It may have debuted at the 251,000 mark in the US, but Nicki Minaj‘s ‘The Pinkprint’ has failed to soar as high in international skies this week, moving less than 45,000 units outside of her domestic market.
Though doing very little to shake her status as the world’s highest selling female rapper, global sales of her new album were so low that she failed to crack the Top Ten in Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Ireland and Germany, where it debuted at #69.
Fortunately, it wasn’t all bad news for the performer.
Why the entertainer has good reason to celebrate her run on the ‘Billboard Hot 100’?
Find out below…
‘Billboard’ reports:
The rapper debuts two star-assisted tracks on the Hot 100, furthering her Hot 100 achievements on two levels. “Feeling Myself,” featuring Beyonce, starts at No. 43, and “Get on Your Knees,” featuring Ariana Grande, enters at No. 88. With the bows, Minaj ups her count to 58 career Hot 100 hits, passing Madonna and Dionne Warwick (56 each) for the third-best total among women. Aretha Franklin leads with 73, followed by Taylor Swift (66).
Minaj has sold 65 million singles since the release of her debut mixtape ‘Playtime is Over.‘
Why am i not surprised??????? The promo for the album was terrible outside the U.S.A!!!!!!!!!!!! Shame dat it’s her best album yet..
She had Yawnce on the album and still FLOPPED
Which is why Beyonce’s album drop last year was a publicity stunt to prevent another epic album fail. Nicki should have done a surprise release too. Nah…just kidding. LOL
And Gag Me flopped all by her lonesome, with zero features, queen of flops
Gaga flopped but UV still hasn’t sold more then Artpop is UV even gold yet?? lol
LADY PAYOLA FLOPGA HAD TONY BENNET ON AN ALBUM AND IT STILL FLOPPED LIKE A FAT N**** JUMPING IN A 4FT POOL!!!!!!!!!!!
Gaga and Tony released a jazz album you idiot. Jazz isn’t mainstream but the album still did over 130k in the first week. Lets see Beyonce do over 100k with a pure jazz album oh wait she can’t she has to continue singing stripper anthems to be relevant.
@ The Bey Hive Extinguisher, why d hell is ur ugly ass pressed about Bey’s album selling on her name alone?? i never understand F**** who dedicated their name after a “certain artist they hate”, when in fact it is shows how much of a pressed obsessed fan they are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LOL
If ur excuse is because it was a jazz album, then why did “ARTWATERYSHIT” WHICH WAS A POP ALBUM FAIL HARDER THAN HAVING A SOFT DICKKK WHEN U’RE ABOUT TO FUCKKK!!!!!
@Applaude YONCE is what got her those 200,000 worth of sales first week! Hun don’t come for the Queen she never has problems making money!! Sales has never been a struggle FOR QUEEN! Run those thirsty ass comments else where boo
BUT WAIT A MINUTE! If you consider cheek to cheek’s low sales low because it’s a ‘Jazz’ album why don’t you account for lana’s lower album sales because she’s alternative and not mainstream! DEAD at the self drag.
Let’s see if gaga’s ‘alternative’ album sales match lana’s ‘alternative’ debut Born To Die sales WW b****.
Take Several
SHE SHOULD BE ABLE TO SELL ON HER NAME ALONE
IF BEYONCÉ CAN WHY CANT SHE?
@CatfishCarey the delusion is so real lol Hun there’s no way Nicki can sale on her name alone like the Queen! Bey has 5xrecords sold out Arena tours! 10years strong and the most Consistant artist of our time !! Bey dropped a record like 7/11 and it went #1! Hunn have nicki try that
I’m sure she will go to Europe/UK and Japan next month. She will have an increase after she does TV performances in those countries.
I hope she does TV performances of her songs in France, Germany, UK, and Japan. She’s gonna be just fine after her intl promo tour.
SHe should be proud of her US performance and take a little time to enjoy her success.
She put together a very solid piece of art….. Nicki should be proud.
