Though faring better worldwide holistically than it is in the US, last month saw Nicki Minaj’s ‘Pink Friday : Roman Reloaded‘ certified Platinum for shipments of 1 million copies.
Prompted by the rise in its demand- following the launch of her world tour and the release of the smash hit single ‘Pound The Alarm’, the LP’s certification received somewhat of a promo boost last night when the Rapper was awarded with its plaque.
In the above snap, Cash Money exec Baby can be seen presenting Minaj with the Platinum plaque during a showing of her tour in the Southern city of New Orleans.
Her response below…
Amen > RT @MiNAJ_my_STAR: RT @ItsKenUCunts: RT @teamminajCaLiii: @NICKIMINAJ Not 1 But 2 Platinum Albums God Is Good!!!
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) July 28, 2012
Though a tad premature, ‘Reloaded’s Platinum status only serves as a testament to Minaj’s growing craze.
For as any retailer would agree, outlets will only request LPs if they have good reason to believe they will sell- and sell fast.
This, despite its so so US sales, is the reason ‘Reloaded’ was awarded with the plaque despite being a cool 400,000 copies away from actually selling a million copies.
However, while the above may be used to criticize Minaj, it does little to change the fact that she is- save for Lauryn Hill– is one of the fastest selling Femcees in chart history.
Selling more units worldwide in two years than Rap Queen Lil Kim has sold in fifteen.
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all stan gibberish aside, i genuinely believe that cash money are over-shipping the albums. this hasnt surpassed 600k yet its platinum? then fame, ttt, and other s***** albums should all be platinum.
and lil wayne sold 964k in a week with carter 4, yet it got terrible reviews and it never had as much buzz as carter 3 did.
THE THING IS… THERE’S NO PROOF. WHEN SOMEONE CAN FIND ME A COPY OF THE SOUNDSCAN I WILL EAT MY WORDS… EVERY ONE IS SCREAMING “ITS ONLY SOLD 600K) BUT SHE HAS 3 SINGLES LEFT, SOUNDSCAN CANNOT TALLY ITUNES (WHICH NICKI HAS A SIGNIFICANT PRESENCE OF) NOT TO MENTION EVERY MILLION SINGLES SOLD COUNTS AS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ALBUMS … GO LISTEN TO NICKI’S FLEX INTERVIEW…. RIAA AS WELL AS BILLBOARD SAYS IT’S PLATINUM… WHY WOULD THEY LIE???
Billboard 200: #32(+9) @NickiMinaj, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded 10,500 (588,600 total).
Globally:
WW sales: @NickiMinaj, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded 24,000 (1,017,000).
lets not get ahead of ourself the b**** is a f****** flop…
im still team minaj!
waits for pound the alarm video
WHAT EXACTLY IS SHE WINNING?
flop of the year? ohh sorry thats CB
#PoorDat
I guess what’s not understood is that the retailers are the ones who orders the 1 or 2 million copies from the label at lot box prices and then the retailer upsells the album at retail price at the outlet. So the album is bought and sold regardless. So yes the album shipped over a million copied b/c of demand and purchase by the retailer. It’s not a flop. It’s bought and paid for.
Girl don’t respond to that f** @haterzstaypressed. he shas yet to show me proof not some flop figure factors he wrote!!!
@HATERZSTAYPRESSED THANK U!!!! WHY WOULD A RETAILER PAY FOR ALBUMS TO BE SHIPPED THAT THEY COULDN’T SELL?? SO I GUESS WALMART &TARGET (THE LARGEST MUSIC RETAILERS) ARE CONSPIRING WITH NICKI TO TAKE OVER THE INDUSTRY???? U F*** ARE PRESSED OVER THE QUEEN….
i bet lil kim is so mad right now…
I bet ur mum is mad she gave birth to u HAHA
LOL I BET YOU COMMENTED, SO SHE GOT U TIGHT!!! BYE F**!!! no more comments i’ve given you enough credit!! GOOD DAY!!
Kim got 4 platinum albums.Nicki got 2.
kim has 3 platinum albums
Kim has 4 u b****
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq8tK1rGpog
your flop ass fav could never !!!
