Though she didn’t take the top spot in this week’s album sales, Nicki Minaj is more than happy with the result.
“I feel this weird calm feeling,” said Minaj to MTV News.
Pink Friday, the Young Money emcee’s solo debut, moved 375,000 units – the most sold be a female Hip Hop artist since 1998’s critically-acclaimed The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
“I’m just so grateful and kind of still in shock. These numbers haven’t been put up since 1998,” added Nicki. “It just makes me feel proud of my team, proud of my fans, everyone who has had something to do with my dreams. Finally, we are seeing this dream come to fruition. It feels incredible.”
Minaj was bested by Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which sold 496,000 in its first week.
Listen to the interview below:
Yo, Nicki’s album was hot but the best album was Gucci’s album. That shit went diamond in one week.
Stop buying that Nas shit… it flopped lol. Support the real niggaz like Gucci Mane and OJ Da Juiceman, Hip Hop legends since the 80s. All these new school cats like Nas and Eminem suck.
It’s GUCCI TIME
you got gucci dick in your mouth still? or did it come out when you were done writing what you just wrote.. faggot ass bitch nigga
Wait…what?
Wow…I never knew 60k was diamond. If that’s the case, then Nas’ Untitled went 3x diamond in its first week.
And for the rest of your comment, you got some serious dyslexia goin’ on.
HAHA typical Gucci fan, in denial about how many albums Gucci sold. Get your facts staight he did 100,000 which took like 3 weeks, then nothing. He wont ever even reach gold bruh
@Gucci Time: U got Gucci’s dick so far down ur throat. Since wen did Gucci’s album go platinum in a week?? Never, u dumb bitch. Quit fantasizin about that nigga u faggot. U sayin some irrelevant shit brah so how bout u get back to cleanin the glass where ya grandma puts her dentures
diamond? that shit barely pushin 100k in sales. gucci’s dope but his fans aint nothing but a buncha hood niggaz that will give him high ratings on livemixtapes cuz its free, but wont go out of there way to pay for there favorite rappers album. guccis fans aint loyal or they just to broke to buy albums or they too hood to buy albums or they rather be out killing people and selling drugs instead
GucciTime gucci mane and oj da juiceman represent the worst kinds of hip hop in the game, namely trap music and shit radio pop.
WOW LMFAO!!!! That has got to be one the funniest/stupid comments I’ve ever read on this site lol
go kill you self!
Like I said Nicki will be done in 6 months especially since Kim’s diss. LMAO
wow kims diss barley any views on youtube and that bitch hasnt put a cd out in 5 years you can keep dreaming stupid fuck
Quit mentioning Kim aka the ‘has-been.” And wtf u doin listenin to Kim’s music. U must relate to her when she speaks about suckin dick. U admire that bitch dont u. u and your little brother play dress-up, probably got autograph posters, faggot
dam nicki u came up short. well enjoy your 15secs of “success” cuz after this month/a new year the attention will be else where. going platinum aint looking too good for you either, that’s great cuz i don’t wanna see your lil sissy ass fans jumping up n down the day it happened.
@umad: Nigga, is “umad?” Just shut tha fuk up with that 15 seconds shit. Ya bitch told me thats how long u lasted in bed fetus face ass boy
yo u dumb she will sale 1 mill by march dumb ass do your math not even jay-z sold this much first week hahaha u a sissy ass hater
she wuz prolly holdin back more tearz of sadnezz dat she lost 2 kanye. cum money keepz losin evry time they drop an album.
GOOD MUZIK! GOOD MUZIK! GOOD MUZIK!
@maannndddyyyy: Here u go talkin shit, hoppin on Ye’s dick. Ye is an amazing artist but im startin to think that ur in love with tha nigga. We all know how lyrical and creative Ye is but gotdam quik suckin his dick. And y are u doin ur name like that. Who tha fuk u think u are, Aziz Ansari??? Keep pushin buggies, get yo grocery money bitch. Stay away from them trannies man
so she pushes 350,000+ first week, and chamillionaire’s ultimate victory pushed barely 80,000. absolutely uncomprehendable, r people even listening to what the music any more
why are you talking about an album that came out 3 years ago?
Haha Chamillionaire….Nigga please.
