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Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by radiodj(m): 12:20pm On Nov 30, 2007
Untrue.

I deal with marketers daily. This is a hype to sell more CD's. Thay cannot sell that much for a few reasons.

First of, the CD manufacturers don't have the capacity. And I mean COMBINED. Not in naija.
Second, we would know, because we're in ALL the markets daily.
Thirdly, a marketer would never disclose numbers sold. If you know marketers, you would know that's tantamount to suicide!

The cost of manufacturing a CD in Naija, along with the CD cover is roughly =N=35.00.
Marketer takes roughly =N=5.00, Artist: =N=10.00.
Marketer therefore sells wholesale at roughly =N=50.00.

If they sold that much, there would be scarcity of the album (there isn't one). I'd love the story to be true, but some of us know it's hype, because we advise them to do just this! So please, regardless of the veracity of the story or otherwise, simply spend a little change and buy the album.
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by tosinadeda: 12:28pm On Nov 30, 2007
Cld u pls xplain how revealn how many cds sold is like suicide,elaborate pls
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by eleshin(m): 2:22pm On Nov 30, 2007
@ tosinadeda
you just have to leave all these doubting thomases alone,i did not hear it on radio but read it in encomium magazine and hiphopworldmagazine website,i aslo saw it on entertainment news of lagos television.encomium and hiphopworld analyse how it happens,thes cds were bought my different marketers at a discounted rate.the first 100000 copies produce was immediatly bought by just a marketer which prompt them to produce more,and in the count of six days they've sold a million copies,also just this morning the sales according to ltv entertainment news the sales had risen to 1.5 million copies.you guys should not be dogmatic,this guys are good and their video is also helping alot to push the audio sales.with the way the album sale is going i think they are not ready to break record but super ready to make a big record that will be hard to break.if i can get the link from hiphopwordmagazineonline i will post it,but i'm sure if anybody have the copy of this week encomium magazine both the sales and analysis are there.so tosin you are right!
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by Lola4eva(f): 3:44pm On Nov 30, 2007
Million copies or not in six days, the album will eventually do well and probably surpass the million, so id say they still deserve a thumbs up
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by concrete: 7:08pm On Nov 30, 2007
young_digi:

@Salvage & tosinedada

i didnt doubt that they sold 1 million copies, i was simply questioning it because like i always say on this forum, i love facts, there is a guy i saw post his myspace page on this forum and said he had sold 1 million copies in nigeria as well, and nobody has heard of him, so my thing here is , psquare got on the radio and said it, lets think about this for a minute, if its true, people are going to talk about it, but guess what?? if its a lie, people will still talk about it, so my point is, just because they said it themselves doesn't mean it is true, it cud be a buzz generator, marketing strategy which is actually working right now, cus it got me, you and everyone here wondering whats in that cd that 1 million people potentially bought,

@YourFather, yes just like everywhere else, i believe the execs and retailers will take the risks of producing/purchasing psquare discs in large quantities, its good business and will potentially benefit them, regardless, there is risk taken in every successful business, so the fact of producing upon request i don't think is good business for the bigname artists in naija when the stakes are high

all the same like i said before its all good for them if this is true, i just prefer seeing this from a reliable source, thats all

beautifully stated!

I totally agree. Not to say p square DIDN"t sell one million copies (which, by the way, i DON'T believe) but it's to their advantage to say they did for buzz purposes alone

and yes, shipping and distributing 1 million copies of a CD is NOTHING these days. LOL at the person who came on here laughing and calling others stupid for believing that. that person is the one sounding foolish
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by concrete: 7:12pm On Nov 30, 2007
Million copies or not in six days, the album will eventually do well and probably surpass the million, so id say they still deserve a thumbs up

^^^^^
ITA with this. i wish them well sha
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by kosovo(m): 7:25pm On Nov 30, 2007
a million IN 6 DAYS?
Oops, MAY THE gods ForGIVE THE AUTHOR OF THIS TREND.
THIS IS main reason why naija is still like this. LIES EVERYWHERE.
SHAME, SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME.
I will not weep for nigeria ANYMORE i have gotten used to it.
PLS CONTINUE LYING.
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by mrmetoo(m): 7:51pm On Nov 30, 2007
Please did anyone on this thread or Nairaland buy that album in the first six days Because if it really sold one million copies there should be a couple of people even here that bought the album. One million copies is not a joke, its a whole chunk of people and as someone said earlier I'm not doubting the sales but do we really have huge distributors and shippers like that I mean on that scale that'll be able to ship out over a million copies in a week. Even in America, where entertainment distribution is second to none, many artists don't have that many copies shipped out in the first week.
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by naija4laif: 2:49am On Dec 01, 2007
saw dis from linda ikeji's blog

