Nicki Minaj says big-box stores won't stock 'The Re Up'
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The holiday shopping season is underway and shoppers are hitting the big-box stores to grab the best deals they can find. However, music fans looking to buy discounted albums are having a hard time finding Nicki Minaj‘s ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded — The Re-Up’ at some retailers. What’s up with that?
When the Queen Barbz stopped by Power 105.1 recently, she explained why her album is not available at the big-box stores. “It’s hard to get the album because the stores basically said that the last few re-releases they had put out did not do well and they didn’t want to take a chance,” said Minaj. “So Target and Walmart [are] not selling the album. And Target is actually my biggest retailer. They’ve sold the most Nicki Minaj albums ever; thank you Target, but I wish you could have sold this one … it kind of sets you up to fail.”
We are totally shocked by this news. Minaj is arguably the biggest-selling female rapper in the game right now. ‘The Re-Up’ has garnered positive reviews and the Barbz were hankering to cop the re-release. Here’s hoping that her digital sales trump the retail sales.
Minaj is not letting that bit of bad news ruin her enthusiasm for the album. The ‘Freedom’ rapper is happy that the Barbz were able to have some new music that she proud of.
“At the end of the day I’m happy that I was able to put the music out,” she says. “The real reason for me to put out ‘The Re-Up’ is because I wanted to have a bridge between this time and the third album. I wanted people to have music that I really stand by.”
well the digital sales are massively flopping too so the fans are just not buying this and minaj may wanna deal with that sooner than later for her own sake
AP and they won't sell her new album because the big retail stores invested in PF:RR and expected higher sales so they can't invest in another project and has the copies SHIPPED paid dust.
This has nothing to do with the #1s and achievements its just a financial point of view.
“It’s hard to get the album because the stores basically said that the last few re-releases they had put out did not do well and they didn’t want to take a chance,” said Minaj. “So Target and Walmart [are] not selling the album. And Target is actually my biggest retailer. They’ve sold the most Nicki Minaj albums ever; thank you Target, but I wish you could have sold this one … it kind of sets you up to fail.”
That last few re-releases put out by other artists didn't sell well, so those stores decided not to carry the Re-Up since they figured it wouldn't sell well too
So, if re-releases by other artist have not done well, and Roman Reloaded didn't do well as the first Pink Friday, with album sales, why would she go and make a re-release of her own? That makes no sense, on her part.
Then they decide not to carry the Re-Up, so it's going to not do as great also.
I'm sure if Roman Reloaded sold more, retailers would want to carry the Re-Up...so she really can't be mad that retailers don't want to carry the re-release when the original release didn't sell
If the original re-release did bad to begin with...why would they go ahead with the Re-Up 
Onika, Onika, Onika 
does she mean that even though they are her biggest retailers, the outcome sales are still not well enough to compare to other CDs ??