Snoop dogg first cd4/4/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() His showing established the album as the clear front-runner in the industry’s lucrative holiday sales race. The talk among industry insiders for months has been that the murder charge would stimulate album sales, but merchants declined to speculate Wednesday whether the controversy played any part in helping Snoop surpass recent first-week splashes of such superstars as Michael Jackson, U2, Garth Brooks, Guns N’ Roses and Barbra Streisand. The Long Beach rapper was arrested after driving the Jeep from which the fatal shots were fired by his bodyguard and is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Los Angeles. Snoop-whose real name is Calvin Broadus-gained notoriety outside rap circles when he was charged in August as an accomplice to murder. The record is held by Pearl Jam’s “Vs.,” which sold 950,000 copies its first week in stores last month. Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg’s debut album, “Doggystyle,” sold a spectacular 803,000 copies in its first week, the highest ever for a debut album-and the second most for any album-since SoundScan began its computerized monitoring of sales in 1991. ![]()
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