Bobby D

That's not the case. Downloading illegal music has been a controversy but it's not as epic as people make it out to be. If it was, don't you think music labels would be working with the government more to try to track down people who illegally download albums? Lady Gaga sold over 12 million copies of her album and artists like Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, and the B.E.P. always sell over 5 million of their albums and have this past year so again, that's not the reason.

TheRealNicky

400,000 first week.... wow? Honey, Nicki is selling that her first week in the US and Kanye is selling 550,000! Susan Boyle sells a million in her first week with her albums worldwide. Rihanna's last album sold 2.8 million copies worldwide but her GGGB album sold over 9 million copies. That's not a flop to you?

Anyway, Nelly, just stfu! You can be bitter all you want but lets face it, you only succeeded because you were hot at the moment! You made bubblegum, trendy, catchy songs and appealed to the white/mainstream audience because catchy hip-hop was big back then. I was a bit ticked off that "Just a Dream" did so well because it's so generic, boring, and a cop out! You only recorded such a pop song like that to get a hit single. Your album deserved to sell 60,00 copies and to tell you the truth, nobody cares about you so that's why they just downloaded the one single and not the entire album! You need a solid fan base to buy your albums and you never had a loyal fan base, just people who fed into your hype.