It may be a case of “mission accomplished” for rapper Nicki Minaj today, likely to be uttered by the star following the release of her brand new visual piece, ‘Anaconda.‘
Released to support its parent album ‘The Pink Print‘, the single and its raunchy video now seem to be the gifts that keep on giving for all of the Rapper’s material, pushing sales of its predecessors to a number of enviable milestones.
Details below…
In the space of 24 hours, ‘Anaconda‘s Casper Smart-backed music video has been streamed 20,9311,451 times on ‘VEVO’ alone, guaranteeing it a second week in the Top 40 when its streaming points are added to its sales.
Why we’ve called its release the gift that keeps on giving? Well, one needn’t look any further than the Recording Industry Association of America to find out why, after the company awarded the rapper several new certifications following ‘Conda’s explosive arrival.
Indeed, after watching it surpass global sales of 7.2 million units before its first birthday, Minaj’s 2012 hit ‘Starships’ has now been certified 6x Platinum in the US alone for sales of over 6 million units in the mark, while her ‘Print’-pulled ‘Pills N Potions’ which has now been awarded a Gold certification for sales of 500,000 units moved since May 21st 2014.
Meanwhile, as 2012’s ‘Beez in the Trap‘ braces itself to receive a Platinum shower before its third anniversary, 2010’s ‘Super Bass’ sits on a throne made up of 8 million US units, handing Minaj an 8x Platinum crown as its supporting album ‘Pink Friday’ turns its nose up at her the rapper’s rivals, perhaps feeling itself after learning it sold 3.8 million units worldwide.
This, after moving 1,035,000 in the first month of its release and outselling Rihanna‘s 2010 effort ‘Loud’ in the United States.
Nicki’s success on both a singles and albums tip sees her extend her lead as one of the highest selling rappers (male or female) of all time, and sees her surpass efforts made by ‘She’s a B*tch‘ femcee Missy Elliott, who- despite arguably being the better performer between the two- has been outpaced by Minaj when international sales are thrown into the equation.
In related, critics unimpressed by Nicki’s titillating antics in the ‘Anaconda’ visual may be pleased to learn that UK is to introduce an age-based rating system for music videos that are able to be viewed online.
‘Billboard‘ explains:
The scheme’s introduction coincides with changes to the Video Recordings Act, which from October will also require physical music video releases to include age-classification ratings.
“Helping families with children and parenting shouldn’t stop at childbirth,” Prime Minister David Cameron said during a speech at London’s Royal College of GPs in which he announced the pilot scheme.
“To take just one example — bringing up children in an internet age, you are endlessly worried about what they are going to find online… From October, we’re going to help parents protect their children from some of the graphic content in online music videos by working with the British Board of Film Classification, Vevo and YouTube to pilot the age rating of these videos,” Cameron went on to state.
Is this really news she made a p***
Music video which she knows people will
Watch p********* and perverts men will
Jerk off to but at the end of the day
Her music sucks nicki had to go below
The bottom of the gutter to get a hit
Because she could not rely on her rap
The nerve of her coming for Iggy when
she had to show her fake nasty b***
to sell record she really a joke
Sister, just stop. P********* and perverts? No. The video is very s*** but why do you have to take it to the extreme. Nicki Minaj and the dancers in the video are ADULT women, not underage girls so please fall back with such stupid comparisons. Not everything that is sexual is deviant.
Well if they adult women maybe
They and nicki needs to go and
Dance in the gentleman’s clubs
Did Nicki show her ass in the Pills n Potions video? It still went Gold though right? It did? Well thanks for helping me prove my point. Nicki can sell WITH or WITHOUT her clothes on and with or WITHOUT payola. SOME of the other girls cannot.
Oh shut up music has become nasty
OH GROW UP. MUSIC HAS ALWAYS BEEN NASTY.
So Janet was talking about sucking d*** in Warmth?If you think music is only becoming s*** now you need to do your research my dear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V93f-PwgvlU
Don’t you recall this.
http://youtu.be/ehcVomMexkY
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Is this what artist have become especially
Black women what’s going on here that a 33
Year old woman can’t rely on talent have
Women In music whores now this is getting
Out of hand Iggy don’t need this nastiness
Arianna grande either the handful of black women
In music seem to be displaying nasty w****
like behavior when will black women learn
Society white society look at them differently
You’re seeing what you want to see sis. Nicki has tonnes of videos where she is fully clothed but you cling to the ones where she isn’t just so you can complain.
