Pink Friday
Occupation
Singing, rap: Nicki Minaj Features: Eminem, Rihanna, Drake, will.i.am, Kanye West, Natasha Bedingfield
Pink Friday is the debut studio album by hip hop singer Nicki Minaj. It was released on November 19, 2010 by Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records and Universal Motown. The deluxe edition includes three additional songs and was also released on November 19. The pioneering singles of the album are " Your Love" and "Right Thru Me" which were each released in June and September 2010. In addition, previously the single together with the American rapper will.i.am has published " Check It Out ". A third single, " Moment 4 Life " was released with the Canadian rapper Drake in December 2010.
Pink Friday combines various genres such as pop, hip -hop and R & B. Contributions to the album production came from a wide range of producers, including JR Rotem, Bangladesh, Swizz Beatz, T-Minus and will.i.am. After a long-awaited release of the album, Pink Friday debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart with sales of 375,000 copies. Ultimately, the album reached number one in the United States and was certified platinum.
- 3.1 Singles
- 3.2 tour
- 4.1 chart positions
Background
After a major record company litigation, Young Money Entertainment announced on August 31, 2009 that Minaj has signed a " 360 deal" with the label in which she retains all of her 360 rights - including merchandising, sponsorships, marketing, touring and publishing. Sessions for the album began in 2009, with a tentative release in the second quarter of 2010. Minaj stated in an MTV interview that " Married In The Club " is the first single will be out of the album and will be released in November 2009. The plans for the single were canceled and Minaj explained in an interview with MTV in February 2010 that it had scrapped the previous material, and recording starts again. Minaj explained: "I now have songs that show who I am, but they are not the representation of me as a musical artist. I will have to start all over again and record new songs, but I have my single and it will come out. "
Minaj explained the importance of the album for her and all women in hip-hop in an interview with V103 Greg Street: "Do not look at other rappers and take them under contract because they say, ' She was buzz so crazy and if they do not make it, then no one can create. And I do not want that to happen, so I am also doing this for all the girls. I hope that with the success of the album - I think it will be successful - open doors for all the girls who want to go everywhere. Even as far as I am come now, "she said.
Title list
The official track list was, as MTV reports revealed on October 30, 2010 by iTunes.
Deluxe Edition
Bonus title
Revised UK Edition
Samples and interpolations
Adapted from album booklet.
- "Right Thru Me" contains samples of " Always With Me, Always With You" by Joe Satriani.
- " Check It Out " embodies parts and samples of "Video Killed the Radio Star " by The Buggles.
- " Check It Out " contains elements and samples of "Think (About It) " by Lynn Collins, written by James Brown.
- " Blazin " is sampling "Do not You ( Forget About Me )" by Simple Minds.
- " Here I Am " is sampling "Red Sky" by John B and Shaz Sparks.
- " Your Love" is sampling "No More I Love You's " by Annie Lennox.
- "Girls fall like Dominoes " contains samples of " Dominoes ", written by The Big Pink.
- "Girls fall like Dominoes " contains interpolations of " Trailar Load a Girls", written by Cleveland Browne, Greville Gordon and Whycliffe Johnson.
Publication and Advertising
Singles
" Massive Attack " was released on 13 April 2010 through digital distribution. It debuted at number 75 on the Hot R & B / Hip- Hop Songs charts. The song was a distinct change in Minaj 's previous work on mixtapes and features. The song received mostly positive reviews from critics. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 only ranked 122 and on the Hot R & B / Hip- Hop Songs charts was the song of his, peaking at # 65, " Massive Attack " was originally announced as a pioneering single from the album after the song but thus achieved a poor chart placement, Minaj dethroned the song 's status as a first single and announced that it will not be on Pink Friday. " Your Love" was finally released as the first official single, the album in the U.S. on 1 June 2010 and in the UK on 2 July 2010. The song has so far achieved 100 place 14 on the Billboard Hot and reached number 5 on the Hot R & B / Hip- Hop Songs, and was No. 1 on the Rap Songs chart for eight consecutive weeks. " Right Through Me " was released on 24 September 2010 and officially played for the first time on 5 October 2010 Urban Radio. A music video directed by Diane Martel, was released for the single on October 27, 2010. " Moment 4 Life ", which features Drake, was officially played for the first time on 7 December 2010 to Rhythmic radio and was published on March 20, 2011 when single.
" Check It Out ", a collaboration with will.i.am, was released as a single on 3 September 2010. A music video for the song was directed by Rich Lee and released on October 25, 2010. " Roman's Revenge" with Eminem was released as a promo single 30 October 2010 on iTunes. A video in January 2011 was also for " Fly " (with Rihanna ) already rotated. However, it was only published in September of the same year as the eighth single. A re- release of " Roman's Revenge" with Lil Wayne was released on 19 January 2011 on the iTunes Store. " Did It On ' Em " was played on Rythmic Radio on 7 March 2011 for the first time. "Girls Fall Like Dominoes " was released in the UK on April 15, 2011.
Tour
Minaj announced via the social networking site Twitter that she will launch a five- Data Pink Friday tour a month before the album release. She tweeted, " Ok Barbz, here are the first 5 data for my Pink Friday Tour". It began in Philadelphia on October 22 and ran until October 30 in Trinidad and Tobago. More dates to be announced.
Commercial success
Pink Friday debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, with 375,000 copies sold. This was the second highest sales in a week of an album of a female hip-hop artist, behind Lauryn Hills The Lauryn Hill in 1998 The album debuted at number eight in Canada, place thirty in Ireland, and at number thirty-four in the UK. In the eighth week chart presence, the album had sold 989,000 copies in the United States. On January 5, 2011 Pink Friday has been certified by the RIAA platinum. Three months after the release of Pink Friday a total of 1,035,000 copies were sold and left the top ten of the Billboard 200 even once. During the week of February 9, 2011 Pink Friday is. after the eleventh week on the Billboard 200 at number one, with sales of 45,000 copies this week, has increased. In the United Kingdom, in the fourteenth week, Pink Friday climbed back into the Top 40 at number 34, the same position it reached in the week of the album release. The Following week, the album climbed to a new peak of number 32 in the UK, the album was certified on 1 April 2011 with gold.