OK GIRL WE’RE NOT HERE FOR THE ACOUSTIC OF THAT HORSE!!! NEXT >>>
but why you mad tho..NICKI WILL NEVER BE BETTER THAN BEYONCE #KNOWTHIS #REREADIT #WRITEITDOWN #TAKEASNAPSHOT #BOOKMARKIT DO WHATEVER YOU GOTTA DO TO REMEMBER THIS.. and ya moms prolly got more house features anyway tell that h** i say hayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Maggot why u all up in the queens thread??
I guess She happy,, good 4 her…#Congrats
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JOKE OF THE YEAR, THEY ARE RIDICULOUS OVER AT YMCB, THEY’RE NOT FOOLING ANYONE ABOUT THAT FLOP.
A BIGGER JOKE THAN A NO LIFE LOSER COMMENTING IN EVERY NICKI THREAD WITH HATE??
SPEAK ON IT , SPEAK ON IT BABE, SHE’S A FLOP ! U’LL GET OVER IT BOO BOO 😉
COLDSTUFF GET YOUR BIGNOSE ASS OFF MY POST!! I’M SPEAKING FACTS! nO TIME FOR U FALSE PROPHETS!! KEEP IT MOVING, UGLY!!
they are all so OVERRATED.
this album is gold, it should not be certified platinum until it sells atleast 950k. less than 600k after nearly 4 months? FLOP.
THAT SAME THING SHOULD APPLY TO BEYONCE’S CAMP… THEY’VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS, NOTHING NEW!! THE ALBUM WILL SELL PLAT. SOONER OR LATER WHY Y’ALL SO MAD???? LOL WHY DONT YOU PETITION FOR H**-ANNA TO GET HER ALBUMS PAID FOR???
Another day with this f*****, FAGRELOADED. *sigh* Why do Nicki stans always bring up other artists when the topic of her flopped ass sales comes up?
Yet ANOTHER post with Lil’ Kim slander when she has nothing to do with it. Sam, Nicki is not the only female rapper to receive a Platinum plaque.. just saying.
Also, Lil’ Kim has platinum plaques, so why would she be mad at Nicki?
BECAUSE SHE DOESN’T WANT NICKI TO WIN…. SHE CLAIMED SHE COULD “END” HER CAREER. READ THE UGLY B****’S TWEETS… LOL I THOUGHT SHE WAS GONNA “ERASE HER SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER???” FAT CHANCE….
B**** UR ALBUM AINT EVEN PLATINUM YET GET A MUTHUERFUKINC GRIP U FOOL
INFACT HAVE A SEAT ON UR INDUSTRIAL CONCRETE ASS
THAT EXPLAINS WHY THE PLAQUE IS… #BYE HATER A
lil kim was out a time when albums were not selling. I fyou remmeber tupac he and biggie and others they never really sell albums. Tosay is a different era for new artist with different record labels helping them out with so much money and promotion and encouraging so much gimmicks above all talent. sad but true.
Birdman just want to prove something, why he never give that to drake or lil wayne than sell so much first week……….blanl stare
ACTUALLY, HUN.. ALBUMS SOLD WAYYYY LONGER IN THE 90S. WHICH IS WHY KIM, AN ARTIST WITHOUT A #1 DEBUT COULD SELL PLATINUM IN THE FIRST PLACE DO YOU THINK THAT D*** SUCKING GIMMICK WOULD FLY IN THIS GENERATION??????
CONGRATS
BUT LIL KIM HAS 1 (2X PLATINUM), 2 PLATINUM ALBUM,
SECONDLY NICKI U.S SALES DECLINED DRASTICALLY, THE OVERSEAS MARKET MADE UP SORT OF FOR IT.
THIRD, SHE FINALLY SELLS PLATINUM WW, BUT IT’S A FAR CRY FROM SELLING 3 MILLION ALL AROUND THE 1ST TIME.
FOURTH, SHE NEEDS TO GET AMERICANS BACK ON HER SIDE, OR SHE WILL BECOME AN OVERSEAS ARTIST.
