Nicki Minaj hopped on social media to put Billboard on blast for enforcing their bundling policy for her Pink Friday 2 sales.
Billboard is asking participants of her fan contest to provide proof of purchase, otherwise they will cut her record sales by 15%.
“been discussing my 100 barbz contest for months. they said billboard reached out to say they gon take away sales for me telling y’all about the 100 barbz thing,” she began. “Can’t wait until these next 6 hours are up so I can tell y’all some shit. You can give out millions in cashapp money tho. Lol,” she wrote on X.
Nicki Minaj says Billboard reached out saying they will take away sales from her new album ‘Pink Friday 2’ for running a fan contest that involves showing proof of buying the album’s vinyls or digital versions. pic.twitter.com/BkBMyi7zrc
— Pop Base (@PopBase) December 14, 2023
“So barbz, me asking you to show PROOF of something that was already DELIVERED OR PURCHASED IS AGAINST THE RULES. SO pls disregard. Apologies.”
The album moved 300,000 units first week, but Billboard is pulling a huge part of that.
“They initially claimed 170-190 despite being aware it had already reached 200K. Subsequently, they stated 199 merely to prevent the number from reaching 2 in their expression. Although the count currently stands at 300, once they deduct 100K, you won’t have any clearer understanding,” she continued, adding she was being punished for “Not signing a 360, Making great music, Having great fans And for not leaving the game so that their new Nicki’s (who signed 360 deals) can be propped up to look as tho they are a lot more successful than they rlly are. Having too much power.”
Nicki Minaj says her album ‘Pink Friday 2’ has already sold 300k units in its debut week but Billboard is planning on filtering out 100k. pic.twitter.com/99grcbTRjo
— Pop Base (@PopBase) December 15, 2023
Billboard has yet to respond.