumpkinhead Orange Moon... 824 8/23/2005
Purple City Road to the Riches 35,418 03/2005
Quasimoto The Further Adventures... 27,418 03/2005
R.A. the Rigged Man Die Rugged... 9,793 11/16/2005
Reef the Lost Cause Feast... 693 9/20/2005
Sadat X Experience... 2,007 10/25/2005
Sage Francis Healthy Distrust 42,559 02/2005
Self Scientific Change 1,258 10/25/2005
Skillz Confessions... 3,650 9/13/2005
Slum Village Slum Village 9,480 9/27/2005
Strong Arm Steady Volume 1 1,650 10/4/2005
Supastition Chain Letters 739 10/25/2005
Supernatural SPIT 1,861 11/15/2005
Think Differently Wu-Tamg Meets 24,096 10/18/2005
U-God Mr. Xcitement 3,694 9/13/2005

 

[Ulysses]

the twin cities has the highest selling underground artist

 

[Jake]

too bad that album sucked

 

[livemanikins]

damn good lookin on the #'s

 

[D'struction]

ive heard of like 1/4 of them people....any other listings?

 

[BETO916]

good shit......most if not all are indie, so at 8-10 bucks a sale....fuck it.....they still eatin' good.

 

[Raw Tunez]

ive heard of like 20% of those and listened to like 5%

 

[Jake]

i have heard of 100% of them and listened to 100% of them

doesnt matter though... i didnt expect people on this board to know who these people were. just proving a point and in the meantime showing the people that actually listen to these peope some #'s

 

[reza]

the point of this thread is to show us that elite underground artists are pushing 10k units? I'd think most would expect those type of #'s considering even those artists do have some sort of a following.

you have artists on this list that are selling less than 1k.

 

[DFresh77]

that little brother is a slappers tho

 

[Ry]

Wow, myself and 723 other people bought Cesar Commanches last CD and only 739 poeple bought that Supastition. I'm sure a lot of indie sales come from mom and pops stores that arent soundscanned though. So im sure thier actual numbers are a lot higher...

 

[D.RIZZLE]

I WISH DEY WOULE DO DAT OFTEN FA DA UG ARTIST...IM SURE WE ALL WANNA KNO WHO SELLN WHAT.... GOOD LOOK THO

 

[MOREBASS]

Saw this a while back, I know for sure that The Minstrel Show is up to about 75K...but most of these guys make their living off of shows anyways.

 

[Silent-One]

thanks for the post.

 

[Silent-One]

damn...that Reef, Juju Mob and Pumpkinhead sold less than 1K and they are tight ass albums.

 

[ThaG]

Atmosphere You Can't Imagine... 64,793 10/4/2005
Sage Francis Healthy Distrust 42,559 02/2005

these sold much more than I thought

Little Brother Minstrel Show 56,629 9/13/2005
Muggz/GZA Grandmasters 25,244 10/25/2005

one would think these will sell more...

 

[tyson]

goodshit but I was expecting come Lynch,X-raided,C-bo doonsday and stuff

 

[ThaG]

goodshit but I was expecting come Lynch,X-raided,C-bo doonsday and stuff

that's too gangsta to be called "underground"

 

[thoughts]

wow thanks for these munber i listen to all those artists, where did you get these number from?

 

[livemanikins]

these sold much more than I thought

if you think about it Atmosphere's last album was all over MTV2 for a long ass time and Sage Francis last album was dope and he had a long ass tour to back that album