Nicki Minaj :: The "Roman Reloaded" Era

[Tansike]

Australian Charts

13 (10) Pound The Alarm
22 (11) Starships

36 (31) Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded

There are 7 The Voice songs above Pound The Alarm plus another 3 between Pound The Alarm and Starships.

Starships is also now 5x platinum!

[Tansike]

Pound the Alarm on iTunes

#8 Australia (-3)
#10 New Zealand (-2)
#54 UK (-9)

Not the best update today...

[Tansike]

Airplay updates yesterday

7. NICKI MINAJ - Starships: 107.177 (+ 0.715)
NICKI MINAJ - Beez In The Trap f/2 Chainz: 31.080

Pound The Alarm on iTunes

#7 Australia (+1)
#7 New Zealand (+3)
#47 UK (+7)

[Pororo]

Japan Oricon Chart

72(48) 1,577 [Total: 45,037]

[Yoshie]

Starships has received significantly positive updates on US radio for the past two days:

Monday

7. NICKI MINAJ - Starships: 107.177 (+ 0.715)

Tuesday

7. NICKI MINAJ - Starships: 107.882 (+ 0.705)

[Timmy94]

Roman Reloaded is certified Platinum in the US... Very early considering only 533k copies have been sold so far!

[Tansike]

The album is platin in the USA

Heavily overshipped??

Edit: Timmy was faster Lol

[truthless]

Roman Reloaded is certified Platinum in the US... Very early considering only 533k copies have been sold so far!

Reminds me of Britney's Femme Fatale..

I have my doubts that this will reach 1m.

[thebigham]

Lots of exciting new certs from the RIAA website:

Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded 1xp

[alek]

Roman Reloaded is certified Platinum in the US... Very early considering only 533k copies have been sold so far!

Reminds me of Britney's Femme Fatale..

I have my doubts that this will reach 1m.

almost impossible...nicki must perform at VMAS ,AMAS in order to try to justify this certification...

[Yoshie]

31 21 NICKI MINAJ YM/CM/REPUBLIC 17,104 +41%
PINK FRIDAY... ROMAN RELOADED

What is the reason for the album receiving such an increase?

[Lemo]

31 21 NICKI MINAJ YM/CM/REPUBLIC 17,104 +41%
PINK FRIDAY... ROMAN RELOADED

Good increase in US this week

[danbarj]

Roman Reloaded is certified Platinum in the US... Very early considering only 533k copies have been sold so far!

Reminds me of Britney's Femme Fatale..

I have my doubts that this will reach 1m.

almost impossible...nicki must perform at VMAS ,AMAS in order to try to justify this certification...

The people that understand that RIAA certs are SHIPMENT sales only and NOT in any way tied to Soundscan, the faster none of you will think this is too early.

The album certainly shipped 1 million! It's too early to say whether future singles, promo and seasonal changes in sales will do for hard, at point sales.

[Timmy94]

Why justify? If there are 1 mio. copies shipped, the album "deserves" the Platinum certification even when there are still 500k copies get dusty in the shops .

But kinda strange that the album is struggling to sell 4 times its opening sales considering:
1. they already haven't been that high (just 250k)
2. Pink Friday managed to sell 5 times its opening numbers (not much more but still) although most of its total came from the time BEFORE the successful singles were released
3. Starships is such a huge hit and could become her career's best-selling single soon

[alek]

Roman Reloaded is certified Platinum in the US... Very early considering only 533k copies have been sold so far!

Reminds me of Britney's Femme Fatale..

I have my doubts that this will reach 1m.

almost impossible...nicki must perform at VMAS ,AMAS in order to try to justify this certification...

The people that understand that RIAA certs are SHIPMENT sales only and NOT in any way tied to Soundscan, the faster none of you will think this is too early.

The album certainly shipped 1 million! It's too early to say whether future singles, promo and seasonal changes in sales will do for hard, at point sales.

you can t be sure of that , for example FF didn t sold 1m ,and with the industry in bad situation , why spend money on certifications if the album is not profitable ..but good that nicki got another platinum

[Timmy94]

The thing is: Who knows whether it isn't profitable? Roman Reloaded could've sold relatively modest at the beginning and turn into a smasher in a half a year spending months in the top 10... Or not!
You can't say that an album is already stamped just because the beginning doesn't lift up to what it could.

There are many albums which take some time to reach their full potential, mostly debut albums but not only them!

[alek]

Why justify? If there are 1 mio. copies shipped, the album "deserves" the Platinum certification even when there are still 500k copies get dusty in the shops .

