Graduation sold approximately 957,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, becoming the highest sales week for an album in 2007 so far. In addition, it became the 15th highest sales week for an album since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991, and the highest sales week for an album since 50 Cent's The Massacre opened with 1.1 million in March 2005. As of October 11, 2007, Graduation has sold approximately 1,409,400 copies in the United States.
Graduation debuted at number one on the United World Chart, selling approximately 1,153,000 copies worldwide. As of October 11, 2007, Graduation has sold approximately 1,867,000 copies worldwide.
- above information taken from wikipedia.org
How does an album so terrible do so well? To me this is an example of what music shouldn't be, but unfortunately what most of it has become. Late Registration was even a decent album but this follow up, which has sold an extraordinary amount of records is just an overly arrogant record of badly presented lyrical content. I believe it is a direct result of today's music industry that this CD sold so well; not because it was or is a good album but because the radio and music industry tells the public what is good and almost forces them into liking it.
On that note...thank you clear channel for representing everything wrong with music today.
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