Fat Joe Celebrates "Darkside" First-Week Sales, "They Mad At Me For Puttin' Out Good Music They Cant

Terror Squad leader Fat Joe has celebrated his first-week sales total of Darkside, Volume 1 after his solo project debuted in the Top 50 today.

Writing on Twitter, Joe tweeted his album sales and its performance as an E1 Music release.

"Re-Tweet: E1Music Congrats to @joeycrackts for selling 12,320 copies of The Dark Side this week & being the #2 indie album!!!"
"Why they mad at me for putting out good music real music music they can't make!!! DARKSIDE!!!" (Fat Joe's Twitter)

His album ranked within the Top 50 records on Nielsen SoundScan today.

Terror Squad frontman Fat Joe's Darkside, Volume 1 debuted on the charts this week at No. 27. After a full week on the charts, the rapper's E1 Music release has sold 12,300 records. (SOHH Sales Wrap)
Yesterday, Joe's rap rival 50 Cent mocked the new album with a video.

"I just listened to Fat Joe's record and this is all I have to say." 50 then puts up a copy of Fat Joe's Darkside, Volume 1 which has an animated smiley face crying with tears pouring down its face. "I didn't mean to do this to you Joe." 50 then proceeds to mock his rap rival with footage of a woman and men crying, all taken from different sources. The video concludes with a message reading: "Only 5,000 copies sold...d*mn Joe!" (This Is 50)
Recently, Joe said he intentionally focused on putting street and commercial records on the album.

"This album, I just wanted to take it to the streets crazy," Joe said in an interview. "When I go on tour I see a lot of my fans that are real loyal. They all kept telling me, 'Yo, Joe we want you to come back to the hardcore.' I tried to make them happy so I just took it all the way to the dark side. I'm just trying to give 'em that balance of that real street gritty Fat Joe -- the gangsta early Fat Joe -- but at the same time who also knows how to make hit records." (VIBE)

Source:
http://www.sohh.com/2010/08/fat_joe_...st-week_s.html

Fat Joe is mad

nicca should be mad. This is one of the top 5 best hip hop albums this year yet he didnt do any numbers.

album is hot

joe won, ultimately he won a boatload of fans back with this joint...not to mention he did it indie this time around

He won in the streets but he lost as a business man in this music biz, you're here to sell records not to sell !!.

As listeners and Hip-Hop fans....why should we vote 'Yes' on Fat Joe to stop making music because of WEAK RECORD SALES. Does record sales really affect how we (listeners) should appreciate an album.

As music listeners....who gives a !! about sales (it's all hyped up), as long as he continues to put out decent albums like 'The Darkside', we should be happy & content with it.

12,000 copies is pretty damn good for an indie.

album not that special like ppl makin it out to be

yall are pathetic, look at all the features and production thats what yall are liking not this oaf. how many times does he need to fail to get the hint, that ppl dont want to hear him.

Would rather hear Fat Joe than all these other Gucci Mane & Lil B idiots, that people on here wet themselves over.

You should, it's really good! REALLY GOOD! No lie!

album is decent at best joe just stay talking about the same bs.

What's the last Joe album that sold well? Dude always has one hit from his CD but when it drops the !! doesn't sell. At least this time he released a good CD.

album is fire ! real talk

cormega said it best when respondin to people talkin !! about AZ's #s at 11,000, when an indie artists sells 10,000 + its actually good...i agree but with Fat Joe's status it shouldve been higher...he should came out a lil sooner when ridin off that HA HA track...oh well, im just glad he made a good record finally....

you niccas care about record sales too damn much. thats all you guys talk about on here

album is fire and next Darkside he needs to go even darker. preferrably all preemo production. the wors tthing he can do is take these numbers and feel he has to go back to southern !!riding because he's slowly k!lling his fanbase with all this back and forth.