@Applaude YONCE is what got her those 200,000 worth of sales first week! Hun don’t come for the Queen she never has problems making money!! Sales has never been a struggle FOR QUEEN! Run those thirsty ass comments else where boo
YOU TRIED iT. are you serious, Nicki been putting up numbers way before she worked with beyonce. so you can fall back with that cr@p you just written no diss to beyonce though.
Honestly, I think this album is brilliant.
*SSSAACCCRRRREEEEEAAAAMMMING!!!!* AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH DEATH!!!!! THIS BIITCH BOUGHT HER OWN CDS BWRAAAAALOLOLOOLOL!!!!!!
MADONNA is going to snatch her place right back come next Thursday when all her songs chart on the hot 100
she needs to reinvent again and give the general public an extended break, we have been over saturated these past 2 years with feature after feature and ass metaphors after ass metaphors, now I have zero doubts in nicks capability, she IS the queen of rap when it comes to diversity and flow but her ‘brand’ has become very stagnant with the overly arrogant lyrics and lack of originality (Pink Friday) that’s why she’s flopping internationally. But I look forward to her putting the V in reinvent.
I would never take advice from a Basic del rey stan.
maybe you should start then you can help gags up from the pile of vomit that was the Artflop era
Gaga career is fine she’s still 10x more relevant than Lana who struggles for 6 months to go gold.
Lana should also reinvent herself but should start by giving Michael Jackson his nose back.
Screams
and Katy needs to reinvent that Disney junior bs she calls music, Lana will remain superior and more acclaimed than payola perry, gags needs to worry about Artflop going platinum in her biggest market
UTTER DEATH lmao
Poor thing hahahaha…. Well nice knowing you nick
U’RE SAYING BYE TO NICKI, WHEN D WORLD ALREADY SAID BYE TO UGLY GAGA SINCE 2012!!!!!!!!!!! THE SELF DRAG THO.. DUMB JUST LIKE THEIR FAVE…LOL
Awfully bold considering who your user name represents. Nicki gets talked about more than Ga…awwwnevermind! 😉
Nicki has been talked about more than Gaga since Gaga has not been in the mainstream releasing music for a while now. That’s a pretty much moot point. I guess all that ass in anaconda really helped, huh?
It’s her second best album that she has ever released!! Congrats to her on her US success and an awsome CD.
Now she needs to go to Japam, Australia, and Europe/UK to promote her album next month.
I wonder why she didn’t promote her CD overseas before the release????
I’m sure she will have an increase in sales after her intl promo tour…..
GREAT ALBUM! Iggy could never…. I wonder what Iggy’s ntl sales look like? hmmmmmmmmm
LIKE FAIL CHEEK TO FAIL CHEEK WON’T SEE ANY CERTIFICATION!!!!!!
SORRY DIS WAS MEANT FOR THAT LADY UGLY FAN!!!!!!!LOL
6 August 2014, the album was certified Gold in Canada.[100] On 24 November 2014, it also received a Gold certification in Australia.[101] The album was named the second most-streamed album of the year overall in the US,[102] third in the UK and globally on commercial music streaming service Spotify in 2014.[103] As of December 2014, it had crossed the 1 million track equivalent album (TEA) sales mark in the United States.[104]
These are some Of Iggy’s sales look like
Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[101] Gold 35,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[100] Gold 40,000^
*sales fi
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (2014) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[108] 2
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[109] 48
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[110] 65
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[111] 2
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[112] 29
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[113] 58
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[114] 24
French Albums (SNEP)[115] 99
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[116] 83
Irish Albums (IRMA)[117] 13
New Zealand Albums (Recorded Music NZ)[118] 3
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[119] 6
Scottish Albums (OCC)[120] 6
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[121] 12
UK Albums (OCC)[122] 5
UK R&B Albums (OCC)[123] 1
US Billboard 200[124] 3
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[125] 1
US Top Rap Albums (Billboard)[126] 1
And none of those stats compare to Nicki. How’s Rita’s stats looking though? 🙂
SHE EVEN FAILED TO CROSS THE 200K MARK IN PURE SALES
THIS ERA HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT A MESS
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http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6415137/taylor-swift-billboard-200-nicki-minaj
She won’t reach gold anytime soon
Are you saying that she won’t scan 150k units in the next two months? I’m sure she can, now plat may not come, but who knows. How’s Artpop?
