Heartbreaking predictions: Kanye West album sales are low.

December 9, 2008 by admin  
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Kanye West may just have to take his album title literally and nurse a bit of heartbreak this season.After “Graduation” his successful debut album, expectations for “808’s & Heartbreak” were high but Billboard reports say number predictions foretell that in reality the album’s success will fall a whole lot short of those expectations.

According to sources “808’s & Heartbreak” which was released just in time for “Black Friday” was predicted to sell between 700,000 and 975,000 in November but will actually sell between 425,000-450,000 copies, a sum that is a great deal lower.

Kanye West however, can console himself with the statistics presented by several retail outlets that show that overall music sales had fallen 10% to 30%.

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5 Responses to “Heartbreaking predictions: Kanye West album sales are low.”

  1. robbieevans on December 10th, 2008 6:08 am

    “808’s & Heartbreak” is about to give Kanye West a heart break. That is very sad. After all he must have out in a lot of hard work into the album. “Graduation” was his successful debut album. That is true and people had a lot of expectations from this. It will really be very unfortunate for this singer.

  2. Julia on December 10th, 2008 6:11 am

    I don’t think that this prediction thing will be true. You cannot say anything at this stage. I think it will do just as good as his debut album. I loved Graduation and I feel this will be better and his fans will support him throughout. We have to wait and watch where the sales go.

  3. anniewil007 on December 10th, 2008 6:13 am

    The general scenario is music sales is not good because the statistic reveal that the sales have dropped. The picture is that bad. That means Kanye West will have a bad time. I hope that the sorrow is not too great. Anyway Kanye better luck next time. All the best.

  4. Soulman on December 10th, 2008 12:30 pm

    Hey, Kanye! S’ok man. Everybody is just saving their shekels to buy your music this Christmas. You know how we all leave it to the last minute. I bet your fans out there are keeping close track on their spending, but will sneak to their record stores any day now.

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