But kinda strange that the album is struggling to sell 4 times its opening sales considering:
1. they already haven't been that high (just 250k)
2. Pink Friday managed to sell 5 times its opening numbers (not much more but still) although most of its total came from the time BEFORE the successful singles were released
3. Starships is such a huge hit and could become her career's best-selling single soon

for sure albums should justify their certifications, then where is the point ? , well maybe the album will end with 800,000 copies in us , but now 200,000 copies not sold is too much for a certification in this time, but 4 sure she need to work as she is doing to justify the certification and get the album closer the most she can to 1 m...

[alek]

The thing is: Who knows whether it isn't profitable? Roman Reloaded could've sold relatively modest at the beginning and turn into a smasher in a half a year spending months in the top 10... Or not!
You can't say that an album is already stamped just because the beginning doesn't lift up to what it could.

There are many albums which take some time to reach their full potential, mostly debut albums but not only them!

yes who knows ..but i guess it was very soon to be platinum , maybe her level should wait to be in 700,000 copies to certify it platinum , well is my opinion..

[Tansike]

French Charts

15 (14) Starships
117 (137) Pound The Alarm
131 (142) Right By My Side

164 (128) Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded

New Zealand Charts

6 (12) Pound The Alarm
20 (17) Starships

23 (28) Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded

Pound The Alarm on iTunes

#7 New Zealand (=)
#8 Australia (-1)
#39 UK (+8) -> finally Top40!

[Yoshie]

Starships
US Digital Songs

Week 1—February 22—7—204,000
Week 2—February 29—7—155,000
Week 3—March 7—4—161,000
Week 4—March 14—4—163,000
Week 5—March 21—3—172,000
Week 6—March 28—5—174,000
Week 7—April 4—4—204,000
Week 8—April 11—5—232,000
Week 9—April 18—6—204,000
Week 10—April 25—8—152,000
Week 11—May 2—9—151,000
Week 12—May 9—7—147,000
Week 13—May 16—6—151,000
Week 14—May 23—4—174,000
Week 15—May 30—5—153,000
Week 16—June 6—9—135,000
Week 17—June 13—9—120,000
Week 18—June 20—12—111,000
Week 19—June 27—10—101,000

3,064,000

Crosses three million sales and returns to the top ten (despite the sales decline)! This will probably be the last week in which it sells over 100,000 copies. It will sell over four million in the future.

It's #32 and #51 on US iTunes, and #11 when combined, and it also received another positive radio update today.

6. NICKI MINAJ - Starships: 108.690 (+ 0.808) ?



I will update the remaining charts either later on tonight or tomorrow!

[Yoshie]

Starships
US Billboard Hot 100

Week 1—February 22—9
Week 2—February 29—10
Week 3—March 7—6
Week 4—March 14—9
Week 5—March 21—6
Week 6—March 28—5
Week 7—April 4—6
Week 8—April 11—6
Week 9—April 18—7
Week 10—April 25—9
Week 11—May 2—8
Week 12—May 9—7
Week 13—May 16—6
Week 14—May 23—5
Week 15—May 30—5
Week 16—June 6—5
Week 17—June 13—6
Week 18—June 20—7
Week 19—June 27—8

[Tansike]

Thank you so much Yoshie!
4m is great

12 23 33 27 * MINAJ*NICKI PINK FRIDAY...ROMAN RELOADED 13328 11 12044 546916

[MusicIsGold]

Does anyone know how many singles (including features) Nicki Minaj has sold so far in the US?

[Rihab95]

Why justify? If there are 1 mio. copies shipped, the album "deserves" the Platinum certification even when there are still 500k copies get dusty in the shops .

But kinda strange that the album is struggling to sell 4 times its opening sales considering:
1. they already haven't been that high (just 250k)
2. Pink Friday managed to sell 5 times its opening numbers (not much more but still) although most of its total came from the time BEFORE the successful singles were released
3. Starships is such a huge hit and could become her career's best-selling single soon

Starships is a dance pop song. By releasing it as the lead single of the album she alienated her loyal urban fanbase in order to appeal to some occasional buyers.

Act like a pop star - sell like a popstar, she's not the first to experience this, look what's happening to Usher right now.

+ I think the album title is a big problem too. That's as if Rihanna called her latest album LOUDer instead of Talk That Talk, people would think it's a re-release for sure.

[Timmy94]

So in many cases the music counts less than the image of an artist, which is the main thing that decides whether an album is hot or not .

And people really think too much, otherwise they would realize that an album with 19 new songs can hardly be a re-release... What I wonder: With Roman Reloaded, did Nicki Minaj rather win more fans or lose more fans?