U MEAN “ATRPOOP”??????? IT’S SOMEWHERE DOWN THE TOILET, WHERE THE ENTIRE WORLD PUT THEIRS WHEN THEY REALISED HOW S***** IT WAS!!!!!!!!!!!
Unapologetic-230k
ARTPOP- 260k
Unapologetic-230k-1.3 million US
ARTPOP- 260k-700K
Unapologetic-3.5 million WW
ARTPOP-2 million
WHAT ABOUT THE WORLDWIDE SALES THO!!!!!!!!!!!!
WW sales: @taylorswift13, “1989” 483,000 (4,619,000 total) in 8 weeks.
If you would had told me that in 5 years TS would be the biggest pop star in the world, I would’ve said “No way”. But clearly this is her most iconic moment.
I will say that not only is she the biggest female rapper out this decade, but one of the biggest rappers period. I’ll let this album pass, this is her sitting on the thrown. But her next album need to be great and with meaning, not these dumb punch lines. Maybe we’re asking for too much, I mean you don’t buy a Lil Wayne album for a message, maybe she’s the same. But let it be that, don’t make her out to be this “great one with a message” type of rapper. Tho her sales seem phishy, but I think the predictions either added the Monday’s sale or just the Tuesday sales. BTW, with all the Uggly talk last week, you’d think that her album would be up in the top 10. Shows that trending doesn’t equal purchase. #OhWell
Mark stfu like you have standards when it comes for music.You stan for R**** and that dead chick
I like artist that brings something new and edgy. You’re just upset because ArtPoop and Cheap Too Cheap both flopped, but somehow you think you can talk sales and certifications.
Objectively speaking, R**** could never out on a show like Gaga. The Fame monster slays anything Rihanna has ever done in any era aesthetically.
You mean the check that released critically acclaimed music while she was alive?…Gaga could never
Yasss @ Feeling Myself about to be a top 40 Hit without even being a single yet and no video. Slay me Queens!!
@Shitprise Tell me why Beyonce out here acting like a prostitute she forget she have a child? Gaga is a true artists unlike Beyonce who doesn’t write her own music.
Beyonce is an entertainer while Gags is a gimmick that ran dry.
And Rihanna is basic trash island w**** with basic sales and no talent. Gaga > Your basic fave
Gaga can’t entertain? Let’s not exaggerate. Still better than ur stiff fave any day.
AT LEAST WHEN BLUE IVY GROWS UP SHE WILL REALISE HER MOTHER DID NOT HAVE TO PUKE ON STAGE TO GAIN ATTENTION, SHE DID NOT HAVE TO SUCK OLDY BENNET’S DICKK TO ACTUALLY SELL AN ALBUM…….DAT’S D DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEY AND FLOPGA..NOW HOW IS “ARTNIGGA” DOING????
I died reading this the day after Christmas. JESUS!
I’m not a Nicki fan, but this album sold more than Ciara’s last two albums in the first week combined. How’s the Ciara album doing?
Gaga still shits on your favs remember rolling stone Named Gaga the queen of pop. Not your favs.
But the GP passed the album by in stores. And so did the grammys. #oops
Poor thing. It worked hard to promote its album only to bomb world wide. Rosie was right. 45 000 units outside the US is Laughable. A Flop really. The excuses and fake congratulations from the illiterate barbs are funny.
After all the highlights Hoenika had this year and literally being everywhere promoting that album, the results are poor. Starshits and those electro pop singles were her demise. Her career is starting to look like Lil Kim’s. The decline is so real.
I hope she doesn’t go back to those bright high spectral colors. If she doesn’t go platinum, we’ll probably see another album from her in 3 or 4 years. Back to the drawing board then.
Has Nicki done any promo outside the U.S.? NO! Rosie is pressed like many of you here, her opinion means nothing when she stans for Lana Dead Rey. Why does everything have to be an excuse, why can’t it be a reason? Til this day I personally cannot find Nicki’s album instore. It’s really funny you call us illiterate, yet you can’t even spell our name right… Barbz not barbs. Calling her a h** doesn’t detract anything from her or make you any better, hiding behind an old pic of a child. Again I say, she promoted, nothing out of the norm, but solely in the U.S. Pls don’t compare Nicki to Ling Ling, Ling only has her paypal and TwitMusic stats recently while we’re making history.
Sam should give that little monster its own page. Lady Kaka and her shiitty music and her shiitty albums has been quite lately. She’s busy clinging to an old man for relevency. Her and Hoenika with their many changes in their images should just work together.
I think nicki need to leave cashmoney they messing everyone up including nicki i will say lil kim was right they will f*** u over i love nicki i hope she go to another label without drake nicki wayne cashmoney dont have heavy weights all the albums baby said will come this year shanell and lil twist epic fail she need to get cashmoney off her imprint so they cant get more money from her
@Mark111
Debuts:
Rihanna, Music of the Sun 600k
Lady Gaga, The fame 4.5M
lol, and now Rihanna is selling more than Gags. One career went up and the other went down. Gaga: Story of a Hasbeen. And the fact that Sun is 100K less than Artpop, lol.
Lmao, took her seven years to do it <<<< not a gag fan.
Lol, the fact that this rushed album with hardly any promo sold 100k less than Artflop which had a well developed promo plan that included an app and a tour is really self-shade. Rihanna’s album sales increased for her next 3 albums, Gags’ album sales decreased dramatically. From 13 million to 5.5 million to 2.1 million. One has been consistent for over 8 years, the other faded out after her 4th.
Lol!!!! Come back when that white trash wins any image award or an icon award. You know what, come back when ‘it’ wins any award for her milestone, which ‘it’ has one. Pssshhhhh…
#EpicFail
Lmao, Those awards are for publicity they not real, otherwise beethoven wouldn’t have won 18 grams lol
Gaga > Trashyonce> Sluthanna
WTF is ‘Sluthanna?’ Lol Try again sis.
She basically did 27K without US & UK. Tragic
True she is the queen of features and singles sales when it comes to rap… that is all she is. Her features and singles sales have been very successful true indeed. However on order to be the most successful highest selling female rapper she needs to have several multi platinum albums…..carry on
What like Kim and Missy have the two she calls washed up! Funny how someone can call themselves the queen of rap but have no hip hop classics???! Sales have been based on pop hits!!!
Notice..SHE calls herself the Queen of Rap..Nobody else does. She needs to sell at least 1/3rd of her single sales in album sales. It shouldn’t be that hard for someone who has 18 million followers on twitter….you do the math smh
She had promo like she was running for President look @ these tragic. She’s not different from Iggy they’re both Pop Rappers.
She will be fine. The album will eventually sell slowly. She still has all next year to promote. Also, her upcoming TWO world tours should help with the international sales. I give her album a solid 6.5/10
Ofcourse she’s gonna be the most successful Female Rapper because she’s the rapper that has done the most features ever & also she’s not a genuine Hip Hop artist she has done a pop album which appealed to mainstream listeners those people buy singles which helps with Record sales. There’s nothing really impressive about this chick
Nicki has never been an international seller but the us sales will help and the tour also
this is just like the pink Friday era without the first week sales……she also matched her record for 8 songs on BBhot 100 for a female rapper
Lol I still don’t Check for Tricki Garbagh (C)rap cuz it sucks she’s good at 1 LINERS & THAT’S IT!!
Anyways she will scan gold & that’s good.
The F*** stan still clinging to the era that did her career in for good. Worry about why Ashes To Ashes had more promo in the US than Ultraviolence did worldwide and still hasn’t sold 900K worldwide (Tony’s last album hit 1 million in no time), and why your ugly, pressed-ass, coked-out fave has to cling to a 90 year-old just to save her career.
Lmaoooo i love you
The final tally for first week sales in the U.S stands at 244k with 194k based solely on sales. Internationally Nicki is very much a force I think her being everywhere has actually done her more harm than good but hopefully with her tour ventures sales will show an increase. If not Nicki can take sometime away from the limelight regroup and comeback with a new attitude and game plan.
