50 Cent Live In Dubai 2007
American rapper Curtis James Jackson, better known as 50 Cent performs live at the Dubai Media City Amphitheatre on December 21.
Venue: Dubai Media City Amphitheatre Sheikh Zayed Road DubaiTel: +971 4 391 4555
Fax: +971 4 391 4616
Taxi: Dubai Media City, off Interchange 5, Sheikh Zayed Road
Date: Friday, December 21, 2007
Time: 9pm-11pm Entry
Fees: Regular - Dhs195, Pit - Dhs295, Cage - Dhs695
Performers: 50 Cent
This is a great chance for all 50 cent fans in middle east!
50 cent is more popular than kanye west in middle east
even in u.a.e
this article is from a daily news paper in u.a.e
aydeez and gentulhL men, the winnah in the UAE: 50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson. That’s right, favourite Kanye West has lost out to bad-boy rapper 50 Cent in music’s battle of the summer, reversing a global trend. For those who came in late, the battle began when 50 Cent threw down the gauntlet, suggesting in an interview that he would retire if Kanye West’s album, Graduation, outsold his own Curtis.
“If Kanye West sells more records than 50 Cent on September 11, I’ll no longer write music,” 50 Cent said on the hip-hop website SOHH.com.
“I’ll write music and work with my other artists, but I won’t put out any more solo albums.” Both albums were released on the same day, September 11, internationally, and on September 16 in the UAE. Record label Music Master teamed up with Radio 1 to run the UAE version of the contest, with text messages being sent in to the radio station and record sales being tracked. “On the album sales front, 50 Cent has won,” Rebecca Brianceau, Music Marketing Manager at Music Master, told Emirates Today. “And he won by 32 per cent.
” INTERNATIONAL SALES This is a significant change in a contest that has seen Kanye West emerge as the winner internationally. West’s Graduation was the best-selling US album in its first week of release, topping rival 50 Cent’s Curtis. Graduation sold 957,000 copies in the six days following its release, according to data released by Nielsen SoundScan and reported by Bloomberg. Curtis sold 691,000 and came in second.
West’s album was the biggest release in the US since 50 Cent’s Massacre, which sold 1.1 million copies in its first week in March 2005. In the United Kingdom too, West beat 50 Cent in the first week since the albums were released. Graduation went straight to number one, relegating Curtis to second place, according to the official UK Charts Company. Underscoring the UK victory was West being named Best Hip-Hop Act at Wednesday’s Mobo (Music of Black Origin) awards. Predictably, 50 Cent had pulled out of the ceremony and cancelled several tour dates in Europe, following weak record sales. Against those numbers, the UAE is clearly its own market, says Brianceau. “The UAE is not the US, and it is not Europe.What these results are saying is that consumers here make up their own minds. It is also interesting for us to see what the UAE market is interested in musically,” she says. Since the albums hit shops on September 16, sales of both have been “fairly strong”, and have run “fairly close all through the week”, she says. So have those sales been influenced by 50 Cent’s having performed here before? Brianceau seems to think so. “50 Cent has been here before and the UAE tends to love people who come and perform here, because they feel involved in the process. West hasn’t been here yet, and maybe once he is here, he will be more popular.” IT’S RATHER SIMPLE While the beef has been seen, variously, as a way to revive rap music, to make the album relevant again in a market stricken by digital downloads, the truth could be a lot simpler than that. West, who has never had more than a fraction of 50 Cent’s sales, told Associated Press it was his idea to go directly against 50 Cent. “I was the underdog because I sold less records in the past, so it was a win-win for me,” he said. “If I lost, everyone would be happy that I even went up against him. People have this perception of me being arrogant, but would an arrogant person risk the chance of coming in the second spot just to be a part of history? To me, it’s more about fans and the entertainment value and good music.” It ended up the music industry version of AliFrazier, with the avalanche of pre-fight hype to match. 50 routinely trash-talked West, but it seemed to be in good fun: the pair appeared at the MTV Video Music Awards and Bet’s 106 & Park together, and on the cover of Rolling Stone. Both admitted the battle was a great marketing tool. Like 50 Cent told AP: “I am very excited to have participated in one of the biggest album release weeks in the past two years. Collectively, we have sold hundreds of thousands of units in our debut week.This is a great moment for hip-hop, one that will go down in history.” So what about those retirement plans? Evidently, 50 Cent’s promise was a joke. He recently clarified that his challenge was issued taking into account a projected drop in second-week. He has also already announced details of a nine-city UK tour and the release of a solo CD next year regardless of how Curtis stacks up against Graduation. A dozen songs were already recorded before he challenged West, and he is contractually bound to release the album in 2008. He does not need the cash with clothing and footwear lines and a film production company to fall back on.
so the previous challenge with kanye west wont affect much in 50's future
people who loved 50 will be with him all time
people who loved 50 will be with him all time
