Last week, fans of the prolific Nicki Minaj were upset to learn that her new album ‘The Pinkprint’ was unlikely to open with sales any higher than the 180,000 units mark.
What this projection didn’t take into account was an error made by a number of major retailers who failed to stock the release on its due date, forcing fans to pick up the album after said error and projection had been made.
The result? Egg on the faces of those who mocked the rapper’s numbers prematurely.
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Debuting at #3 on the ‘Billboard 200′, Minaj’s ‘Pink’ opened with sales of 201,000 units mark this week, seeing the rapper secure her third Top 3 entry on the albums chart.
Outperformed by Taylor Swift’s ‘1989′, ‘Pink’s first week numbers were published by the aforementioned ‘Hits’ after the project failed to crack the Top Twenty in the United Kingdom, where it now sits at #22.
It would seem, despite recent efforts made to downplay her commercial relevance, Ms. Minaj exceeds expectations once again!
Keep it locked on TGJ to find out how many times the project was streamed in the last week later on today.
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WAIT IS THIS WITH STREAMING OR JUST PURE SALES?
pure sales. streaming comes out later on this afternoon
BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHA THIS FLOP BIITCH BOUGHT HER OWN SHYT AND STILL FLOPPED!!!
So wait a minute.,… I thought some at TGJ lost a bet if she came in under 200,000 sold??? Did Rashad lose?
CONGRATS NICKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT’S ABOUT 189,000 MORE THAN IGGY FLOP…
NICKI MINAJ NORTH AMERCAN ARENA TOUR COMING SOON!!!
This b**** bought HALF of those copies after the sales prediction came out. Hits Daily Double is never wrong. Flopnika Garbaj thinks she’s fooled us. LMAOOOOOOOOOOO!!! FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!
you made that up. Hits Daily Double was also wrong with J.Cole predictions. He bought is albums too?
HDD are wrong on many occasions, don’t be silly
HDD is always wrong. Thatgrapejuice readers should know that by now. That mess up on urban albums all the time. Nicki has a big fanbase
Swea I feel like you mad because she sold that many
Pure sales girl.
With streaming
This is with STREAMING included. Yall be tryna get on and lie to cover up how bad she flopped.
Nicki who? Her career is over. She tried it with her c*** music and going back to non-album buying negroes …
Has Iggy’s reclassic sold over 50,00 yet IGGYstan? LMAO
Does that include streams too?
No, just sales
no. just sales. streams are released this afternoon
what does streams mean like the ones she sold on itunes?
Congrats Nicki
FLOOOOP!!!!! ♧LOLOL
I’m gonna need the actual sales, not stream added please. #WaitsForChartNews
mark this is sales. streams come out later on
Ho u in everybody damn comment tryna sell this flop biitch. Go sell some pusssy. Nicki FLOPPED HONEY!!
This must include streams lol
It doesn’t as far as I know
This giving me Rihanna talk that talk teas lol FLOP
Rih’s Talk That Talk opened with 198K but still sold over 1M copies unlike half of the people who opened with more! Loud sold 207K first week and still went platinum in two months!
TTT scanned Platinum. Just like nicki last album the Period Print won’t scan platinum! !!
Is this including streams?? I only ran in here to read the comments but I cannot enjoy them without all the facts.
nope..streams come out later this afternoon. this is only album sales
Biitch um sicka u. This biitch flopped….DEAL!!!
-__- stfu
Go head NIC, all that promo and that boyfriend situation really did help her game about 16k more sales than expected.
Thats 201k sales only. Im sure she’ll be #2 with streams.
I thought the barbs said she’ll do 300k what happen!? 🙂
there’s no pleasing some of you
Will maybe if you barbs wouldn’t have been so obnoxious if wouldn’t have backfired on ya’ll
🙂 #DEAL
I thought Iglo Azaelia was the new Queen of Rap according to the mainstream media???
What happened????
Why cant Iggy sell over 11,000 copies of her new album?
She got Claer Channel, Billboard Magazine and the rest of the white media trying to make her a superstar…
Iggy is all hype.
NICKI is the QUEEN OF RAP!
“Why cant Iggy sell over 11,000 copies of her new album?”
Cause she sucks…anymore questions boo? 🙂
Congrats Onika!!! #Queen
Actually she debuted #2 and this is sales only
QUEEN!
Of FLOPS KII AAAAAHHHHLOLOLOLOL!!!!