KIM WOULD NEVER BE MAD, IT SEEMS LIKE NICKI & YMCMB TO SAY “SEE, TOLD YOU WE DIDN’T FLOP”, BUT NOT TELLING THE WHOLE STORY.
What whole story f**?? The best woman won already! She used to be here’re now she gone NAIR!! LOLOLOL
OH YEAH NOTORIOUS K.I.M SOLD PLATINUM IN 36 DAYS.
YEA THATS REAL EASY TO DO IN AN ERA WHEN MOST ALBUMS WERENT DOWNLOADED ONLINE FOR FREE LIKE NOW.. LET’S SEE HOW MUCH KIM SELLS THIS GO ROUND NOW IN THE NEW AGE
WHO REMEMBERS THAT ALBUM???? U MEAN THE ONE WHERE SHE SANG TECHNO?? I THOUGHT THAT TYPE OF MUSIC WASN’T HIPHOP?? WHERE ARE YOU F*** STANDARDS??? U WANNA HATE WHEN THE QUEEN GIVES U “STARSHIPS” BUT KIM CLAIMS TO HAVE “DONE IT FIRST” SO………..
THIS IS A MEGA FAIL! JUST LOL!
UR LIFE??? WHAT.A.FLOP.
HONESTLY, I DON’ TTHINK LIL’ KRIMINAL DESERVED A SPOT IN THIS POST… I’M NOT ARGUING WITH THESE F****** TODAY
SECONDLY, 600,000 COPIES WERE SOLD IN JUNE!!! IMA NEED Y’ALL TO LOOK AT SOUNDSCAN HER ALBUM JUMPED FROM 44 TO 31 WITHIN THE LAST WEEK. SHE HAS TO BE AT ATLEAST 800,000 OVER 4 WEEKS LATER… Y’ALL STAY PRESSED.. THE QUEEN IS HERE TO STAY ! 2 X PLAT BABY!!!!!!! ROMAN RE-SLAYAGE!!!!
nope not when she sells 10k & under every week shes at
Billboard 200: #32(+9) @NickiMinaj, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded 10,500 (588,600 total).
Globally:
WW sales: @NickiMinaj, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded 24,000 (1,017,000).
lets not get ahead of ourself the b**** is a f****** flop…
im still team minaj!
waits for pound the alarm video
U SOUND BITTER!!! U HAVE YET TO PROVIDE A LINK FOR YOUR SOURCE!! STOP TYPINGFAKE INFO! !! BYE HATER!!
& PS NICE TRY, F***!! SHE’S NOT EVEN 32 THIS WEEK!! WHERE ARE YOUR FIGURES FROM?? CAUGHT IN A LIE?? TROLLOP, THE ALBUM IS #31 KEEP UP!!
Fafreloaded…u stoopid. 32 31 the b**** still as big a flop as yo momma, h**
****SIPS PEPSI AS THE QUEENS COMMERCIAL PLAYS****
nope not when she sells 10k & under every week shes at
Billboard 200: #32(+9) @NickiMinaj, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded 10,500 (588,600 total).
Globally:
WW sales: @NickiMinaj, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded 24,000 (1,017,000).
lets not get ahead of ourself the b**** is a f****** flop…
im still team minaj!
waits for pound the alarm video
GET OFF MY D*** B**** ANDY!!!! LOL
SAM IS THE BEST LOL
OFCOURSE HE IS… HE HAS A SITE THAT MAKES HIM MONEY UNLIKE THESE HATER F** TROLLS!!! HE WILL KEEP POSTING NICKI NEWS & THEY WILL KEEP GAGGING… LOL
Okay
But…your album isnt even close to selling 1 mill so how could you be happy? Pullin in 8k a week will take you a longggg time to reach that mill. That album was over shipped and the retailers will be sending it back.
preach!!!!!
THE B**** AND HER LABEL REACHING!
NICKI KNOWS SHE A FLOP AFTER HER TOUR WATCH HER EMPIRE FALL!
