Cardi B‘s entire narrative has been about defying the odds and she’s set to add a major new chapter.
Because the sales estimates for her debut album ‘Invasion Of Privacy’ have been revised up – so much so that she’s on course to double a key metric.
Details below…
Per Hits Daily Double, Cardi’s predictions have been increased to:
215,000-225,000
[Sales Plus Streaming]
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90,000-100,000
[Pure Sales]
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The pure sales numbers represent a double increase on the initial estimations. A point noteworthy because physical copies of the ‘Privacy’ have yet to hit retail (until April 27th). Hence, sustained sales in the weeks to come seem a cert.
In the immediate though, Cardi is poised to deliver the second highest first week sales of 2018 (behind Justin Timberlake) and the best from a female artist.
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Cardi >>>>>> Nicki
Try again Nicki first LP 375k sans streaming. Pure sale.
That was so long ago the music climate is not the same
That’s a decade ago.
Like all the people here comparing Madonna‘s numbers in the 80ies to current artists. Times have changed
Taylor still sell, so does Kendrick, Drake and many other major artists in today’s market. You make excuses for your favorite, I get it. So how about we stick to fact.
Wow. HDD was way off on their first predictions!
I love Cardi B! Congrats mama you deserve this!
Gooooo Cardi!! 2018 is all hers!
But i thought it went Gold?!
The album is already certified gold but those numbers don’t count towards first week sales because they are from units of the digital single.
The RIAA is has its own rules and does a lot of dumb s*** nowadays.
And I was correct in the last when I said she would do over 200K sps! Bad bih Cardi and this album is a WHOLE bop! “I DO” FT. SZA is a CERTIFIED BOP!
#Facts!!!!
Smokes and mirrors
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Somebody betta SLAY DOWN lol #SlayvasionOfPrivacy #MetacriticCardi
So basically Atlantic saw her underperforming and bought the necessary amount to “prove the haters wrong”
No her Snl performance & Jimmy Fallon happen hater
Smart announcing her pregnancy and doing all that promo after the album is out. I dunno when the physical comes out but if you thought her 15 mins was long it’s about to be extremely longer. I can tell she is going the Rihanna longevity route which why it didn’t really matter when she decided to drop her album…she didn’t care about steam from Bodak Yellow when she low key knew she had another 12 bops in her hands.
What would be the point of that? LMFAO! Take a business class!
What would be the point of that? Sales are 99% propaganda
Ask why Samsung needed to buy a million copies of anti? Why not 25k? Why a million ?
Because she knew she wouldn’t sell a million albums so to get interest in the album UP
They convinced the public thisnis a New Hotly selling release
I mean everyone wants what’s doing well, right ?
Either way the label gonna get theirs in the end they don’t care if she ends up bankrupt personally
Congrats Cardi!!!!!
Well duh. She put all the songs from the album on the iTunes top 100, the original 40k predictions were just stupid
I’m so happy for Cardi. I have listened to her album 3 times now and I love. Best female album of 2018 so far.
Honestly I think artist who’s names have weight behind them could sell a lot more physical copies if they only released physical for the first three weeks or so and encouraged sales by traveling to stores to sign copies bought (no signing posters, boobs, or hands) only copies. People will go to the store to buy event albums if that’s the only way they can get em. Then you can add digital purchases and streaming later.
Only real issue is getting an established artist nowadays to want to put in that work like the artist of the past used to do.
That wouldn’t work at all because people would just upload the album online anyway. That’s the whole reason physical album sales decreased in the first place.
I don’t think it would for newer artist but for your Beyoncé’s and Adele’s it’s already worked in a way. If Adele or Beyoncé released their next album physically first I guarantee she’d see the most physical copies sold in a day/week in a long time. Hell they both didn’t allow their newest albums to be streamed just sold and people bought them even when they could’ve just stolen them.
Nicki is shook
Card I is hot right now. I wanted too hate on the album but I can’t because it is good
That’s sad you wanting to hate on something without giving it a chance. What a sad soul, but looking at you in your avatar, I get it….
That’s a very ugly thing to say. Seriously why tf would you say that to him? He didn’t attack you personally or anything.
The album is still trash…. Cardi B’s nursery rhymes… and you idiots are raving over these simple ass barz…lol
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Actually that could work. She is selling this without the physical sales. Physical sales are higher than digital sales. She could have easily sold around 150-180k if she had pure sales. Physical sales will really help with her overall album sales. She has so many hit singles on this album. Event albums can do great things with the proper set up. Artists should just release their singles to streaming services, that way you can probably muster more sales out of the album. Just release it to streaming services when it’s convenient too. It’s a lot of strategic ways to release an album now. But physical albums still carry a lot of weight when it comes to actual albums. These numbers are very good for her…
She’s making her journey count, I’ll buy a few singles…?
Cardi only wins with streams………….. if you look at her sales it comes from streams (i know many other artist to) but hers like 80 percent are from streams
You must have failed basic maths. How is 100k of 225k 80% sis? Lol
GOOD JOB.
Hip/Hop has returned. Now we need real R/B and do away with the same old b*******….