B**** flop a comb threw yo nappy ass head you n***** and shut the f*** up I hope you catch a*** you bottom b**** go wipe yo s***** ass and pray to god I don’t drag yo c*** ass threw this comment section. Its funny you always in Nicki post but you hate the b**** hmmmm you been a low budget ass fan you baldheaded b**** go cop Chang tsungs new mix tape b****. F*** you that the blown up chyna doll and her ugly ass Bride of chucked lookin baby c*** now shut the f*** up and watch Nicki owm the rest of the year. Bum b**** and if you don’t like thbat do us ALL a favor and die tragically and painfully k thanks. god bless you s*** carry on
Suck my menestrating pusssy dry
Hmmm… Alright… It’s #22 in the uk…
Its because she had no promo in the uk
Well there was the EMA’s… And there’s people that don’t need to promote anywhere to sell… #Beyonce
Honey this ho been promoting world wide and she STILL FLOOOOP!!! KII!!
I’m sure NICKI is gonna go to the UK/Europe next week or sometime soon to promote her CD and her tour.
She will probably go to Australia to promote her CD as well or at least do a festival there.
Even if these are legit sales its still a flop She’s done so much promo she should’ve sold 300k easily.
@rema..calm down..its not that serious. if this is a flop, then many other artists this year flopped. im not a fan of her but damn, these she’s number 2 on billboard, thats pretty big.
IF ITS NOT THAT SERIOUS THEN Y U N EVERYBODYS COMMENTS?? HO!!!
This isn’t Billboard, it’s a screenshot from HDD
Sadly not a third #1 album but wow and if this is without streaming I applaud her, I guess those stores that didn’t put album on the shelve really made a difference.
Sadly Little Miss Riri only has one #1 album
Please, 200K ain’t nothing considering her promo. What makes an album an flop, when the label loses money. The reason people think 200K is great is because that is the number Sam and nem bet. The label lost money and this is her lowest debut even after all of her so-called new pop fans. J. Cole rules. This ain’t nutting.
‘The label lost money’ It’s only the first week, calm ya breath sis.
No what actually makes an album a flop is a lack of longevity. We can’t truly predict what happens next. A male hip-hop artist will obviously sell more and he did promo too
B**** shut up
STFU! Let me remind you that these numbers are just in the US. Nicki’s albums sell all over the world!
And how TF do you know the label lost money? Are you their accountant? How do you know Nicki didnt use her own money for some of her promo?
World Wide, and in the US, Nicki has sold me albums than JCole. gtfo! bye..
Suck my nuts…nicki FLOPPED HAHAHAHAHAHAHA YAAAAASSSS BISSH
Taylor album been out for like 2months and still slaying lol man that crazy that Taylor’s 7th week sales are higher than any of Katy Lana or Rihannas first week sales.
NOT the PinkShit being outsold by a 2 month old album. If that’s not the biggest kii of the year then I don’t know what is… No wonder the barbz have been MIA.. I’m crying!!!
Not Lady Gaga being outsold by Katy, Lorde, And Miley! And Gaga only sold 50k more than Nicki, and she barley debuted at #1
“barley”?
bish stop focusing on Gaga cos she’s making her coins.
With your spelling, yo a$$ will be lucky to flip burgers at McDonalds.
Sleep on that, ho
MIA like Chartflop? Obviously Nicki wouldn’t outsell Taylor, people actively illegally downloaded Nickis album, trouble with physical copies and haters actively bought/streamed Taylor. Not that I’m making excuses but it’s actually the truth. A popstar selling more than a female rapper means the rapper is a flop? Okay sis, okay
Poor Shiitie Trashaj. She really thought she was gonna get another number 1???
good enough even tho it flopping in the UK which is like the second biggest market
It’s Christmas, typically Christmas music & not much else is bought in the UK
Biitch pleease hahahaha she FLOPPED LOLOLOL!!!!
That’s a lie sis lol
I live here in the UK and couldn’t get the album except on iTunes!! None of the stores I went to had the physical album.. 🙁 TF is her label doing?!
Thank you, they really fcked up with the physical copies, US & UK and probably more countries
But not J. Cole already being Gold.
Don’t forget she spent alot on the pink print movie plus 3 video before hand Nicki isn’t winning with these sales. She’s gonna owe her label so much money
girl please those cheap video were paid by beat by dre beside the average pop h** release 2-3 video before the album and they also have first week number in that 100k-250k balloark (ariana,rihanna.katy,gaga,…) so what new?
