Another day, another Twitter rant. During this round, Nicki Minaj fired off tweet after tweet blaming Kylie Jenner, Travis Scott, their daughter Stormi and Spotify after Queen fell short of the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart.
On Sunday (August 19), Nicki clearly had some extra time on her hands to claim Queen — not Scott’s Astroworld — is the No. 1 album. She attributes Astroworld‘s success to bundles, which include meeting Jenner and Stormi.
It all started with a screenshot of Jenner’s Instagram post. In the caption, she says Scott told her he knows he doesn’t have the No. 1 album this week.
“Travis sold over 50K of these,” Nicki wrote. “With no requirement of redeeming the album! With no dates for a tour, etc. I spoke to him. He knows he doesn’t have the #1 album this week. I love my fans for the #1 album in AMERICA! I’ll explain on #QueenRadio 4 albums in, #1 in 86 countries.”
Nicki then demands Billboard changes its criteria for counting album sales.
“I looked at the numbers the Carters, Kanye, Nas, etc recently did,” she wrote. “Travis sold 200K in his first week of clothes alone. I spoke to him last night & he said he’s been selling clothes b4 the music. Billboard says they’ll change the rules cuz of this, so it should be changed now!”
From there, Nicki continued pointing the finger at Jenner and Stormi.
“I put my blood sweat & tears in writing a dope album only for Travis Scott to have Kylie Jenner post a tour pass telling ppl to come see her & Stormi,” she wrote. “lol. Im actually laughing. #Queen broke the record of being number 1 in 86 countries. Thank Jesus & thank you to my fans.”
After a brief respite, the self-proclaimed Queen of Rap returned with more ammo, but this time it was aimed at Spotify. She explained that because she played material from Queen slightly early on Apple Music, Spotify punished her and caused her numbers to drop.
“Do you know how many women get systematically blackballed out of their positions in an office building & can’t fight back?????” she continues. “Do you know how many people subscribe to my Spotify page?????
“Spotify put drake’s face on every playlist but told me they’d have to teach me a lesson for playing my music 10 mins early on #QueenRadio. Even tho they’ve been giving away my music for free for years & I am one of the top Spotify artists of all time.”
She added, “My music went up on Apple so I played it. I assumed it was on Spotify & Tidal at the same time. Spotify said that Apple tweeted fans advising #Queen was up & therefore they had to teach me a lesson. But PRAISE BE TO GOD!!!!!!”
Nicki also dragged pop princess Ariana Grande into it but revealed she had Grande’s support.
“My label didn’t want to defend me for fear of Spotify trying to teach Ariana a ‘lesson’ too!” she said. “Ariana hit me & said ‘FUCK EVERYONE, GO AWF SIS!” I love ha.”
As Nicki’s rant came to a close, she seemingly backpedaled and tried to suggest she was just playing around.
“People are calling me thinking I’m huffing & puffing,” she said. “Omg y’all this is sarcasm/dry humor. Yikes. I’m having the most iconNIC time. Come let me kiss you. ???? Who’s coming to the secret show? When people call me & hear me crackin up laughing they seem so puzzled. Loosen up.”
Nicki promised she will address all of this on the next episode of the recently launched Queen Radio on Apple Music, which airs on Tuesday (August 21). [apple_news_ad type=”any”]
“My first album sold 400K. No one is doing that with debut albums now,” she said. “So I’m so grateful. I lost out on 12 hours of sales and did 200K in one week after I was supposedly cancelled. I bit my tongue last #QueenRadio but I won’t On Tuesday. I love you guys so much.”
This bitch is so insecure. What a sore loser. Pathetic.
So uh, Nicki, what’s that thing you said about having thick skin? Lol, damn, having a #2 album and you’re having a Twitter meltdown and pointing fingers at everyone but yourself. Even after sneaking in that “FEFE” song on your album, you still didn’t get top spot. #1 in 86 countries? Lol. If my boo Drizzy has an album debut at #2 (which will never happen, pbbbt, c’mon), he wouldn’t be acting like this. But I’m sure fake drug dealer Pusha T would after failing to take down the biggest artist in the game.
Failed?…ms drizzy ran from tht smoke..lmao*
How you gonna drop an album called QUEEN but you acting like a princess?
Because her album sales were not properly accounted for. She sold at least 390k more than that.
-Nicki Minaj
Shes making herself look desperate and extremely insecure… without all the adding songs and other things she did her album would have sold 120k. Shes been cold for a bit, those are great numbers. You aint cardi, shes the hottest in the business, at least for now. Accept it and move on! You been on a crying rant for 2 weeks now. Take the L and move on…
Yeah yeah yeah, this bimbo making excuses with her it’s me against the world BS. Take your corny ass album and ride off into the sunset.
