As Nicki Minaj debuted nearly a decade before streaming became a piece of the chart puzzle, the rapper’s younger rivals now find themselves tasked with the impossible challenge of matching records she set with pure sales.
The loftiest of these is the records she holds for being the highest-selling female rapper of all time and one of the fastest selling musicians to debut in the 21st century.
For, despite the fact that the entertainer has never topped the Billboard Hot 100, her solo singles and albums have sold more copies than any other lady lyricist in chart history and find their numbers elevated to even higher ground when the material she features on are factored into her sales question.
Today, she extends her run with help from her new single ‘Megatron.’
BUY MEGATRON ON ITUNES @NICKIMINAJ
— Alex Shane (@Asexuale) June 30, 2019
‘Mega’ leads the way for Minaj’s fifth studio album and is enjoying a healthy run on iTunes after her fans opted to make digital purchases and not streaming their point of focus.
Buy #Megatron by @NickiMinaj now on iTunes: https://t.co/EKZzC6sGDp
— Nicki Minaj News (@BigNickiNews) June 21, 2019
You KNOW I HAD TO SUPPORT MY QUEEN ? BRATATATATATA. BUY AND STREAM #MEGATRON ? #NickiDay pic.twitter.com/KWQSr5axW3
— ρяιи¢єѕѕ (@iamaprincessgal) June 21, 2019
The sum of their hard work? A new Top 40 single.
Opening at #34 in the United Kingdom, ‘Megatron’ pushed the number of weeks the rapper has spent in the Top 40 to 309 by becoming her 35th single to impact the space.
Can’t wait to ask friends if I can borrow their phones so I can buy Megatron on them
— jake (@jakegrnr) June 21, 2019
On Spotify, the single has already earned $40,000 (the bulk of which will delivered to the rapper and her publishing company) and on YouTube, where its video takes centre stage, its earnings rap to the beat of $47,250.
![New Song: Nicki Minaj - 'FTCU (Sleeze Mix)' [featuring Sexyy Red, Chris Brown, & Travis Scott]](https://thatgrapejuice.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/nicki-minaj-thatgrapejuice-2024-ftcu-remix-sleeze-sexyy-red-chris-brown-travis-scott-464x260.jpg "New Song: Nicki Minaj - 'FTCU (Sleeze Mix)' [featuring Sexyy Red, Chris Brown, & Travis Scott].")
No thanks, song is trash
This song could be a hit for her if she would promote it more. It’s like she is at a point where she either does not want to make money touring or she is pregnant. A tour would reconnect her with her fans and promote her new music.
Only Nicki gets blogs to post weird ass stats.lol. She really wanted to say that MEGATRON was the highest debut of a solo song from a female rapper since Chun Li in 2018. LOL. She cant because it debuted at #25. Press debuted at #26. SHES WASHED UP.
WHATT
“It ain’t about the race, it’s the marathon.”
Now watch megaflop come to an end next week when it free falls off the chart. Usain Bolt would NEVER. ????????????
Yo, I don’t really comment too much but I have to say this. When you start quoting n***** lyrics on a positive post about them and use it to bring them down, you are the true definition and embodiment of a f****** hater. But then again, your name really says it all
So what bihh? it still charted. she won and you lost. try again
Man this is some dumb news!
wow
congrats niki on breaking onto a char who hoo yay liek this wasnt expected! lol
So dumb you commented?
They really exaggerate her pure sales soooo much. If you take out the streaming her album sales go down by 60%.
You are bothered so much. Y’all shouldn’t say s*** about Nicki’s attitude because y’all are no better than what y’all say she is. Every time there’s a positive post about her here y’all come with the negativity. Haven’t you heard if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say nothing at all. Y’all are some miserable people that go out y’all way to spew negativity on every post about her.
It’s a comment section and I commented on what was on the tgj post. I didn’t hear you talking about “if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all” when Nicki was calling Wanna Thompson ugly and telling her she isn’t pretty and rich like she is.
GROW UP
Yet they try say Cardi’s achievements are all “payola” when this plastic b|tch is overhyped and a FRAUD.
I am so sick of TGJ spinning this false narrative that Nicki Minaj is the best selling female rapper of all time. It’s like comparing apples and oranges from different eras. Perhaps Minaj is the best selling female rapper of the DIGITAL era but I have a difficult time giving her the ALL TIME title when it’s not even comparable. How many copies did Doo Wop sell back in the late 90s when CD singles cost anywhere between 1.99-4.99… should we double or triple whatever her numbers were to even out all of Nicki’s .99 cents downloads?! How does that work! Her total album sales are around 5-7M tops, worldwide… but Miseducation sold like 12-14M worldwide.. Missy has four or five platinum or multi platinum albums in the US ALONE? What are her sales from all of her mega hit No.1 hits… they surely DID NOT cost .99 cents per track anywhere in the world. So should we double or triple the numbers of her state’s to compete with Minaj’s cheap MCdonalds 99 cents singles from the iTunes era?!
Plain and simple, They CAN’T compete.. dont tell me Minaj’s .99 cents McSingles compare to someone else before them selling 5-10 million singles for 2-5 dollars a pop. If you do please adjust the previous era for INFLATION because these numbers TGJ constantly trot out are A JOKE!!!!
McSingles GONE CHILE ?
?? ?? ??
STOP THE HATE…IT IS WHAT IT IS…..
MISSY*
Y’all celebrating Top 40 now?
https://tenor.com/view/bye-wendy-tuh-gif-8432848
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garbage
Another post about The Queen and CardiB fans are here ???? Why Are You Here this Post is For The Queen and her fans to comment y’all be so quick to spread hate on the Queen well keep on hating because she’s still the Highest Paid Female Rapper of All Times
Lol. Thats like saying 50 Cent is the King of Rap because he sold more than Kendrick, which he has. 50 Cent sold more because he came out 20 years ago.lol.