And you know this how?
The pink print movie was released to support the album’s second week sales. So, it wouldn’t have a big dip! Why do you think they released it so late in the week. It was friday night into saturday – they know what they’re doing!
WILL WAIT FOR BILLBOARD TO REPORT THE FINAL NUMBERS
Excellent!
well well, she exceeded expectations, go onika! though I rate the album 2/5 stars for the lack of originality with no tracks like romans revenge, moment for life, itty bitty piggy, she’s still slaying with her bunz for all to see, she has a six album deal with cash money so she’s here to stay folks! come harder next era though nick
Lil cutters are the last to come for anyone’s sale’s. Not when Pukeflop still ain’t platinum after year + and Zinc To Zinc ain’t gold. Anyway congratulations Nicki.
LOOOOOOOL!
LOOOOOOOOOOOL!
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!
So you mean she sold 200k with SALES alone?! Homagash! Homagash! What now haters?! What now! 200k WITHOUT a Pop single?!
LOOOOOOOOOOL!
Hate to break it to you its a flop not even bey collaboration
could help save this album for someone who so cocky and talk
trash she went practical ly naked she turn people off
But didn’t Jcole sale more than this with no promo or without bandwagoning behind Beyonce?
I wouldn’t talk about sale if i were you is Chartdrop platinium? is basic to basic Gold? what are the stats of the floprave?
keep it cute
He did promo & don’t act like Gags didn’t beg for Telephone. Do they even like each other now? …
and didn’t interscope spend 25 million on promo and Artflop still isn’t platinum in the US? and not a little cutter talking about bandwagoning when she’s been glued to tony bennett the past 3 months
One, J.Cole had plenty of promo! His performance on Letterman had the Black community BUZZING! Then he went to the ‘All Black Lives Matter Marches’ which is also promo. And he also went to fans HOUSES to sign albums! He had alot of promo not to mention interviews just FYI!
Where are Iggy’s sales? Why cant she sell in the US and her home country of Australia?
Is J.Cole already gold?
Yaaaaasss
Im proud of J Cole too. Hip Hop is about to win in 2015. Lots of real rap albums coming. I bet Billboard and Forbes are mad about that.
Meanwhile New Classic is not…STILL! LOL
Underwhelming.
She is one of the most promoted artists of 2014, along with Taylor.
U most be talking about Iggy being one of the most promoted one ht wonders of all time.
CONGRATS NICKI!!!!!!
I don’t have to throw any shade because the GENERAL PUBLIC have done that for me.
Unlike you stans, the GP pays attention to what it likes and ignores what it doesn’t, hence Nicki’s slayage.
Come through Queen.
Yall called ARTPOP a flop but it didn’t struggle as much as PINKSHITT LOL
Even struggle del rey sold 180k with no promo Nicki been on every late night show and is bearly scraping 200k lol this crap couldn’t go #1 hahaha even with a pushback
same ballpark tho 200-250k the irony of you talking of promo when your fave spend 25millions promoting that trash album
The only struggle I see is Artpop going Platinum and wasn’t her prediction sales lowered, Nickis was raised.
LOL AT THE BARBZ CLAIMING THAT SHE FLOPPED IN THE UK BECAUSE SHE HAD NO PROMO
SHE WAS THE HOST OF THE EMAS IN A COUNTRY THAT IS PART OF THE UK AND KEPT ON PLUGGING HER ALBUM ON THE SHOW SHE COULD HAVE EASILY BOOKED A SPIT TO PEFORM ON THE X FACTOR FOH WITH THEM LAME EXCUSES YOUR FAVE FLOPPED AND YOU WILL DEAL WITH IT
The EMAs was not even this month, other than that she’s done nothing
LMAO GIRL BYE! WITH YO CORNY EXCUSES
It’s not an excuse, she really did nothing in the UK, flop stans can’t see the truth. & it’s fcking Christmas, where them s***** compilation album rule
YEAH SURE CLINGG TO THAT EXCUSE
NICKI IS AN ESTABLISHED ARTIST WITH A HUGE NUMBER OF FANS ALL OVER THE WORLD IR EAKLY DONT SEE HOW SHE COULD PEFORM THIS BADLY ESPECIALLY DURING XMAS WHEN PEOPLE ACTUALLY HAVE MONEY AND A REASON TO SPEND MONEY
IF U WERE YOU ID WORRY BECAUSE THIS IS A PURE INDICATION OF HER DECLINE IN POPULARITY
Like I said, Christmas in the UK means Christmas albums, compilations etc dominate. Don’t be ignorant, first week sales with relatively no promo in the UK and trouble with physical versions don’t equal flop
WHAT ABOUT ON THE OTHER CHARTS ALL OVER THE WORLD?
