Cudi And Drake have Strong Showings In Their Debut's

Kid Cudi has had a whirlwind past couple of weeks, he's released a new album; was a guest on the Dave Letterman show, and even performed live at concert with Jay on 9-11. It looks like all of the exposure over the last couple of weeks has really paid off, and the Hip Hop freshman is being projected to sell between 110-120,000 records from his debut album Man on the Moon: The End of Day.

But Cudi isnt the only one doing good, his label mate Drake also had a pretty good week with the release of the retail version of his mixtape So Far Gone which is expected to sell between 55 and 60 thousand records in its Soundscan debut. With the projected results of their album sales
, it looks like these two rookies maybe on the way to very successful careers.

In an interview with XXL, Cudi spoke about how all of this exposure with Hov, Letterman, and the VMA's will help with his album sale's and he seemed to think that they would drasticly effect how succesful he would be at reaching out to fans.

“I think it’s gonna make a lot of people more aware, I think it’s gonna make a lot of people a lot more interested because in these last couple of days each of those moments has been different demographics, the Jay-Z was definitely a hip-hop show, and later on seeing me on David Letterman, which is a very mainstream show, you know you don’t see a lot of hip-hop artists on a Letterman type show, so each thing I did was very monumental.”

The projection for both Drake and Cudi's album sale were based on first day sales.