Cardi B’s debut album, Invasion Of Privacy, has been out less than 24 hours and it’s already earned a gold certification from the RIAA.
For those wondering how the superstar rapper could pull off such an overnight feat — it’s all thanks to her smash hit “Bodak Yellow.”
The chart-topping single was certified 5x platinum by the RIAA in February. Ten track units equal one album sale, which means Invasion of Privacy has moved 500,000 units based on the strength of “Bodak Yellow.”
But despite “Bodak Yellow’s” monster sales, those units won’t contribute toward Invasion of Privacy‘s first-week sales total.
The early success of Invasion Of Privacy is essentially the cherry on top of the Bronx rapper’s history-making year. Last September, “Bodak Yellow” dethroned pop princess Taylor Swift from the top spot on the Billboard’s Hot 100, making Cardi only the second female rapper to score a solo #1 hit since Lauryn Hill’s 1998 track, “Doo Wop (That Thing).”
Then, she became only the third artist in Billboard Hot 100 history to have their first three singles in the Top 10 at the same time. [apple_news_ad type=”any”]
On top of all that, Cardi got engaged to Migos rapper Offset, will be Saturday Night Live’s musical guest on Saturday (April 7) and is scheduled to co-host The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon next week.
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That new math to make it seem like that album aint garbage. But….it probably is.
Thanks for this important update HHDX. We’re all pissing ourselves with excitement for Cardi B.
You are soooooooo welcome.
Yessss!! That’s my boo! She stay winning!!
The single is 5 times platinum. Learn how to read you imbecile
Still doesnt make sense at all. You should not get Albums Sales added when no Albums where sold
Bogus Gold…
WTF!!! How Can you get Album Sales for sold Singles?? How does that make sense?? Its as stupid as getting Single Sales added for people watching youtube Videos
Streaming changed the game bro, that’s why when Spotify recently went public. Sony sold their shares and made billions off of it.
Still doesnt explain how you get albums sales added by selling singles. It makes no sense at all. Just seperate it. Thats why you have Album Charts and Single Charts
Where was this mathematics when I was in college. Very Simplified. I can dig it. 1+1=10,000
hell naw!!! She has to sell 500,000 of the album to get gold album sales….cheatin’ bastards!!!
@da commanda….Exactly!!!…here they go trying to deceive the masses with a new bullshit method of creating interest in this fukktard album for millennials..FOH…. last time I checked, going Gold means selling 500k albums …..Period!
So basically when you stream Bodak Yellow from invasion of privacy itself it counts as a sale for the album
Smart for Atlantic’s overhead calculations…. Cardi was their horse they better on and won, keeping their jobs
RIAA and Billboard have been devalued.
fuuuuuck there is actually a legit comparison between Ms. Hill and Cardi…dayum shame….
Fool’s gold! But seriously, this whole streaming and digital age has really changed album sales for sure. I haven’t cared about album sales in forever, but this is definitely a new method I’m seeing. So one multi platinum single goes towards an album’s sales? When did this start happening?
More idiotic crap for the masses. Getting privacy invaded iz trendy nowadays. People are fast becoming willing servants to surveillance.
This site stay slurping Cardi Smh
Wait, what?
It’s like giving trophies away to the challenged kids nowadays. lol. A lot of these garbage ass rappers ain’t selling that much man. Streaming and single sales? Really?
the music industry is falling apart !! i cant believe its so easy now to become gold,platinum,diamond so fast with no units sales yet or how to say how much in the 1st week or something !! why these idiots didnt Certified bone thugs and wu tang last year ? those 2 albums for me were the best albums of 2017
when a talentless artist like Cardi B is getting gold that’s when you understand the state of hip-hop is fucked up