I'm a fan of both Nicki and Iggy, but I see too many Barbs taking shots at TNC's debut sales vs TPP's.
2014 was Iggy’s 1st year mainstream, ‘Fancy’ her 1st hit, with a new small fanbase (does she even have a fanbase or just them “it” girl of 2014 sales?) - ‘The New Classic’ scans 52k opening week.
Nicki aka “The Queen of Rap”, aka “The Female Jay-Z”, “The Mogul”, “The Brand” with her own K-Mart clothing line, perfumes sold at Macy’s etc, huge loyal fanbase, launches the ‘Pinkprint’ with 4 lead singles, MASSIVE promo run, album hype - not to mention BOTH her 1st 2 albums did well over 250k debut week (right up there with the big pop girl names like Katy, Miley, Gaga).
Now here we are, with all the royal titles, hype, lead singles, promo, huge fanbase, special edition album packages… 175k AND knocked to #3 by an
Xmas album that people will literally only listen to for a week? “ARTFLOP” and Applause must be rolling in their graves.
Btw, and correct me if I’m wrong, Mariah, 20+ years mainstream, legend, icon, huge loyal fanbase - ‘Me I Am Mariah…’ does 58k opening week?
And J Cole’s hiphop album just did 387k a week before Nicki right? Oh ok. Just asking. Merry Christmas.
