Nicki Minaj had a meltdown on Twitter over the weekend after her new ‘Queen’ album secured the No. 2 spot on the Billboard charts.
The Trinidadian rapper took to the social media platform after her latest project clocked in behind Travis Scott‘s “Astroworld,” which she partly blamed on free promo he received from his baby mama Kylie Jenner.
“Queen” moved 185,000 equivalent units (78,000 of which were pure sales) including her own bundle packages, in its first week, while Scott’s “Astroworld” moved 205,000 equivalent albums in its second week.
“Travis sold over 50K of these. With no requirement of redeeming the album! With no dates for a tour, etc,” Minaj, 35, captioned a screenshot of Jenner’s Instagram promoting Scott’s album. “I spoke to him. He knows he doesn’t have the #1 album this week. I love my fans for the #1 album in AMERICA! I’ll explain on #QueenRadio 4 albums in, #1 in 86 countries.”
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“My first album sold 400K. No one is doing that with debut albums now. So I’m so grateful. I lost out on 12 hours of sales and did 200K in one week after I was supposedly cancelled,” she added. “I bit my tongue last #QueenRadio but I won’t On Tuesday. I love you guys so much.”
Minaj particularly took issue with Scott’s sales of bundles, which included clothing and “season pass” tickets with the album.
“I looked at the numbers the Carters, Kanye, Nas, etc recently did. Travis sold 200K in his first week of clothes alone. I spoke to him last night & he said he’s been selling clothes b4 the music,” she griped. “Billboard says they’ll change the rules cuz of this, so it should be changed now!”
The “Chun-Li” rapper didn’t lash out solely about 26-year-old Scott. She also took aim at Spotify and Apple Music over the tactics used to promote Drake‘s “Scorpion.”
