Wow

Travis had to work so hard for 5 years to get similar numbers,

9/11

Look at the date of TB's release

9/11 is just one day, the album was out for a week

The Blueprint was laid on 9/11 🤔

Maybe music became more accessible in 2004 than it was in 2001

If you weren’t alive on the day nobody did f***ing s*** for months after it

The govt had to pay people to go out and start shopping again

TB1's release date + Kanye's singles were way bigger commercial wise. Jay has never really had crossover commercial hits just Hip Hop hits that charted high

Kanyes singles run from TCD to Graduation is insane.

One came out on 9/11...

9/11

Album was release the same day. Not to mention people were probably out of their minds for weeks.

Because Kanye is better

“9/11 is just one day”

Wasn’t H to the Izzo pretty big?

Im wheezing

lmao op

The fact Jay sold that much after 9/11 is insane.

Thinkin bout that biggie song rn

yes but look at Ye's singles run en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanye_West_singles_discography

Immediately post-9/11 was a covid quarantine where all the businesses were still open, but culture has to be censored because someone flew a plane into a tall office in NY and the pentagon blew themselves up the same day, it was so weird and muslims and indians were attacked and demonized indiscriminately. The nation turned to one man: