As Azealia Banks continues to plot the release of her debut album, Iggy Azalea swims towards record-setting glory today, after her debut LP topped iTunes USA‘s album tally!
Why the rapper now finds herself on her way to making chart history with the album?
Find out below…
After hitting the market at midnight (April 22nd), Azalea’s ‘The New Classic’ hopped, skipped and jumped to #1 on iTunes USA, outselling each and every single release currently on the chart.
Pushed by its latest single ‘Fancy’, the project’s rise to the top now puts Iggy on the right track to setting a record set to make her the envy of many a lady lyricist.
Indeed, if ‘Classic’ succeeds in topping the Billboard 200 next week, the star will become the first female MC to see an album debut at #1 since Nicki Minaj’s ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded‘ did so in 2012.
Though unlikely to match or better opening week figures scored by Minaj‘s ‘Reloaded (253,000)’ or its predecessor ‘Pink Friday (375,000)’, ‘Classic’ would best efforts made by the likes of Lil Kim, Eve and Trina if it does what LPs from the aforementioned failed to and top the tally, with none of their discographies boasting a US #1 album.
Put simply, topping the ‘200’ would see the ‘Fancy’ beauty destroy Minaj‘s current position as the only Rap belle to own a chart-topping debut since Lauryn Hill‘s ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.’
Think that will happen?
Her music is trash but congrats to her ! Her success shpws that Nic rlly managed to save female rap. But i dont think she will break Nic’s record… she only has 1 hit. But who knows..
Stay pressed sis, Iggy is coming for Nicki’s wig and even David The Barb knows it.
Good luck selling 90k.
Good luck selling 100k.
Better yet, good luck selling just as much as Nicki’s LOWEST first week sales sister. Good luck!
What record is she breaking . Lauryn was the first one to do it , then Nicki did it , so if anything she would be equalling the record not breaking it.
No babe, right now Nicki is the ONLY one since Lauryn to it, so if Slayzelea gets a number Nicki won’t be the only one anymore and so that would be the record she’d break. #Queen #ItWillHappen #ItsIggysTimeNow
That’s not how records work. You have to be the first to do it, or you have to o it more successfully. She’s matching a record with 2 other people. Lauryn Hill broke the record by being the first to do it, Nicki and Iggy just matched it.
Actually, it was Lauryn then foxy brown them eve before Nicki.
It’s a cute little Pop, EDM, trap album with lyrics about making it. Not really a classic but it’s a solid effort. TNC pre-order sales are going to help out a lot. No shade, I’m proud of her. I remember when Ignorant Art came out and nobody I knew , knew about her. I had to put them on, now she’s so commercial.
Omg this is true.
This was the site that introduced me to Iggy when she released P****. I remember seeing all the haters saying she could never make it. Now What.
Omfg same for me. David kept talking about her on twitter so I youtubed her and found PUY.
The irony is that he dragged her when we found out she was racist so…
Poor Nicki, her time is up.
Delusional. Hmm ure probably a lil kim fan.
sadly i agree with you. And I feel sorry for black women cos now NO black woman is ever gonna get siged as a rapper. They have wanted a white girl to take over hip hop for awhile now.
David only did this post because he know it will never happen. He’s BEEN Team Minaj and that’s the way it will stay.
You are so f****** pressed b****, BiasedVid is the one who introduced me to Igster YEARS ago so what has TM got to do with anything.Iggy gave them an interview, did Flopnika? No the f*** she did not so it’s clear to see who appreciates them more.
If you’re debating about who he loves more between Iggy and Nicki you can stop now. The only one he and Sam really care about is Rita.
So, were going to sit here and act like IGGY doesn’t have her album on sale for $ 9.99, we all know thats’s what’s help her chart! Nicki doesn’t put her albums on sale! While IGGY, GAGA, KATY, MILEY etc always put the album on “sale” to gain sales?! YONCE and NICKI would never!
I see! So that’s why it’s number one? Looooool. Poor thing is so desperate to beat Nicki it’s sad.
It will happen!
Not only is TNC #1 on iTunes 3 different versions of the album is in the top 30 of the iTunes 200 albums
#1 is the Explicit Deluxe …
#28 is the the Clean Deluxe
and #83 is the standard edition…
Iggy is slaying iTunes at present.
Fancy #12 on singles Change your life ft TI is 160… can we say I’m soooo FANCY?
Ooops what kind of slayage? She’s trending on here too. Bai bai Nicki.
My ass forgot that it was TGJ who put me onto her when I was in middle school, s*** time has flown by like a m***********.
Iggy was their Rita before Rita came out then they stopped featuring her altogether when those old tweets resurfaced lol.
Can you f****** not with those OLD tweets from centuries ago, she clearly didn’t mean what she said.