He’s just using it as a reference point. “Ultimate Victory” was a great hip hop album, as were plenty of albums that came out that didn’t sell anywhere near what this “Pink Friday” garbage has sold. A lot of great artists struggle to get attention for their work, and this nonsense is what’s selling because hip-POP radio and TV are more than happy to force-feed this shit down teens’ throats…
CHAMILLIONAIRE???? LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO
When someone mentions Chamillionare’s career: [crickets] Matter of fact, who tha fuk is Chamillionare…..oh, just another brokeass nigga who took a shot at rappin and sucked
co-sign, no one gives a fuck about Chamillionaire
YAY NICKI BREAKING RECORDS NO OTHER BITCH COULD EVEN SALE CLOSE TO THIS FIRST WEEK NOT EVEN KIMS LAST TWO ALBUMS FIRST WEEK SALES COMBINED LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO SOOOOO SADDD BUT SOO TRUE DO YOUR HOMEWORK KIDS CLASS IS DIMISSED LMAO
My 14 yr old daughter won’t even buy into this garbage…I tell her don’t fall for marketing ploys and try her best to have a spirit of discernment when it comes to hip hop music..this chick was in bronx hallways soliciting females a few years ago acting like a boygirl..PLEASE
THANKS NICKI MINAJ FOR SHOWING THESE DUMB BITCHS HOW TO SALE RECORDS AND HAVE NUMBER 1 SINLGLES CAUSE BESIDES MISSY THEY HAVENT BEEN DOING THAT SINCE 1998 HAHAHAHA KIM IS UGLY AND SHE DOESNT EVEN HAVE A RECORD DEAL AS OF NOW LMAO LMAO LMAO
lol first week album sales mean nothing, when she reaches the number of total Albums sold that lil kim did on her first album than Ill stop saying shes a gimmick. At the end of the day alot of artist put big numbers put she got about 600,000 more to go to hit platinum status, and 3 more platinum albums to go to upstage Lil Kim….just keeping it real… andon a side note why all her fans trannies, fem guys, or 14 year old girls just saying…
It’s funny reading all the hate posts. Its actually getting kind of ridiculous. I am in full agreement that Nicki’s album was not 1) A Hip Hop Album 2) An album for the guys. It was Pop Music Girl-Power situation that she intended an marketed (and she did it well). She put on the wig, made some faces, signed some boobs….and BOOM!!!! Gold Album in less than a month.
I can’t knock her hustle and neither should you. Let her get the money she’s working for and only time will tell her future in the rap game. I for one, think she will crossover completely to pop, but thats her prerogative and I respect it.
In 2011, celebrate people getting money and work on getting all that hate out ya blood. It’s contagious….
BTW Kanye=King of Hip Hop (for now)
I agree 100 percent. For u niggas out here this album is for bitches only. If u think otherwise, ur probably gay.
not a fan of minaj (unless its me and two breezys) but i gotta give her props.. she created her own lane, and is runnin with it.. she can spit, no doubt about it (no clue what her album sounds like, just off songs ive heard her in) but most of the time those voices and weird shit she does throws me off.. why hate yall?? you dont like it, dont listen.. its real simple…
ps.. fake or not, id smash…
i know u would smash. i think every guy and some women would smash that. its so cliche to even mention it by now. even regis fuckin philbin would smash
I bet lloyd banks isn’t too pleased with his first week sales.lol
This has got to be the gayest album ever. No one can buy this faggot bullshit. How does real artists like Celph Titled and Jedi Mind Tricks don’t sell but shit like M&M’s, some Jewish Canadian Child Star, a gay fish or this bitch sell? LISTEN TO REAL HIP HOP
PS Lupe Fiasco is gay too.
no man lupe is not gay your fucking mind
is gay
First of all your a fag for getting on here calling yourself Vinnie Paz. With that being said, I partially agree with you. But media is whats popular and obviously most people are blinded by popularity, money, and just conform to the rest of the worlds opinion and fuel artists that really don’t deserve the recognition. Charts shouldn’t be judged by sales and all that B.S. They should be judged on raw talent. Where your wrong is Lupe is very talented so is Eminem. Both lyrically gifted but so are the artists you named. You can’t be biased you just got to look at the music.
ARE U FUCKING RETATED DUDE?
Keith, your comment amuses me.
SMFH. Lupe probably fuck mo females than you.
Stop hating pussy!!!!
So basically how i see it is like this: She did work..
Yeah she’s a gimmick, and her music is atrocious but in America, it’s the popular that sells and gets played… I’ll give her her props and good on her for even being a female in a predominately male, homophobic genre and succeeding. She isn’t going to last long in the industry tho musically. The sound was everywhere and her album wasn’t cohesive. I expected more raw rhymes and beats, but ehhh… Came up short of a low expectation.
Anywho… I hear a lot of talk about Eminem, Kanye West, Chamillionaire and who ever else besides Nicki Minaj. It goes like this.
