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Originally posted by Watch'N'Learn
Compared to the her previous. Nicki's album sales aren't all that to be the Queen Of Hip Hop
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She is the current queen tho. It is undeniable at this point. She has single sales, album sales, and acclaim to back up it as well as support from her peers. She might not have a #1 but neither does Missy and she is still a top tier artist lol.
The issue though is music switched from being album-based to single-based. Many of the previous female MCs have little to no certifications or extremely impressive single sales. For example, Kim only has two certified singles by RIAA. No Time is Gold and Not Tonight is Platinum, but she sold fairly well album-wise in the US. You can't match those numbers album-wise nowadays (look at Iggy, Angel, and so on), but they can outdo single sales.
Missy is definitely the most successful female rapper though, but this decade (the 2010s, not 2004-2014) it is Nicki. She is the fourth best selling solo rapper of the 2010s with 2.8 million albums sold and, when you include collaborative albums (duos like Macklemore & Ryan Lewis or Jay-Z & Kanye West and groups like Young Money and G.O.O.D. Music), her total is brought up to 3.4 million and she
only drops down to #5. That's only in the US btw.
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Originally posted by iambradds
None of the stats are "wikipedia" stats. They are all from reliable hip hop websites, HDD and billboard. And as far as I know, There is no information that states anything about Hard Core shifting 5.4 million copies or NK shifting 4.5 Mill. Your numbers are definitely inflated and unsourced.
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In reality, the Wikipedia numbers are very inflated and inaccurate. I could have sworn I looked the other day and someone tried to say that TNT moved 2-3 million copies WW. Kim was not that global, especially during that era.
But, I think since you posted this thread, someone went thru and updated Kim's totals so they are more accurate.