Nicki Minaj ‘The Pinkprint’ Debuts High On Charts
December 24, 2014 @ 10:06 AM EST
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Deuces.
Seven days after its release, Billboard reports that Nicki Minaj’s The Pinkprint will take home the silver medal with 244,000 in first week sales. Meanwhile, J.Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive moves down three spots to number four. Congrats!
HIGH?? with all the promo and shit ..that is not high.it is a terrible album tho so..congrats
It was 2nd lol that’s not high?
I haven’t seen anyone talk about this album or seen it posted or leaked and since i’m not checking for this album I had no idea it was out yet. I thought maybe next week or something hahaha.
same here…. i even asked an apparent fan and she told me it wasn’t out…..
After all that promo run, posing naked for calenders and now going on tour, I wouldve expected more numbers. Oh well…congrats
Don’t act like these are not good numbers for 2014. Congrats to Nicki and J Cole.
lil bama better thank safaree
All that promotion and whoring herself out for what? This bitch sold her soul and still flopped. Should have stuck with her roots instead of going Miley Cyrus on us.
Drake is going to have to carry YM on his back doe.
She outsold GKMC’s first week sales. If you think that’s a flop life will continue to be difficult for you
Real Music will last. But Nicki will say it’s because she’s a woman lmao. No ur just a horrible rapper
lol
Jcole did 100,000 more and got praised 240 isn’t bad in these times… How much Ross sold first week? You can’t be bias and expect your opinion to matter
he did it without promotion too, nobody knew he was dropping til the month of
Jcole only proved that you don’t need singles or none of the old things that the music business used to consist of… He would have still sold 300,000 with promotion that’s not the issue…
He only proved that sometimes having huge hardcore fan bases really matter nobody besides drake em & kdot can pull that off at least for a hip-hop artist.
Real talk
His FANS KNEW it was dropping! How do you think it sold? Cole got a FAN BASE he don’t need to drop video on the internet so people could just leave comment and don’t BUY THE MUSIC! 50 got over 7 MILLION FOLLOWERS but his last album couldn’t do 50K the first! What do that tell you?
That you’re making asinine points lol what does 50 Cent’s success 11 years ago have to do with Nicki Minaj’s first week sales?
if you not a ross fan you shoulda worry about his first week number. Hip Hop fans did go out and BUY cole album COLE’S FANS went out and brought his album. Ross fans by BOOTLEGS and support ross by going to his SHOWS! Cole got the COLLEGE FANS and ross got STREET FANS! Street nigga don’t walk around with LAP TOP DOWNLOADING MUSIC! They spend 5 with the BOOTLEGMAN because it’s NO RECORDS STORES IN THE HOOD! How much did Gunit sell the first week with 50’s UNLIMITED BUDGET?
Unlimited budget lmao. Universal has an unlimited budget.
Lmao son spitting cold hard fictions
On me lmao
Im just glad she is outselling Iggy. The media trying to act like no selling Iggy is somehow bigger. Enjoy your arena tour Nicki
That’s Not a flop. She’ll recoup her budget most likely.
Yep. Nicki is an arena artist in Europe. She will go gold which is something Iggy still hasnt done.
I think people don’t know what the word flop means, I am pretty sure Nicki will go Plat in a year, 240k is not bad.
Nah. Numbers decrease drastically in the second week. Maybe two years
He second album had low numbers too but went plat.
Funny that Ross last album never got this post. Oh yeah…because he only did 74,000 it’s first week
Still more than your mama
That’s called non sequitur logic and it’s typically used by imbeciles. Thanks for your input.
nice 😀 hehehe
WOULD’VE WENT PLATINUM FIRST WEEK IF IT CAME WITH A SEXTAPE!!!! WHERE YOU AT WITH THE TAPE SCAFF BEEZY!!!! BITCH NIGGA!!!!
………..HA!!!! 240,000 FIRST WEEK??!!! QUEENS LOST!!!!
DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!
funny thing is u 100% CORRECT!!!!!!!!
…………HA!!!!
DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!
Would’ve GONE not would’ve WENT.
ENGLISH 101.
THANKS!!!! NOW IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE I NEED TO CORRECT BEFORE I TELL YOU TO EAT SHIT AND DIE???
DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!
Did anyone else even release anything to compete with her?
Iggy released Reclassified or something like that. It only sold 11,000 copies. Iggy is her only female competition right now in hip hop and Iggy sucks. We need more female rappers.
