After months and months of speculation, insult-hurling, and Hall & Oates album cover re-enactments, the sales showdown between different divisions of Universal Music Group Kanye West and 50 Cent (not to mention country star Kenny Chesney)–an event that may actually lure people into stores that sell albums for the purposes of buying music–is finally here. Aren’t you excited, if only because you’re getting ever closer to never having to read about this clash again?
I’m betting that Chesney will actually come out on top; call it a hunch based in large part on the tendencies of people in decadent media enclaves like my apartment to grossly undercount the purchasing power of people in the rest of the country, and the marked success Chesney’s had on country radio. (And I wish that someone out there was tracking multi-album purchases–I’d love to know how many people might buy all three albums.)
Major pop albums square off Tuesday [LAT]
Related: Fresh at 33Jones has a laser-accurate piece on why calling the 50/Kanye showdown “Hip-hop’s 9/11″ is pretty gauche.
Forget all this…. Just buy a Hall & Oates album.