Rising above a sea of criticism this year is Iggy Azalea, the Australian rapper riding high on a singles-fuelled chart wave.
Now, after the release of her latest body of work ‘Reclassified‘, the star finds herself atop numerous ‘Billboard Year-End Charts‘, outperforming many a serious chart contender.
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Though yet to prove she can move albums, Ms. Azalea proved she’s a force to be reckoned with on a singles tip this year, turning her nose up at any unable to match the success she enjoyed with the hit single ‘Fancy‘, produced by British production duo ‘The Arcade.’
For, thanks to this single she sits atop the following charts.
‘Top New Artists.’
‘R&B/ Hip Hop Streaming Songs.’
‘Hot Rap Songs.’
‘Hot Rap Songs Artists.’
Indeed, though her debut album’s sales failed to live up to her notoriety, her success on the ‘Hot 100’ saw her top more ‘Year-End’ charts that album-sellers Lana Del Rey, Nicki Minaj and One Direction, who topped the ‘Top Artists’ and ‘Top Artists/ Duo Group’ charts.
Iggy wasn’t the only act to soar on this year’s charts. Indeed, thanks to sales and streams garnered by their respective releases, Beyonce, Drake and Pharrell also made numerous appearances at the ‘Year-End’ party.
Random: Isn’t it interesting that the lesser known Lana moves more albums than the arguably “bigger” Iggy?
these lists just further the fact that the music industry is in shambles, igloo topping most rap categories? lèul
Stop being so pressed
who’s pressed honey? simply stating facts, you are dismissed
Congrats Iggy love ya
It’s a shame seeing someone who appreciates lana’s originality and creativity stan for a feaux heaux like this kangaroo
LMAOOOOOOOOO!!! A Lana Del Rey fan bashing Iggy for being fake? LMAOOOO!! I cannot @ the irony!!! Please have a stadium of seats that your fav could never sell out!
excuse me bish, take a listen to her music and you’ll see her songs are original and written by HER! I’m not sure how a katy perry stan is talking when the b**** can’t even write, sing or dance, your fav is a basic mess, now go and listen to your kidzbop album
Death @ the self-shade. Katy’s kidzbop album yielded Grammy nominations. How about Ultrashit? None? Oh. Lmao!! Lana may write her material but after failing 144748383 times with different names and characters, no one believed her music is genuine. We all know her daddy brought her a contract. The real kii is that The New Classic outsold UltraFake in the US! Lmao!!
SLAY IGGY!!!!!!!!!! Keep these h*** pressed like elevator buttons!!!!!!
THIS HAS BEEN ONE OF THE WORST YEARS IN MUSIC EVER, NOT JUST ONLY IN QUALITY BUT IN SALES TOO…THE ONLY ALBUMS I REALLY CARED FOR AND LIKED WERE IN THE LONELY HOUR, HOZIER’S ALBUM AND J.COLE’S NEW ALBUM.
Lmao Iggy better keep you salty h*es pressed and steamed! If you’re salty now, wait til the Billboard Music Awards when Iggy sweeps clean lmao! *plays Heavy Crown*
keep stanning for igloo while katy remains getting snubbed from by the grammy committee
Clearly you don’t know what a snub is lmao! Katy gets nominated every time. Snub is what happened to Lana Del Fake. The Grammy committee paid Ultrashit dust lmao! Katy and Igloo have their nominations, how about Lana? None? Oh.
