Iggy Azaela Holds Top Two Songs In US
May 28, 2014 @ 1:27 PM EDT
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1 & 2.
Iggy Azaela has the number one and two songs in the country. Yep, you read that correctly. Come tomorrow, her hit “Fancy” will occupy the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100. She becomes the first lead female rapper to do since Lauryn Hill’s 1998 classic, “Doo Wop (That Thing)”. Simultaneously, her Ariana Grande collaboration “Problem”, will take the silver medal. Says Iggy:
Well I’m very pleased, last year seemed impossible to convince anyone in the music business I could break into the top 100. Haha. So let this serve as proof anything is possible & I hope we see more female rappers new and established in the charts. Dope stuff, thanks!
Cool, too bad her album can’t do the same
let me know when she sells a total of 150K albums
#JustWaitOnIt
2 IGGY AZALEA GRAND HUSTLE/DEF JAM 54,559 — THE NEW CLASSIC 54,559
2 5 IGGY AZALEA GRAND HUSTLE/DEF JAM 21,995 -60% THE NEW CLASSIC 76,554
5 14 IGGY AZALEA GRAND HUSTLE/DEF JAM 15,412 -30% THE NEW CLASSIC 91,966
14 11 IGGY AZALEA GRAND HUSTLE/DEF JAM 15,005 -3% THE NEW CLASSIC 106,971
11 10 IGGY AZALEA GRAND HUSTLE/DEF JAM 22,000 +42% THE NEW CLASSIC 128,971
150k is still horrible….that’s not a good goal at all lol
also both of these songs success has nothing to do w/ her….ppl like Fancy cuz of the hook and ppl like “Problem” cuz of Ariana
In hiphop 150k is a great number. Half of you freeloaders don’t buy the album anyway you just stream it or steal it. She’s selling as many albums as Atmosphere and she don’t even make any money of her album. She gets that show money just like every other main stream artist. The album sale number is only prolongs promotion and increases her budget. She don’t see that money anyway. Name your favorite rapper that isn’t in TDE, MMG, YMCMB, Mac Miller, Tech, Em, 50, Ye, Jay etc. You can literally count them on your hands and your feet. Now think of how many artists there are and tell me 150k isn’t good.
Atmosphere still grinds independently on a street level. If people dont see that Iggy is obviously a artists that highly supported by multiple major labels then I dont know what to tell you. Her songs get played on every major outlet in the music industry period. You think she’s just grindin these records off the strength of her music and her hustle? NO. She just performed at the Billboard music awards twice in one show. I think they saw the success of Nicki Minaj and said hey lets make a white Nicki and we can sell 4x as much. The difference is Nicki started actually in the streets of Queens with nothing to her name but lyrics in her notepad. She had to prove herself over the course of years in different clubs and cyphers without any label help. The first time I every seen Iggy, she was sitting next to T.i and T.i was saying she was gonna be this and that. Then I hear her singles all over the place and each time her shit aint work she got another chance with a major paying for the song and the video. Iggy is a industry of rich music people all behind her product and thats why its selling. Nicki had to build up hype through mixtapes and Dvd hip hop mixtapes.
Dam man just give the bitch credit when it due ma haters.
When can give her credit along with her major labels but if you wanna cosign a comment where a comparison was made between her and Atmosphere (Slug)? I dont think so.
All he’s doing is explaining the dynamics of her success in regards to Nikki. I swear someone coins the phrase “hater” and you dummy’s use it all out of context. You people use that word to shut down valid information,valid arguments, opinions, and factual information. It’s like logic is an invalid argument, everything is off limits without being called a “hater”
Some time’s “haters” tell the truth.
Nicki ain’t make shit until that bitch had an ass and titis put on her and lil Wayne saying she dope. You muthafuckas must’ve forgot you ain’t even hear of that bitch until somebody on a major label with money got behind her. She didn’t drop shit you heard of until then. Keep it real and get off Nicki dick. Make way for other people to come up cuz one bitch ain’t ran the game by herself siince Sheila E. You dummy’s
I’d say you are right all except for one point. She proved herself on that ‘Monster’ track with jay and rick ross back when. She did have the best verse. I would say that regardless of what leverage she had this is what tipped the scale for even the most loyal rap lovers. Myself included. I felt…damn. She’s on something now. She proved she has a skill that’s not so basic afterall.
Anyone commenting on Iggy should realize that no matter how much backing she has NOW…she came from fuckin Australia…like, if nothing else, she earned her connections HERE and should be given credit for that. Not to mention she kill a few good tracks. Lady Patra to me is her strongest track. Her versatility really shows on it. She doesn’t just know how to rap, she knows how to manipulate her voice, tone, everything to make it a truly artist endeavour. I mean if she really is Australian and sounds like one, then her music is an accomplishment because of how much of a transition it is.
Yeah all of that is credible but you are still missing the point. You are saying that 150k is a bad number. Atmosphere sells records like they do because they have a dedicated fan base. Mpls and St. Paul put them on their backs. Hence how Rhymesayers got started. Selling less than 150k per album. Given there were multiple artists but you have to put it into perspective. Ant and Slug get all their album money and no radio play, Iggy gets nothing and has the number 1 and 2 songs in the country. Radio songs sell tickets to shows for those people who don’t have a fan base that Atmosphere has. I don’t care about her music in anyway its just you saying 150k is a bad number is ignorant. You are basing it on Drake numbers. When Kendrick sold 100k after the first week Interscope was like oh shit lets promote him because he did that 100k on his own. The more money you bring in the more money they’ll put out.
if this goes Gold. i want you to kill yourself.
That’s dope. Much success to u and yours!! Well deserved the most hated on snow bunny since Paris hilton
why niggas still act like album sales = it’s a great album. Many dope artist won’t sell shit, but albums still better than most of the top ones. You lil niggas live off sales, instead of liking what you want
Because this whole post is about being hot on the charts ie selling records which relates to album sales…
so this is what todays fans are buying smh
Yeah but how much money did her label(s) spend on those songs for placement and promo?
felicidades!!
That’s the machine working!
All you fake barbie bitches crack me up. FUCK NICKI. IGGY’s here to take the crown. its over.
don’t be a retard. how can she take a crown with less than 200k in sales ? …nicki has multi platinum albums & singles.. just be cool with your fanboy artist being included in a conversation…wait till she actually accomplished something…
get a grip man…these hoes aint loyal
Clearly this is some bulshit steady losing respect for billboard and there charts
336,000 ppl bought this song the past 7 days.
Get a rotation in LA primetime radio. check. Get single sales. check.
I heard her album = Weak Sauce. But those singles are catchy..but that album is really trash shyt
they kill me with this… billboard positions are so unnecessary to watch now days. depending on how slow the week is an artist selling as low as 2k units can be in the top 10..
and this hype machine..lawd!! they will quickly say “she sold the most singles on a thursday that was sunny than any artist in the history of recorded music… ” she’s a history maker…a chart leader and the queen of all things hip hop!! LOL
they try to use all these old ways to hype up an artist..selling 120k albums doesn’t make a “queen” of anything as we’ve been “sold” this last few weeks…its a machine churning people…obviously a hard working PR dept with results…but a machine none the less. it doesn’t make her offering a better one, the album needs good songs…and it doesn’t have them
only hot cuz of them other two white bitches giving her that stimulus package
like Alicia Keys on Empire State of Mind
Jay put in more then a decade of work before that hook from Alicia though. So its safe to ay he brought some fans with him to that song beforehand.
say
he never went #1 on hot 100 before that. his fans wasnt buying his songs LMAO
They weren’t buying his songs, but they damn sure was buying his albums. Who worries bout number one singles when you have number one albums??? Seriously
The nigga sold 50 million records (singles included) before Empire State fool.
Congrats to the label for pushing those singles with marketing $$$. SMH FOH
Guys take a moment to access this, Props to Iggy, but you don’t really think she has out done Nicki right?
she sold over 223K albums
ya know thats like paltinum for Ricky ross. to funny she will go platinum before he does lol.
WHY IGGY AZALEA DOESNT RUN HIP-HOP
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/olivia-cole/dear-forbes-this-is-why-i_b_5366159.html
force.feed…lol, talk about white privilege. At the end of the day the bottom line numbers will indicate that she’s a failed music industry experiment. And we will never have to see or hear from her or anyone like her ever again.
@ B.Dot
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i could keep going….
but whats the use, we’ve lost our voice to the money, execs have killed our genre but i will say that hip hop is in our hearts and will never die…middle index!
nigga shut up
mouse pad mobster or keyboard killa? which one are you? you clowns fall victim to this blog society and comment on truth when you are so blind to what my comment reps. Ask your self just how “strong enough” you are from behind that keyboard and say it to anyones face, let alone ME! by all means, kill your self. #middle #index
Keyboard killa nigga. BANG BANG with typos
When i saw her on the cipher bet awards i knew she would blow up. go gurl…
she still whack A/F
can she hold this dick tho ?
T.I spent a lot of money to get this done hahaha
This bitch sells her body out and you comparing her with Mrs. Hill?!
Oh boy…
feminem effect
Grindin