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Merged from Talk:Soulja Boy Tellem[edit]

Is this man a visionary cuz I heard honkey is what he hate "We don Supaman NOMO We Jus Spidaman them hoes and on bitches and i'm a slut and i have had sex wih every guy i neighborhood and i and i'm bisexual i'm. so guys come eat me up because me so horny and dirty and i will do any thing in your fantises.you to girls. because i am a girl and i can be very naugty call me up ay none of your bess wax." . Ima add it to da article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by [[Special:)

BetacommandBot 07:13, 29 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reviews???[edit]

While I agree that this album sucks, the statement that the reviews were bad is not sourced, and I could not find any negative reviews. If no one replies, I'm going to change it. Thethirdmoose 02:20, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What are you talking about. On the album's page it has a link next to every review. SlimShady6135 20:36, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Those are the most pathetic excuses for critics that I've ever seen. (TheDailyYo, 411Mania, NappyAfro, Okayplayer, Rap Reviews, and The Review.) Who the hell cares what these low critics thinks, get better critics/reviewers that people have actually heard of. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.160.173.80 (talk) 02:50, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NappyAfro is a highly respected hip-hop review site.Parralax (talk) 01:42, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

vulgarities[edit]

wow, that is not a word. Wonderwallmusic 01:59, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

vandilism[edit]

the album cover for staters is self explanitory i admit that many people do not like hime but thats no escuse to vandilize his article

second is his album selling only about 400 copies officail or is it more vandilizm

...What NPOV?[edit]

All I read when I see this article is "This album sucks. HARD.

Anything positive? If not for anything, to balance the bad with the good? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.37.81.8 (talk) 07:05, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The actual site[edit]

I think we should put a warning by the link to the real site, because it has viruses. I found that out here: http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/souljaboytellem.com Reply to me please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.105.233.189 (talk) 02:05, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Eazy-E[edit]

Someone said that ?Eazy-E? helped produce Soulja Boy's albums and that Soulja Boy's first album sold more copies than Tupac Shakur's record of 75 million album sales. I find this to be B.S. Don't know who Eazy-E is though. Is he working with Soulja Boy?

Answered here. Incidentally, questions not directly related to editing the article are better asked at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Entertainment‎. / edg ☺ ☭ 08:39, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WTF, Easy-E died over a decade ago —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.118.170.201 (talk) 04:53, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

sales[edit]

how can he sell in the United States more than worldwide?-

vandalism[edit]

This page has been vandalised again. Someone, pls undo the damage the vandaliser has done. i suggest that if this vandalism keeps going on, sek better protection. 218.186.12.8 (talk) 14:53, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism[edit]

People keep vandalizing this page just because they don't like rap. This page needs better protection from vandals. Rappr2000 (talk) 05:11, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Album sales[edit]

Regarding the current edit war, I think it's essential to mention the most reliable source, currently the Billboard article. Additionally, however, I think that it's useful to mention the "Platinum" claims which are made by many sources, though they all appear to be unreliable (blogs etc). Since Billboard quotes 949,000 in 2008, I don't think that it's unreasonable to think that the album reached Platinum status (1,000,000 sales, right?) by now. Of course, the unofficial claim must be specifically identified as unofficial, directly from Soulja Boi, etc. -M.Nelson (talk) 00:35, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Moved from User talk:M.nelson by -M.Nelson (talk) 01:06, 17 May 2010 (UTC):[reply]

There's a pretty general consensus that only certifying agencies get quoted with reference to certifications. Every PR flack under the sun likes to claim gold and platinum, and they never use the same rules as the certifying agencies. Since the RIAA says the album isn't even gold, there's no chance that it is a platinum.—Kww(talk) 01:02, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is there an RIAA source that documents every [eligible] album's status? If the RIAA doesn't consider the album to have passed 500,000 but Billboard does, then I'm worried about what kind of reliability Billboard has. -M.Nelson (talk) 01:11, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sure: http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH . Nielsen and the RIAA measure different things, so having a wild divergence isn't that unusual. With singles, it usually comes from the difference in ringtone tabulation. I'm not as certain on the explanation for albums. The worst I've seen is a Jay Sean single that Nielsen claims has 3.9M sales and the RIAA says under 500K.—Kww(talk) 01:17, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that seems to settle it. I'm not familiar with comparing the different rankings, but if experienced eyes (and "general consensus") consider "no RIAA certification" to supercede "949,000 copies according to Soundscan", then I won't disagree. I would, however, appreciate some sort of clarification in the article—if Soundscan claims 949,000 "copies", then we should specifiy that "copies" includes more than phyiscal album purchases. -M.Nelson (talk) 01:35, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'd let sleeping dogs lie. Every once in a while people will try to make very specific distinctions between Nielsen sales and RIAA shipments, and ultimately it winds up falling under WP:OR. The discussions over who counted music club shipments (and when) never got resolved because there were sources from Nielsen that contradicted other sources from Nielsen about when a record club shipment got counted. I'm sure that that is part of this discrepancy. Best to just define "sale" as "the thing that Nielsen counts" and a "shipment" as "the thing that the RIAA counts" and leave it at that.—Kww(talk) 01:47, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How is it not notable if the artist's own representatives claim it has gone Platinum? Even if it isn't true it should be mentioned that his camp at least claims it. Str8cash (talk) 03:29, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Because it's extremely common for artist's representatives to make exaggerated claims. Announcements of gold and platinum for works that never get certified are very common. In this case, we are discussing a three year old album that hasn't been certified for shipping 500,000 copies. The claim made by the representative doesn't approach credibility.—Kww(talk) 03:44, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]