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.
doesnt change the fact that the album was a huge disappointment quality wise and commercially whether barbz admit it or not
Sam stop reporting on this tacky ass flop b****.
STILLL SHITTTING ON ON YO BIG FLOP WIDENOSE ASS.. GET A LIFE!!! I’M ONLY HERE FOR SUCCESS!!
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.!
i swear this f****** site just looks for news to uplift nicki minaj and news to downplay rihanna. get a f***** life u idiots at thatgrapejuice. ur articles are very biased!
its like this website doesnt have anthing good to report. so u look for all s*** 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!
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 …
even in nickis mixtape days she is average.
she has not made a classic album or mixtape like you think she has
LMAO! You sound really stupid right now! #RealSHIT
No one cares about this b****
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.
@rdk f*** you
U STILL HERE UGLY F***… SHE SHITS ON LIL C** STAIN
Yal quit hating just cuz Roman Reloaded sucks, Pink Friday is still a great album!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don’t downplay what this fake b**** did the first time around!!! What’s that song, “Save Me” that’s my s***!!!!!
So barbz should be sooo excited her metacritic score increased?I Cant with this site and irrelevant posts..METACRITIC SCORE,REALLY???
Why did you even click the button to read the post!?
Because it was on the website, goofy b****.
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.
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!
This b**** is STILL a superFLOP and her p**** stink
HOW MANY ACCOUNTS U MAKE TO LIKE THAT ONE COMMENT, UGLY D***
ALBUM WAS #1
PLATINUM
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED
3 GRAMMY NOMS FIRST YEAR OUT
CAN YOUR FAVE??
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!
Revised Score? Platinum Certification after 550K? Almost 12 singles this era?
NO WORDS!
her label are FRAUDS. this is unfair to artists who sold like 800k 900k and arent platinum while this flop b**** got a certification after 550k. disgusting
Rihanna is at 987k and still has no certification.
RIHANNA IS A H** FLOP
THE ALBUM IS PLATINUM !! PERIOD!!
RIAA DOESN’T LIE F*** U MAD UR FAVES CANT DO IT?
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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
She is a definition of a TRASH superstar. Female FloRida. Pocorn music. Talent… NO!
CHING CHONG MEOW NO ONE CARES, C****.. SIT YO ASS DOWN & GO WATCH POKEMON F***
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.
Co-sign.
W****
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.
C***
B****
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 f****** 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 b**** 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 B**** 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!
^^ SHITTING ON BFLOPSE WHERES HER COMMERCIAL?? ENDORSMENTS?? AMERICAN IDOL??? 8 MIL CAN YOUR FAVE DO IT???
Wow soooo impressive *sarcasm*
#DEAD
Grow up…your comments, your language, everything….uggghhhhh
Extremelypressed suvk my fivk u w****
Or sould I just say F*** YOU B****
KEEP DYING AS THEM T CELLS DECLINE, F***…
No one cares. Has this platinum certified album hit 700k in the US yet? FLOP
ITS PLATINUM, UGLY D*** nickieleaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Nicki-Minaj-RIAA-nickieleaks.png
DEAL!!!FACTS ONLY ALLOWED ON THIS SIDE, UGLY!!
Still one of the best selling albums this year! Id don’t give a f*** what a hater got to say Nicki WINNING! Watch her take over the world h**! HAHAHA!
So the after 6 singles and being certified platinum….
overbaring promotional push touring in the u.s and uk
being featured on a s*** 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
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!
SHE MAD SHE STANS FOR KIM.. SHES NEVER COMING BACK ,, UGLY!!!EVER EVER EVERRRRRRR [/TAYLOR SWIFT, LOL]
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
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.
YESSSS! PREACH! These haters need to GTFO
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 b****. If she wanted to do a pop record she should have just DONE A DANCE RECORD. She’s a fake ass b**** trying to milk the coins out of her black fans by putting out s***** 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 s***** 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?
WHAT THE F*** IS BEYSIC, UGLY??? U STAY COMMENTING STOP LOOGGING INTO YOUR GHOST ACCOUNTS TRYING TO DIMINISH THE QUEEN
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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?……….
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!!!
Okay, I’m going to need all these haters to get a f****** 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 $$$$