L.A.X. Has Sold 130,000 copies on iTunes Alone Tuesday (Which Means He Did G-Units First Week In A Single Morning....G-G-G-G-G-G-Unot)

With his new album, LAX, in stores this week SOHH sat down with The Game to talk first week sales predictions and to find out why he thinks “Jockin’ Jay-Z” was directed at him.

Despite efforts from his arch enemy’s website, Thisis50.com, to leak free downloads of his latest album LAX, The Game is confident his sales will still thrive. “My album being in stores makes me feel like a winner,” said The Game. “I’m excited. I sold 130,000 records on iTunes [Tuesday] morning. So that combined with the people in the streets, it’s probably going to be successful come next Tuesday, Wednesday.”

Though he is optimistic, the West Coast-based rapper says he isn’t too concerned about the first week sales numbers of his third and final album.

“Whatever the number comes out to be will make me happy,” he said. “I’m just happy to have another album in stores and still be co-existing in hip-hop with some of the best lyricists that ever lived.”

One of the lyricists that Game is referring to is Brooklyn-bred rapper Jay-Z. In recent months, The Game has been quite vocal in his desire to lure the rapper into a lyrical battle. On the LAX cut, “Dope Boys,” which features Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker, Game taunts Jay by hijacking his hook for “Roc Boys (And The Winner is).”

“When I heard the, ‘Roc Boys in the building,’ I was like, well, I’m in Cali we do the dope thing. Everything is dope for us. So I came with ‘the Dope Boys in the building’ and then he comes with, ‘Jockin’ Jay-Z, I’m still dope boy fresh.”

Game thinks that this was an indirect diss. “Me and Jay I guess we trade subliminal hits every now and then,” he explained. “And you know poke fun, but it’s nothing too serious. It’s never going to be a fist fight or anything street or nothing real violent to come out of it.”

“If anything it’ll be a lyrical war which I’ll engage if he engages and if not then you’ll let it go away.”

The Game’s new album LAX is in stores now.

Source: :: Thisizgame.com ::

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L.A.X. IN STORES NOW!!COP IT!!

Not sure if the sales will be as high as he expects. HITS Daily Double Say he is on track to do 230-250 and they are always come close with their predictions.

We shall see next week what he sell. Anything equal or greater than 300K will be good #'s for him



Roadrunner’s Grammy-winning heavy metal monolith Slipknot, whose new album, All Hope is Gone, is their first studio effort since 2004’s Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses) and first release since 2005’s 9.0 Live, go head to head with Geffen rapper The Game’s L.A.X. for the top spot on next week’s HITS Album Sales chart.
Both albums are expected to sell in the 230-250k range, and while the Des Moines, Iowa rockers have a slight lead in early returns, this one won’t be decided until all precincts have been heard from.
The band’s self-titled 1999 album is now certified double-platinum, 2002’s Iowa and 2004’s Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses) are both platinum, while 2005’s live album is gold.
The Game, a two-time Grammy winner himself in 2006 for a pair of collaborations with his now-estranged pal 50 Cent, returns with his third album, and second since shifting over from G Unit/Interscope to Geffen. His debut, 2005’s The Documentary, is still his most successful, selling two million in the U.S. and six million worldwide. The follow-up, 2006’s Doctor’s Advocate, has sold just shy of one million to date.
Other notable releases include UMe’s Now That’s What I Call Country, with sales estimates in the 35k area, while Roadrunner’s British power metal guitar band DragonForce looks like it could do as much as 25k on their fourth album (and second for Roadrunner after a pair with Noise/ Sanctuary), Ultra Beatdown.
The market was down 5% vs last week, down 13% vs same week last year and remains down 11% year-to-date.
Byt the way, when did the Olympics end and the Democratic National Convention begin?

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