Despite moving over 1 million copies worldwide since its April 3rd release, criticism of Nicki Minaj‘s latest LP ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded’ has been all too loud and clear.
However, in what will come as a slap in the face to of her detractors, this week saw the LP enjoy a revised Metacritic score after welcoming an influx of positive reviews.
Explanation below…
Metacritic grades each product by taking a numerical score from each review it receives and converts these scores into a percentage. This percentage is then used to grade the release and published for public viewing.
Upon release, ‘Reloaded’ received a score indicative of ‘mixed reviews’ but this week it enjoyed a revised score of 61- placing it ‘in the green’ with: “Generally favorable reviews”.
All this, as the project’s chances of enjoying a Top Ten position in the United World Chart’s Year End tally, and after becoming the highest charting Female Rapper in UK chart history.
With accolades like these under her belt, here’s hoping the coming months see Team Minaj push sales further with a better handling of her singles.
For, while her campaign has been flawless on a touring and album tip, we’d say she’d sell even more units if her singles were armed with better videos and stronger efforts to push them.
This, instead of releasing them and ‘hoping’ they pick up as was the case with ‘Pound The Alarm’ and the ‘Right By My Side‘, both of which her team failed to give the push they needed to ensure she secured favorable spots in the Hot 100.
Either way, feats like these prove that Nicki’s title as ‘Rap’s Reigning Queen’ is by no means a matter of default, but rather down to the fact that she is the most impressive Femcee to arrive since Lauryn Hill and the ‘Triple Threat’ Missy Elliott.
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truth tea
September 2, 2012 at 7:42 am
doesnt change the fact that the album was a huge disappointment quality wise and commercially whether barbz admit it or not
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Truth(theREALISTubitch)
September 2, 2012 at 8:16 am
Sam stop reporting on this tacky ass flop bitch.
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FAF
September 2, 2012 at 4:55 pm
STILLL SHITTTING ON ON YO BIG FLOP WIDENOSE ASS.. GET A LIFE!!! I’M ONLY HERE FOR SUCCESS!!
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Kween Ebony
September 2, 2012 at 7:48 pm
Why do you haters click on a post that reads Nicki Minaj? Just sit back and watch her take over the world! New Music project coming, Fragrance, New Tour, Pepsi, Addias, New Mac Lip stick (Not to mention her Viva Glam sold more than any Mac Lipstick EVER)!, And possibly American Idol. Come on NOW Nicki is WINNING!!! Despite what any of you haters have to say.!
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graicen
September 2, 2012 at 7:43 am
i swear this fucking site just looks for news to uplift nicki minaj and news to downplay rihanna. get a fuckin life u idiots at thatgrapejuice. ur articles are very biased!
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graicen
September 2, 2012 at 7:45 am
its like this website doesnt have anthing good to report. so u look for all shit to post! who da hell cares if her metacritic score has increased?! yall have never done that for other artists. jeez. im startin to really get fed up of this website. a sorry excuse for journalism!
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Roman
September 2, 2012 at 7:48 am
Hits Double Daily reported that Pink Friday Roman Reloaded might be re-released on 21 November ….
We don’t need a re-release, we need her mixtape to drop to remind everybody why she is currently QUEEN of HipHop …
Sucka Free >>>> Your fave rappers BEST efforts …
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truth tea
September 2, 2012 at 8:17 am
even in nickis mixtape days she is average.
she has not made a classic album or mixtape like you think she has
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Kween Ebony
September 2, 2012 at 7:44 pm
LMAO! You sound really stupid right now! #RealSHIT
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Truth(theREALISTubitch)
September 2, 2012 at 8:18 am
No one cares about this bitch
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RDK
September 2, 2012 at 11:04 am
no one if your little delusional world,why haven’t you drick that bottle of cyanide yet,you so d-mb even that you failed to do.
