‘Pink Friday 2’ debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 228K

[Teletubby 134,115]

Pink Friday 2 launches with 228,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 14, according to Luminate. That sum marks the largest week for a rap album by a woman in the 2020s decade. The set also sold 25,000 copies sold on vinyl — the largest week for a rap album by a woman since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991.

Of Pink Friday 2’s 228,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Dec. 14, SEA units comprise 129,000 (equaling 169.87 million on-demand official streams of the 22 songs on the streaming edition of the album), album sales comprise 92,000 and TEA units comprise 7,000.

As Pink Friday 2 sold 92,000 copies, the album registers the biggest sales week for any rap album by a woman in the 2020s decade and the largest sales week for an R&B/hip-hop album by a woman in 2023.

Pink Friday 2‘s sales were bolstered by the album’s availability across a range of variants, in both digital download and physical configurations on its street date (Dec. 8). It was issued as a 10-track album in two CD editions (a standard version and a signed version sold through Minaj’s webstore) and four vinyl editions (including 3 retailer-exclusive versions, all with different covers and color vinyl).

Concurrently, an expanded 22-song version of Pink Friday 2 was issued via digital retailers, in both a clean and explicit edition. Four later iterations of the digital album were released through the tracking week through Minaj’s webstore, in both clean and explicit versions, all with alternative cover art, and sold for $5 each. On Monday (Dec. 11), a 23-track version added a remix of the album’s “Beep Beep” with 50 Cent. Tuesday brought a 23-track edition with the bonus track “Love Me Enough,” featuring Monica and Keyshia Cole. Wednesday saw the 22-track edition drop with a new alternate cover. Finally, on Thursday, a 24-track version dropped containing both the “Beep Beep” remix and “Love Me Enough.”
 

Tate McRae lands her first top 10-charting album on the Billboard 200 as Think Later bows at No. 4. The set starts with 66,000 equivalent album units — her biggest week yet. Of its starting sum, SEA units comprise 58,000 (equaling 75.99 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 8,000 and TEA units comprise less than 1,000.

Edited December 17, 2023 by Teletubby

[CautiousLurker 17,344]

Queen of releasing the same album 4 times, in less than a week no less 

Spoiler

28 minutes ago, Teletubby said:

TEA units

 

[River 104,795]

Next week:

[SimonBaetens 6,721]

Congrats to Nicki! I’m curious to see if the album will have any kind of longevity.

[Chromatography 9,872]

15 minutes ago, CautiousLurker said:

Queen of releasing the same album 4 times, in less than a week no less 

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that goes to taylor 

[TEANUS 12,386]

2 minutes ago, Chromatography said:

that goes to taylor 

Uhhh this, and Instead of 4 variations there’s 13 lol

OT - Good for her after Queen missed the peak to the atrocity that is Travis Scott. She probably would’ve been number one anyway without the variations

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[HIM820 1,747]

Tate was close to where Scarlet debuted and basically the same as Future Nostalgia numbers wise. That's definitely a win. 

[Creyk 17,000]

Wow those are really good numbers. Congrats Queen.

[ModernEcstasy 8,270]

Sold more than Chromatica? Barbz are in full force. 
My dear fellow Monsters…… you are a disgrace! 
 

Edited December 17, 2023 by ModernEcstasy

[Corous 294]

5 minutes ago, ModernEcstasy said:

Sold more than Chromatica? Barbz are in full force. 
My dear fellow Monsters…… you are a disgrace! 
 

Chromatica sold 274k in its first week

[Simon 1,147]

10 minutes ago, ModernEcstasy said:

Sold more than Chromatica? Barbz are in full force. 
My dear fellow Monsters…… you are a disgrace! 
 

Chromatica sold more and what's important has less songs and less variants. 

[ModernEcstasy 8,270]

8 minutes ago, Corous said:

Chromatica sold 274k in its first week

 

3 minutes ago, Simon said:

Chromatica sold more and what's important has less songs and less variants. 

Well then, Google has failed me!

[HIM820 1,747]

Really confused how the vinyls counted for her and not for Encanto just the other year...

[bionic 41,790]

2 minutes ago, HIM820 said:

Really confused how the vinyls counted for her and not for Encanto just the other year...

I assume rules changed

[weed 70,896]

That 25k vinyl sales def feels like Billboard was like hmm.. we'll decrease them to 25k on the dot bc of her fraudulence (bc that giveaway was for the vinyls)