She could nevah.
She wishes she could.
Did Iggy’s name just get put in same sentence as Lauryn Hill’s name??
Lauryn sold over 400,000 copies in the first week.
Lauryn’s album has sold over 18 million worlwide
& over 7 x platinum in the US alone.
Please don’t mention Iggy in the same sentence as Lauryn Hill until she sells over 16 millions copies of this album. OK!!!
SAM,
Rita WHORa single has also been released in the USA AND IT is struggling to break into the top 100. LOL LOL LOL
You’ll eat your words b****.
No I all not. I stan for Rih Rih and we all know WHO TEH F*** RIH RIH IS.
YOUR h** has a a lot of hard work trying to do what RIH CAN DO IN 5 MINS. I JUST LOOKED AT ITUNES CHART, STILL to in top 100 . BY noW RIH WOULD BE MUMBER 1
Nicki Minaj debut album went #1 but it did NOT debut at #1! There’s a difference!
Good luck Iggy!
Be real, if Iggy doesn’t get to number one in her first week she never will with this album. Nicki’s hype was real and she had the GP on her side which is why her sales kept rising. Iggy only has a small fan base and is actually depending on preorders.
Whether it hits #1 or not Lauryn Hill will still be the only one of those three with an actual CLASSIC #1 record. Much rather have a classic under my belt than an “I debuted @ #1” type of thing tbh.
Wow … she’s really happening 😀
Grats!
Well done to her.
However TGJ act as if chart positions = quality.
Kim, Foxy, Eve, Trina etc. debut albums were all better than iggy’s.
Eve and Trina’s debuts weren’t better then Iggy’s in any way shape or form. Foxy’s was decent but Kim’s was a classic.
Congratz Iggy! She’s about to slay for female rap.
Ummmm ok so why are the iggy fans calling nicki a flop lol lets not forget the fact that nicki´s latest single went gold. And iggy would wish to sell over 375k first week. But congratz to her.
??? icki IS a flop tho
Yeah right! Frozen will probably be #1 again for a few more weeks.
This post isn’t entirely true. Eves first album topped the billboard 200 when I was released.stop marginalizing someone’s success to make them look more successful then they really are.
and Kim’s Notorious Kim topped the charts. and kelly price was number 2 on the 200 that week. stop reahn sam bfo i rrreach thru this net and slap the sh!t outta u!
Kims never had a numer one album. I lover her but she hasn’t
The PinkPrint will SLAYYYYY her
honey, the pink print will flop lower than yo mammys breast are sitting
A WHITE B**** SLAYING ICKI HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! chile. kiii kiii kiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!
I don’t understand why it has to be all about sales. Why cant people just focus on the fact that there are multiple females in hip-hop. These days all we’ve seen the past 5 years is Nicki, which is fine, shes a great artist. But back in the 90’s there was never just one female. There was Missy, Kim, Eve, Foxy, Left Eye, Da Brat, Shawnna, Queen Pen and Lauryn all out at the same time. It was fun and diverse that way. People can say Iggy cant rap, but that is not true. She’s worked just as hard as every other female in the game and she’s freestyled multiple times on radio and television. She promotes herself and writes her own s***, what more can you ask for in an artist these days? People should also not be saying her whole album is pop/edm. Her production sounds no different than something put out by Kid Cudi or J. Cole. Yet nobody says anything about Azealia Banks who uses techno/edm beats more than any rapper out right now. Just be happy female hip-hop is slowly coming back to life.
You’re damn right!
This post is inaccurate. Eve’s first two albums debuted at #1. Both Lil Kim and Foxy Brown’s second albums debuted at #1. And unless this Iggy girl sells more than 375K her first week, she isn’t taking Nicki Minaj’s spot.
I do not think it is about “taking NICKI’s spot”, because there is no female rap out now, BUT NICKI! Anyway, IZZY did a good job on this album-I LOVE EVERY SONG, I gotta admit, it is pretty damn good! DEF supporting her….
It would make her the fifth actually. Lauryn, foxy, eve, Nicki came before her. Research people.
Sam is setting her up for a drag fest.
Lol @ all these trolls under Iggy screen names! Where were y’all on the other Iggy posts? I remember everyone on here said Iggy would never make it and that she needed Interscope. People counted her out, try to discredit her because of her modeling, tried to call her a racist (which seems to happen to every white rapper), and even tried to dig up old tweets. But Iggy is #1 on iTunes now. She won.
Congrats to Iggy on her new release. As for the record breaking she has no competition on the charts…Pink Friday went head to head with Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and SLAYED. Iggy is going against what a Frozen soundtrack? Not much to brag about…
Good for her! I hope she does over 60K but it doesn’t seem that likely looking at how bad everything else is selling except for Frozen.