F** go off! Nicki winning so u haters is mad hahahaha 2 platinum albums gag the queen got. 3 more left!! more we’re that came from!!
The thing is Female rappers don’t sell? Ask them other h*** its an accomplishment for a female rapper
I’ll ask Lil Kim, Missy, Eve, Lauryn Hill, & other females rappers who went platinum with competition. How does it feels?
Im not here for statistics from 1982!! Its 2012!!
Don’t blame Nicki cause she has no competition, those other b****** are afriad to compete with her cause they will get washed!
Shipments doesn’t equal sales.
that what most of the BARFZ fail to understand.
RIAA IS WHAT MATTERS… http://www.riaa.com/newsitem.php?content_selector=riaa-news-gold-and-platinum&news_month_filter=7&news_year_filter=2012&id=1CEE0D5D-39E6-020A-0151-0377FF2E3D51&searchterms=nicki%20minaj&terminclude=&termexact=
I think that’s what they fail to understand. RIAA certiifed it so it paltinum. That’s the way ALL other albums were certified, even their fave. Did they think Kim’s NKIM sold a milli in 2 months? No baby it shipped a milli.
It’s very pointless to keeping posting that link because shipments are irrelevant if you don’t have the actual consumer album sales to back it up.
congratz nicki keep doing you.
So that plaque is for what she sold WW because we know she isn’t platinum in America.
When you’renum. 1 in over 18 countries it’s easy to go plat! Eat it d***!!!puke!
What’s the obsession with being platinum in America? Are all other countries not significant? Its plat in America and Plat worldwide and you will deal!
Billboard 200: #32(+9) @NickiMinaj, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded 10,500 (588,600 total).
Globally:
WW sales: @NickiMinaj, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded 24,000 (1,017,000).
lets not get ahead of ourself the b**** is a f****** flop…
im still team minaj!
waits for pound the alarm video
WHAT EXACTLY IS SHE WINNING?
flop of the year? ohh sorry thats CB
#PoorDat
Ugly f** who brought up cb??? No one is reponding bc we aren’t here for that essay u wrote!!! U will not get shine off the queen!!
Pink Friday: 2.500.000 copies WW(in less than 2 yrs)/ Pink Friday:Roman Reloaded: 1.017.000 copies WW(in 4 months) . U can’t deny that she’s WINNING !!
NO ONE IS F****** WITH THE QUEEN!!
If you mean the Queen of flops than yes she is the Queen 😀
So what…it will NEVER go 4x Platinum as did Cash Money’s best-selling disc…that would be 400 DEGREEZ.
Birdman needs to drop these pop acts and make Cash Money about NEW ORLEANS HIP-HOP again!
FREE BG
FREE TURK
REJUVENATION IN STORES NOW
CRUEL SUMMER (WITH FRESH’S BEATS) SEPTEMBER 4
We aren’t here for that ghetto trash bG AND turk are in jail where they belong!! LOL
Hahahahahaha!!! All I can do is laugh at this bafoonery. ANYONE can go platinum now, seriously, You got the money to over-ship an album and boom. Industry’s a f*ckin joke.
Have u had enough onika f**??? Why u keep commenting? Po thing.. Ms onika got ur pea brain…
The real irony is your dumbass really thinks Onika give a sh*t about your ass and you protesting for her is really doing anything..Po thing f**..
F*** I DIDN’T READ THAT EITHER BUT I WILL SAY THIS… AS LONG AS U KEEP TYPING FOR ME, I WILL LIVE VICARIOUSLY THROUGH YOUR KEYBOARD, SILLY FLOP.. NOW KEEP TROLLING FOR THE QUEEN.. U GIVE HER COMMENT SECTION 6 FIGURES LIKE HER ALBUM SALES, F***!!! NEXT >>
…..Is it that serious to you? For real? Lol!!! I forgot its the weekend and ghetto c*** inmates are allowed access to computers for a bit…
Its killing ya that she’s winning right? Lol it makes me happy to know that my fave is winning and winning and winning and eating up the haters. Stay pressed!
Exactly.
