It's not really fair to say Unapologetic is better than PF:RR even tho both were rushed Rihanna has WRITERS who perfect at their craft were as though Nicki is a RAPPER who WRITES her OWN bars and has to record them and DELIVER them in HER OWN right
Minus the fact Nicki wrote minimal on the pop half of PFRR which is technically the only part people know PFRR for.
Nicki received a plaque for 3.8 million WW sales. Plus, I asked @chartnews how much it has sold WW & he DM'd me saying around 3.9 million.
mediatraffic says under 2.3 million
musicharts says under 2.1 million
2 million us + 600k uk + 80k australia + a hugely generous 300k otherwise = about 3 million
i'm not seeing a 4 million
I feel like Nicki was trying to do something like Take Care with PF:RR but went overboard with the pop influences.
I feel like she never had a full idea of where she wanted the album to go.
One minute it's going to be all about Roman, then we get RIM, then we get SH, and okay, we see it's crazy.
Backlash of SH, she went back and started recording again, and MM & YF leaked, and we found out this was for the new album.
Then she pushed the album back, and started recording more tracks for, in order to balance out the hip hop/pop (I feel like there was more Pop than hip hop, and she wanted to change it.)
She never had a clear direction of where she wanted to go, and that ended up being her demise; it was a rushed effort.
the base moving WAY too fast. But I just checked & it seems Thalia has 0.