From Entertainment Weekly:
"Whose new CD will sell more when they both drop on Sept. 11, 50 Cent or Kanye West? While those two rappers continue to busy themselves trading verbal jabs over that question, a third contender is now staking his claim to that week's hotly contested sales crown: country superstar Kenny Chesney.
''It's funny how with every record that comes out, we're aware of the urban [competition], and none of those acts acknowledge that I exist,'' Chesney tells EW via email. ''Until I have that No. 1 debut on the Top 200.''
Just Who I Am: Poets and Pirates, Chesney's 11th studio album, goes on sale the same Tuesday morning as 50 Cent's Curtis and Kanye West's Graduation. Chesney's last four studio efforts have opened atop Billboard's albums chart — including his most recent effort, The Road and the Radio, which beat the original soundtrack to 50 Cent's film Get Rich or Die Tryin' when both debuted in November 2005.
50 Cent has said that he will retire from his recording career if West outsells him."
I think the odds on favorite has to be Kenny, he is the most popular artist of the decade thus far by record sales and concert sales, (as I reminded us last November), he's still on top of the country world right now and that's a large fanbase that almost certainly won't have any interest in either Kanye or 50 who will split each other's sales, but Kanye's been pushing himself out there early this week, bashing MTV again and again about having Britney open @ the VMA's instead of him, so maybe that'll help him out. Either way, as long as we can all agree that 50 Cent must lose this competition and thereby retire.
If their respective most recent videos (to my knowledge) are any indication of the quality of album, I think Kanye wins, although Kenny puts up decent competition with a tug at the heartstrings).
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Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure 50 will outsell Kanye and we'll be stuck with this mumbling gibberish for years to come.
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