"Curtis" debuted at number two on the US "Billboard" 200 chart, selling 691,000 copies in its first week. It had the fourth highest sales week for an album in 2007 (topping Linkin Park's "Minutes to Midnight" which sold 625,000, then outsold by the Eagles' "Long Road Out of Eden", which moved 711,000 units and later Alicia Keys' "As I Am" bringing in 742,000 copies.) It also had the highest sales week for an album by an East Coast-based artist since Jay-Z's "Kingdom Come" debuted with 680,000 copies sold several months earlier. However, "Curtis" brought in the third-lowest first-week sales of 50 Cent's career, with "Get Rich or Die Tryin"' selling 872,000 and "The Massacre" moving 1.14 million copies.