Fazeem Blackall;253460 said:
http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=tblTopArt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists
I started Off with Links so we can Kicks some facts son. I take a day off and the stans run wild and shit. Fact in the US alone pac has sold 37.5 million, Both eminem and Jigga have 27 million in the US Biggie has 17 Million In the US all impresive Numbers although pac more tehn Doubles your boy domestically, but then we hit world wide #'s and it is a different ball game Pac Has 75 million Eminem has 80 million Jigga 50 million, your boy not charting world wide becaue he is was just a Rap star in the US, where Pac is a world wide Mega star, now tell them why you mad Kid...
LOL, once again someone trying to dowplay Biggie's sales. Biggie has sold over 30 Million albums Worldwide with only 2 LP's and 2 Cut and Paste LP's, a Greatest Hits and Soundtrack with songs everyone already heard. And 1 Group album and several of singles selling well. Here's Big's Sales Discography:
The Notorious B.I.G., an American rapper. He is one of the best selling hip hop artists of all time with over 30 million albums sold worldwide and 20 million in the U.S. The Notorious B.I.G remians the only artist in Music History to have two posthumous #1 Billboard Hot 100 singles. His album "Life After Death" is 1 of only 3 rap albums certified Diamond by the RIAA. It also made the largest jump to number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in history, jumping from number 176 to number 1 in one week.
Album sales:
LAD: 10 Million Domestic, 17 million Worldwide
RTD: 4 Million Domestic, 8 Million Worldwide
BA: 2 Million Domestic, 4 Million Worldwide
DTFC: 1 Million Dometic, 2 Million Worldwide
Greatest Hits: Gold
Notorious Soundtrack: Gold
JM: Platinume Domestic, 2x Platinum Worldwide
= 19.5 Million Domestic, 32 Million Worldwide
Single Sales:
Juicy: Gold
Big Poppa: Platinum
One More Chance: Platinum
Hypnotize: Platinum
Mo Money, Mo Plroblems: Platinum
Sky's the Limit: Gold
Nasty Girl: Gold
= 5.5 Million single Sales
Featured Singles sales:
Get Money: Platinum
Playa's Anthem: Gold
Crush on You: Platinum
Been Around The World: Platinum
All About The Benji's: Platinum
Victory: Gold
Only You: Gold
Can't You See: Gold
Real Love: Gold
Flava In Your Ear: Gold
=7 Million
Album Sales: 32 Million WW, Single Sales 13 Million WW. So let me get this straight:
Pac: 38 Million Domestic, 75 Million Worldwide
Eminem: 37 Million Domestic, 80 Million Worldwide
Jay Z: 28 Million Domestic, 50 Million Worldwide
Biggie: 20 Million Domestic, 32 Million Worldwide
So basically Biggie moved half of what Pac and Eminem did with WAYYYYY Less material. Yet you want to talk about sales? At the rate Big was selling he would of sold over 100 Million albums had he had a chance to release more than 2 LP's during his lifetime. Nobody is disputed Pac's sales, he's been the GOAT Sales artist for over a decade after his death until White America moved Eminem ahead of him. But to act like Biggie was just some local stateside artist is lame. "Life After Death" and "Ready To Die" sold 13 Million combined OVERSEAS not just in the states. Biggie's has sold more than NaS with less albums, Rakim with less album. He sold almost as much as Jay Z with less albums and again half of Pac and Eminem. If you bring in Groups, Biggie's sales equal that of Bone Thugs N Harmony and Outkast. No Rapper in Hip Hop History sold more with less material than Biggie. That is not a mistake.