Renown for her theatrics, Nicki Minaj has quite the act to follow with her second album ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded’. And so as to ensure the sequel to her 2010 debut, doesn’t suffer the dreaded “sophomore slump”, the Young Money maven is packing the set with more tracks than the usual. Double, in fact.
Full story after the jump…
Taking to Twitter this week, Lil Kim’s arch nemesis could not hide her excitement about the album (which arrives on April 3rd).
After declaring the LP represents “freedom”, Minaj responded to a fan’s question about the number of tracks on the record, saying…
The move is one which makes quite the statement.
With the industry no longer the money spinner it once was, major labels have safe-guarded themselves by implementing “caps” on the total number of tracks “allowed” to appear on albums. Indeed, it’s no coincidence that your favourite acts have been serving up 10-12 track-ers in recent years (vs the 14+ of yesteryears).
And yet, Minaj is tearing up the rule book for what could be a worthwhile investment should the LP perform or a costly disaster in the event that it doesn’t. Indeed, featured producers HitBoy, Dr Luke and David Guetta aren’t cheap.
Needless to say, it’ll be interesting to see how this plays out….
Your thoughts?
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yessss…..normally labels will pay for the first 10 tracks on a cd and after that the artist ‘normally’ has to come out of pocket…which is why so often most cds are only 10 tracks….im excited nicki isn’t afraid to invest in her fans….
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WOW 22 TRACKS SHE IS GOING ON TO SELL 400,000 THE FIRST WEEK
I can’t wait clearly this album will go double platinum like come on its nicki Minaj her fan base is cray! My first week predictions it’s gonna sell around 750,000
She has to sell that much the girl been popping all last year and this year
Who will stop this girl??? Huh???
Damn sure won’t be iggy Alzealia
12/24 = Pop Songs
12/24 = Rap Songs
Glad she’s giving fans what they pay for, it is kind of messed up fans are putting in money and getting 10-12 songs for it. Come on now.
“I Am…Roman Minaj”
I cannot wait for this album, I truly hope it sells extremely well in the first week…and we should praise her for giving us a 22 (possibly more on deluxe edition???) songs. we should give credit where credit is due, she has worked hard.
I say 200 – 300k cus nicki This project has been handled a MESS!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ga9NuQWYOs
22 Tracks Sounds amazing can’t wait to buy this album.
22 tracks of garbage trash of meaningless noise and waste of money like Crap Friday, WACK!!!
I wonder how many of this 22 is gonna be full length songs and not intro/outro/interludes. 13 full tracks is a perfect number and optional intro/outro/interlude to make it 16 tops!! 22 is doing the absolute most with no good reason. Even the BEST albums are overkill if they are too long. Albums tell a story and at some point the listener is done. 22 is too much.
Now that I think about it, its probably gonna be a big theatrical production with a bunch of those 22 tracks being interludes. The only recent album with maaaad tracks that was over the top theatrical but still good is The Archandroid by Janelle Monae….oh well Nicki, whatever works, we’ll see!
Nicki Minaj and Lady Gaga are TRASH like their music and fashion. WACK!
22 songs of straight up TRASH
This is amazing, one side will be Pop & the other side will be Hip-hop to the next Level! A two disc Album Just like Beyonce did with I Am… Love you Nicki!
P.s the guy at the top of the comments is really s*** in such a cute way.lol stay s*** @blairdevereaux lol
Big up to Queen Minaj for continuing to make moves others are afraid to make.
Hope it’s not 22 songs of wackness lol. Downloading this album first…
everybody gonna buy her cd go nicki
Didnt Letoya have 15 tracks on her LADY LOVE album so i wouldnt say nicki is breakin the mold there but lack of knowing can cause others to not know And ignorance is killer esp when you have a fanbase. ” so read up on how i use to get beat up peed on every…. I never knew I…” Eminem voice
DEFINITELY BUYING A COPY FOR THE CAR AND A COPY FOR THE HOUSE… YESSSS
i hope half of the album is pop and the other is straight hip hop!! that would be perfect!
i do know that with more songs comes a bigger price so yes she has more but you can expect that her album wont be no 9.99 i think maybe 13.99! that would be the most i would pay for the album!