Claim: Snoop Dog's Doggystyle sold nearly a million copies in the first week of its release.
Evidence: Snoop 's debut album , Doggystyle , was released in 1993 under Death Row Records , debuting at number one on both the Billboard 200 and Billboard Top R&B / Hip-Hop Albums charts.
Doggystyle debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 , selling 806,858 copies in its first week alone in the United States , which was the record for a debuting artist and the fastest-selling hip hop album ever until Eminem 's album The Marshall Mathers LP in 2000.