This is the same behavior Iggy displayed before her disappearance. Nicki supposed to be better than that.
She had to be drunk or something. Sounding like Hillary Clinton after she lost.
Drake is a girl. Nicki is a dude. K thx guys
Nikki the new 2007 britney
Time for her career to be aborted. No humility. Again, insecure and can never let her music speak for itself because she makes mediocre music of insignificance. She has more nerve than artistic execution. She was given too much, too soon. Only people who have this lunatic in rotation are her mental midget idolaters and their gay male friends who they give up yams to. Nicki makes that dysfunctional bad bitch music
This is how a Queen acts?…bitch dont dare bring up God/Jesus..ol evil butt hurt ass.lol
This buck a bum
brought to you by Doug Ford
imagine selling you soul and dignity in change for success and then not getting the price you expected
What a sad bitter bitch to react this way by not catching the one spot in this country. I mean did she really tweet this shit?
I think she’s forgetting the album is just average at best.
Like most queens, shes a spoiled brat
Nicki Minaj got to go back to the Pink Print when she launch her clothing line and decided to put them in K Mart across the states I said to my self great business move because K Mart was the only place you could get lay away year round something happen in K Mart board room and the Hustle left . Nicki Minaj would’ve been getting that back to to school money .
That album got max 6 alright songs on it. Add that to the way shes acting. She dont deserve any of the numbers she put up this week. With that being said, I was also expecting to see Nickis face all over ever damn spotify list this week. I got so many adds for that scorpion album it was nuts. So she might be on to something as far as Spotify is concerned. Everything else is bs. And if the album was dope, it would do numbers regardless because of her pre excisting fame. Whatever. Ima put some Rah Digga on right now. Peace
Remy MA was right about this broad. That’s why nobody likes this bitch in the industry. Stop poppin pills cum for brains
She goin through something… She’s off them percocets bad then a mutha fucka
Nicki mental breakdown. She can’t stand not being worshipped as the best
Thats a whole lotta insecurity right there
Ya know?? Nicki is petty, and it doesn’ take Stevie Wonder to see it. THis is probably one of her better albums. So what if she’s didn’t get number one. She’ll be good in time. This whole YM thing of just trying to acquire accolades for number one hits should take a back burner and more concentration on releasing content for the fans. This goes for Drake too. I understand upping your value by being on hits, finding the next one hit wonder and riding on their wave. You have nothing to prove. Just make music and be happy you are where you are. Bitch be humble…
Her last album sold 198k in pure sales. So even if she went to number one bitch still sold only 78k. Queen of a really small nation. Next time release a better single and make a better album and stop complaining.
“Queen of a really small nation.” Thats hilarious.
Especially when you think Pac and Will Smith used to sell 10 MILLION physical copies an album.
These kids like Drake, and Nik are cute talking numbers when if you compare real numbers they don’t compete with the average from back then.
Jigga too, he talks numbers don’t lie well you’ve sold 35 Million your career Tupac sold over 100,000,000 in a 1/3 of the time.
To be fair that was back when you actually had to buy albums to listen to them. When you can stream them or straight up download them for free albums aren’t going to sell as much. That’s across the board too no one in any genre is selling like they used to. Also Pac had a huge boost in sales after his death while you still had to buy albums and he’s got over 20 years on drake and nicki.
Thank you for explaining this to the people. I can carry on
You mean back when you didn’t have 1/10 of the marketing tools you have today?
No social media, no internet, no YouTube for your videos and bootleggers where everywhere, you that back then?
Also Pac sold 10 million copies ALIVE and he only had 5 years of life to promote 7 movies, and 7 albums plus tours, shows, interviews, music videos, and fucking jail time.
Boohoo, I hate it when these celebrities start crying and complaining……you’re getting rich from other peoples money…….you have no real value!!!!!!! You do this to get rich and get attention.
Bird.
Poor marketing tricks made to sell more of this average album
Haven’t heard shit from her in months and now she’s everywhere acting bitter as fuck.
Whatup New Azalea Banks. (Or however you spell that bints name)
Nicki’s attitude is trash and her album is extra wack. This was extra corny and so foolish of her. SHE IS DONE!
Hilarious how these artists think they’re actually selling records in 2018. These streaming totals are complete BS. If you believe those skewed numbers then you’re a fool.
Haha stupid bitch just wait til the following weeks, the numbers will be non existent. Embarrassing for the top artist of a gender, supposedly.
Its funny as hell to me because you don’t see this shit with someone like Adele, or Carrie Underwood, they just craft their albums to tell their stories, no pandering or catering to gimmicks and every album they knock it out the park both critically and in terms of sales.
