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  • Jun
    26
    2012

    Nicki Minaj’s ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded’ Certified Platinum

    Written by TriniTrent | Filed under Charts,Nicki Minaj
    Nicki Minaj Pink Friday Roman Reloaded TheLavaLizard

    The cover of Nicki Minaj's 'Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded' album.

    Nicki Minaj’s ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded’ album was released on April 3rd in the US and despite the remarkable succes of its ‘Pink Friday’ predecessor, the sales of the record have been far from impressive. Yet, the rapper did achieve a somewhat hollow victory today: ‘Roman Reloaded’ has been certified platinum in the US.

    ‘Roman Reloaded’ has officially shipped over 1 million copies in the US and earned a platinum certificated from the RIAA. However, the LP has only actually sold less than 545K copies at retail outlets in the US with consistent sales decline in each progressive week.

    Hence, judging by current sales trends, ‘Roman Reloaded’ probably will not match the success of ‘Pink Friday’, which has thus far sold 1.84 million copies in the US since November 2010. In fact, the latter topped the 545K total of ‘Roman Reloaded’ in lass than three weeks.

    To date, ‘Roman Reloaded’ has only generated a lone top 10 hit single on the Billboard Hot 100. ‘Starships’ has peaked at #5 on the chart whereas Minaj’s other releases, ‘Right by My Side (Ft. Chris Brown)’ and ‘Beez in the Trap’, stalled at #51 and #48, respectively.

    Watch the video for Minaj’s ‘Starships’ below:

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    • MmmHmm

      SMH! BIRDMAN MMUST HAVE PLACED A BIG ORDER!

    • theman

      Her sales have increased this wk though.

    • http://twitter.com/MzDannii Danielle

      The sophomore slump. Its not unheard of. Stop the hate Trent. Just because you don’t like her KMT I see you on twitter. Always shading.

    • Liberiangirl

      Shipped not sold…Tell ‘em Trent. They ain’t ready though. It’s still your opinion just like it’s theirs to comment on YOUR blog.

    • RichiAngelo

      Nicki still selling more than these other wannabes. Her last album was released on Black Friday and during the busiest time of the year. Nicki still has some hits left on this cd. Get your money Nicki!

    • Wow wow wow

      She had a 41% increase this week. Can’t wait to see how much of a flop Kim will be.

    • ides

      I hated the album only a few tracks like Starships and sadly Stupid Hoe.

    • Hi

      Good luck selling 1 million

    • Lace

      Lol don’t u know that this is how ALL albums are certified platinum? By the units shipped? All a record label cares about is how much they sold/shipped. In Nicki’s case they sold 1 million. Its pretty hard to tell how much is actually sold in stores, but that does not matter because the record company sold 1 million of her records so they will get platinum status. That’s the way its done with ALL albums. So all those double platinum albums u see floating around, most of em didnt even sell it to actual customers, they shipped it to record stores. Its the way its always done. Trent always hating lol.

    • Lace

      Congrats to Nicki for getting a 41% increase this week. Who’s winning! Platinum baby!

    • honest man

      she isnt the only artis 2 get her certification this way in fact 3 of missy elliots album have til not sold a million copies in the us butther certified and most artist get there certification off shippin and kims albums didnt sell a mil when they were certified

    • DRB

      Yes it is shipping but their shouldn’t be a huge disparity between actual sales. Over shipping means you didn’t meet retail and label expectations and somebody wasted a ton of money.

      This album should be gold- plain and simple.
      *waits for stans to say so and so does it too* True and I still disagree.
      I assume it’s based on shipments because of the Pre-soundscan

    • DRB

      Yes it is shipping but their shouldn’t be a huge disparity between actual sales. Over shipping means you didn’t meet retail and label expectations and somebody wasted a ton of money.

      This album should be gold- plain and simple.
      *waits for stans to say so and so does it too* True and I still disagree.
      I assume it’s based on shipments because of the Pre-soundscan era where they couldn’t track sales.

    • Sarya

      Congrats to her Minajesty. and for the haters, suck a mean dick. and that also goes for Trent

    • MmmHmm

      POOR SOULS/POOR BARBZ!!! THEY JUST DONT GET IT!

    • RickyMR

      edit shipments means they are in demand and people will buy the cd . “Ayo all i do is win, ain’t that the reason why you really mad?” – Nicki Minaj

    • http://thelavalizard.com JREED

      WHY ARE YOU LAMES TRYNA DISCREDIT HER? SHE CLEARLY SOLD A MILLION ALBUMS AS I KNEW SHE WOULD AND NOW BOTH OF HER ALBUMS WENT PLATINUM, NOW NAME ANY OTHER RAPPER OTHER THAN ARTISTS IN ymcmb DOIN NUMBERS LIKE THAT. SEE, IT DON’T MATTER WHAT LIES YOU IDIOTS TELL, NUMBERS DON’T LIE, AND I BET IT GOES DOUBLE PLATINUM ONCE EVERYBODY HEARS “CHAMPION”. SO, SHOUT OUT NIKI MINAJ AND THE WHOLE YMCMB. by the way, are you doin anything close to what she’s doin in her life, if the answer is no, SHUT UP AND STOP HATIN ON A PERSON WHO’S CLEARLY DOIN BETTER THAN YOU

    • http://thelavalizard.com JREED

      by the way, trent, how much money you make compared to my girl nik, Exactly, shut yo broke ass up, lol

    • Che_Elric

      The Nicki fans are funny.

