By: Amanda Anderson-Niles
It was originally reported that Nicki Minaj would most likely sell around 155k to 165k in her first week of sales for the “Pinkprint” but now that the final numbers are in, the rapper should be happy to know she’s exceeded the projections.
And R&B singer D’Angelo managed to officially sell a little over 100k for an album he only announced a day or so before releasing.
Here are the final numbers via Hits Daily Double:
Now who said she flopped?
Nicki didn’t do so bad after all. She sold 100,000 more than what Iggy sold her first week.
Those are respectable numbers Nicki did. For D’Angelo those numbers are great for no promotion.
Barbee I told you I think the breakup thing is just a stunt but I do think it helped her sell more in the end. She will at least go gold with this album. So she’s no flop indeed.
So happy for both. Especially D’Angelo.
Well Nicki damn sure sold more albums the first week than Ariane Grande is. Nicki is pulling pop girl numbers. Miley, Katy and the rest of them (except Taylor) do about 200-275k the first week.
Congrats to both. They did good.
Yasssss!!!! I’ve been on my black power kick lately so I bought both these albums and Azealia’s too. I don’t regret buying any of them.
This is not accurate. You can go to billboard.com and see that Cole sold 354k in album sales. Im not checkin for Nicki so idk what she has but you Barbz may wanna check it out.
At this rate J Cole will go gold in like one more week. I love it.
Iggy could never.
Good News
nicki did good
I see the TI/Iggy thread was closed (as it should have been) since it got really nasty and racist on there, but I’ll just leave my thoughts on here.
I’m happy for Nicki but I can’t help but be saddened that black artists who make better music have to work so hard to be recognized and get Grammys now in 2014. We as a people need to wake up and come together. Speaking up for our race and demanding that people be held accountable is not a bad thing, groupthink or stupid. We have to fight for our race not only when it comes to police treatment, but how we’re treated in all avenues. That’s the only way we can progress as a race. Iggy is wrong for what she said. It was a hurtful thing to say and she needs to own it and stop trying to make it seem like black people are just mad at her because she’s white. We’ve never been that kind of people. We’re a very welcoming and forgiving race. More so than whites. But when you disrespect us, you have to own it. She has not owned it and still tries to play victim. In a way, she behaves like a sociopath. Kind of like how the white police officers act when we protest against them for killing unarmed black men. They never want to admit they’re wrong and they blame us for our own deaths. It’s so problematic. And here is Iggy and her supporters, blaming us for being upset about her slave master lyric when we were not the ones who rapped it. They’re oddly saying, how dare you be mad about that! How dare you be mad that Iggy is using white privilege to succeed in life! Pay attention people.
That’s my 2 cents. Peace.
I actually just checked the notifications from that thread it was pissed that it was closed.Many may have taken the things I said out of context yesterday, or it could have been the way I executed my view. I got chance a while ago to do what I advised everyone else to do is to really sit back and read and understand what was being said. Sometimes when you are in a debate with people your goal is to get your point across or possibly persuade people to view it as you see it, as I did yesterday I more concern with my way.Everything that you said above I absolutely agree with. What I was trying to say yesterday that this bigger than Iggy. I mean they have a movie coming out called the Gods of Egypt with an all white cast as if it’s not a fact that our dark skin is all over the walls of ancient Egypt. Until They took away I identity, they call us African Americans. What part of Africa? What part of America? People in Africa don’t even considered themselves Africans. They took away I identity making it almost impossible for us to be traced. They are satisfied with us wanting to fight for equality because at the end of the day to them they see as we are fighting to be equal them our opressors. Once we start to reclaim who we really are and take back what was stolen then that’s when they are going to have a problem. I think I went a little to the left with this, we all know Iggy isn’t worth all the hype but telling it to Iggy doesn’t change the game, another will be come on the seen and we do all over again.
People were talking like Nicki was flopping. Her numbers ain’t bad at all.
I love D’Angelo’s new album.
I’m only here for Dangelo and J Cole.
These gimmick artists are struggling to sell yet real music can sell without any hit singles. J Cole and D’Angelo are the real winners.