Young Money CEO Mack Maine has revealed that Nicki Minaj has begun worrying about the first-week sales of Pink Friday, as it is scheduled to release next month.
According to Maine, Minaj has looked at labelmate Drake's initial Thank Me Later sales as an example what her opening sales could equate to.
"She was worrying about first week. She was like, 'Drake sold [463,000]. What you think I'ma sell? As if she gon' sell less," recalls Maine. "I explained to her, 'You know a lot of the press and the media really got it brainwashed with first week sales.' Bieber went on to sell 2 million and Bieber might have only sold 17,000 the first week. Juvenile sold like 30,000 his first week of 400 Degreez and went on to sell 6 million...I don't know what happened to working the record and making sure that the artist reaches a certain point.
I rather the end number be higher than the beginning. These days, it's all about: Let me do 500,000, a million the first week. Don't get caught up in what Wayne did. You don't want your pinnacle to be your first-week sales. Then everything's downhill from there and then what? I don't care if you sell 10 the first week and you go on to sell 5 million--we did better than the person that sold 300 the first week."
Source: VIBE
Does she have a reason to worry.
I think most artist do, there's too much pressure on her right now. She kinda remind me of lil wayne back in 08. There was 2 much pressure on the dude. Lucky 4 him, he took a mill in a week. I think Nicki would push atleast 200k in her first week.
ReplyDeleteI THINK SHE WILL DO WELL, SHE DOESN'T NEED TO WORRY.
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