Nicki Minaj Argues Streaming Should Count Toward Album Sales
- 8 years ago
Nicki Minaj celebrated the one-year anniversary of The Pinkprint on Instagram Wednesday by drawing attention to how music sales are measured in a streaming-dominated industry.
Despite selling less than a million copies worldwide, Minaj told fans that The Pinkprint is now "triple platinum worldwide," though those sales won't be reflected in her total until "a March court date" decides whether to retroactively count streaming totals and other digital download numbers toward platinum plaques.
In the face of digital music stores and streaming services, the Billboard 200 expanded the metric in which they measured music sales.
"On Spotify alone, the sales of this album is 1.4 Million worldwide," Minaj said of Pinkprint.
"Some artists removed their work off Spotify and other services of that nature, but for the ones who did not, we have to be patient for justice in our industry and it finally looks like it's coming," Minaj wrote on Instagram.
Despite selling less than a million copies worldwide, Minaj told fans that The Pinkprint is now "triple platinum worldwide," though those sales won't be reflected in her total until "a March court date" decides whether to retroactively count streaming totals and other digital download numbers toward platinum plaques.
In the face of digital music stores and streaming services, the Billboard 200 expanded the metric in which they measured music sales.
"On Spotify alone, the sales of this album is 1.4 Million worldwide," Minaj said of Pinkprint.
"Some artists removed their work off Spotify and other services of that nature, but for the ones who did not, we have to be patient for justice in our industry and it finally looks like it's coming," Minaj wrote on Instagram.