LOL THATS CUZ IGGY LOOKS LIKE AN AGING T***** WITH NO ASS & ARIANA IS BUILT LIKE A 12 YEAR OLD BOY. NOBODY WANTS TO SEE PASTY WHITE H0ES TRYING TO POP THEIR CARDRBOARD ASSES LOL
Sam needs to stop tryna make icki happen cause she is DONE honey
LOL. IGGY got a song called pu**y.
ICKY is all about nastiness.
LOL AND HERE COMES THE PRESSED AND SEETHING IGGY FLOPZALEA STANS. AND THE BUSTED UGLY BYTCHES WITH NO ASS, TOO LOL. #SLAYNICKI
FLOOOOOOOP!!! This ho flopn up down and sideways honey
YAAAS! #slaynicki #VMAs #Winning
Eat me
But where is it on billboard? I was looking through the top ten and I all I could see was Iggy
Death!!
Why do muhfuckers always act like people who enjoy s** are the same as sexual predators. I get that you don’t like the video cos it’s mad sexual but you don’t even know how stupid you look when you say that she’s trying to attract sexual predators just because she decided to show her ass.
Go show it in strip clubs kids go
on the Internet she came out as the
Black big ass barbie with little
Girls following her dressing I pink
Wigs when we new her ass was old as
Hell she had the two little white girls
Following her on Ellen show so
Please hypocrit much
Go ahead SATAN (historhi) and speak yo mind. I happen to like the video but hate the song AND her tbh. @meka DRAG HA!!! DRAG THAT SQUID EYED PLASTIC SLUUT HONEY!! DRAAAAAG HA!!! Nicki a ho and everyone know it
David Pink Friday did not push 1035 000 units in the first month of release it got certified a month after release due to shipments get your facts straight and stop using Wikipedia as a source
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/473151/nicki-minaj-hits-no-1-on-billboard-200-crosses-1-million-sales
B**** bye. EVERYBODY knows it scanned 1,035,000 million first month. If it was certified because of shipments it would have been 1 million and 1 million alone, not 1 point 35 million.
Shipments and actual sales are two different things you should have followed the link and read it assuming that you can read before you jumped into my reply section like a rabid lunatic dog
No Hun she sold plat it did 375k week ONE ALONE
You’re confusing PF AND PFRR
According to who Wikipedia?
Show me how you came to that conclusion
No wonder why r*** is a huge problem because we condone crap like Anaconda and Partition
R***? Where does Nicki promote non consensual s** in the video?
Little black girls see this
And think it’s OK to be nasty
Black girls don’t have no black
Females artist to look up to
And respect these days they are
Showing all types of nasty
Slutty behavior brandy and
Monica never had to do this
And alliyah
I agree men see this crazy men
And think it’s OK to disrespect
Women black women have a stigma
In public has big ass weave wearing
Load of kids whorish ways and welfare
Recipients nicki is perpetrating that
Stigma quite well no morals
Yes so true men feel the need to violate women because they often do nit respect themselves todays generation acts out what they see in the media i mean if nicki goes around flapping her tities and fake bum other girls will do it which will end up leading to them getting violated by other men because its deemed okay in todays society
You stupid b****! Do you know what you just said?! Do you think rapists give two f**** about what their victims are wearing? If a pervert is gonna attack you he’s gonna do it, he doesn’t two give damns about what you’re wearing.
well dont forget about IGGY, RHANNA, MILEY, MADONNA, AND GAGA. They make zPorn too.
Iggy made a song about her pu**y with her stupid video
Wait? Did someone say Nicki didn’t sell a 1 million first month? For the sake of your wig please go back and do you research before I scalp you. The reason everyone drags her PFFR is because she hasn’t even sold 1 million in two years with that one but did for PF so show me your receipts!
The fact that you would even try and contest that s*** is just ugh to me. Even her haters know she did it but you wanna go against the grain with your lies.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/473151/nicki-minaj-hits-no-1-on-billboard-200-crosses-1-million-sales
You should conduct actual research Wikipedia is not the way
If anyone should conduct actual research it should be YOU! Go to RIAA’s official site and see just when PF was certified Platinum. Then come back to me so we can talk FACTS.
