Iggy Azalea’s The New Classic is expected to sell between 50,000 and 55,000 units in its first week of availability, according to HITS Daily Double.
The New Classic earned a 2.5 out of 5 in its HipHopDX review recently.
“In a now altogether too common meeting of marketing prowess and the expectations of a society in the throes of progression, Australian-born emcee Iggy Azalea’s debut album The New Classicis just that; a modern twist on mainstream marketing’s ideal of beauty and expectations from popular music,” HipHopDX says in its review. “Depending on perspective, Azalea unfortunately (or fortunately) follows in a long line of physically attractive blondes pushed to the stars by the music industry. In that being said instead of Azalea’s unique gifts as a lyricist being showcased, the album feels flat and uninspiring. This isn’t as much an enjoyable album as it is a brand marketing impact report highlighting percentages of target demographics reached.”
In October 2013, Azalea spoke about the album with HipHopDX. “There are moments on my album where you’ll go, ‘Whoa that was fucking left of field,'” Iggy said at the time. “It’s probably going to be 14 or 15 tracks, and I can tell you that three or four tracks are really far left compared to the rest of the body of work. I wish they could’ve all been that far left, but I have to make everybody happy. It’s more sonic experimentation than anything. Visually, I try to get away with what I can, but there’s always the issue of censorship.”
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She’s on track to sell more than Future who’s doing indie numbers on a major label.
Whats futures numbers looking like ?
40-45k
Both artists are bombing though.
That’s a shame, if Iggy outsells future and you supposed to be the “hottest.” That means your label aint doing you shit. This bitch almost out selling YG’s album first week, and that’s supposed to be a “classic.”
Let’s not pretend that Iggy’s sales are good either. She had tons of hype and is only on track to do slighty better than french montana. Pusha T and Gambino did not have anywhere near the hype yet sold more.
YG album sold 65,000 first week… and French sold 50,000 first week. Sucks for Future, everybody talking about his album but nobody buying it
they talking about how wack it is
Iggy about to sell more first week than French Montana and twice as much as DJ Khaled.
iggy will outsell future, the hottest artist in the game right now only because of her being white and having a major white following. We all know that’s true. Iggy is trash and a gimmick and Ti should be smacked for signing her stupid ass just to get a check, theres got to be a balance respect for the culture as well as get paid.
Well deserved. She’s an ivory goddess. Perfect ass and decent bars. Hip-hop needs more fine White women!
You sound like a huge uncle tom simp.
THESE DAYS BUILDING AN INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT IS BETTER THAN A MAJOR PUSH..LOYAL FANS WHO FUCK WITH YOU AS AN ARTIST WILL KEEP YOU EATING..YOU NOT GONNA MAKE JAY Z MONEY, OR MERCH MONEY LIKE MAJOR ARTISTS BUT YOU’LL HAVE A FAN BASE WHO FUCKS WOTH THE MUSIC YOU WANNA MALE..TYLER SOLD 100K FIRST WEEK SO DID MAC..GIMMICKS WILL LAST FOR SO LONG..PPL WILL FUCK WITH YOUR SINGLES THAT GO PLAT BUT IF YOUR ALBUMS TRASH, NO1 GONNA COP THAT..IGGY IS TRASH BUT IF YOU A TEEN GIRL, YOU’LL FUCK WITH IT
She just shitted on Khale and Montana!
QUEEN!
Both Iggy and Future are bombing.
I wonder what Future’s future looks like.
Damn, better then young money,kid ink, rich gang etc with just one single thats starting to pop, not bad my future wifey, not bad.
The only way it will sell thaT MUCH IS IF t.i. BUY HER ALBUMS CUS SHE BEEN GIVEN HIM THE PUN PUN. sHE IS GARBAGE AS HELL!
Fuck Iggy, Future, YG, French Montana and DJ Khaled. Y’all below me are fuckin the reason hip hop is going down the toilet if you are paying attention to the numbers of those wack artists.
i only pay attention to mock them
MORE THAN TYGA
MORE THAN ACE HOOD EVEN THOUGH HE WOKE UP IN A NEW BUGATTI AFTER SELLING 37k FIRST WEEK
Ace has what, 5 albums? He’s caked up regardless.
THE BEZEL FELL OFF HIS FAKE ASS ROLEX ON THE RED FUCKING CARPET
CAKED UP LOL
MORE THAN DJ KHALED EVEN THOUGH HE THE BEST
MORE THAN RICH GANG AND YOUNG MONEYS MOST RECENT FLOPS
I would be way more impressed if she did asap Rockys numbers her first week and went gold 5 months later instead of doing futures numbers her first week but hey she doesn’t have those big big promotions so it will be very tough for her to even go certified gold let alone platinum shit LOL I don’t know why I thought she would be doing similar numbers to nicki minaj or beyonce on her opening week lol never the less 55k is still cool for a newcomer like Iggy once she gets more known she may just do 255k on her next album or so we will see only time will tell whether the masses will accept her or not in this rap game
MORE THAN MMG’S SELF MADE 3
No doubt those are impressive numbers, especially in this day and age.
would only be impressive if she was indie
“YG album sold 65,000 first week… and French sold 50,000 first week”
What has Montana sold to date?
about 150k give or take a few hundred
for a WHITE FEMALE RAPPER she made history…..better than V NASTY…LOL….#IGGY 2014
Why is this bird constantly featured on these pages? Just because she has an OK-ish boat, she recieves more coverage than more talented, worthy female emcees like Invincible and Lady of Rage. Anyone with an iota of knowledge or passion for hip-hop knows her music’s pants. If DX continues to promote and give unjustified coverage to this bollocks, hip-hop will continue to wilt and perish.
Is lady of rage doing anything these days or should we just write news stories about her old songs.
Yeah, if you check out Premo’s HeadQCourterz show, you’d be more au fait with her new material she’s recorded with him and it shits all over this blonde bimbo you in explicitly hail so highly.
@ DX Staff……….Is Lord Jamar doing anything these days or do you just write news stories about his old songs?
And to answer your question. Yes, Rage just dropped a record with DJ PRemier….and you call yourselves a “hip hop” website….step your game up!
“Yeah, if you check out Premo’s HeadQCourterz show,”
Sorry I have better things to do on my Friday nights.
The New KKKlasic.
kkk? she loves them negroes mane,
LOL you know future is somewhere hanging himself right now crying in autotune. his album is supposed to do 45-50 and hes doing 50-55!! HAHAHA
She’s doing 50-55*****
yo this is a smack in the face to real hiphop this bitch aint got a hot single but sellin more than future I tell u now this wat they been waitin 4 a white female rapper that’s marketable if she sell 10million I wouldn’t be surprise
check itunes last time i looked she had the #1 hip-hop single
just another modern day albino culture bandit
dont get mad at her T.I. co-signed this bitch
Can’t believe this lame australian chick that raps in American accent n yous r buying this shit it’s gay as aids n I’m australian she’s a lame cunt n I’d piss on her face