BUT I GUESS WE WILL JUST HAVE TO SEE AFTER JAN
Girl that’s a lie. Ed sheeran was number 1 last week
Chezza fan you need to stop trying to tell me I’m a liar, I said typically obviously not including Ed, the white, British, pop, male…
Girl it is a lie though. Look at the charts this week LOL
Chav Soldier, when I initially made those comments I was referring to iTunes anyway. What is all over iTunes? TV? THIS year Ed is number 1. It’s normally someone related to a talent show, one way or another. A contestant or someone who performed/promoted on there… Something Nicki HASNT done in any shape or form.
David said this would happen but yall didn’t wanna listen.
Sam you lost the bet
Not Gaga Stans clinging to J. Cole when she sold more than your fav as well with less promo, the self drag.
Oh? She sold over 200k? But the haters said….
Hahahaha hahahaha hahahaha loooooooool I’m SCRYIIIIIING. All the promo she had. VMA performances, collabs with Beyonce, Ariana, multiple top 10s, top 5 etc, anaconda video controversy, issues with her love life, stale BET shade, The Pink print movie, trouble with young money and much MUCH MORE and she gets to be outdone by a 2 month old album ????? FOH. Nicki has been talking about since last year and you tell she can’t secure a number 1 spot. I thought she was the baddest bittch in the game???. Her time is almost over. From over 350k to barely scrapping 200k. Even if streams are added, she WON’T SEE THAT NUMBER 1. She’s giving Artpop teas. Watch God move
GIRL EVEN ARTFLOP DIDNT FLOP THIS BADLY
SHE WENT FROM SELLING 47K FIRST WEEK TO 17K IN THE UK
THE WORLD BASICALLY GAVE HER THE MIDDLE FINGER
Not even gonna dissect and correct your BS, some people will never learn
Gaga has sold way more than Nicki so the monsters can come for Icki all we want.. Worry about Fatdele tho sis she’s the one scared to release another album she knows it won’t be as successful as 21 lbs away from being morbidly obese.
worry about your fave’s 15minutes being up
@Katycat
LMAO! Her 15 minutes are officially over.
I guess that’s why she’s crown Queen! With streams it should snatch that second spot
But never the #1 spot. That’s what actual queens do. Come thru, Slaylor Swift!!!
Those flopga fans tho your fave career is the limbo her album is a massive flop her relevence is gone bleachyoncé don’t even wanna be associated to her anymore yet you come here opening your mouths
I love this article! Spill the truth tea David!
Clinging to J. Cole like he didn’t sell, what, 30K worldwide, great in the U.S. but he’s local
Gaga is a international queen Nicki is a local hoee. When Pinkshit sales 2.8 million worldwide like Artpop then come talk to me.
2.8 million? Im gonna need receipt for that she sold 1.7million by december 2013 I need to know how an album that was nowhere to be found in the charts during the whole year manage to sell 1.1million
I love the album!!! Congrats beautiful Nicki…
I’m glad she reached that 200k mark! Congrats Onika!! ❤️
I have nothing to say besides…
HA HA HA HA.
A 2 month old album outselling a week old one let it sink in.
The shade is Nicki promoted more than Taylor.
the elite but Taylor’s album, those creepy album sales are not genuine, they are trying to make Tay the golden girl
They are, it’s christmas week and Taylor Stans but her physically copies, plus she has like over 200 Polaroid pics each album has different pics so her gullible fans are trying to collect all the pics
Never underestimate Nicki! Never!
Death first of all Adele is enjoying her money, husband, and baby. She doesn’t need to rush and release a new album that will out sell Artpop, and she has a smoking problem that is causing her not to be able go into the studio. Adele had the best selling album 2 years in a row something gaga has NEVER had. Adele has 10 Grammies, Brits awards, Golden Globe, Academy Award, MBE, over 75+ million records with only two albums with most of her records being albums and not singles.
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Nicki sales are great considering this album is more hip hop/ urban than it’s predecessors and that album sales are in the shits, her not nabbing the #1 spot says nothing as Rihanna has only 1 number album and that isn’t even her best selling album to date. As well as her career is going on its 10nth year while Gaga has fizzled out.
