This post is about how many platinum selling albums Kanye West has. To does that don't know what selling platinum means, it means an album selling over a million copies.
Since he released his first album in 2004, Kanye West has so far had 7 platinum selling albums.
Below is a list of all his platinum selling albums.
1. The College Dropout (2004)- 4X Platinum
2. Late Registration (2005)- 4X Platinum
3. Graduation (2007)- 5X Platinum
4. 808s & Heatbreak (2008)- 3X Platinum
"i loved it, but the media crucified him and slandered him because of the content and his outspokenness on many things. Then the sheeple started saying it was wack like a mantra after a few so-called tastemakers said it. the end,"
"Some of the joints on the new joint that Yeezy made, I wasn't into all that." One time, the beat didn't come on. [The screaming on there], it was
creative. He came out of nowhere with that. If you see something that
looks like it's foreign -- we'll see if people can adjust to it and
really enjoy it or if it's too different. There's a point where creative
is well past your mark. You did something that's so far out that your
audience can't hear it. Be careful what you say because it might work."
We will know what Yeezus sold first week in the states by tomorrow night. By the way, J.Cole's Born Sinner which dropped on the same day as Kanye's Yeezus sold 12,000 copies in the U.K, and that places him at the number 7 spot on the U.K album chart this week.
Kanye's second and third albums damn near sold plat on their first week out, so he is a big seller. Although he didn't do too much promotion with this album in terms of dropping a hot single and a video, it is still going to sell like a Kanye album, because that 'no promo' strategy worked like promotion on steroids. See how the whole internet has gone into a frenzy over the leak. #Kanye, #Yeezus and three tracks from the album are already trending worldwide. I would predict Yeezus would sell between 400-550k first week. No solo Kanye album has sold lower than 400k first week. 400k copies is Kanye's comfort zone; I see him selling close to 600k first week in the U.S, and about 800k copies worldwide first week.
"You know with this album, we ain’t drop no single to radio. We ain’t got no big NBA campaign or nothing like that. Shit, we ain’t even got no cover. We just made some real music. And you know, back when I used to make albums and shit, like a couple years ago, three, four years ago, we’d go away and work on an album for like five months or so, and we’d always have to hold the album ’til like August or September ’til the perfect moment and shit, ’cause it means that I think you gon’ sell more ’cause you get more audience and radio and shit. But honestly, at this point, when I listen to radio, that ain’t where I wanna be no more. Honestly, at this point, I could give a f**k about selling a million records. As long as I put out an album for the summer that y’all can rock to all motherfucking summer. And I don’t give a fuck to what the label tell me; I’m gon’ sell more records. ‘Cause at this point, I don’t really give a f**k about outside opinions."
Instantly the lightbulb [turned on]... it got real. I made one phone call to somebody that would know, just to make sure first. As soon as I got it confirmed, I was like, 'Yo...' The idea hit me instantly: 'You got to go to that date. I'm not going to sit [here]... I worked too hard to come a week later after Kanye West drops an amazing album. It'd be like, 'Oh and J.Cole dropped too, a week later.' Nah. I'm going to go see him on that date. He's the greatest. So it's like, I'm a competitor by nature so it was instant, it wasn't even a thought," the Roc Nation artist continued. (Billboard)