Kayne leads 50 Cent in early album sales
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NEW YORK  &#151; 50 Cent may be getting hip-hop's equivalent of a gold watch next week. Early reports have Kanye West beating 50 in their much-hyped battle of album sales: West's "Graduation" is on pace to sell about 575,000 to 700,000 its first week out, while 50 Cent's "Curtis" is on track to do 550,000, according to Billboard magazine.
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50 Cent, who is in a much-hyped battle of album sales with Kanye West, has canceled several performances in Europe.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Country veteran George Strait's  "50 Number Ones" hits package ruled the U.S. pop albums chart  for a second consecutive week, as new releases from Celine  Dion, rapper Mos Def and pop-punk band Sum 41 debuted in the  top 10, according to sales data issued Wednesday.
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50 Cent, "Curtis" (Interscope) and Kanye West, "Graduation" (Def Jam)
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Rapper 50 Cent has pledged to retire if Kanye West's new album outsells his, generating much-needed publicity for a flagging musical genre that may go the way of disco.
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Eminem goes back to the top of the US album chart a month after Encore first took the number one spot.
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Hip-hop star Kanye West is pleased that his latest release is doing better than rapper   50 Cent's new album.
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Amid debuts by several major new  releases this week, Justin Timberlake narrowly managed to hold  on to the top spot on the U.S. pop album charts, according to  sales data published by Billboard Wednesday.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - 50 Cent's new album, "Curtis," has been pushed back another week, from September 4 to September 11, according to Interscope, which declined to give a reason for the move.
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Rapper Kayne West collected a leading &#39;perfect score&#39; of 10 Grammy nominations for his debut album, The College Dropout. The disc has received rave reviews from critics because it&#39;s stayed away from what have
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Kanye West sold almost a million  copies of his latest album during its first week in U.S.  stores, winning a much-hyped sales race with rival rapper 50  Cent and providing the ailing record industry with a rare piece  of good news.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Amid debuts by several major new   releases this week, Justin Timberlake narrowly managed to hold   on to the top spot on the U.S. pop album charts, according to   sales data issued Wednesday.
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Rapper Kanye West's new album is winning the chart battle with 50 Cent, early sales figures indicate.
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Forget da club--50 Cent might soon be in da traffic court.
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LOS ANGELES: Despite a nasty public feud that brought an abrupt end to their joint tour last weekend, R Kelly and Jay-Z are chummy on top of the US pop album charts.
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Rapper 50 Cent takes legal action over an internet advert which allegedly shows him being shot.
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