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Everything Gaga touches flops it seems Machete Flops, Artflop, Cheek to Flop, Artgrave Flopball tour.
No Lies Detected
Why are you guys so pressed about these streams? Like streams aren’t money out someone’s pockets therefore they are irrelevant. Nicki flopped with 2 years of pure promo. AND her record label bought 40k just so the both would hit 200k which one of the executives at universal revealed. She’s done. Point blank. Pure done. Finished.. Capeesh
Show me the receipts..,
receipts b****, and these are not streams but purchases so next >>>>
How did it flop? Did a female not outsell the vast majority of hip-hop albums this year? And please I’d love some receipts for this executive, cuz if it’s that Jaywan fraud, he’s really got you haters FOOLED
Bitcch u is a lie! Show me the car fax? Talking out yo ass I see..
Don’t just show us the receipts, but explain why her record label didn’t buy more copies to save face. I mean why buy just 40k when they could have bought 150k and given her the edge over Taylor? Stay reaching
*facepalm* Guys please do your f***** research. Streaming is MONEY. Streaming services like Spotify has to pay the record label for streaming.
Wait. This means that Sam lost his bet that Nicki would sell more than 200k. Rashad won!!!!
Yass David!!! Bumping “Want some more”…
I can’t with these idiots congratulating this mediocrity. This is a slap in the face for Nicki and her fanbase!!! She can’t get a number 1 single (even with all the stripper antics) and now she can’t get a number album???. Stop with the excuses, she flopped deal with it. Weren’t you thots bragging about Nicki selling higher than Rihanna in 1st week sale’s, now you want to commend these atrocious numbers. The kii is that the likes of Rihanna, Katy have never been huge 1st week seller’s. Nicki on the other hand went from 375k to this! But carry on.
Every artist suffers a decline in first week sales and sales in general as time goes on don’t be ignorant
YAAAAASSSSSSS QUEEN NICKI!!! Congrats!!! 200k+ (no streams included) in 2014 with no mainstream pop singles except maybe Anaconda. It may not have debuted at #1 but those sales are VERY good after an early leak and the Anaconda/Pills n Potions mess! On top of the good reviews she’s getting for the album, it’s a good thing. Had she chose better singles the album would’ve sold more. Slaylor Swift can’t be stopped though. 300K after 7 weeks??? Go head girl! I kinda understand how Pentatonix outsold Pinkprint too because it’s a Christmas album and it’s Christmas time.
The GP have speauxkun.
Some of you STANs don’t understand sales. Nicki sold 201K. That’s okay considering Rih always opens up with those numbers and goes platinum (Loud 207K; TTT 198K; Unapologetic 236K w/promo tour). People buy what they consider good, even if it takes a while. People rush out to buy Gaga’s ARTPOP and didn’t like it. It’s now up to Onika to give her album longevity, because she’s won over non fans so hopefully sales stay steady like Rih’s usually do!
The Gaga Stans talking about decline
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The Fame – 15 million world wide
Born This Way – 7 million world wide
Artflop – 2 million world wide
Cheek To Flop – less than 1 million world wide
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Pink Friday – 3.5 million World Wide
Roman Reloaded – 2 million Word wide
Pink Print – ?
3.9WW for Pink Friday 😉 and 2.1M for RR. They’ve sold 6WW together. Which is good for a rapper, especially a female rapper
Why is my comment deleted?
Congratz to you Nicki,it was a really good album in my opinion and deserves the success it’s getting.
And yall can keep saying Nicki that promoted a lot for the Pinkprint in the U.S. but where did she promote? She was on the VMAs and AMAs performing 1 of her own song (Anaconda) and another old song that people were already buying (Bang Bang). She was on 2 talk shows that I know of and 3 radio shows in the past few months. That sounds like regular promo to me. She hasn’t even gone to the station that used to support her more than any other after a falling out (Breakfast Club on Power 105.1) And just because she’s been TALKING about The Pinkprint for the past 1-2 years doesn’t mean that’s promotion! We’ve known about Adele’s new album since 2011 but she hasn’t promoted a thing. Besides 200K is something to be proud of! And we all know Nicki has staying power on the charts so I think it will continue to sell and eventually go gold then platinum!
The kii is that she won’t be seeing that number 1 spot. Don’t delude yourselves, homegirl wanted that number 1 position
David plays like he doesn’t know s*** but really be knowing all the tea thinking he was slick with that “should the sales be revised” threat when he OBVS knew she would sell higher than they said her fake ass would.
