<i>They almost certainly could have made more money by actually releasing the album</i><p>The sales of their last album was pretty abysmal all things considered, and the album before that was hardly top seller.  Even if this album did 3-4 times the numbers their last album did, they probably wouldn&#x27;t have gotten close $2million. It basically seems that &#x27;everybody&#x27; loves the early Wu-Tang works, but very few people actually still actively followed them and cared about their current work.