The Billboard numbers are in, and they say that Nicki Minaj is not "the one" but, in fact, "the deuce, Blrrrrp."
Nicki Minaj and her comeback single, "Do We Have A Problem?" featuring Lil Baby, debuted at #2 on the Hot 100 despite her Barbz publicly engaging in a mass buying scheme to manipulate pure sales. Now, if this was any other artist besides Cardi B and maybe Drake, this would be a huge win. But some are calling this a flop. Since when is a #2 debut a flop? Oh, since when the Barbras went around and claimed Cardi B flopped when "UP" debuted at #2. They set Nicki Minaj up and then want to blame Billboard and blogs.
Nicki Minaj said she will go LIVE, so I will write more after the LIVE; however, I want to make something clear.
Pure Sales Ain't So Pure
This talk about pure sales from the Barbras is PURE bullshit. Their mass buying is just as manipulative as when labels would buy their artists' albums, Jay Z selling a million copies of 4:44 to Sprint just to go platinum on release day, and the streaming farms currently running rampant in the industry. It's all manipulation. So get off your fck'n high horses and drop the act like somehow y'all are playing fair and everyone else is cheating. Since when does playing fair include multiple emails and credit cards?
Now, I am not knocking the mass buying strategy cause it's done by many groups. However, the Barbras were dumb enough to be very loud with what they were doing even though they knew about the rule change and what Billboard was attempting to stop. It is STOOPID to thumb your nose at the biggest bully in the music industry and think they wouldn't tap that ass??? If the Barbras were a little more discrete, they might have gotten away with their shenanigans.
Streaming Was A Rule Change Too
Even though the Barbras put down streaming, let's not forget that Nicki Minaj needed those streaming numbers back in 2015 to prevent her album The Pinkprint from being considered a flop. The album had not even sold 1 million copies, but Nicki Minaj told her fans the project was triple platinum based on STREAMS. That is why she "fought" for streaming. It wasn't to help make things fair for artists; it was to feed her stats addiction. That is probably why there seems to have been no thought into how streaming could become so easily manipulated and nothing was put in place to prevent issues before it became the #1-way fans listened to music.
Now, Nicki Minaj should be very proud of her #2 debut. She should try to focus her Barbras' energies on pushing DWHAP to #1 next week or at least showing stability in the Top 10 instead of feeding their need to play victims. But, it will probably be the usual attacking others, making excuses, and throwing pity parties.
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Lol see y’all next Monday for the BIG DROP on billboard. Maybe then y’all will stop being delusional ✌️
honestly i don't even understand why, nicki is the only person whose positions in the charts are studied and criticized no matter the position, I see nobody doing think pieces on YG Song with 2 majors rapper on his song who end up 79 on billboard I don’t see think pieces about drake freefall either, lil Wayne barely charts but nobody call him a flop for not charting but it’s only interesting when it’s nicki and I don’t find it fair honestly everybody should be discuss. she's a veteran now and it's impressive that 13 years later she's still able to be on the charts, we may not like her but recognize that she's one of the greatest female rappers…
You backwards faced useless winch. How dare you continue to trash Nicki and her fanbase after what they just accomplished. You so sick with bitterness that Nicki Minaj has succeeded in spite of the very active campaign to diminish her and get her out of here. In spite of the rule changes her fanbase still pulled in the streams and sales. You run this pointless blog demeaning Nicki in hopes of getting her attention. It wont work. You been at it for 2 years now. Even with the stripped sales from billboard and the obvious suppression of Nicki’s fanbase Megan will never see Nicki’s level of success so you can stop with the theatrics. She has 32 posts on shaderoom…
Now, I am hearing that DWHAP and Bussin are just promotional singles???? If this is true this Queen era Pt. 2.
No other fan base is as strong and loyal as the Barbz. 13 years in and still charting Top 2!