Naija Entertainment News
There's really nothing much happening in the Naija entertainment scene at the moment, just managed to get y'all some news, and decided to spice it up with some foreign entertainment news, enjoy!
They say P-Square's new album, Game Over, has allegedly sold over 1.5 million copies since it was released about three weeks back. I.5 million? They say the first 100, 000 copies was bought by Obaino Music at the rate of N50 per CD and he sold everything at the rate of N55 in less than one hour. The second batch that arrived the second day, 900, 000 copies, was sold in less that six days. More copies have been printed and sold, total 1.5 million? Pls don't doubt this story, in a country of over 140 million people, 1.5 is possible. Congrats to them.

SOURCE :www.lindaikeji..com
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by jerrymania(m): 2:42pm On Dec 01, 2007
naija4laif:

saw this from linda ikeji's blog

Naija Entertainment News
There's really nothing much happening in the Naija entertainment scene at the moment, just managed to get y'all some news, and decided to spice it up with some foreign entertainment news, enjoy!
They say P-Square's new album, Game Over, has allegedly sold over 1.5 million copies since it was released about three weeks back. I.5 million? They say the first 100, 000 copies was bought by Obaino Music at the rate of N50 per CD and he sold everything at the rate of N55 in less than one hour. The second batch that arrived the second day, 900, 000 copies, was sold in less that six days. More copies have been printed and sold, total 1.5 million? Please don't doubt this story, in a country of over 140 million people, 1.5 is possible. Congrats to them.

SOURCE :www.lindaikeji..com

And you expect us to just Believe. Its all "they say" and another person's opinion. Actually i doubt this story. might be true might not be true
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by zigbo(f): 3:11pm On Dec 01, 2007
@are u tryin to say them p-square are 75 or 150 abi n 50 million naira rich nd still counting? my guy thats plain imposicant nt in nigeria where they prefer to buy mix cds i dunn0 sha but i will be real flabbbergasted if they did  undecided


hiphopworldmagazine? yeah right. . . tomorrow they will say psquare lied and that they sold only 10 copies. bunch of stupos
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by ayettymama(f): 9:58pm On Dec 01, 2007
thats a lie there no way those guys can sell that much and they wont be more recognised!
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by tosinadeda: 10:07pm On Dec 01, 2007
Recognised as in?
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by playmate(f): 11:36pm On Dec 01, 2007
wow hard 2 blive,really hard 2 blive shocked
psquare is gud enuf 2 sell in millions but 6 million in six days shocked
tell me more
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by 9ja4eva: 2:58am On Dec 02, 2007
D guys too good
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by bioye(m): 12:48pm On Dec 02, 2007
Looking at it, PSquare selling 1 million copies in one week is not so impossible.

1.  The sales figure is most likely the wholesale volume sold to marketers and not end-users
2.  From info provided here, it costs N35 million to produce 1 million copies and this includes money ploughed back from initial sales
3. There are enough millionaire Alaba marketers who would spend millions if they are sure of making quick profit
4.  The CD producers don't have much of a choice than to respond to enormous demand unless they want pirates to reap the fruits of their labour
5. I heard the average volume of copies produced for an album or movie is usually 500,000 and may increase according to demand so 1 million copies should not be a big deal
6.  PSquare has massive fan bases in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa to focus on Africa alone
7.  Who is the most popular music act in Nigeria today? TuFace, dBanj or PSquare?
8.  I bought a copy in the week of release.  And I bought another, 2 days ago after a friend collected the first copy. 
9.  I can confirm there's high demand for/ scarcity  of, the CD because I tried about 3 vendors while looking for the 2nd copy and the first 2 said they had no copies because people were 'rushing' the CD
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by mellow(m): 1:25pm On Dec 02, 2007
I would have doubted it but considering the fact that all pals in the Uk have asked for and

got the Psqaure cds made me to have a rethink. My friend complained to me that when he

went out to buy the CD Plates that there was a heavy qeue that he got frustrated. I think

they desaerve it. Marketing stunt or not I believe the Songs have the capacity to sell themselves.

