People Still Buy Music: Lack of anticipation kills Kanye's second-week sales numbers
Turns out all that Yeezus anticipation fell away pretty quickly once it was released. Kanye West’s sales dropped 80 percent from week one to week two, with his newest album moving just 65,000 copies this week, compared to 327,000 the week of its debut. That marks the biggest sales drop-off for an artist in more than a year, after Madonna’s MDNA fell 87 percent during its second week. (Of course, all this will probably be moot when Jay-Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail goes from selling more than a million copies its first week out to something under 100,000 its second week, but whatever.)