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Truth(theREALISTubitch)
September 2, 2012 at 11:43 am
@rdk fuck you
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FAF
September 2, 2012 at 4:56 pm
U STILL HERE UGLY FAGG… SHE SHITS ON LIL CUM STAIN
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JER
September 2, 2012 at 2:17 pm
Yal quit hating just cuz Roman Reloaded sucks, Pink Friday is still a great album!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don’t downplay what this fake bitch did the first time around!!! What’s that song, “Save Me” that’s my shit!!!!!
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DOSSOME
September 2, 2012 at 7:54 am
So barbz should be sooo excited her metacritic score increased?I Cant with this site and irrelevant posts..METACRITIC SCORE,REALLY???
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Kween Ebony
September 2, 2012 at 7:43 pm
Why did you even click the button to read the post!?
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What u gon do when I appear??!!
September 6, 2012 at 11:03 am
Because it was on the website, goofy bitch.
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GirlBYE
September 2, 2012 at 8:00 am
Girl stop. .A revised score is not revised sales boo boo. That million the album sold is NOT costing the labels any less in advertising and marketing. You know this. The album was lukewarm and failed to garner the same or similar success of the album that came before it.
A million worldwide. This is the case of the sophomore album slump. Hopefully she gets a new formula, because bad wigs, leotards, and fix a flat in her ass just simply isn’t working.
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Kween Ebony
September 2, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Like I said once more the WHOLE MUSIC INDUSTRY is having problems selling albums! And she still has one of the best selling albums of the year!
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Truth(theREALISTubitch)
September 2, 2012 at 8:19 am
This bitch is STILL a superFLOP and her pussy stink
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FAF
September 2, 2012 at 4:57 pm
HOW MANY ACCOUNTS U MAKE TO LIKE THAT ONE COMMENT, UGLY DYKE
ALBUM WAS #1
PLATINUM
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED
3 GRAMMY NOMS FIRST YEAR OUT
CAN YOUR FAVE??
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Kween Ebony
September 2, 2012 at 7:38 pm
How is she a flop when her album is one of the best selling this year!? The WHOLE MUSIC INDUSTRY is having problems selling albums not just Nicki!
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Benron (King Of The Navy)
September 2, 2012 at 8:43 am
Revised Score? Platinum Certification after 550K? Almost 12 singles this era?
NO WORDS!
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truth tea
September 2, 2012 at 9:07 am
her label are FRAUDS. this is unfair to artists who sold like 800k 900k and arent platinum while this flop bitch got a certification after 550k. disgusting
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Benron (King Of The Navy)
September 2, 2012 at 9:58 am
Rihanna is at 987k and still has no certification.
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FAF
September 2, 2012 at 4:57 pm
RIHANNA IS A HOE FLOP
THE ALBUM IS PLATINUM !! PERIOD!!
RIAA DOESN’T LIE FAGG U MAD UR FAVES CANT DO IT?
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Kween Ebony
September 2, 2012 at 7:36 pm
STFU!!! She has only released 4 SINGLES OFF THE ALBUM! And still has one of the best selling albums this year!!!! #STARSHIPS #POUNDTHEALARM #RIGHTBYMYSIDE #BEEZINTHETRAP
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Miao
September 2, 2012 at 9:55 am
She is a definition of a TRASH superstar. Female FloRida. Pocorn music. Talent… NO!
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FAF
September 2, 2012 at 4:58 pm
CHING CHONG MEOW NO ONE CARES, CHINK.. SIT YO ASS DOWN & GO WATCH POKEMON FAGG
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Remey
September 2, 2012 at 10:09 am
Nicki is still doing considerably well this era, but it won’t be good leading into the next album. At this rate, Roman Reloaded will wrap up considerably quick. Her team is getting EXACTLY like Beyonce’s team when it came to 4.
If everyone remembers correctly, Beyonce did an OKAY job with album sales, but her singles failed and bombed. This is the problem with Nicki:
1. They are releasing the wrong singles.
2. They are not allowing enough time/hype between singles.
3. They are not releasing videos/visuals at the right time (ie. Starships and Pound the Alarm came out way too late to support the singles, which had begun to slip on the charts.)
