News that Nicki Minaj‘s new album is set to top the Billboard 200 isn’t sitting well with some Cardi B fans (affectionately called the #BardiGang).
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Not even 24 hours after its release, industry analysts took to press to reveal Nicki’s December 8-released ‘Pink Friday 2‘ had already garnered a commercial response so strong it will easily nab the top spot of the Billboard 200 after its inaugural sales tracking week ends.
If the prediction rings true, ‘PF2’ will not only become her history-making third #1 on the tally (following 2010’s ‘Pink Friday‘ and 2012’s ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded’) but will also mark the biggest first-week sales of any female Rap album released this year.
As reports of the out-of-the-box success of the project spread across social media, a few dedicated fans of Minaj’s nemesis – the chart-topping Rap diva Cardi – launched a campaign to stream and purchase the GRAMMY winner’s 2018 debut album ‘Invasion of Privacy.’
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The galvanizing call incited a quick response as ‘Privacy,’ five years after its arrival to digital outlets, surged in sales so much it entered the top 5 of the real-time iTunes chart (USA) and has been there for hours as of time of this report.
For context, the LP – filled with smashes like ‘I Like It’ and ‘Bodak Yellow’ – is outselling current hit albums like Taylor Swift‘s ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version),‘ Jung Kook‘s ‘Golden,’ and even a slew of seasonal top-sellers like Mariah Carey‘s ‘Merry Christmas’ as well as Michael Buble and Kelly Clarkson‘s respective Christmas albums.
Real-Time iTunes Sales Chart
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Cardi’s American #BardiGang aren’t the only ones getting in on the action.
Peruse of the worldwide iTunes chart shows the ‘Bongos’ hitmaker on the rise as international fans have also united to get her to the list’s upper rankings.
Worldwide iTunes Album Sales Chart (Real-Time)
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While the #BardiGang’s effort won’t be enough to block Nicki’s dash to #1, it may prove potent enough to help ‘Privacy’ re-enter the all-genre chart.
Boasting a 222-week stay, the album ranks as the longest-charting female Rap project in the Billboard 200’s history.
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Just sad…dont have anything better to do?
How is it sad? That’s what fans do, they buy their fave artists’ music. It’s how IOP charted for 5 years. It’s how black Necki McÑïggäh got her 1st number one record, it was to spite the success of Cardi B.
No stan has anything better to do. Worshiping someone who doesn’t know you exist and attacking others who don’t worship them too is mental illness.
😭 😭 😭 😆 🤣 😂
Lmaoooo isn’t IOP still on the Top 200 anyway? 5 years later? Which Sicki album has done that??
Probably. Whoever wrote it should be proud.
The shade lol.
Maybe Nicki should’ve hired some writers for PF2 then it wouldn’t sound so terrible and redundant and OUTDATED
You take such pride in Cardi selling a lot of ONE ALBUM. Meanwhile, Nicki Minaj has exceptional sales on five.
I understand you’re bitter. Cardi’s attempt to sabotage Nicki’s opening tour date with her little single failed and it tanked.
Also pathetic how many high charting singles Nicki has including #1 when that stupid BONGOS and HOT S only went #3 and 5 even WITH combining fan bases of Horsie and Ye.
You’re mentally ill and low IQ. IT’s her only album so of course new people are going to buy it, genius. It’s always the dumbest ones throwing “lmaoooo” on their dumb.
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I totally understand Cardi’s fear of doing any more music. It’s much easier to put on clothes and glam and call it a career.
She hasn’t been able to outsell Cardi since 2010 damn. That’s embarrassing for a “Queen”
you clowns have nothing better to do, stands are brain wash.
Gurl. Are you 12 years old? Nicki Minaj is the highest selling female rapper.
I don’t like new Nicki one bit but let’s be real, this type of controversy to sell records is what Doja was hoping for with all that devil ish but Covicki was the one to make it work! Kudos. Glad to see IOP rising, hopefully that’s what inspires Cardi to stop playing and release her sophomore
Y’all so sad bardi’s. Y’all had the whole time to stream Invasion of pornography but since the Queen dropped PF2, y’all so shaken to stream a 5 year old album just so y’all can get to the top of the Queen.(which will not happen) also 500k pure sales in a few days isn’t a mere number. Garbage gang, y’all had the whole five years to stream that album while the queen was laying low, giving your h** mommy some time to rap some s*** they wrote for her but she went to go be a soup girl and some whip shot cream momma, move to side and let PF2 rise as her 3rd most greatest album on Billboard, go buy abuela’s whip shots and bake some cakes in the kitchen, the queen is about to release a deluxe which will be the fourth greatest album out.
Barbs the Album is predicted to be at the Toppppp
Only one of these albums is Grammy award winning. And the other is nickis 😂😂😂
FOR ALL THE DOGS: 402K FW
RENAISSANCE: 332K FW
SOS: 318K FW (#1 for 2 months)
INVASION OF PRIVACY: 255K
PINK FRIDAY 2: <200K
The demand for Niggercki clearly isn’t there…
False numbers lol. Cardi didn’t do 255k first week
Actually Cardi did open with 255K. Ironically she also charted that album on the billboard 200 for 255 weeks. Only female rapper to ever do it. Seethe, mad b*tch
She opened with 103k pure sales while Nicki will be 200k pure sales! The demand for Nicki is there. FACTS!!
If Nicki was opening with 200k pure sales, her solo first week predictions should be upwards of 350-400k! Yall are delusional as hell😭
Your ignorance is pathetic. SOOOOOOO desperate clinging onto a five year old album.
PF2: 228,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, with 92,000 coming from pure album sales, and achieved the largest vinyl sales week by a female rapper in history.
IOP: 255K 103K
SO WHAT? B**** has released over 100 tracks since 2014 NOT on albums so your fav loser who “doesn’t want to do music anymore” will never catch her in UNITS or MONEY.
That old @$$ album?? Lol I guess they couldn’t all agree to stream any of her new stuff. Doesn’t she have something new out? I guess it’s trash too.
Nicki is QUEEN, no matter what people say, she continues to Release new albums…. Cardi puts out songs to keep herself relevant…. Go Nicki… we are waiting for you, Normani, I mean, Cardi!!!
Despite VPN usage on Spotify by multiple Barb accounts, Pink Friday 2 drops by a massive 70% in its second day streams earning only 4.77M streams on global spotify compared to 15.7M on the first day with only 3/22 songs still charting…
Ohhhhh you’re so cool you know what a VPN is. Well today is March 3rd so you can see in retrospect how stupid you sound now. at least 15 PF2 songs hit Top 20 Billboard. And around 5 #1 ,3,5.
Pink Friday 2 has also seen TREMENDOUS drops on the US Spotify page seeing all of its songs take a major dip despite streaming parties, fan made overnight playlists, spotify playlisting, and gag city trends…
Cardi slept with grammy executives to win