I am not desputing that fact you twat did you mange to read my previous comment?? No I don’t blame you though being literate is not everyone’s strong point
Facts Only is right, it took Pink Friday exactly 11 WEEKS to SELL THROUGH 1 million copies in the UNITED STATES…that’s 2 MONTHS and 3 weeks, which is absolutely fantastic…the fact it crossed 1 million sales when it finally hit #1 is even better…Barbz, no one is taking anything from ya girls achievement…yes, she was certified Platinum in 1 month for SHIPMENTS of 1 million copies in the UNITED STATES. #WikipediaAintLoyal #PinkFridayStillSlayed
Pink Friday 375,000 first week, 102,395 second week…that adds to 477,395 in two weeks…someone find third and fourth week.
Nicki Minaj has been selling ass since day 1. Why is everyone acting so surprised is my question.
Crtfy paved the way lls! Moreover, the girl had to practically clap her ass shots off to gain views on vevo. The song is still garbage, and i dont even hear people raving over the vid either. And her one album is outselling loud by a few units and thats something to praise? Lol. Please stop making up new rating and accolade systems to make nicki a powerhouse artist because she is still considered lowkey. Just a step above jhene, rita, and teyanna.
I agree the lengths these artist
Going to get a hit do u see male
Rappers showing their d***
why because sam shade Riri you are going to come in here and knock Nicki, you are so bias Riri does ranchy videos too and you have no prob with it but you want to knock nicki. just stop because you are looking really stupid.
Lol are you serious a rihanna fan talking right now about nicki video lets not start with pour it up now stupid ass
Rihboy man b**** you can try to put down Nicki all you want but the facts are out there,that she is doing her thing and no matter what you say won’t change that,and you claim people isn’t raving over the video lol pff your delustions is getting worse every day.
Piu is the only video you guys have lol. When majority of nickis are about her ass. Rihannas piu was much more softcore and tastefully done. Nicki isnt making any moves boo. Vevo views were so last year. And nothing solo she had done lately has garnered and commendable fetes. Not for clapping your ass for teens. Sorry babe. This buzz will fizzle soon.
gratz to Nicki minaj she doing her thing.
“Men feel the need to violate women because they often do nit respect themselves.”
I don’t know how you were raised but I was raised to only have s** with a woman who wanted to have s** with me. A REAL MAN sees a naked woman in the street and tries to help her, not f*** her.
I know the Navy not trying to shade Nicki. FOH with that B.S
This video was much worse IMO. Aleast Nicki had a banging body with cakes that move!!!!!!!
http://youtu.be/ehcVomMexkY
NEVER FORGET THE STRUGGLE CLAP!!!!
LMAOOOO!
Down!!!!!!! Can we say frozen cakes!!!!!
Right!
Ugh… Wack ass, boring, repetitive video… And I’d actually rather buy Loud than Pink Friday… Loud is my 3rd fave Rihanna era…
Too bad you didn’t. #PinkFridayOutsoldLoud.
Too bad no one cares about The Pink Print… #JayZWannabe
The song is horribly stupid and childish. Of course we all knew it would get plenty attention due to her being half naked in the video. I agree, its sad that females have to rely on their body to sell records and not their talent. Nickis flow in this song is garbage, and the video is pure trash. But thats what this generation is all about.
Shoutout to Nicki. Hate it or love it.. she is definitively winning right now! That video is her best to date and before her album has even dropped she’s managed to enter into a new realm of celebrity reserved only for the biggest of stars–where now, her every move Will result in endless debates, conversations and think pieces. There’s no right way to explore uncharted waters in the Female Rap Game but I tip my hat to both she and Iggy for outshining the boys all summer long.
http://youtu.be/pZ12_E5R3qc at that pressed hive member… Do you recall this? #worrybouturfave
https://youtu.be/pZ12_E5R3qc Do you recall this? #worrybouturfave
This is nothing but pure ghetto filth. Only darkskinmanj. And I love how she’s trying so to be iggy with the whole big b*** thing loool pathetic tbh.
*trying to so hard to be iggy and why can’t I say b.u.t.t?
In the words of Nicki u a stupid H O E
Filth would be your faves over used pusssy.
Well then IGGY is pale no color having trailer trash mess. LOL
Iggy in a trailer park talking about her pu**sy & ph*cking black men for tracks.
