It’s official! Kanye West beat 50 Cent in their sales battle. West’s ''Graduation'' album outsold 50 Cent's ''Curtis'' in first week sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan: 957,000 copies to 691,000 copies.
To celebrate Kanye attended GQ’s 50th anniversary party as a featured performer. He got up on stage an shouted ''To be a champion, you've got to take out a champion.”
Kanye thinks it was the quality of his music that gave him the upper hand: ''I think my music is really inspirational and I really made it for the people. I really understood that in this Internet age people are their own superstars ... the best bet that we had was to make a soundtrack to their own lives.''
At the end of the day though, we all know that they used this so called “battle” as a marketing tool to help sell both their albums and it definitely helped. I feel used and abused.