But why barbs not talking about how megaflop is charting lower than press on iTunes & it’s only been out for a week while Cardi single been out months. That make this hold post a Kii in itself, but y’all go ahead keep her fans delusional
Well done sis, I love you!
Megatron isn’t a hit. Plain and simple. Nicki Minaj hasn’t had a hit in years….
SHE WILL NEVER OUTSELL MISSY OR LAURYN
She already has. She’s sold more singles and albums than both (without streams). It doesn’t mean she’s better. Just a fact.
SHE WILL NEVER. MISSY WAS SELLING RECORDS BEFORE SHE EVEN HAD AN ALBUM OUT AND LAURYN HAD SALES BEFORE HER DEBUT.
Lies. She has not sold more albums than Lauryn Hill and that’s a fact even with streams. Without streams she hasn’t outsold Missy either. These are her album pure sales:
Pink Friday – 2 million
Roman Reloaded – 910,000
Pinkprint – 670,000
Queen – 200,000
Anyone ever notice whenever they mention this chick, they emphasize on s*** that no other writers emphasize on. Queen sold cuz it bombed where it counts US. She reached the RIAA 100 million mark with mostly .99 MCsingles and mostly FEATURES (because that is the only thing she is QUEEN of btw..
Take away her features which count for more than 70% of her Hot 100 entries/sales and you’re left with a mediocre selling artist. She has over 100 charted singles (70% percent FEATURES) and yet her highest selling LPs Pink Friday AND Roman Reloaded COMBINED dont even equal ONE Missy album (Under Construction) in sales. 100 charted singles and not a No.1 or Grammy in sight for over a decade. TRAGIC.
The only.thing left for Barbz to hold onto are iTunes stats and .99 cents McSingle milestones. downloads..So b**** ain’t done nothing impressive but sell a bunch of EDM flavored pop tracks for 99 cents in the early 10s when 99 cents iTunes McSingles dominated the industry. But all that has changed w/ streaming. And guess what? Her streaming numbers are p I s s poor JUST LIKE HER ALBUM SALES!
What’s interesting is that they claim she has over 100 million certified units yet RIAA has her much lower. https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=top_tallies&ttt=TAS#search_section
RIAA does not count songs she is featured on as being her songs.
@Caleb
Thanks for posting that RIAA link. Never been on their website before. EVERY person here (including TGJ staff) should bookmark that link since TGJ loves to print fake news..
I have a suggestion for TGJ..
Since yall hold onto Nicki’s featured collabs so heavy let’s keep that same energy for the real ‘Queen’ Missy Misdemeanour Elliot!!!
Count all of her sales for her featured credits on other people tracks or her songs that she wrote/produced for nearly every A list R&B, pop, hip hop star of the last 25 years. Make it fair if Nicki can add her featured collabs to bolster her sales the same can be done for Missy, Lil Kim, Eve, Lauryn/Fugees etc
Got that right Messy Boots! The real kii is that if you scroll down further Cardi B is only 2 million behind Nicki in certified units which shocked me! Nicki is at 30.5 and Cardi is at 28.5. If she passes her will TGJ call her “the greatest selling female rapper of all-time” on every post?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5clkFgVhmj4
HARD CORE BABY
Queen of Flopping she hasn’t been on billboard since the 90s I believe her crown ? been taken get over it 80s head smh ??♂️ it’s 2019. Your Queen is expired
The irony lmao
Chile hush lol
https://tenor.com/view/bye-wendy-tuh-gif-8432848
This one song is better than Nicki’s whole career ? ?
Stay pressed Lil’ Kim and Remy Man fans. You are only fans of Cardi B because you hate Nicki Minaj.
You are only a fan of Nicki Minaj because you hate other black female rappers. Foh
Congrats Nicki!!!! Extend your longevity to show all these hating a** b****es wassup.
So the single charted even lower than her stank p**** flaps hang…
Trash , she prolly could’ve did betta.. I hear
ok but this https://open.spotify.com/album/4J0MJ1huck3pcCAAaBYwSK?si=1jsp8gCeTmGE4gVWLVaJIw
Damn number 77 iTunes it will be out top 100 by Tuesday ????
Congratz to her.
It’s ironic that Nicki Minaj even ranks on the charts especially the fact she is a sympathizer to child m******** and rapists. If R Kelly gets pulled off the air Nicki Minaj should as well since her loyalty to rapists and baby blasters is noted to be a fact from her Brother jelanimaraj to tekashisnitch9 informant and s** offender with a plea deal and her murdering r***** bf Kenneth Petty. Honestly Nicki is a fraud and cares about nothing but her defense of pedos.
any questions?
Only Nicki gets blogs to post weird ass stats.lol. She really wanted to say that MEGATRON was the highest debut of a solo song from a female rapper since Chun Li in 2018. LOL. She cant because it debuted at #25. Press debuted at #26. SHES WASHED UP.
Why can’t we all get along? Why so much hate for this woman? I was never a fan of Nicki Minaj music, but I recently did some research on her and actually love her personality and some of her music. Some of you all should do the same. I swear some of you Americans are the weirdest people I have come across. You can like an artist without hating on another. Stop the negativity, sow more love to people and less hate,
she is good but cardi b is better
https://hbr.org/reading-list/NDQ1NjI1
She’s a queen
Chad Da Don prove it on hiphopza https://hiphopza.com/chad-da-don-prove-it-ft-exe-zingah/