YAAAAAAAS !!
But the album isn’t even NEAR being platinum. After all that hype, her sales are p*** poor. The label is losing money by having those 400,000 copies sitting on store shelves. Shipments do not equal sales. Lil Kim already has gone platinum with 2 different albums based on Sales so Nicki is still the loser in this race.
Stay pressed MAGGOT!! WHAT FEMALES DOING NUMBERS THIS ERA BUT. THE QUEEN?? RIAA GOT HER SELLING PLAT. CAN UR FAVE TOUR WORLDWIDE AND GET STANDING OS? ???
hahaha you know I’m right!
all you wrote is an OPINION, f***! not statistics! HERE! nickieleaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Nicki-Minaj-RIAA-nickieleaks.png
I hope her next album is classic! She should do 2 disc, 1 Pop & 1 Hip-Hop, but congratz to Nicki. That approach will make a more noticeable divide in her music.
I haven’t completely given up on Nicki, i do believe she has potential for greatness! She just needs to polish her sound, tone down her look and go back to being raw like she use too.
Nicki Minaj stil has a lot of singles she can release from PF:RR and she is on tour which will surely boost the album sales. She still has time to push the album and to be honest, I don’t see it ending with 1 Million by the end of the year.
Though I’m a Nicki Minaj fan, I think PF:RR only target one segment of her fan-base whereas ignoring her other fan-base. She needs to pull it back to PF which targeted a diverse group of her fan-base. Here’s hoping the third album does that. Good effort anyway.
U know U flopped when you try your hardest desperately to prove you are not a flop.
LOOKS @ AVI………. OK
@FAF *Dead*
hum … U’re talking about Madonna , huh , cause .. I think Nic knocked her off #1 !!
MadonnaHas A Gold Album. She Has Nothing ago Prove.
Madonna Has A Diamond Album. She Has Nothing To Prove. Stupid Ass Spell Check.
Lol she should be receiving a gold plaque.. 588,000 records is gold NICKI not platinum. hahahahahahahah you are pressed to show how much you are “winning”. My biggest question is how come you and you “idiot barbz” brag about your popularity and 13,000,000 twitter followers, but miss thing CAN’T even get 1,300,000 which is ONLY 10% of her twitter following “barbz” to buy that album WORLDWIDE… hunny cause your music is trash, duh! Honey ur only on your 2nd crappy album and ur doing it like Madonna is 30 yrs into her career, making money off of live appearances, NOT music.. Lol! once your fans reach puberty and decide its time to not listen to nursery rhymes anymore it’ll only leave you with the cunty f***, shaniquas and trannies who all try and emulate u but child YOU know they burning your cd.. #Sorry
LOL!!! Absolutely! And “how come you and you “idiot barbz” brag about your popularity and 13,000,000 twitter followers, but miss thing CAN’T even get 1,300,000 which is ONLY 10% of her twitter following “barbz” to buy that album WORLDWIDE.” That is the f*ckin question we all want an answer too. And the Shaniquas and trannies is all she seems to have now judging by these stans on TGJ… #iCant
hum she sold 1,0,17,000 copies of PF:RR!! In only 4 MONTHS !! 😉 .. It seems like u’re MAD !! 😉
thats worldwide which isnt sayin much… I’m more mad that 11,983,000 “barbz” havent purchased the album YET.. Wait, she’s probably a lil bit more mad about that than me though hahahahahahahah
Live appearances is what ALL artistes make most of their money, not album sales. You b****** need to be schooled. Ask RiRi and Bey
This is a joke but when u sale ur soul on national tv then u reap the illuminati rewards.
PF:RR SOLD 1,017,000 copies WW in ONLY 4 months .F*** y’all haters who used to call it a flop , its clearly not a flop ,B**** !
that is considered a flop boo… with all th emoney they put into her marketing etc etc thats really not much of ANYTHING especially since that is worldwide.. pretty bad
SIKE! That’s not considered a flop boo, not selling 1,017,00 would have been a flop. Stop the hate and keep it moving.