Do you recall this? #worrybouturfave. http://youtu.be/pZ12_E5R3qc
http://youtu.be/pZ12_E5R3qc
Do you recall this?? #worryabouturfave
Yassssssss that video was over , and done in a tasteful way.
#worryaboutyouresorryasslife
But Richie is not the one shading nicki for being sexual.
Still JUST AS raunchy as PIU and anaconda… The sexual idea is the same. #byestupid
You’re dumb logic is key . Trick are for kids . Go do you’re homework son.
Death at Bey,Rih, & Nicki fans trying to come for each other when all your favs are desperate & have to sell s** otherwise no one would give a f*** about them.
Yessss Nicki. Haters remain pressed. Death @ someone talking about r***. Stop being dramatic. The problem is with the men who want to R*** not the women who can dress however they want. If It was legal, a woman should be able to walk down the street naked of she wanted that DON’T give someone the right to r*** you. Bye!
First of all, you cannot blame Nicki for r*** culture. It was here before she got here & it will be here when she is gone. What was she wearing, what was she doing out at that time of night, she shouldn’t have been showing her ass in the video, etc….these are things that r*** apologist say to condone r***. This is NEVER acceptable. Blaming women for their own r*** is deplorable, disgusting, and irresponsible. Check this idiocy immediately.
Now, you knew going in that this video would be explicit. You don’t like explicit videos? Don’t watch them. It’s really that simple.
Sam stop tryn to make nicki happen honey
She’s already happening s*** and there’s nothing you can do about it. now go suck you mamma’s nappy p****
Suck a used enima
OmG! she beat Taylor Swift’s Vevo view record. *crying right now* when will your fave? when will they?
I saw that early this morning , and in less time. Work Nicki .
@barbie Sissy
She beat Taylor Swift’s Vevo view record. *crying right now* when will your fave? when will they?
U pathetic little sissy
Not a fan of her new Era but h*** need to stfu
And stop talking s*** Nicki is not the first to show
Her ass and she won’t be the last .
We are in 2014 why is there so many closed minded
People .
This is art . At the end of the day . She’s not going out
On the streets showing her ass is she?
But because she’s black and showing her ass she’s
Automatically a h**??
Actress are often getting naked baring it all For the world to
See but why aren’t they being judge?
People with ignorant minds are always the first
To be negative .
Don’t like it ? Then leave we are all here by choice do don’t blame nicki
Blame urself for clicking the link.
I think folks are just mad because Nicki has proved that she wasnt replaced by some one hit wonder. *Sips tea
Lol in five years? Her stats are still sucky. Check the facts.
Congrats Nicki on all the certifications! Luv the video and song, although its very explicit! I don’t get why people are trying to drag Nicki though. She’s just using plays out of Kimmy and Foxy’s playbook. All this have been done before. Explicit lyrics + Raunchy = Lil Kim!
But can’t sell 65k in one week .
Finally saw the video, LOL what a disgusting, attention-whoring, pathetic waste of silicone and oxygen. She looked like she had a million different diseases in every scene except for the one with Drake. Is she really so threatened by Iggy that she had to make a literal porno as a video and get her stans to spam the views every 30 seconds? A joke.
Thank you for your view! Every view counts. The Barb Nation really appreciates the haters, so I’m taking this time on behalf of the Pink Kingdom to thank a hater today. Let it never be said that we are not thankful, haters gotta live too. Thank you once again. #NowGoWatchItAgain
I didn’t watch it on VEVO, but you’re cute, just like the massive dislike ratings on YouTube!
Girl nicki is a self drag right now lol. Its pittyful that the barbz are clinging to such trash as an accomplishment. Trying to go the wrecking ball route to gain views. Unfortunately there is not award for vevo views. Moreover, the barbz can squak when it spends time on the billboard top 5 for consecutive weeks. Until then., my anaconda dont want none unless you got hits hun!
Did you ignore the rest of this story. Nicki is selling singles in different genres. She does nt need to worry about iggy’s non rapping ass. Iggy is a pop star anyway. Nicki slayed and hung with real rappers in tracks like Jay z, Kanye, Rick Ross, Em, Wiz khalifa, Juicy J, Lil wayne, drake, pusha T.
I’m just waiting on a track with J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar. We don’t need white people’s approval on rap. We started it hun