Can you imagine how much she would have sold if the album artwork inside was Nicki minaj nudes?
Might as well. She did ALL of her promotion nude anyway.
D’Angelo and The Vanguard’s Black Messiah debuted at number five, selling more than 117,000 units in its first week. Congrats!
I really wanted to like D’Angelo’s new album but his vocals were virtually incoherent and drowned out and this is coming from a fan of all of his previous work
keep listening. the more i play it the more i hear. after a while, i realized how brilliant that intended mix was. you start off just feeling the music, and in time you come to hear every thing. i miss music i could just FEEL until i heard that album.
I’m sure it will grow on me
co-sign 1000% the album’s incredible, but it takes a few listens to catch all of the lyrics, loving the analog mix though
Co-sign on my first couple of listens but the more you hear it the more it grows legs. I’m not particularly a D’angelo fan but I found it to be solid as hell after about 4 plays…my favorite is The Prayer and I don’t even like the lyrics
hellll yea I love how everybody talking about danglelo album on nickis post album goes in ..shout out to nicki too tho lol
Yep! This album is dope after a few listens and “Prayer” is cold
(FYI: We’re talking about D’Angelo’s new album for those who are just joining the conversation lol)
its good numbers, but one would call it a “flop” due to how much effort and promotion was done. i.e ROI.
what these numbers seem to show is that, she may have lost alot of hardcore fans. J.Cole first week sells seem to have gone up compared to his first album while nikki went down.
The way this is going, jcole might be second in his third week sells and nikki in third.
she got 2 platinum singles off this album. and a platinum single his the same as 350K albums sold. Why you think Khaled keep dropping albums when his album numbers are so low? Because the label re-coupe off his singles. So when you look at nicki’s single numbers plus her album numbers she damn near PLATINUM right now!
Lol
Nigga said she damn near platinum. No. She “damn near” recouped the same as she would have, if she had went platinum. Stop making leaps in logic if you want to be taken seriously.
And how did u arrive at a platinum single being the same as 350k albums?!?
Based on Billboard and SoundScans TEA system, 10 singles sold equals one album sale. Therefore 1 million singles sold equals 100k albums sold.
Cole world!
Since when was 200k first week a flop? You wanna rate J.Cole that’s fine but lets not talk bullshit based on your bias
pretty bad when you get outsold by a 2 month old taylor swift album.
not really when Taylor Swift’s fanbase is bigger than Nikki’s in the first place.. Taylor got pop , hip pop and country audience. Taylor Swift is all American
Bruh Nikki is pop… Period. That shit ain’t hiphop you’ll see that shit at the gift shop – 3000
Translation: “Pretty bad when you get outsold by a 2 month old album by the highest selling artist of the year”
you niggas “logic” smh
200K would’ve been considered a flop back in the day.The industry standards are so low now.
Cos no one is paying for music and music is super accessible now…. still 200K is far from shit
She only sold 194k albums. 244k sales came from album sales + streaming + individual songs.
The Pink Print is her best work. It should have sold more.
Why do yall listen to that dumb shit.men shouldn’t even like ever listen to her
198, 000 is very good for 2014. Taylor is the only artist in any genre to go platinum this year. These are very good numbers for Nicki…. much better than Iggy’s numbers.
Hot Garbage.
Man who gives a shit.wtf is a pinkprint
with the media tour she did this it a let down she was on every radio station and tv talk show, she crwn with yn she did crwn rip of with hot 97, she was cry angie
ON THE REAL HER ALBUM SHOULD DO WELL ON THE CHARTS AS MUCH PRESS AND AS MANY ADS THEY HAD FOR THE WACKPRINT THE LESS THE FOURTEEN YEAR OLDS COULD DO IS SUPPORT
Now I believe BK,( Happy Holidays) LOL! Nobody else post it.
its the truth ( merry christmas )happy holidays to you and your whole family
(happy holidays) and a merry christmas to you and your whole family im just being honest
Same too you, never had any doubts.
like wise merry chirstmas
Nickie sold 244.000 unit’s now she’s a half of iggy.
Jcole is selling more albums with videos of him riding a bicycle
Thsn nicki with the big machine and beats products all over her videos
Whoever that guy in red is, I feel sorry for them.
I think what matters is that her album is actually good.
Nicki Minaj used the breakup from Scaff Bizzy to sell records. He album won’t go gold tho.
Trick sold her soul for 244k units and a rolling stone cover #PinkShit