    • rowdog23

      IN THE WORDS OF NICKI MINAJ, WE SHIP PLATINUM. THEM BITCHES IS SHIPPING WOOD. stop worrying about nicki minaj and worry about your favorite arist and why some of them didn’t even make gold yet. OH?!

    • Benron

      She shipppped 450,000 extra copies of her album that have been untouched! SMH!

    • WHOSMAD

      FUCK WHAT U HOE ASS NIGGAS IS SAYING!! THE KING REIGNS… KIM CAN HAVE THAT QUEEN TITLE ITS PLATINUM PERIOD!!!!! IT TOOK BEYONCE LAST ALBUM A MIN, TOO?! SO WHAT!??

    • z00mi

      riaa doesn’t lie.. so what’s your point? the album is in high demand she has 4 singles coming and her tour hasn’t even hit the US yet LMFAO @ y’all thinking she wasn’t gonna go plat sooner or later… WTF

    • Nickolis

      no one should be surprised that she went plat. c’mon, it’s nickiii, she wins, you lose. hahahahaha.

    • z00mi

      ofcourse RBMS & Beez in the Trap are hip-hop songs which explains their low stats on BILLBOARD.. whenever I say this ppl don’t get it! Nicki knows what she’s doing everyone wants her to fall into that trap to strictly pleasing “HARDCORE HIPHOP FANS” but they don’t buy records!! ironically her “poppy” Starships track is the only top 10 she’s had this era!!! get off her dick & worry about Kim’s mother goose lyrics about her dry pussy ### I’m OUTTT

    • Nickolis

      ahahahahhaha! @Z00mi That pussy OLD, that pussy CREAKYYYY. And these hater’s pussy to dry to be riding nicki’s dick like this.

    • http://twitter.com/MzDannii Danielle

      PLATINUM BABY! FUCK YOU GOTTA SAY ABOUT THAT????

    • beeeeee

      These Nicki stans are in denial…lol

    • wakikiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

      stop hating & admit the bitch is #WINNING. Nicki Minaj Has Been Named One Of The Fastest Selling Rappers With 2 Platinum Albums And a 3 Million Seller Lead Single Starships. Love it or Hate it, Starships were meant to fly to the bank bitches !!!!!!!!!

    • Nora

      If you’re all that and a bag of chips, it should not take you more than 3 months to sell over 1 million records. Her trying this “pop” sound is not working out for her. If you’re going to be rap, be about it. Stop trying to appeal to other communities.

    • David

      @Nora it takes most artist a year or two to even go plat. Nicki Did it on em in 3. And for her “pop” sound, nicki minaj can be about any life she chooses. if she wants to rap, sing and do a couple pop records here and there, that’s her decision, no one elses. you may not like her pop hits, but alot of people do.

    • http://www.twitter.com/ThatBoyLuke ThatBoyLuke

      @WowWowWow, LMAO don’t talk about Kim, her album can flop all it wants because she already has an album certified 2x Platinum for SALES of 2m+ and two Platinum albums for SALES of 1m+, Nicki got an album certified and half the million certified are sat in a stock room gathering DUST just like the DUST she was paying her own fans haha

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    • Antonio

      I honestly expected PFRR to have sold well over a million copies by now and not only 545K which is NOT a lot considering she has like 10 million Twitter followers whom all claim to be the biggest Barbie and Kendoll int he world. There was soooooooooooo much hype and buzz surrounding this album and in my personal opinion it has underperformed on the charts. She’s getting ready to release the 4th single and she’s only at 545K, this album is not going platinum, it’s prolly gonna do like a good 850K in actual sales

    • Cmonson

      How the hell can the album be Platinum if its only sold 578,000 copies in the U.S.? Thats Gold not platinum. They really have to lie about it. This album was expected to sell more than her Debut and it didnt. There going by what Starships is selling as a single but thats not the album sales thats the single sales. Yes starships is platinum plus but thats NOT the album. Do they really think ppl are stupid?

    • NICKI FLOPS

      WE ALL KNEW IT WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN PLATINUM BY NOW… HER MUSIC SUCK AND EVERY ARE NOW NOTICING WHAT A FAKE SHE IS… HER LUCK JUST WILL RUN OUT EVERY TIME SHE PUTS AN ALBUM OUT… PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF HER… AND IF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE FANS OF HER’S WHY AREN’T YOU BUYING THE ALBUM??????????

    • queen_NM

      Hail Queen Nicki!!! Lets Celebrate. Another Platinum baby!!! Ignore those haters they’re just mad cuz the NEW QUEEN is winning!!! Looser throw rocks on things that shines. Nicki’s on top chillin and laughing on niggas below her whahahahaha!!!!

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