Obviously the Bush comment has not affected sales of Kayne Wests new album

[LynneSin]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20050914/en_music_eo/17365

Kanye Out-Bangs Stones

Not even the World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band could roll Kanye West from the top of the charts.

The wave-making rapper's Late Registration easily held off the new album from the Rolling Stones and a 50 Cent reissue, selling 283,000 copies for the week ended Sunday, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures. This puts the album's two-week tally at 1.15 million copies.


West benefited from plenty of exposure. His controversial " George Bush doesn't care about black people" remark on NBC's Sept. 2 Concert for Hurricane Relief kept him in the headlines all last week. He also appeared on Thursday's NFL Opening Kickoff concert on ABC and on all three Hurricane Katrina telethons over the weekend--the multi-network Shelter from the Storm, BET's S.O.S. (Saving Ourselves and MTV's ReAct Now.

Good for you Kayne!! I've heard it's a great album but glad to see that sales are brisks even though your honesty pissed off a few 'morans'

[bridgit]

1. "life is like a box'ah chocolates"

[Heidi]

2. Mr. West sold a CD to me _because_ of that comment, and then

I found that I like his work even better than I thought I would. (I loved "Jesus Walks" from his previous CD but couldn't get into the rest of it. The new CD, "Late Registration," is just superb.) :thumbsup:

Thanks for giving Kanye West more exposure, LynneSin. :hi: