Today, fans of ‘Bed of Lies’ performer Nicki Minaj learned that her new album ‘The Pinkprint‘ was to debut at #1 on the ‘Billboard 200’ with an opening figure close to the 180,000 mark.
Modest when compared to units moved by the rapper’s earlier releases, the prediction was published ‘Hits Daily Double‘ who used first day numbers as the basis for their projection.
However, it would seem said numbers may soon find themselves revised thanks to a stocking issue brought to light by her fan base.
Full story below…
While tradition sees most US releases drop on a Tuesday, Minaj surprised some industry spectators last month when she announced she was launch ‘Pink’ on Monday December 15th.
However, it would seem this decision may be to blame for ‘Hits’ prediction. For today has seen a number of the rapper’s fans take to Twitter to reveal that they were unable to purchase the album when they attempted to do so from a number of ‘Targets’, ‘Best Buys‘ and ‘Walmarts‘ across the country.
Horrified? Minaj was too, taking to Twitter to announce:
That’s right, if ‘Pink‘s prediction seemed impossibly low for the rapper…it’s because it was, published before a number of major retailers had even stocked the release!
After learning of the above, some now expect her projected figure to be revised, taking the above drama into account.
Quite interestingly, Minaj’s position atop female Rap’s who’s who list would remain unshaken even if she did move the amount published here.
How? Peep the list of the lowest selling opening figures scored by female rap releases to drop within the last two years.
Eve – Lip Lock (8,600 units).’
Iggy Azalea – ‘Reclassified (11,000 units)’
Azealia Banks – ‘Broke With Expensive Taste (11,165 units)’
Nicki Minaj – ‘ Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (253,000 units).’
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Again dumb ass reporting. Sales are based on what was shipped to stores. Stores know what they have in stock and a day is neither here nor there with physical sales. Her numbers weren’t low predictions rather they reflect someone who’s hype precedes them.
How is it dumb reporting when Target acknowledge they don’t have the album on shelves? King David already acknowledged the sales were lower than they should be on twitter but it feels like your wide ass is forgetting that Nicki’s lowest sales are 12 times bigger than Iggy’s.
Why the f*** does everyone have to bring Iggy into it? I get appeals to teenage girls.. nicki appeals to the pink pound mainly. Different target customers. All I’m saying is its crap reporting.
As for you – go and get educated then someone might take you seriously. Right now you’re coming across as more hood than Keyshia Cole!
Are those the same teenage girls who forgot to buy TNC and Reclassified? And when it comes to “ghetto”? Let’s not, because I spoke just as articulately as YOU did sweetie.
Oh, and when it comes to you being mad that TGJ reported an actual fact? Sucks when hating fails doesn’t it?
nothing new RIAA will still certify platinum.. whats next? still outselling everyone else in the last 10 yrs in female rap and probably before that, as well
It was in target in my city. Sounds like another excuse. Beyonce broke the Internet with an album only on iTunes for weeks. What’s Tricky Garbages excuse now?
Iggy sold 14k? That’s a lie and you know it. If she sold 14k why didn’t she make the top 50 when the lowest selling album that week sold 13k? Let’s not tell lies here ok? HDD are the ones who reported that she did those numbers so I don’t know where you get your info from.
This about to be hilarious *Sips egg nog* 😉
Egg nog? Ooh, chile! You better pour me a glass! Pour it up, pour it up! Lol! Let me study for this damn Chem final! Merry Christmas though!
A few stores will not make that much of a difference. How delusional lmfao.
Are you dumb? those are the biggest selling album stores. How DELUSIONAL of you. The album is basically only on iTunes, take away all 3 of those stores & see how many people’s albums sell w/ just iTunes & Google Play.
Beyonce did *sips tea*
Why is there always a ”stocking’ issue with her albums? Didn’t this happen with PFRRR?
She uses “stocking issues” to explain her low sales. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! FLOP!
180k is certainly not low in today’s music market.
Didn’t la Bella mafia debut with less over a decade ago when albums actually sold? And you call Nicki a flop?! Lolololololol
The Queen of Rap Lil’ Kim has never been a big first-week seller, but what the Queen of Rap has that Flopnika doesn’t is CONSISTENCY IN SALES!!!!! La Bella Mafia went platinum in two months. Flopnika won’t go gold with the Pink Slip AT ALL!!!!!! By the way, La Bella Mafia sold 166k in the first week. The Pink Slip will sell 155k. Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!
OH I AM SO ENJOYING THE MELTDOWNS ON TWITTER.
CAN NOT WAIT FOR THE FINAL NUMBERS
I know!!!! THAT WILL BE A KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!
GIRL BYE! I’M SURE PINK PRINT WOULD PROBABLY DAYVIEW With less numbers and Sam youre stupid the predictions were already counting the shipments gurllllllll sit down lmaoo I can’t
Um, “dayview”? Lmao
Near 200k is good (not amazing) for her though. It’s a ROUGH climate atm, so I’ll stand alone and say congrats.
Yeah I’m Icy, But I’m Prayin For Some More Snow.
even her worst sales are better then those other rap girls tbh
I predict the numbers will be less 150 but even tho If she manages 165k that’s a flop with all that booty popping and all that promotion and yes bitxhhhhhh before yall h*** come to me Christina is a flop but she has make her mark in music she ain’t got nothing to worry about so don’t even try it with me
selling over 100k at anything is not a flop sis, let’s see you try and move 100k units
Honey with all that promotion that she did and all that gimmick 165k is not a good for a stablish rapper that she is the fact that she can’t even pull 200k shows that her music is really not in demand and I’ll be fair 165k it’s not Atrocious but it’s not good either I would have been less critical if she wouldn’t have promoted and done no gimmick
Your user name…why?
She’s been flopping every album after the first.It keeps getting worse and worse. She promoted this album for two years and this is the outcome. Charts terrible and low album sales equals washed up.
LOL! 🙂
So those numbers are only from 1 day of sales?
Still won’t surpass 200k tbh.
If it happened in a few stores it doesn’t make a difference whatsoever. If it happened in a lot of stores then people will just buy it online which is where most of the sales come from anyway so again – it won’t make a difference.
In other news: am I the only one that still laughs at the fact that Iggy had a number 1 record yet Azealia’s album (which is amazing btw, support a struggling b**** by buying it – it’s incredible) outsold her even though she’s not signed to a major label and has no fans in the GP? LMAO.
Higher than Britney Jean tho. LMAO!
That’s right. Britney Jean opened with 107k and as far as I’m concerned it should have opened with less. It’s a terrible album and it doesn’t belong in Britney’s discography. I’m not delusional as a Britney fan. I’m objective. So you coming for me makes no difference. I wasn’t even coming for Nicki. But I could so spare yourself the embarrassment of having your wig annihilated by someone who has been around stanning for pop royalty since the 90’s. I’m the chief commander of the Britney Army b****. Don’t f**k with the ranks.
Nicki’s 3rd Album – Promo EVERYWEEK
Britney’s EIGTH Album – Severe lack of promo. (over 100K)
Iggys reissue sold 14k, and the original album also did 14k, this “article” is highly inaccurate. Plus they should’ve used Iggy’s debut 54k from back in April and not a reissue, or Nicki’s lowest would be Re-Up’s 36k.
Nickis album is also predicted to do 150k, not 180k lmfao the bias this website is such trash with wrong info
@POR Fair enough. I was clearly misguided with my Iggy comment. Thanks for setting it straight, I Googled your figures and you sir, know what you’re talking about 😉
Lol so sad & who cares about Tricki Garbagh her talent is a Remake of the “Queen Bee” Lil’Kim Jones…Sad case of ABORTED TALENT!!
WHY ARE YALL COMPARING IGGYS RE RELEASE TO FULL LENGTH ALBUMS???
THE NEW CLASSIC MOVED 52K ITS FIRST WEEK AND IT NOW SITS AROUND 429K.
YALL MUST BE WORKIN FOR NICKI CUZ CH……..
Lmao the new flop hasn’t gone gold yet after half a year?
Let’s see if nicki gets anywhere near that….
@kingofhearts
U act like that’s something hard to accomplish lol
David loves her, lol.
and let me guess you hate her… *yawn*
Iggy sold 11k?
Iggys reissue sold 14k, and the original album also did 14k, this “article” is highly inaccurate. Plus they should’ve used Iggy’s debut 54k from back in April and not a reissue, or Nicki’s lowest would be Re-Up’s 36k.
Nickis album is also predicted to do 150k, not 180k lmfao the bias this website is such trash with wrong info
She’s done better then a lot of people who released this year. I’m still trying to figure out how opening up with 100k+ is a bad thing?
When you had one of the biggest pop record of the years, performed on the biggest awards stages, appeared overseas to HOST a big awards show ad perform twice on each major award show. Recieve promo from TOP celebs and even recogition from BEYONCE and you tell me alllll you sold was 150k????????? FLOPPPPPPPPPPPP
David you are the motherfucking KANG! The KANG!! You better hit them with the truth tea! Nicki should be doing more but she’s outselling these girls even at her worst.
THATGRAPEJUICE KEEPS STANNIN FOR MISS MINAJ AND MISS KNOWLES…..NO MATTER WHAT
LMAOOOO
The biitch will do over 200k. Why is this even discussed? The punaniHives are helping promote the album.
@I Stan(d) For The Talentless
Shut up b**** before I really BANG on you!
“Yo bish call me big daddy. Tell that H** I’m big daddy, Before I pull up oh a h** like yo I’m big daddy”
I called it. Her SOUND-SCAN numbers will be 165K. She will struggle for Gold & suffer constipation trying to reach Platinum. Good album tho. The 2nd best Rap album this year for me.
Damn! Iggy did 11k? Isn’t that like ten times less than 100k? I was never good at math.
None of these barbz predicted anything less than 250k first week (some were even going as far as 500k) so to turn around and call these numbers “slaying” even after factoring in the time,money and hype camp Nicki and her label have spent on this project is just hilarious to watch.Bringing up Azealia Banks and Eve’s 1st week sales (knowing fully well those two are independent artists who spent close to nothing to promote their music) is just stupid.
And how much did Prince’s last album sell dear?
Bitxhhhhhh prince is a legendary musician you really just didn’t go there are you seriously Comparing a legendary iconic musician to wannabe gimmicky who with all that promotion and booty popping and YouTube views can’t even reach 200k bitxhhhhhh have a seat and I can’t with you trying to compare prince sales to a wannabe rapper I can’t the reach with this kids #listenstolittleredcorvet
Enough to keep him relevant for 100 more years…Unless you want to compare a Rock N Roll Hall of Famer to a mere Grammy nominee.
Your reaching f**
azealia sold more than iggy? poor eve … why people so mad tho This nicli 3rd album iggy sales declined with a rerelease 11k
These are major retailers that missed the mark so it is a big deal
Rag dolls sit down. You think a store is not gonna to put out stock, something they do EVERY DAY!If it’s not out, then YMCMB didn’t ship them.
Girl go worry about usher or something. You’re always up in here as the top comment or PRESSED and putting other down when you should be worried about your faves.
How many units has Only Flopping sold to date?
More than ushers 2 year delayed album sis
Not Azealia outselling Iggy? I CANNOT!
iggy be better,i only stan for talent
Congrats nicki! I love the album!
Lol You thirsty/D–Hydrated damn ass f*****. U cant fuuck wit me. Anyway, come at me. Im down for a good laugh.
It looks like you could use a water bottle…here you go, you TROLLING copy catter ass h**!
*throws water at face*
Wait. This is serious if this is true.
Tired of this mess with Target. The same thing happened with The Re up. Its like they are deliberately sabotaging her. My online order was cancelled as well and they didn’t even have any in store. A mess! When will Republic step their game up as well. Best Buy was sold out.
Nicki better give TGJ an interview for this.
I can’t believe this s***! Thanks for telling us TGJ.
That’s Interesting because it’s common Knowledge that Iggy’s The New Classic sold 52k it’s first week. Nicki Is cool, but you don’t have to make any other talented act seem lesser just to try to make someone else look better.
Would Iggy really be considered a talented act in comparison though?
She was talented enough to get signed and out sell more established female rappers.And that’s no shade that’s truth,and I love my girl EVE.Also that is crap as far as low figures.Where is Angel Haaze & Riff Raff?
That wasn’t my question thought. Lyrically, can Iggy compete with the likes of Nicki, Azealia, or a veteran like Eve?
*though
But 52k is still three times as less as Nicki’s lowest sales and talent? Can we not. Even Iggy admitted her manager had to convince the industry to take her seriously TWO YEARS after she came out.
Lol the excuses!
A Keri stan trying it?? I can’t.
m back mark and you are gonna bow and deal,memba how i dragged you well this loser i stan for talent u dont know me cause u are new here but im tired of ur a**
Hold on. So if you add TNC’s first week sales to Reclassified you get 63k.
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Le struggle is real!
Looooooooooooool, B**** I can’t with you.
The illiterate Borebs and the punaniHives have joined forces to promote and buy their ‘talented’ and ‘original’ artists’ music. The Stink Shiit will die out pretty fast, much like the smell of shiit.
Hateful H**
Oh, kinda like how Rihanna’s albums loose steam a month after being released?
You GAYvey stans really shouldn’t even be throwing salt tbh
Who????
David is the king of spin, that’s all Imma say. Look how we went from laughing at Nicki’s sales to laughing at the other girls who are selling less than her.
king of spin my ass! All he did was say what we already knew.
I believe she would of done 200k had these complication not occurred, igloo stans should relax because she’s still light years ahead, but I will say that absence makes the heart grow fonder and nicki’s over exposure since her debut, being on almost everyone’s track talking about her sons has left everyone tired and not wanting more
Was expecting higher numbers tbh, I hope target & co rectify this so that we can get the accurate figures, shanghai, want some more, I lied & buy a heart are my jams. Can’t wait for Nicki, I die for you!!!!!!!!!!!!
I see Tyler the bottom, is working hard to be the top commentator. Lol YOU BETTER WORK BIITCH!!! As for DEL BEY, girlllll… we all know you use ‘BEY’ for insurance. Your true fave is flop, but it makes you feel good to stan for Thirsty Thiefoncé and ride with the punaniHives.
#StinkPussyHoēs
#NoLifeHavingHoēs
I didn’t have to work too hard, considering the fact that you were recently trolling under my name you s**** bank product.
@Tyler the bottom, Stop replying to people’s opinions. Please, stop. Don’t even reply to this post… please.
You Jimmy Nutron looking ass b****. Ummm, the last time I checked, this was a PUBLIC FORUM. I wasn’t aware that we weren’t allowed to reply to certain people’s comments. So excuse the hell out of me.
Stop TROLLING. Stop instigating. Then just maybe I won’t have to.
B**** you are way to hateful for your health, keep clinging to that tired excuse, I’ve been stanning for bey since IASF era, so keep your foul trap shut heaux
Anyways, shes out selling iggys debut numbers nearly four times over.
Sit.
@Tyler the bottom, Stop replying to people’s opinions. Please, stop. Don’t even reply to this post… please.
You Jimmy Nutron looking ass b****. Ummm, the last time I checked, this was a PUBLIC FORUM. I wasn’t aware that we weren’t allowed to reply to certain people’s comments. So excuse the hell out of me.
Stop TROLLING. Stop instigating. Then just maybe I won’t have to.
*Facepalm* *SMH* *Sigh* I rest my case.
You don’t want people to reply to ur comments…in a comment section.
YOU HAVE NO CASE
Excuses, excuses. I doubt Target only is going to push predictions up to 200K+. The delusion.
is Ultraflop gold yet?
Will the Pinkshit even come close to gold? If it’s doing less than “Ultraflop” it’s first week with 20x more promo, well…
Let’s remember that Flopnika Garbaj’s second album STILL ain’t platinum in sales. This one will struggle to go gold in sales, but she will beg Cash Money to flood stores with shipments that nobody will buy so she can go platinum. This is KARMA for the Barfz dissing Iggy about not going gold yet. I told you to watch God move. Flopnika Garbaj is DONE OUT HERE!!!!!!!!!!! LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
and what’s your karma for spewing hate 24/7
b**** kims flop ass can’t even get a album out
PFRR is gold n has sold 2M WW. TPP will be Nic’s 3rd #1 album n will outsell uggly n kims latest albums 😀
You do know that Swift and Cole BOTH may outsell her, right? Taylor been doing 200K week after week and Cole may do at least 180K. I think the road ends here for Nicki.
They’re lazy and they only care about artists who are popping in the UK. Rashaad usually writes about things in the US, but he gets told what to do.
And doing TRIPLE digits with a surprise release at that. Bey tead. Plus it’s his first album in 15 years.
*teas
Tricki Tricki Tricki manufactured rhymes bitten off “The Queen Bee” TRULLY SUCKS & I’m glad I didn’t purchase her sack of s*** Album!!
B**** Kims ugly ass face was manufactured in korea. and no one still has heard of her flop mixtape.
Didn’t you say you were tired of Nicki in the last 20 post??? Why are you still here lifeless troll?
This Teflon f** be stanning for Nicki so hard it ain’t even real.
iTunes, Amazon, so many online formats for fans to buy albums if they cannot find physical copies. Stop with the excuses Barbz. She Flopped. We live in a DIGITAL age! Physical sales are almost obsolete! After all the embarrassing naked plastic stunts pulled… she couldn’t even outsell J.Cole. #BYE
😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
@I Stand For The Talentless
You don’t want people to reply to your comments…in a comment section.
YOU HAVE NO CASE
These numbers are decent.. But she should be in the 200k arena.. Also, digital albums certainly do not always outsell physical albums. Singles are completely different from albums..
1. 160k is great. Most artists cant even sell 100k, including uggly n lil k**. 2. The album will sell more, predictions change everyday n they can be wrong sometimes.
LOL. I said she wouldn’t sell 200k, yet some delusional folks were saying 500k. Here comes the excuses…
And what excuse are you giving for that sagging face, Grandma?
LMAO, sooooo predictable. I may be a grandma but your fav is a FLOP. How did JCole outsell her with NO promo? Are you mad or nah? 😆
It’s only BEEN one F******. day!
Predictions are rarely off. She will sell exactly what they predicted. 🙂
Iggys reissue sold 14k, and the original album also did 14k same week = 28k overall for the reissue, this “article” is highly inaccurate. Plus they should’ve used Iggy’s debut 54k from back in April and not a reissue, or Nicki’s lowest would be Re-Up’s 36k.
Nickis album is also predicted to do 150k, not 180k lmfao the bias this website is such trash with wrong info
This fuxckes better fix this mess and give us real Minaj predictions.
I knew they’d find a reason. So they didn’t have stock in what two stores? Girl bye.your album wasn’t even number one on usa iTunes and still isn’t today! This was her last shot. So sorry.
I could see if you’re a quality artist and making just okay sells but she’s garbage all,around and sells are subpar.
Kii I am waiting for Nicki to throw a hissy fit and make 1000 excuses. She’s a flop. No way around it. 4 singles, countless gimmicks, promoting everywhere and she can’t even push 190k!!!! It will be a true kii if D’Angelo outsells her! Where are the barbs??? Come out of hiding!!
I´m not saying these numbers are going to be a flop, cause they aren´t, in this climate and with the industry damaged forever they aren´t. BUT it´s nothing impressive either. She´s basically appealing to all the pop market too, and the campaign for the album has been the longest I´ve ever witnessed, like two whole years of promo non stop, she´s always there with lots of features constantly, she wa son Idol, she´s been everywhere for months and she has had several singles already, and obviously one of her videos was the type of porno people like nowadays from these models so she had lots of views, which adds to popularity and now (sadly) chart positions and sales. Nothing impressive, not a flop either. She just won´t be any type of memorable artist decades from now (like Prince, now that some people mentioned him in this post).
THIS IS WHAT I MEAN WHEN I SAY TGJ IS SHADY. WHY COMPARE IGGYS RE-RELEASE TO FULL LENGTH ALBUMS.. CAUSE IF THATS THE CASE WHY DIDNT YALL PUT NICKIS RE-RELASE OF 30K??? ITS CLEAR NICKI MUST HAVE YALL ON PAY ROLL TO MAKE HER LOOK GOOD. LETS SEE HOW LONG IT TAKES NICK TO GO GOLD…
Look at all this WHINING and failing everywhere. I live!!! The excuses, the pouting, the crying!! It’s like Christmas. 18.5 million followers on Twitter and not even a fraction will buy the album. How pathetic. Besides, Nicki already used this excuse on Roman Reloaded. TRY AGAIN, HON.
These numbers would be impressive, if Nicki didn’t have THE BIGGEST PROMO campaign of any artist this year. Her promo campaign was huge for these mediocre numbers. FLOP!
@Nickisqueef is no where to be found. Bîtch like I said have several sits hoè!!!!!
*seats
I think she’s over exposed, she’s never really taken a break and people are probably tired of her. plus she should have released when anaconda was hot
These aren’t bad numbers considering the TRAGIC sales climate we are in today but they aren’t stellar either. Nicki had one hell of a promotional campaign that ran through all year. She had a movie, made several guest appearances on other people’s tracks and performed on ALL major award shows this year. Anyway, I like the album so good for her.
Boo, she has to sell a lot more to debut at #1, you gotta stop saying that until we see her predictions rise. Swift’s sales keep rising toward Christmas, the b**** got 280k this week. Pentatonix has been pushing 200k+ each week, too. We also gotta see how J.Cole’s second week goes. She could debut at #4. Predictions are usually right.
It is true. If you try to order at Traget online, You can’t get it. Try going to target.com and type in Nicki’s name. The pink print does not even come up and this was the only outlet with her two bonus tracks. Something’s up. I think it’s the labels fault though with putting those albums out with instrumentals of one of the songs. Also,
Why put an album out Monday? Wouldn’t that be only one day shipments. It’s not even giving yourself a full sales week. Bad idea from Nicki and her camp. But the cd is good either way and to me that’s all that matters.