Record Sales does NOT equate Good Music.
Personally, MBDTF is the best album of the year musically, production-wise, and as an overall composition. You can have your opinions and those are fine don’t ever let anyone take those away from you. But Game recognize Game, and some of ya’ll talking G-Unit if you feel me. Analyze the music. Not just the genre or artist.
PS: @Vinnie Paz…. really my nigga??? Lupe Fiasco Gay???????? Go play in traffic with a blindfold
*pilot talk should be album of the year
hfm2 DUDE.
okay there have been other shining moments, but WHY MBDTF deserves album of the year.
It pushed the boundaries of what can be done with an mpc and some production equipment. It has been the best reviewed album of this year, and Kanye’s best ranked album (all though it may arguably not be his best) which takes the listener on a whole new mental journey. It’s emotional, funny, new, interesting, and just years further than other traditional hip hop albums. Just try and tell me that that album is a wast of effort…
HMF2 is definitely in the top this year, but Lloyd has lost attention due to the fact this is his 1st album in 6 years.
Pilot Talk is really decent, but not ‘there’ yet. I feel like he has the same vibe on every track and doesn’t adventure much mentally.
OTHER MENTIONABLES
Nottz – You Need This Music
Yelawolf – Trunk Muzik 0 – 60
PackFM – I Fucking Hate Rappers
also
The Roots – How I Got Over
Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
Rick Ross – Teflon Don
Janelle Monae – Archandroid
Erykah Badu – New Amerykah 2
All interesting, good, and respetable music releas
ya’ll forgetting TI dropping next week!!! but i have to agree as an overall package… kanye takes the cake with a side of fishsticks. nicki is absolute garbage though
Mood Muzik 4 is the best of the year. Fall back with that Curren$y trash.
i find it pretty suspect that her sales are exactly what was predicted a week earlier…. i bet its more like 375k shipped out to stores
First of all the only reason why Nicki’s trashy ass album is sellin is because her cd only cost $3.99 shit I’ll buy it too just for the hell of it lmaoo! She played dat shit smart by havin her album released around “black friday” So umm Nicki fans simmer down…some of yall are buyin like 5 albums to help her sales out lmmfao. Anyways I wanna hear her response after that Lil Kim diss
She will get stocked around 800-900k for sure, drake thank me later is already out of the charts after just about 25weeks and definitely going to do better than nickki.
If that much, curious to see how big the drop is this week
Lil Kim is somewhere punching a wall right now, lol
nicki album an kanye album both cost 12.99 the downloads was 3.00-4.00
fucking lames
dudes are hatin broads are buying this album up thats it aint no guys buying this for a girl she can spit ok but let the women have there day and whoever said lupe is gay your a fag why people hate cause there fav mc aint selling who cares roots might have the best album of the yr that shit didnt sell im still listening
Kim might not have sold that much in her first week but she got 3 multi platinum albums. Why this bitch don’t understand that no matter what she do it already been done first week sales don’t determine your total album sales we gone see what happen next week
in 2010 it kinda does
Open your eyes people…
Nikki Minaj has been promoted. Plain an simple. People have been talking about her for two years. She was just on That Regis Philbin show.
The reason why she is selling and other aren’t is simple: The label got themselves a gimmmick and they pushed it.
Its how labels used to do things…but now they only do it for the few they sign.
Ask yourselves, when was the last time any major artist was pushed so hard? Drake…yep he sells right? Soulja Boy was pushed and he sells. But artist like your Chammillionare, Joell Ortiz they get nothing.
Labels are not willing to spend money on promotion anymore. Minaj had a two year word of mouth push and then got massive promo.
Hip hop is commericial trash. Forget about it. Its simple…if you want real just search underground..its out there and it its good. It just takes a little more time to find it….
I bet half of the people hating didn’t even listen to the album, she kills some verses and the beats are fire, i bought it for my girl and pilot talk 2 and Ye for me
and when you do hear it, it’s the biggest Garbaj you’ll ever put your ears to in years.
Flow is nasty; COFFEE
yo girlfriend is fat yo
and why yall keep tripping on album sales, they dont mean shit they are just numbers, you really think curren$y cares how much he sells first week, no he is just putting great music out there for all the people that say they tired of mainstream music, so if you dont like the mainstream, then change it, but its straight to me pop is just club dance music and hip hop is better than it has been in the past ten years wiz, curren$y, big krit, smoke dza, mac miller, trademark da skydiver, lil basedgod,, gucci, yelawolf, big sean, j.cole, wale,drake,L.e.$,Rain, tay don,
listen to one album. Rip The Jacker, then see how hip hop declined from that point on. Yes there are some great artists now but for you to say that hip hop is better now than it was 10 years ago shows your lack of the culture’s knowledge.