I would take iggy over a soulja boy or lil b or chief keef. And call her fake but u can’t ignore drake (always acting hard when he ain’t) lil wayne being a fake blood but rep the crips back when juvenile and dem were together back in the 90s or plies or Rick Ross who used other ppl life’s to make a persona. Also, idk why everyone says TI has writing credits on all her songs when he only has credit for the song he is on. Well I’m not a fan of hers, not do I hate her, just indifferent, but LEAVE IGGY ALONE
I agree with you somewhat, some of the rappers out there are actually a f****** joke, like what is a 2 chains? but one thing you’ll realise is most of the successful rappers got to where they are because they had TALENT and they also had to work twice as hard, as for iggy she was ushered to the top of the business (on the verge, clear channel deal, endorsements, heavy promotion) because she was the best BLONDE rapper that was out at the moment, her rapping and flow is subpar, and she can’t even write her own lyrics, any TI fan will tell you she sounds like him, in her lyrics and flow
*Sips apple cider* *Smacks* mmmmmmmhmm 😉 #IGGY #DefJam
Things that should be left in 2014… people that constantly call Iggy fake. For someone that is so fake she is doing pretty damnnnn good. If this is what fake is, I’ll take plastic for $100 Alex.
The more hate she gets, the more Iggy wins. Keep the hate coming. I’m ready for the Billboard Music Awards.
People really started hating her after the white media put her on a pedestal after the success of fancy… since then she has sold 11K first week with her (basically) new and well promoted album. your statement is VOID
Congratulations to all especially Beyoncé 🙂
I say congrats to Iggy & Beyoncé!!
So folks are gonna pretend that Re-Flopified just disappeared faster than it was released and she still has yet to go Gold. Ok.
TGJ said it best, why is the ‘lessor’ known lana moving more units than iggy? don’t get me wrong I like iggy when she was working her way up (my worlds/ p****) when she was an amateur workin like everyone else to make it to the top, I don’t like this racist media selected iggy. though I will say she has great stage presence and her weave is flawless but to bad her weave is why she’s breaking records
You seemed confused again. The New Classic outsold Ultrashit in the US. Hip-hop doesn’t sell well internationally.
LOL at you calling iggy hip-hop. her target demographic are t*** white girls (who are probably into kesha, justin bieber etc) the hip-hop community does not accept her
your statement is VOID because UV has still outsold regurgitated x5 over and internationally unlike your local fav, that bubblegum crap is for you American pre-teens, many nomination and ZERO win is a SNUB boo boo, the biggest snub of all
this is 100% exactly how i feel
Congrats to Beyonce. 2014 definitely belonged to Queen Bey. Keep winning s*** MaMa.
Uggly better had fun this year, because next year she’s done (hell, right now she’s done.)
saw them early this a.m. Not a Katy stan, but she slayed the year-ends.
Its not surprising that lana sold more albums then iggy at all. Lana has built a solid fanbase from born to die and released a solid body of work and not just an album with a couple of mainstream hits
thank you!
I bet it’s all the white girls who also stan for Justin bieber and draw cat whiskers on their faces that are the ones disliking my comments, just because finally a white female rapper is winning (singles chart) and they can finally claim to be a little ‘urban’ anyone who stans for iggy or likes her music has terrible, shallow taste in hip hop
and of course congrats to queen Bey
oops didn’t mean to leave this in your replies
Ya’ll fall for the same ish every time with these b******* ass lists.
Stfu ho
who is that man in the cover photo? 🙂
Where’s nicki on this list?? When will she b relevant again honey???
Definition of a singles artist. Millions of singles sold yet not a single album certification in sight. Things that make you go mmmh.
Oh shut up
I see a lot of pressed h*** on this page. Congrats to all *moves on unbothered like an adult should*
Eat me
I had to scroll down pretty far to find a certain someone. Sips Mix*
Biitch
When will nicki?? Kii!!
I agree that this has been pretty much the worst year for music ever (obviously in sales since everything is dissapearing, really sad) quality wise too. Like really, when it comes to females yes Lana del Rey released a fantastic album early in the year and also Mariah Carey released great material. Who else after them? I don´t even remember more releases that were interesting. And it also shows in the grammy nominations. Not a Beyonce fan but I agree her album has been one of the best during the last year (but it is from 2013 so it doesn´t count).
Only albums I´ve purchased this year:
Mariah Carey
Lana del Rey
Queen – Greatest Hits II (cause I couldn´t find the copy I had before)
Man of Steel soundtrack (yes I found it really at such a good prize and I love Hans Zimmer)
Arcade Fire – Reflektor (but that was from 2013 too)