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This month, Kreayshawn released her oft-delayed debut album, Somethin 'Bout Kreay. Despite no new hit singles, it seemed like the “Gucci, Gucci” rapper might put up surprisingly decent numbers. Kreay still had 500,000-plus Twitter followers and rabid fanbase on her side. Surely, the fact that the project boasts collaborations with Diplo, Kid Cudi, and 2 Chainz would help.
That was not the case when the official first-week sales figures came back. Somethin 'Bout Kreay moved a total of 3,900 units, landing her at the No. 104 spot on the Billboard 200. The numbers were among the worst first-week sales for a major label artist in history. However, she took it in stride on Twitter: "Aware & Don't care."
Kreay doesn’t stand alone. We decided to take a look at other artists who suffered a similar fate. Read on to find out which musicians had albums that didn’t do so well in their first week of release, either.
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Yung Berg's Look What You Made Me
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Label: Epic, Koch
First-Week Sales: 19,150
Mims' Guilt
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Label: American King Music
First-Week Sales: 12,400
Chester French's Love the Future
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Label: Star Trak, Interscope
First-Week Sales: 6,300
Slaughterhouse's Slaughterhouse
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Label: E1
First-Week Sales: 18,000
Sean Kingston's Tomorrow
Release Date: September 7, 2009
Label: Beluga Heights, Epic, E1
First-Week Sales: 13,000
Wale's Attention Deficit
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Label: Allido, Interscope
First-Week Sales: 28,000
Kelis' Flesh Tone
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Label: will.i.am, Interscope
First-Week Sales: 7,800
Juvenile's Beast Mode
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Label: UTP / E1
First-Week Sales: 6,400
Lil Boosie's Incarcerated
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Label: Asylum, Trill
First-Week Sales: 30,000
Ice Cube's I Am the West
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Label: Lench Mob
First-Week Sales: 22,000
N.E.R.D.'s Nothing
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Label: Star Trak, Interscope
First-Week Sales: 18,559
Soulja Boy's The Deandre Way
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Label: SOD, Interscope
First-Week Sales: 13, 400
Ghostface Killah's Apollo Kids
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Label: Def Jam
First-Week Sales: 13,000
David Banner & 9th Wonder's Death of a Pop Star
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Label: Big Face Entertainment, E1 Music
First-Week Sales: 7,300
Lil B's I'm Gay (I'm Happy)
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Label: BasedWorld
First-Week Sales: 1,700
Theophilus London's Timez Are Weird These Days
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Label: Reprise
First-Week Sales: 2,800
Waka Flocka Flame & Gucci Mane's Ferrari Boyz
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Label: 1017 Brick Squad, Brick Squad Monopoly, Asylum, Warner Bros.
First-Week Sales: 17,000
Gucci Mane & V-Nasty's BATYL
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Label: 1017 Brick Squad, Asylum,Warner Bros.
First-Week Sales: 4,449
Chiddy Bang's Breakfast
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Label: Virgin, I.R.S.
First-Week Sales: 31,000
Estelle's All Of Me
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Label: Warner Music, Atlantic, Homeschool
First-Week Sales: 15,202
Too $hort 's No Trespassing
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Label: Dangerous Music
First-Week Sales: 4,603
Maino's The Day After Tomorrow
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Label: Atlantic Records,Hustle Hard
First-Week Sales: 6,343
Ja Rule's Pain is Love 2
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Label: Mpire Music Group, Fontana
First-Week Sales: 3,200
Diggy's Unexpected Arrival
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Label: Atlantic, Violator
First-Week Sales: 22,124
Obie Trice's Bottoms Up
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Label: Black Market Entertainment
First-Week Sales: 4,400
Death Grips' The Money Store
Release Date: April 21, 2012
Label: Epic
First-Week Sales: 3,200
Travis Porter's From Day 1
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Label: Porter House/RCA
First-Week Sales: 14,000
Prodigy's H.N.I.C. 3
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Label: Infamous Records
First-Week Sales: 3,900
DMX's Undisputed
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Label: United Music Media Group, Fontana
First-Week Sales: 17,000
Nelly Furtado's The Spirit Indestructible
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Label: Mosley, Interscope
First-Week Sales: 5,731