Curren$y is whack
guy named himself currency… of course he cares about album sales!
did you really use lil b, gucci mane, and mac miller as examples of how hiphop is better now than in the past 10 years? the funny part is you only started listening to all those you just listed this year
Nikki is a man….and is as annoying as fuck
I’m not hating but nikki kills me acting like she didn’t expect her album to sell this much.
good job Lady 🙂
If any man went out and bought that album… just kill yourselves
Currensy is nice!!! He’s doin good to be on an indie type of label. And whatever nigga bout Nicki’s album needs to question their sexuality.
darkart….go kill yaself.
@Cee: Currensy is a monster nigga. U probly say that cuz u havent heard all of his music. But how bout u shut tha fuck up. I wont kill myself, but I will fuck yo bitch and make u watch
I HAVE 2 WORDS: JIM CROW!!!!!! PAINTED FACE, CLOWNING. WHILE THE GOVERNMENT IS PLOTTING 2 ENSLAVE US AGAIN. TALK ABOUT HOW UR CHILDREN WILL BE ENSLAVE BY 2020. MARKED BY THE BEAST!!! SINCE SOME PPL DONT READ BOOKS LOOK AT THE MOVIE, WALL STREET. CONTROL!!!! WAKE UP (L. FISHBORNE VOICE, SCHOOL DAZE)
@360: Do us a favor and shut tha fuk up, the fate of the world depends on it. Shove those movies up your ass. The government needs to enslave u bitch. Since u feel that way, how bout u go put on your cape ya grandma knitted with her teeth and save the world
Who cares about her album sales??? I just wanna smash.
a bra im with on that bra i wanna beat it up gd!
these days men are way more sensitive and emotional than women. u bird ass n1ggas prove it everyday. how u hatin on a female for doin her thing. if you dont liek ti dont listen. how hard is that. i hardly ever listen to the radio. too much music on the internet. gtfu sissies
Word up White Chocolate. Congratulations to Nicki for fullfilling her dream
ANYTHING can sell in America. Although people know she uses butt pads, got fake EVERYTHING, it doesnt matter. Face it, we like ANYTHING that is pushed down our throats. If you dont like it, your a hater. Time will destroy all this hype surrounding Nicki. When the machine runs out of gas and people begin to look at this whole thing realistically, they will say, WTF was we thinking! LOL i.e. Vanilla Ice, Pussycat Dolls,etc.
fuck all dem pussy ass niggas hatin on nicki 4 doin her thing.yall clown ass niggas more pussy than she is.lol
She aint doing her thing…diz aint a rap album fuckin wack ass techno pop songz on dere wit fuckin animated voices makin you think you madagascar meets Avatar or sum shit..
She is fake azz a bitch…..how do people support her….all i have to say..give it a year…dem totals goin down…drakes are going down….they have potential, i mean huge to start bein annoying and played out cause styles changes every year…and the ones who truly can rap and adapt will just be left and gone in the dark…watch soon
so what? a bunch of four year-olds and chickenheads bought her album. this bitch has absolutely no talent, along with 90% of everyone else
in the top 40
“I feel this weird calm feeling,” said Concerned Citizen about this article.
“It’s probably because the article made me defecate on myself.”, he went on to say.
Good for Nikki and Good for the ladies this create another lane for another female to come in and do her thing.
She has very creative flows.
soundclick.com/showtimeny
Out of this World the Ground breaking album coming soon!
I ain’t a niki fan…I don’t even like the cyborh shit she be on and a bunch of other shit i consider bull, it ain’t my style. But you niggas sayin she can’t spit, y’all need to stop bullshittin yourselves.
I saw this clip on youtube about her and snippets of her ablum, so I decided to listen, now i’m feelin like i might have misjudge the girl. She still fake as shit (like the suddenly British shit) and I don’t see me copin shit of hers, she does flow for kids and very yonug adults, but i’m sayin she got talent. If you listen to more of what her album content has to offer, from what I heard on the snippet alone (I can’t believe i’m promotin this bitch) is enough to let me know she workin wit some good lyrics and some real life underneath all that bullshit.
I’ll keep an open ear for her growth. And she’s already talented. Like a mother fucker. Lyrically she sharper then many broads. It’s just the promoted content that throws me…..then again, it ain’t like I follow the broad, so the airplay shit that comes across my ears from her, just..na….hell na. She got room to grow. She has her crowd.