When you figure in the cost of her videos and the cost of her entourage, lawyers, PR and the cost of costumes,wigs, housing traveling expenses and all other lavish regular life expenses and cosmetic procedures/upkeep etc etc etc and minus it from the measly 1,000,000 and something copies that have sold presently is hardly a success boo whats being put out is far out weighing what is being brought it, so PSYCH urself DAHLING! Flop
YMCMB are buying albums that b**** aint even 600k yet look at Wiki RIHANNA HAS SOLD 900+ in usa and she aint plat
Wait so Lil Nicki Minaj Kim Stefani Gaga has 13,000,000 followers on twitter right who she calls “the barbz” but can’t even sell 1,ooo,ooo in the states and only 400, 000 elsewhere in the world split up between asia, europe, australia and all the other places she claims she is “doin the damn thing” in. So that means with the 1,017,000 copies she HAS sold WORLDWIDE (US and EVERYWHERE ELSE combined) then 11,983,000 of those “barbz” STILL havent copped that cd.. hmmm i’d be tight, how you following me but you can’t even buy my cd? hahahahahaha hey at least she could fantasize, if every person who followed her on twitter bought her cd her cd would have sold as much as Mariah Carey’s “Daydream” (US Sales), but then again Mariahs an actual true talent, not a clone, so I guess that is just what Nicki woould have to be doing to ever fathom that feet, DAYDREAM! Lol next thing you know Baby gon be presenting Nicki with a BIGGEST SELLING ARTIST of all time awards, hahahahahahahahahah!
Unless you just woke up from a coma after taking an interstellar trip on the Prometheus spaceship you probably noticed that Adele has been killing it on the charts this year. In fact, at the mid-way point of 2012, according to Nielsen SoundScan the singer’s unstoppable 21 , which came out in the beginning of 2011, is the best seller of 2012 so far.
Through the sales week ending on July 1, Nielsen SoundScan reports that the disc has sold 3.69 million copies, making it the only disc this year that has sold more than one million. Wayyyy behind is the year’s surprise #2, veteran R&B singer Lionel Richie’s country duets album Tuskegee (912,000), followed closely by One Direction’s Up All Night (899,000), a greatest hits collection from the late Whitney Houston (818,000) and the NOW 41 hits compilation (714,000).
Rounding out the top 10: Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (602,000), Luke Bryan, Tailgates & Tanlines (575,000), Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (557,000), Drake, Take Care (549,000) and Adele’s debut, 19 (539,000). Other notable albums in the top 20 include: Justin Bieber, Believe (#12, 490,000), Madonna’s MDNA (#13, 484,000), Black Keys, El Camino (#16, 424,000) and Rihanna’s Talk That Talk (#17, 424,000).
What am I reading? Are you guys telling me that Birdman presented her a platinum plaque and she only sold 600k albums in the US. That is totally embarrassing. I guess Flex’s comments to her at Summer Jam really got under her skin. That’s funny as hell. She desn’t have anything to proves. Gold is successful. But I guess compared to her last album it is a failure. People can only take gimmicks for so long. Substances always rules. Nicki Minaj in my opinion is a sell out.
Throwing other artists names into other artists posts is tacky. The Lil Kim thing has been played out. Find a new gig already. You could speak about Nicki’s success without bringing Lil Kim into the mix. This site can be very low budget.
Plaques for albums that are not platinum…LOOOOOOL…that is crazy….
YMCMB is so lame….LOOOOOL
nicki SHIPS platinum and they get happy…when she SELLS platinum then give her the plaque…
“Selling more units worldwide in two years than Rap Queen Lil Kim has sold in fifteen.”
Do you see the b******* you are spewing forth. Never did Nicki outsell Kim, maybe a few singles of Nicki’s did well…But none of Nicki’s albums outsold Kim’s. Come on grapejuice, get ya s*** together. Also, Kim old sold every rap b**** that was in the game at the time. And there was quite a few. So stop all the shade! it’s getting ridiculous! Nicki has no type of competition running against her so of course she gonna think she da s***. Let’s see Nicki do these numbers when there are about 5-6 rap b****** in the game.