4. No singles are getting the proper treatment. (You can see an obvious quality difference between videos like I Am Your Leaders vs. Pound the Alarm. Looks like someone did Beez in the Trap and I Am Your Leader with a Camera Phone. Plus there is no media attention for her singles on an individual level…..especially urban singles.)
Nicki is really going to have to use her 3rd LP to remind people why she came to fame to begin with….or she will slip into Madonna’s problem: Low album sales but great concert sales.
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dstrock
September 2, 2012 at 10:26 am
Co-sign.
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Truth(theREALISTubitch)
September 2, 2012 at 11:45 am
Whore
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RDK
September 2, 2012 at 11:12 am
REMEY,she is doing her thing.but everything isn’t being handle right,if every was handle right things would be much much better,Co-sign you though if she do all that it will help her greatly.
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Truth(theREALISTubitch)
September 2, 2012 at 11:45 am
c***
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Truth(theREALISTubitch)
September 2, 2012 at 11:45 am
Bitch
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JER
September 2, 2012 at 2:23 pm
I hear you, but the problem is Nicki Minaj AND her label think she’s BeYAWNce. CHILE PLEAZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. BeYAWNce rocked the whole POP vs URBAN single thing the best it can be rocked with I Am…Sucha Farce. And the videos FOR THE MOST PART were on point. Bey was a fucking superstar and Nicki Minaj is a ghetto superstar thinking she can service both POP and R&B after one album and it’s failed miserable. The charts may scream hit, but the streets cry fake bitch ya know. I think all black folk wanted Nicki to slay this second album, but ONCE i hear it was called “Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded” i was like ummmmmmm is this a re-release? NO ONE was really here for RR.
And for all you barbz saying how she’s sold 600k BITCH SHE BETTER HAVE SOLD THAT with all the singles she’s released DAMNN MY GOD she better have sold 600k after releasing 6 or 7 godamn single! LAWT!
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FAF
September 2, 2012 at 4:58 pm
^^ SHITTING ON BFLOPSE WHERES HER COMMERCIAL?? ENDORSMENTS?? AMERICAN IDOL??? 8 MIL CAN YOUR FAVE DO IT???
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MC
September 2, 2012 at 11:00 am
Wow soooo impressive *sarcasm*
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Truth(theREALISTubitch)
September 2, 2012 at 11:46 am
#DEAD
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ExtremelyPressed
September 2, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Grow up…your comments, your language, everything….uggghhhhh
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Truth(theREALISTubitch)
September 2, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Extremelypressed suvk my fivk u whore
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Truth(theREALISTubitch)
September 2, 2012 at 3:03 pm
Or sould I just say FUCK YOU BITCH
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FAF
September 2, 2012 at 4:59 pm
KEEP DYING AS THEM T CELLS DECLINE, FAGG…
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Girrrl
September 2, 2012 at 12:17 pm
No one cares. Has this platinum certified album hit 700k in the US yet? FLOP
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FAF
September 2, 2012 at 4:59 pm
ITS PLATINUM, UGLY DYKE nickieleaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Nicki-Minaj-RIAA-nickieleaks.png
DEAL!!!FACTS ONLY ALLOWED ON THIS SIDE, UGLY!!
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Kween Ebony
September 2, 2012 at 7:33 pm
Still one of the best selling albums this year! Id don’t give a fuck what a hater got to say Nicki WINNING! Watch her take over the world hoe! HAHAHA!
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FRESH
September 2, 2012 at 12:35 pm
So the after 6 singles and being certified platinum….
overbaring promotional push touring in the u.s and uk
being featured on a shit load a songs…..
the album has thus far sold 630….. and this is a queeeeen?
of what exactly?
lmfao….. the BARBZ ARE A JOKE SO IS GIMMIKY MINAJ & HER FAKE ASS & PERSONALITY
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mimi
September 2, 2012 at 1:25 pm
630.. in the U.S!!!! It sold over a million WW & I bet your fave female rapper can’t even chart outside of the U.S! Tuh!
