First Week Sales Prediction Of Watch The Throne

Today is Monday, Aug 8, and Watch the Throne, the collabo Album from Jay-Z and Kanye West drops today. I am going to attempt to predict what it does after one week in stores, just as i did with Royce Da 5'9 and Eminem's Bad Meets Evil EP. I was on point with that one, and i think i am going to do well with this as well.

I think i would just jump in and tell you what i think it would sell in the first week, then i would give reasons for why i think so as i go on. I think Watch The Throne, the Album from Kanye West and Jay-Z is going to sell between 130-200k copies in its first week in stores. Collabo albums don't do as well as if it is just each individual on his own. Check this- Jay-Z's Blueprint3(2009) album was his last, and it did 400,000 plus copies in its first week; Kanye's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) also did 400,000 plus, so, expect the collabo album to do less than that.

Most times, instead of a collabo Album to have a double impact in sales, it always does pretty lower than both artist do in their solo careers. Examples are jay and r.kelly's best of both world albums, nas and damian marley's Distant Relatives album...fans of both artists are always skeptical about getting an album that isn't entirely about their favorite artist/rapper, so they end up not getting it.

So, that's my prediction. Lets wait one week to see how right i am. Or we don't have to wait so long- hitsdailydouble.com releases a projection of first week album sales using the first day sales weekly. Their projections always comes out on Wednesdays, so we can wait two days and check my prediction against their projection. See you soon.