Lmao! @ the general pub not giving a single f8ck
its a shame that this album is not doing so good it Is so good and besides she still has plenty of time to promote this album because it hasn’t been out that long it’s still in the beginning stages
No one is checking for this cellulitis blimp of a clown.
Lol in actuality Gaga did not flop. But by her standards she underperformed.. She sold 800k with a single top ten.. “CTC” is a jazz album which is basically gold. So that album did fine..
Crazy how people are trying to make fun of Nicki, but their faves do 17K-150K and they are somehow doing “Good” in the current industry climate. The hypocrisy is real!I’m not even a Nicki fan but she hasn’t declined like Gaga period,there are way too many artist who wish the could debut with those numbers.
The only females that sell honestly are Taylor,Adele,Beyonce,Pink,Katy,Carrie Underwood and Rihanna.
@HYISI ur a fool. Nicki has BEEN on decline. Roman reloaded-253k this album-251k and that’s debatable numbers since streams count now….Don’t try to come for Gaga. What Gaga make lack in sales she makes up for in talent. Nicki ain’t got either. Sit down lol
It’s a shame though, I love this album. But yeh I think once she starts touring and doing promo outside the US, she will see gold by march
Lol @ her not selling 200K
BIG FAT FLOP
When Carey is in your name, you really shouldn’t say anything or anyone is fat cuz…
When you have Carey in your name, that means you stan for a legend. Carey on b**** and be pressed elsewhere
Nicki ain’t got s*** on Eve. Eve is a better rapper and she’s sexier and better looking.
Eve is crap and looks like a man, maybe that appeals to you…
First of all, there needs to be a level of respect. I feel like a lot of people who are from the past generation trying to get at the new generation, it’s not about publicity. It’s about wanting that respect. I think maybe that’s where Kim is coming from, like, you’re doing your thing right now and no one can take that away from you, Nicki – we all see it — but at the end of the day, if it wasn’t for Kim, she wouldn’t be here and that sh-t is real. And if it wasn’t for Latifah, and if it wasn’t for Foxy and Lyte, I wouldn’t be here.
Azelia Banks raps way better than nicki minaj
What’s your next lie? …
Don’t f*** around with the legendary Eve. You fave need to pay some respect
Did the Great Lacefronce not say it was a FLOP? and the Flop Print sold 198k in actual sales and 50k in streams so she didn’t even sell 200k like the faggggss in her fanbase claimed! Aahahahaha
Make that 194k lmao
Well it’s hard to buy off retailers in other countries. Those people could care less.
#194k 😉
11k
Igloo could only dream… 😉
The only reason it tanked internationally was because it wasn’t released in South America or any other major markets besides Europe. Nicki has a huge fan base outside the U.S. but her label really f***** her over with the promo internationally.
Congrats Nicki. At least it sold higher than Beyonce Platinum Re release. Lol
Nice try b****. Nicki won’t see platinum. Beyoncé is double platinum. Ciara can’t even go styrofoam so get the f*** outta here.
The fact that Taylor Swift and Frozen outselling Beyonce so easy is unexpected. Taylor already passed triple platinum without rerelease. Beyonce double platinum only. I expect higher sales than that. Ciara Goodies is 3x platinum
Lol stop being delusional. Goodies was released in 2004. The only artist that can go platinum now is Rihanna, Beyoncé, Taylor and Adele. Ciara can’t even Crack 200k ww or get her child support checks on time. Don’t come for Beyoncé when you stan for Hehe
“By the way, have you guys checked out my ass? My ass is BIG!” Look at my fat ass!” has finally lost its charm, huh? That has been her entire career. NEXT
Scorpion outsold Roman Reloaded and Re up. #real talk
Eve’s “Let Me Blow Ya Mind” made history unlike super face.smh
She still will be ok. Eventually she’ll go gold and that’s great in today’s market.
HA. FLOP! Her new album is trash, that’s why.
Sad sad sad, but you know what they say. once you go pop you should have went back