Must be nice to be friends with your fave.
Gaga stans aren’t playing with Onika today
*sips mango tea*
All that titty shaking and leg spreading for a number three position and an alleged 200,000 in sales? That’s terrible!!!
This isn’t billboard babe so no it’s not number 3, it’s HDD so yeah this is sales, although I think it’s a bit higher personally, we’ll have to wait for BILLBOARD. Anaconda came out in August so don’t…
Good numbers, in this day & age, anything from 200+ is GOOD.
I guess Nicki’s Anaconda didn’t want that #1 on BB200??? 😀 😛 😀 😛 kiiii
I guess Gaga is riding a pensioner’s dck for relevance? 🙂
Gay.
I guess gaga felt she could no longer contend with the pop girls
Congratz nicki, that’s a dope album in my opinion.
Congrats Nikki! I think your sales are good considering people doesn’t buy albums nowadays.
Stop comparing her to Iggy. They are both doing great in their won way.
Meanwhile, J.Cole will be Gold by next week. That’s hip hop. He has the best album from a commercial hip hop artist this year with almost zero mainstream promo.
He’s had plenty of promo don’t be ignorant
Taylor swift blocking Nicki from getting to #1 on the BB200 like she did on the Hot100.
but who is Gaga blocking tho? Beyonce,lorde,katy, they all slayed her
Gaga getting blocked out the entire music industry by the gp
Flop! She promoted out the ass and she only did 200k? Her sales go down every year.
And so do your b******
I guess you forgot about Beyonce. even her second week sales outdid this flop. FOH!
Lol
I don’t get it, promotion is a part of her job. I hope she keeps promoting because it’s a quality album. I love her grind, tha promoting got her more endorsement deals and new business ventures. 200 plus in sales and a gang of supplemental income. sounds like winning to me **blank stare**
Yas let these fools know.
eactly.
I can’t wait for Rosie, Sherry and truth, hating ass miserable c****
Who? I don’t know those HO(s).
Yasss. Suck it you b****** *waits for haters who will still have s*** to say*
Lol all that DRAMA & didn’t score her “Mariah Carey” high note sales she expected!! LMBO GURL bye bye bye like NSYNC!!
Your obsession with N Sync shows you don’t belong here Danny
Boy bye not even Mariah can score Mariah high notes. She sounds like a moaning cow which exactly what she is. Now SIT.
Gaga and Nicki are in the boat if you ask me both careers declining neither will be around in the next 5 years.
Congrats Nicki!
“The Crying Game” is so good!
With all that promo she still did less than J.Cole who had no promo. Smh. Flop
She still did more than Iggy’s 11,000. Deal with that.
Are you blind, stupid or both? No promo? You must have been in a cave without any signal
These are pretty solid numbers for Nicki I would say. It’s a pretty good album.
Meanwhile, I’ve been looking at year end list to get some recommendations and I can’t find a single critic list that mentions “The New Classic.” I thought Iggy fans said she was the Queen Of Rap.
Welp
LOL THAT’S BECAUSE CRITICS DON’T RECOMMEND FLOPS LOL.
Lmao
Lmao all the haters are pissed off. Look, y’all can try to downplay this but you’re only making yourselves look like the idiots that you are. Fact remains that not only did Nicki exceed predictions, she also now has one of the biggest first week sales of the year. 200K for a female rapper is unheard of in this current climate. Everyone is sore because despite all the buzz and one of the biggest singles of the year, iggy couldn’t even sell a fraction of that. Don’t even get me started on that plastic hasbeen Lil Kim lol. Face it, crybabies. Nicki is here to stay. Women lie, men lie, iggy stans lie, lol Kim stans lie, numbers don’t lie. Which means Nicki’s numbers will be even bigger once streaming is factored in. So continue seething and spinning kids. Sorry Nicki ruined your Christmas by winning LOL. Congrats Nicki!
NICKI MINAJ IS STILL THE QUEEN OF RAP!!!!
Poor Iggy tho.
Mariah Carey’s withcraft is finally coming together lol. Kidding.
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This album was promoted wrongly first of all but just like her fans say “she’s Nicki Minaj….. she’s a big deal” and I had to argue with one of her delusional stans saying “no one isn’t looking for J. Cole” (before he released the new album) why because he’s not trying to be a gimmick looking for controversy? It’s all about building on your “loyal fanbase.” And the albums songs were a little bit redundant.