I’m just mainly proud of her accomlishments. It inspires my digital download dreams, just without no major label in my way.
I think I speak for the whole of hip hop collectively when I say…. WHO GIVES A FUCK ABOUT FEMALE MC’S!!
Deny it if you want, but you know its true.
i agree. i have yet to hear a female emcee that i genuinely like. not rah digga, not jean grae, damn sure not lil kim, i actually much preferred when lauryn hill sang rather than rapped
Check out Dessa. Mary J. Blige raps occasionally, and she’s still dope. Badu raps, but it’s folkish to old school style rapping and admittedly not often. Brilliant still.
Also, if you haven’t caught her yet, check out Kneka off Decon Records. AMAZING! (with a religious thread that often prevents full recognition, but the music speaks for itself regardless of the individual messages that may be disregarded by many)
So yes, many people don’t give female lyricists a chance, but there are a small few that know what they are doing and carry on a proud tradition of female rappers.
=:xB
Sorry, I thought her album was well put together for a first album but it is not hip hop. It is an absolute pop/r-n-b album.
Honestly, only female MC I ever felt was Rah Digga. 90% of female MC’s fall into two categories: Sluts or Bull Dykes
A handful here and there that dont. Eve walked the line pretty well, I respected her image for geing kinda fly without doing an open leg photo shoot or Walkin around in some baggy jeans like “What up son”, only problem with her was the lyrics werent very good.
Nicki is the Sarah Palin of rap. Look at her picture on the main page. She loves to make those silly faces for the cameras.
At the end of the day who cares if female rappers are any good? It’s all about the money. A lot of rappers in general don’t make quality music.
Most of the posters on this website have probably bought a couple of these over hyped rap albums. Nowadays any decent CD is consider a classic. How the fuck did that happen?
fuck money
Make all you grand mothers swallow a mic and call it a day…haters!
@Kyle: shut tha fuck up. I heard ya grand mother’s dentures kept fallin out, so I decided to let her suck my dick and dat bitch made me……. Lets just say, that u dont have to worry about her dentures fallin out anymore.
@Darkart, worst comeback i have ever heard… quit please. lol
@jayjay1121: Ester Rolle said shut tha fuk up. Nobody ask for your opinion bitch. U act like i really made an attempt. Hop off brah dick and how bout u make a comeback and defend ur boyfriend since u love dat nigga so much.
Lol dude this is the internet. Why waste time shouting lame remarks when nothing can possibly come from them? Think about it.
I have no idea why people sleep on Currensy. This dude is nice plus he spits real shit, besides the marijuana. Jets bitch!!!! Infact, Trademark Da Skydiver is a true lyricist whether u kno it or not. Dont believe me then listen to “LOL” by Currensy feat. Trademark Da SkyDiver
album sales doesent equal talent it equals popularity . . . But TALENT plus POPULARITY equals album sales and long jevity . . .if lauren hill dropped an album rite now first week sales would top this I put money on it
If lauryn hill dropped an album right now itd be the biggest piece of shit released in the past 10 years.
Im so sick of everyone hanging on one half decent album that the majority of the people commenting on it have never heard.
Lauryn Hill is the most overrated musician EVER
Lauren Hill over rated? Yea you need to stay Anonymous with stupid ass comments like the one you just made. LMAO
@Dion Lauren album wouldn’t do good numbers at all though, she hasn’t put out anything in so long and the new song she has out now is only so so. I’m not saying she couldn’t build her brand back up and do amazing numbers, however,if she drop today or tomorrow she would flop.
Stop bitching people.The reason she sold alot of albums is because people now days like GIMMICKS instead OF GOOD QUALITY MUSIC.People want something to talk about.Don’t get me wrong she can rap but that cd is not all that.I would not buy it because the quailty.Drake cd was hot.Not a classic but hot.Drake cd was better in my opinion.
I actually heard Nicki drop some ill verses back in 03 so I won’t go as far as to say “she can’t rap,” but I will tell you that her whole gimmick/image isn’t what I’m into. At the end of the day though I’m happy she’s able to provide for her family(if she didn’t sign one of those stupid ass 360 deals.) but it won’t be with my dollar LMAO.
Hope she go Multi-Platinum so Kim can be quiet. This is what Pac was talking about during one of his interviews about rappers critizing as their comeback. If we all love Kim then we’ll buy her shit and not cause we want her to beat Nicki but cause she put out a hot album. “Niggaz looking like Larry Holmes flabby and sick/ trying to playa hate on my shit/ you eat a fat dick.” Don’t critize as your comeback.