Streaming Masters – Nicki Minaj
It’s been a decade now since Nicki Minaj is a headliner of rap US, both with her studio albums and her countless featurings. How many equivalent albums has she sold with her streams once everything is cumulated?
Announcement
CSPC articles require time to compile. It may be frustrating to wait for them too long, especially when various new artists, and even more and more catalog acts, enjoy the large majority of their sales through streaming only these days. To make sure to provide you much more frequent updates, we are going to publish Streaming Masters sheets from now on, detailing the complete streaming section of artists.
Method
As detailed in the Fixing Log article, Spotify represents 157 million of the 272 million users of streaming platforms, while YouTube is pretty much the only video platform generating some revenue for the industry. Below is the equivalence set on the aforementioned article:
Audio Stream – 1500 plays equal 1 album unit
Video Stream – 11,750 views equal 1 album unit
Equivalent Albums Sales (EAS) = 272/157 * Spotify streams / 1500 + YouTube views / 11750
Results
Total: 14,507,659 EAS
Most streamed tracks (EAS)
1. Side to Side [Orphan] – 955,000
2. Swalla [Orphan] – 861,000
3. Bang Bang [Orphan] – 851,000
4. Hey Mama [Orphan] – 630,000
5. Starships [Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded] – 382,000
6. Swish Swish [Orphan] – 334,000
7. Run Up [Orphan] – 325,000
8. Only [The Pinkprint] – 325,000
9. Anaconda [The Pinkprint] – 319,000
10. MotorSport [Orphan] – 310,000
11. Super Bass [Pink Friday] – 309,000
12. All Eyes on You [Orphan] – 265,000
13. Beauty and a Beat [Orphan] – 263,000
14. Fefe [Queen] – 258,000
15. Rake It Up [Orphan] – 238,000
16. Truffle Butter [The Pinkprint] – 233,000
17. Feeling Myself [The Pinkprint] – 220,000
18. Krippy Kush [Orphan] – 212,000
19. The Night Is Still Young [The Pinkprint] – 188,000
20. Ball for Me [Orphan] – 181,000
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