Travis Scott & Nicki Minaj’s New Albums Sales Battle Comes To An End

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Houston rapper Travis Scott‘s Astroworld might have just won the battle. New reports have claimed Cactus Jack’s newest solo album beat out rap heavyweight Nicki Minaj‘s Queen LP in sales.

Based on some reports, Scott’s new solo effort is believed to have secured the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart.

With a high percentage of precincts reporting, we’re now calling this week’s chart race for Travis Scott. It’s been a helluva battle for #1 between YMCMB/Republic’s Nicki Minaj and Cactus Jack/Grand Hustle/Epic’s Scott; we’ll have final numbers tomorrow. Challenges are affecting the final numbers but now there is more than enough information to call it. Stay tuned for details. (HITS Daily Double)

Earlier in the week, buzz developed about Nicki and Travis going head-to-head for the top position.

On next week’s Billboard 200 albums chart, Nicki Minaj’s new Queen and Travis Scott’s reigning champ Astroworld are vying for No. 1, according to industry forecasters. Those in the know suggest that the two sets could each earn around 160,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Aug. 16. (Billboard)

Based on early estimates, Nicki should have no problem beating out competition from Trippie Redd and Jason Mraz.

Nicki Minaj’s Queen rules the new-release roost this week. Let’s take a look at how this and two other new sets are looking.

Nicki Minaj (YMCMB/Republic) 135-150k total activity, 45-55k album
Trippie Redd (TenThousand) 66-71k, 13-15k
Jason Mraz (Atlantic) 28-32k, 24-27k

Nicki currently has the #1 album and #3 track (“Barbie Dreams”) at iTunes and the #2 album and song at Apple Music. “Barbie” is #16 at Spotify U.S. (HITS Daily Double)

In a new interview, Nicki talked about the recording process for Queen.

“I did a lot of the recording in Miami, and then there was a little moment where I came to New York. I got a dope burst of creativity in New York, and I created in one day ‘Coco Chanel,’ ‘Miami’ and this record called ‘Regular Degular’ which is on the Target deluxe. … Even with having a tiny role you may be on set for a couple of weeks, and then you have to do promotions for it and leading up to the film you have to do fittings and stuff, so it takes a pretty long time, so I don’t think I’ll ever do that again. I realized that maybe it’s not in me like rap is in me. With rap, it’s different, no matter how long it takes I’m willing to do it. I just don’t have that same passion.” (“A Night With The Queen”)

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