Rappers are the corniest muthafuckas on Earth, when have we ever seen, like ever, a country singer acting like this and showing their ass on social media crying?
youre right but then again noone talks about those artist there never trending on anything so they never feel the need to show there ass as u would say… when people always have something to say about you some people cant help but get involved in the conversation about them… nobody is talking about adele or carrie underwood album sales nobody reports them but hip hop sales always get reported and talked about and compared online so when people always have something to say about you dont expect everyone to not say anything in return most artist are sensitive about there shit
Your comment was non sense Bro. No one ever talks about Adele’s album sales? Fuck outta here. That’s all they talk. About when she drops a new album because she does record numbers and kills everyone every time. She also only drops an album every four or five years, and it’s usually a game changing classic. Not that I’m an Adele stan…but I read the news and dont have the attention span of a baby mammal..so I tend to remember these things
Same thing that makes you laugh will make you cry. Rap music is dead anyway. And all these spineless new school artists have kicked dirt on the casket. Killed the golden goose with all that radio friendly Nickelodeon music, now they mad cause the 12 year old fans they had are growing out of them. Make music for grown ups and that won’t happen. Peace.
These tweets read as if Trump wrote them….yuck….Nicki grow up and focus on music
I wonder how much of this is all a long con from no talent Travis .. the relationship .. the baby .. then the album .. which fucking sucks cuz it’s so vapid and empty.
Nah bro album is solid at least 8/10
Hey are you paid to write positive comments about this album ? Every song sounds the same, the lyrics and features are trash, get some taste?
Maybe it was # 2 cause it was a pile of # 2?
How long did that one take you
She done lost her mind. Can’t handle the fact that Cardi B is running rap now. Fall back ma you had a good run!
Cardio? Good run?
sore loser for real she is
Loser for sure you are
i mean she’s not wrong the billboard system now fucking sucks and doesn’t really represent album sales anymore. who the fuck doesnt go platinum now
Nicki obviously…..lmao…
Nah, but seriously. Nicki only claim to being the best is her numbers, that’s all that matters to her. With Cardi steadily beating up the charts and just being a more likeable person, well, she’s beating Nicki right now. Instead of embracing this, Nicki is pulling a Trump and playing to her base because they’re the only who give a fuck about her rants.
Truth isn’t truth
It’s funny how pretty much every comment on here is all in agreement about Nicki’s antics. Bitch, just be happy you’re at least in the top 3 for now, stop crying and acting like it’s the end of the world that you’re #2 on the charts. Haha!
Lmao!!!! What’s even funnier is that she knew Ariana Grande was going to outsell her on the 17th Release date which was the date she had pushed her album back to, so she moved it back to the 10th because she just knew she had no competition, lmao!!!!! And she got beat out by Travis Scott of all people…..lol…
SO FUCKING WHAT TUPAC SOLD MORE THAN JAY…HE GOT A BOOST IN SALES AFTER HE DIED, DUMMY…JAY ONLY SOLD 35 MILLION BUT IS BY FAR THE GOAT. ALSO COMPARE THEIR BAGS SINCE U WANNA TALK…JAY WORTH 910 MILLION AND HAS THE BADDEST CHICK IN THE GAME. FOH. PAC A WORKER, JAY A BOSS. FLATOUT
BIGGS you haven’t been relevant since the insert on the Reasonable Doubt Cover. Stick to doing them Reasonable Doubt “pop-up” shops in NYC and STFU you Jay-Dickrider.
u bitches r hung up i’d rather suck dicks and tunged by boys then talk to u ass holes 😉 im a fucking girl btw;p
u r a bitch come fuck me if u dare wait……u cant u dont know where i live btw im a girl bitchy;p
Don’t be cruel, it’s really sad. How will she buy that new 6 bedroom villa on Maibu this Thursday? Maybe she has wait until the weekend. I’m sorry about the situation. Keep your head up Nicki!
When are we gonna have a female rap group that’ll bring that fun energy like TLC and Salt & Peppa did? I want that more than another Nikki Minaj or Cardi
Tranny is mad that he can’t keep it under wraps anymore that he is actually a Man.
huh?
Her album is really bad… like really really bad from a hip hop stand point. She should be happy we even allow her to make music
fuck that fuck u
Damn. Just take it as served Nicki.
LMAO @ adding the song with 69 the last minute cause it would count towards sales.
Nicki aint a lame, she bout her money, she loves this music thing…she has a point for the most part. She a Diva, but the most that we can get outer all this, is she most likely aint goin nowhere anytime soon despite her self proclaimed exagtatraed failures, and when a Diva speaks or yell, we better all listen.