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FAF
September 2, 2012 at 5:00 pm
SHE MAD SHE STANS FOR KIM.. SHES NEVER COMING BACK ,, UGLY!!!EVER EVER EVERRRRRRR [/TAYLOR SWIFT, LOL]
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Kween Ebony
September 2, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Why are you worried about her sales!? She still has one of the BEST SELLING ALBUMS OF 2012!! Nobody has had good albums sales this year so whats your point!? Rihanna has the same problem, singles are selling but not the album as well as everyone else soooo! #DISMISSED
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Tbozfan10
September 2, 2012 at 1:47 pm
I’m not surprised. This is one of those albums that rubs you the wrong way on 1st listen, but gets better with time really when you go back and listen to it.
And once again, Roman Reloaded is still one of the top-selling albums of 2012 in the U.S. and y’all used to say “it hasn’t even reached 500k yet” then it was “it hasn’t even reached 600k yet” now it’s “it hasnt even reached 700k yet.” and yet it’s still #22 on the album chart. It’s like y’all sit around and count her album sales every week. My god.
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Kween Ebony
September 2, 2012 at 7:27 pm
YESSSS! PREACH! These haters need to GTFO
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JER
September 2, 2012 at 2:15 pm
The album is a godamn MESS. Doing beysic hip-hop songs that her heart isn’t into for the first half…. then shoving a bunch of pop songs at the end. SMH. Like I said before, Nicki Minaj is a fake bitch. If she wanted to do a pop record she should have just DONE A DANCE RECORD. She’s a fake ass bitch trying to milk the coins out of her black fans by putting out shitty hip-hop just to say “I’M STILL HIP-HOP SEE I HAVE GHETTO SONGS TOO!!” chile pleaze!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nicki Minaj is a coward, she knew her album wouldn’t have sold a fraction of what it barely has if it was just a dance record. She didn’t have the guts to just put out the dance album she wanted to, she copped out and threw some shitty hip-hop WHACK ASS songs on the front of the album to try and get hip-hop fans interested. At least when BeYAWNce and XXLtina did a ‘double concept album’ they divided into 2 discs and let their fans know point blank what the album was about. And I’m sorry, but BeYAWNce’s I Am… Sucha Farce slayed most albums around that time, except Gaga’s. WTF has Nicki slayed besides 2 or 3 barbz stereos at home?
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FAF
September 2, 2012 at 5:00 pm
WHAT THE FUCK IS BEYSIC, UGLY??? U STAY COMMENTING STOP LOOGGING INTO YOUR GHOST ACCOUNTS TRYING TO DIMINISH THE QUEEN
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theman
September 2, 2012 at 3:14 pm
Releasing a video is simply that, what more do you epect her to do with a video… Other than a video being great, what more do you want her to do besides release it?……….
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FAF
September 2, 2012 at 5:01 pm
I’M ONLY HERE FOR STATISTICS!!!!!
PEPSI, AMERICAN IDOL, ADIDAS ENDORSEMENTS!!
STILL MOST SUCCESSFUL MAC LIPSTICK LINE EVER!!!
I’M GONNA NEEED U FLOPS TO GET IT TOGETHER!! THE QUEEN STILL REIGNS!!!
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Kween Ebony
September 2, 2012 at 7:26 pm
Okay, I’m going to need all these haters to get a fucking life! Because PF:Roman Reloaded is still one of the best selling albums this year! Album sales for ALL artist has been LOW this year so WTF! Why they keep worrying about Nicki’s!? That should tell you something she still WINNING she will have a decent spot on the YEAR end charts! Because No album has sold well this year one two albums released this year has sold 1 million One Direction and Lional Richie! So STFU and stop worrying about her she getting her $$$$
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