B.o.B. Speaks On Debuting Number One
May 17, 2010 @ 3:24 PM EDT
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Bobby Ray shares his thought with HipHollywood on his debut album, The Adventures Of Bobby Ray charting at number one on the charts. If that wasn’t enough, hip hop’s rookie of the year still has two songs in the Top 5.
i cant find nothing to hate about this guy and its pissing me off >:(
i feel sorry for the dude..he should have sold more..
Airplanes is my shit BoB
@PITRI. Cosign
@PITRI sales suck right now even when you are doing as good as he is doing.
What fat boy, pitri and mista zee said..
Its all Good…. His single/nation wide fame makes up for the sales. It’ll be alot like Cudi… Cudi sold 120k first week which is crazy for a new artist…but 2nd time around, they should both sell more.
Man he’s so talented it would have been amazing if he pushed 100k 1st week. But also he got 2 hit records dominating the charts….his next album will sell better of course. Its just the beginning of something beautiful ma homie!
He didn’t push 100k ???????
@Dallastx groveside. Yea he sold 85,000 smh should of sold more
Stfu, dude is still young and his first album debuted at number one, regardless of what he sold, he accomplished something big for someone his age, juss uplift the dude and say congrats and wish him continued success
He definitely accomplished something big. Dude is 21 years old and has a #1 album and 2 Billboard 100 hits, one of them that was #1. I think AIRPLANES is headed up there too and he has a couple more single-worthy songs on the album that could hit the charts as well.
I don’t think anyone is trying to be negative when they say they wish he sold more. I’m a fan and I went out and bought the album. I was hoping he’d at least do a quarter-mil. But it’s all good. Just like someone mentioned above, this will establish him.
There’s two types of artists. New ones and then ones who’ve been around and have name recognition. Name recognition is the reason someone like Eminem can DEBUT #1 on the Billboard 100 charts (not to say the song was good also), but it gets more hype based on the name alone, therefore skyrocketing it, at least initially. If it’s a bad song, the name recognition vs. quality of song will eventually balance itself out.
For someone like B.o.B, a lot of people don’t know him yet, even if they know the song “Nothin’ On You”. He doesn’t have that name recognition yet, but this debut will establish him. Now, when he makes another album ,if he has hit songs like he had on this album, he will sell more because now he has the hits AND the name recognition.
mikedreamsmusic you rite n every aspect,much success B.O.B and keep doin ya thing. i got the cd and tracks 1,4,6,7,10 are the shit then i go back and listen to the whole album,yeah but when he comes out again its gonna be platinum success,much love much respect.
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