#17k
I would rather my fav sell 17,000 than be served such a s*** album like ‘Only Human’. Aquarius has got acclaim from everywhere. Where’s Cheryl’s?
The irony is that only human got universal acclaim LOL
“Universal” LOL when maybe two ppl have heard or it
LMAO UGGLY WILL NEVER. EVER. LMAO GET IT NICKI!
You know I was going to give Nicki Minaj a chance cause I was starting to like her and seeing her on the Breakfast Club recently helped influenced that decision, however there was a link to Lil Kim and Fendi on the Breakfast Club and after seeing the interview, I have to say that I gotta side with Kim on this one.
LOL SO YOU’RE SEETHING ALONG WITH KIM TOO? LOL
No, not at all. It’s just her lack of respect. Not only just nicki but all these new ‘artist’ they lack respect and loyalty. That’s why music sucks as bad as it does now and why MAJORITY of these new artist cannot achieve longevity.
Fendi is seething because he hasn’t got as much money as he wants and is marketing Kim in COMPLETELY the wrong direction to reinforce the ‘beef’ which isn’t benefitting either of them. She should follow Nicki’s footsteps and leave Fugly Fendi’s a$$. Please don’t talk about respect because Nicki DID respect, show love etc but didn’t lick her a***
At the end of the day I nor anyone else can have an authentic say in the matter for none us were flies on the wall when the issue occurred. Pretty much every one and their mother has said that the music industry is a shady f-upped business; and for all we know it could be publicity stunt and or Kim and nicki could be best friends creating drama for checks. With the way media is now, nothing can or would surprise me.
LOL IGGY WHO?
AND I DON’T KNOW WHY Y’ALL ARE BRINGING UP J. COLE. IT’S NOT LIKE HE CAME OUT ON THE SAME DAY. AND HE DIDN’T SELL THAT MUCH MORE THAN NICKI IN HIS FIRST WEEK EITHER. SO TRY AGAIN LOSERS LOL.
J. Cole didn’t sell “much” more? The delusion. He sold 175K more first week with only three weeks of pure hype and no singles.
And how much more did your fav sell? Oh
And for all you people trying to downplay streaming, do you really think the record labels aren’t recouping some of the cost from companies like Spotify? The reason billboard modified their rules is because streaming affects the bottom line. Record labels and artist aren’t releasing music for free; deals are in place. Taylor Swift will probably will make several million from her deal with Spotify. Record companies are in the business of making money, billboard came up with that new formula for a reason.
Wait, people actually think that streaming is not money? Lol Spotify has to pay record labels for those streaming. That’s why it counts as sales. Why did they think it was free? Lordt hammery. Lettuce pray!
Taylor’s sales were wildly huge before the holiday season. She’s been that girl.. Wtf are u talking about? These sales are good in general.. She exceeded expectations.. She’s a female rapper.. Lol J.Cole sold nearly a 150k more than her. But that’s beside the point. These are actual sales too.. Not Streams !!
Lol Spotify is cheap.. They barely pay these artists..
Good numbers after all, it would be a shame if she really did less than 200K with 5 singles and almost a year’s worth of non-stop promo. I guess the black community came out for her after all with this Iggy thing going on.
A shame that her worldwide first week will probably be only 50K more.
Shut up you sideways a$$ HO. You can keep your backhanded compliments to yourself we don’t need them here!! There were 4 singles, 3 of which were successful in their own right. The black community (outside of Twitterverse) is not thinking about the Australian Southern Belle. She has NOTHING on Nicki Minaj as the numbers tell us all. NOW EAT THIS PU$$YY!
Its not bad. I was so ready to scream my lungs out.
You can still scream your lungs out at the worldwide sales!
And you can have several_/_/_/
Seats at what? The album only went top 10 in the U.S. It’s the truth.
@Rosie, Seats on the public bus ho. Pink Friday peaked at 16 in the UK and it still went Platinum…
Slay a bit sis, and notice how all the gaga fans are clinging to everyone but gaga.
don’t make me laugh
in a pre-Christmas week, those sales are poor
also she promoted the ish out of it, resorting to Nazi imagery on videos and getting her ass out at any opportunity
she’s a very talented rapper but she starting to annoy people
But what other albums are selling this much other than Taylor and Penatonix this week you act like she sold less than 100k
What part of a black female rapper makes you think Christmas? Christmas time wouldn’t truly help her but ok. The 2nd biggest female first-week & Hip-Hop first week is poor? LMAO! She hasn’t made any Nazi videos. Don’t start with that, take your issues up with the creator of the lyric video. The ACTUAL music video has NOTHING to do with that so try again. The only times you’ve seen her ass is Anaconda and her calendar. She doesn’t just get anything out….
