![]() Graduation also set a digital sales record, with legal downloads of 133,000 copies, crushing Maroon 5’s record of 102,000 set earlier this year. Ouch! Poor 50! I suppose a consolation prize is the fact that this is only the second time since SoundScan began its, er, scanning of sound in 1991, that the top two albums both sold more than 600,000 copies. West’s total is the biggest one-week sales total for any album in over two years-and what, pray tell, was the album that did better, two years ago? That would be 50 Cent’s The Massacre, which sold 1.1 million copies in March of ’05. It’s official: Billboard is reporting Kanye West’s Graduation sold 957,000 copies in its first week of sales, over 250,000 more than 50 Cent’s still-impressive 691,000. ![]() Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.
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