Question: Do You Think It’s Possible For YMCMB To Release 100 Albums In A Year?

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You gotta hand it to them cats from New Orleans; they grind. If you thought Master P releasing an album every month during No Limit Records’ heyday was crazy, Birdman’s goal will probably seem impossible to you. Speaking to MTV, Stunna says his label plans to drop 100 albums per year. What? Huh? To back this up, Birdman explained:

“Right now, as we stand, we have [48 acts] between Young Money, Cash Money, We the Best. The goal is to keep developing and keep putting out, so to do that we have to keep buckling down, grindin’ hard and stayin’ focused. And that’s a big challenge, to put a hundred out.”

First off, I’ll bet anybody $10 to name all 48 acts signed to Young Money/Cash Money/We the Best (And when whoever loses that bet, send my money here). Maybe all this is because Weezy just announced that Tha Carter V will be his last album? Then again, you gotta release albums from Lil’ Twist, Jae Millz, & Gudda Gudda someday right?

But here’s the question of the day:

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  1. Not only is dropping that many albums impossible, it’s also very counterintuitive since there would be a very large overlap in the release schedules of your artists, which would cause one or all of their album sales to suffer. It’s also retarded since the only “big name” on YMCMB aside from the big 3 is Tyga, who’s album dropped in January and is still well over 100,000 albums from going gold.

    It would probably be more profitable for them to drop 100 singles next year and hope a few of em are hits.

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    1. Good points. I also just realized they would have to release at least 2 albums a week to accomplish this. That’s only if they go the traditional route though. They could do it like G.O.O.D. Music was trying to do and release 4 albums in one week or something.

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      1. Yeah, I mean Birdman has the money to do it, but it just seems stupid. I’ll honestly be surprised if YMCMB drops 4 albums next year.

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  3. Is it possible? Definitiely. Is it cost effective is the question. If Birdman is smart(which he kinda is) the majority of these would be digital releases which would cut down on cd cost/ distribution, etc. Plus, like it was stated, if you have 48 artist it’s no way that they’re all gonna get equal promotion.

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  4. This ain’t the 90’s no more and they don’t have artist who would get people attention like that and I’m sure people from the N.O. don’t even support some of this shit, let alone the South in general. When Master P did this, it was something new & different plus we was still buying CDs. Hell I still have the original CD of Mr. Serv On “Life Insurance” which wasn’t a bad album especially production, Silkk “The Shocker” (1996) I know smh, Master P “MP The Last Don” Double CD, Master P “99 Ways To Die”, Down South Hustlers “Bouncin N Swingin” (1995), Mac “Shell Shocked” and so forth. Cash Money dropped a lot of CD’s back in their underground days (1991-1997) but no where near 100 CD’s a year though. That’s crazy. Baby might as well stop while he is here. Unless he have some more unreleased Hot Boys music I doubt them new shits will sell and probably will be garbage. Tyga album wasn’t bad though.

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  6. I love YM but they make so many claims every year that never come through. Literally every album is delayed. Some don’t even come out; y’all remember Bow and Twist were both supposed to have albums released at mid 2011? Still nothing from either. In fact, they’re not even promoting their albums anymore presumably because they’ve been scrapped. I AM NOT A HUMAN BEING 2 was supposed to drop in the summer of 2012 but probably won’t be out til winter 2013 (my prediction). And we all know how long C4 was delayed.

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  7. Its definitely possible once you do the math. With an 85%-93% spread CM is gearing up to be a mini universal. Every major artist on Ym has their own label with 70-30% which is better than being an artist getting 2-15%. If they continue growing wide 100 “digital” albums is nothing, especially when you think beyond rap, and globally.

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