And it’s not that she’s annoying people, well she is with her success, but the problem is the sad haters who have nothing better to do than hate and illegally download
It’s still disappointing tho. The promo was crazy. She was literally everywhere.
Wait isn’t this this second highest first week sales for a female in 2014… Slay
Did you just completely forget about Slaylor like that?
Taylor has the highest first week sales for a female and of 2014 period, and I think Nicki has the second highest first week sales for a female.
Oh, I see now.
I’ll see her drop next week before guessing her final sales. She might go gold in the US but I don’t see her doing 1 million worldwide anymore.
The biggest flop of all time.
LMAO. Chile…
Onika pls Boxing Day sales starts in 3 days time make sure you put pink flop on discount ASAP.
Why are album sales & chart positions so important to y’all? The artist should worry about that, not the fans. I can’t believe that people actually judge artists & their music based on their Billboard chart placements. Like, y’all won’t even listen to their song if it doesn’t chart high. Then, yall get on websites, like this one, to talk s*** about them… calling them flops, & comparing them to other artists. Why? Social media has a bad effect on the music business, because it’s filled with negativity. Y’all make hateful comments on what you don’t like, but don’t comment at all on what you do like. I don’t understand.
They’re “important” to me because I like to drag these hos
I predict she’ll sell 400k but the end of the year
She will go gold b4 Iggy & I can’t wait to read the excuses & meltdowns!!
@jaywan said that take away streams etc NICKI sold 160/ Check his tweets; he says the label lost over 2 mill on her.
No, he doesn’t even work for Universal. He’s backtracking to not let you guys realise his slip ups. First he said the prediction was 69K when it was clearly like 160K or whatever WITHOUT streaming. How could he not know that? How does a label lose money on first week sales, that makes NO SENSE? If that’s the case EVERY LABEL would lose money as people don’t go platinum in a week! Some people don’t even get platinum…
Nicki sold 200K+ in actual SALES! Since these numbers have come out, he’s silent. I wonder why…
Yall all a bunch of no life having idiots, especially if you engaged in an argument over a celebrity’s album sales. Hell you ain’t getting a cut!
Slaaaaaaaaay me for life sis. Not Nicki outselling the ‘Queen of Hip Hop’ aka Iggy ten times if not 100 times more. Those billboards, forbes, magazine must be sinking in their deep s*** of shame right now.
Let me get a couple of things straight:
The New Classic- released April 21, 2014
Reclassified (Re-release)- November 21, 2014
Total Sales= 429,000
The Pinkprint- released December 15, 2014- 9 Days of Sales
Total Sales= 201,000
Huh? How can this be tho?! Didn’t the Iggy fans keep telling us that she was the new Queen of Rap?!
LMAO!!! I love it!
*repeats* Win Again 😀
Congrats to Nicki! You can’t knock those numbers in 2014. I actually expected a higher total than 200K, but she still did better than a lot of artists releasing albums this year.
Congrats. Her album should be Gold by February.
Taylor is slaying everyone, this album is out performing my expectations for it. I never thought after 8 weeks, it’ll still be number 1
UPDATE THOTS: THE PINKPRINT DEBUTED WITH 251,000 SALES
First week sales dont say much. Dumb ass f*** that know nothing bout this s***, but hating and running ya disgusting mouth. 200k is a flop how? And next week it can sell more. Or over the cours of a few months. This is a mostly rap album it’s not gonna do big numbers right away. How the f*** is this a flop? Second highest selling rap album of the year.
LET THE LIES AND INACCURACY CONTINUE. NICKI MINAJ’S THE PINKPRINT ACTUALLY SCANNED 194,000 COPIES OF PURE ALBUM SALES EQUALING TO 244,000 UNITS INCLUDED WITH STREAMING ACCORDING TO BILLBOARD.COM
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6415137/taylor-swift-billboard-200-nicki-minaj
Well it wasn’t a lie actually, these were the only figures out at the time, and you guys treat HDD like gospel so… a couple thousand give or take, who actually cares. Taking all factors into consideration, her sales are still really good.