By: Amanda Anderson-Niles
Rapper Nelly has had an amazing career in Hip Hop, and not many artists can say they’ve sold 21 million albums during the peak of their career (Billboard). Nowadays rappers are struggling to sell albums, and top rap artists such as Drake and Jay Z are lucky they can even pull half a million records sold in just one week alone. Despite the music industry struggling with low album sales, Nelly has made it clear that he wasn’t ready to hang up the mic and give up on his music career. So the St. Louis rapper decided to drop another album, “M.O.,” but if the first week sales projections are any indication, it appears Nelly’s comeback will be an uphill battle.
According to Hits Daily Double, Nelly is only expected to sell about 12-000 to 15,000 copies in the first week of his new album’s release. This is a huge blow to the rapper considering his track “Get Like Me” with rap’s biggest female star Nicki Minaj didn’t take off on the radio stations like he thought it would. The track is a catchy joint and was even produced by hit maker Pharrell Williams, but it just wasn’t enough to put Nelly back in the forefront of rap.
On the new album, Nelly recently told the Juice via Billboard that he’s grateful to have lasted this long in the industry:
“This [is] my seventh album and when you’ve been fortunate enough to be in any career 12-13 years, re-inventing yourself and staying hungry in that career is your biggest challenge. You get a chance to do things and change things around but also having to remind yourself that you do have a core audience that like what they like from you. You have to take that core audience and try to get a new audience and combine that with walking the line that a lot of people haven’t been able to do thus far.”
Now that is just sad. Time to hang it up Nelly. You had a good run.
I didn’t even know he had a new album out! Smh.
Terrible.
Embarrassing! But I didn’t even know he had a album out oh well not surprised nobody checking for him anymore. Now y’all can’t talk about Ciara anymore lol
He’s made a lot of money and had a lot of hits. He shouldn’t be ashamed. Music has just changed so much since he was on top. I’m sure he has enough money regardless. Well I hope so anyway.
Nah, I read he was broke as hell and that’s why he was trying to rap again.
LOL damn he makes Ciara look like Jay Z with those numbers!
I agree,he made some good music back in the day.
Yikes. I didn’t even know he had new music out. Sounds like his label dropped the ball.
People don’t care about Nelly anymore. I sure don’t.
Wow. Damn Nelly. Time to retire bruh.
Him and Ashanti are trying to come back. Problem is they waited too long.
LOL that is crazy. I guess when the public moves on, that’s it.
See this is why Rihanna drops an album every year! The public moves on fast!
Well, not to be rude but, is anyone even checking for Nelly anymore?
I almost got in a fight with this idiot a week ago for taking his picture. He was in my face and demanding I delete his picture. I argued with his a-s for a bit but eventually deleted his picture and told him I didn’t want it anyway. Met many celebs and this guy is by FAR the worst!! I hope he is broke. He only gambles at the casino with a few hundred bucks at a time so the rumors may be true!