Whats more, they deserve it.
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Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by 9ja4eva: 8:34pm On Dec 03, 2007
Me sef dey find d CD for ma end

No way
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by Egavlas(m): 4:50pm On Dec 04, 2007
zigbo:

@are u tryin to say them p-square are 75 or 150 abi n 50 million naira rich nd still counting? my guy thats plain imposicant nt in nigeria where they prefer to buy mix cds i dunn0 sha but i will be real flabbbergasted if they did undecided


hiphopworldmagazine? yeah right. . . tomorrow they will psquare lied nd they sold only 10 copies. bunch of stupos


Zigbo, They are richer than that amount and its not because of the 6 million copies sold or whatever.

You say they prefer to buy plain mixed cds and I don't know what u mean by that but there is no point for anyone to buy or produce pirated cds at the same price the original owners are selling theirs.

What would be the point?

Am sure u are not in naija so it would sound *imposicant* to you about the kind of money those naija based artists are making.

It was just last year(or is it early this year), that they spent about 75 million on a house. It was well reported with pictures.

So the issue of their having that amount and counting, is not *imposicant*.

And its not even via the said 6million copy sales or whatever. That news may be true and it may be a stunt.
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by tosinadeda: 12:06am On Dec 05, 2007
Am sure u are not in naija so it would sound *imposicant* to you about the kind of money those naija based artists are making.

It was just last year(or is it early this year), that they spent about 75 million on a house. It was well reported with pictures.

So the issue of their having that amount and counting, is not *imposicant*.




to add to the house, they bought two jeeps also
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by pheesayor(m): 5:53pm On Dec 12, 2007
if they really sold a mil in 6 days they they are the world record holders and deserve guinness book of records recognition
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by tosinadeda: 1:29am On Dec 13, 2007
pheesayor:

if they really sold a mil in 6 days they they are the world record holders and deserve guinness book of records recognition


dnt even go there at allcos u dnt any artiste that is succesful u know wut i mean, so ur comment isnt surprising angry angry angry

pure beef lipsrsealed lipsrsealed
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by 9ja4eva: 3:20am On Dec 13, 2007
D guys are capable
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by pheesayor(m): 3:48am On Dec 13, 2007
tosinadeda:


dnt even go there at allbecause u dnt any artiste that is succesful u know what i mean, so your comment isnt surprising angry angry angry

pure beef lipsrsealed lipsrsealed
mr tosin, go thru my post very well and then edit ur post cos I dont see any sense in u calling what I posted pure beef cos my post was clear but I'm surprised cos we've never agreed on issues on other threads so this is not a surprise
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by Nobody: 10:31am On Dec 13, 2007
it is very true, i watched soundcity on sunday and the marketer said,even at that they could not still meet up with the demand.1 million copies have been sold in a week, am really happy for those guys.
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by tosinadeda: 6:00pm On Dec 13, 2007
pheesayor:

if they really sold a mil in 6 days they they are the world record holders and deserve guinness book of records recognition



that fisayo is sarcastic to me and thats beef
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by pheesayor(m): 8:56pm On Dec 13, 2007
I think u should explain a lil' further
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by d1twista(m): 9:37pm On Dec 13, 2007
they are making cool money and we are here debating how much they gat, hahaha are we the Psq treasurer
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by tosinadeda: 10:30pm On Dec 13, 2007
pheesayor:

I think u should explain a little' further


i av nothing more to explain
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by ayettymama(f): 4:00pm On Jan 20, 2008
Im in london and i can telll you nobody ques anywhere to buy 2face or p square. you can get it from anywhere! where did you hear they sold MILLION COPIES? They are talkin jazz!
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by fastmoney(m): 4:53pm On Jan 20, 2008
even if they swear with there mothers blood, i dont believe they could sell 1m in 6days, even universal or defjam dont have the strategy and marketting network to pull that off, kanye and fif had sleepless night to do 800k in 1 week,
think of it. p-square should have made about 150m in recored sales. they should own about 70% of it
lol.
ask ur self this question, did there marketer really produce 1.000.000 copies of there cds before the release date,
maketers dont just roll out cd's like its kebab, they produce according to demand.
and if they sold 7m copies off there other album, they must have made close to a billion if they sold at 150 naira each cos it would be 150million multiplied by 7 =750million naira, and am sure they are gonna keep at least 60 or 70 % cos they are on there own label so they made like 350million naira off there that album.
yall do tha maths, all i can say is NIGGA PLZ
Re: P-square Sells A Million Copies In 6 Days! by fastmoney(m): 5:06pm On Jan 20, 2008
@YourFather
your a smart man.
if they sold 1.000.000 in six days, they would have there world record to show for it.

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