Nicki Minaj has slated Travis Scott and Spotify after her new album missed out on the top spot in the US charts.
The 35-year-old singer’s latest record ‘Queen’ landed at number two with 185,000 sales, with the 26-year-old rapper’s LP ‘Astroworld’ beating it with 205,000 copies, and she has hit out over his ‘Season Passes’ which gave fans pre-sale access to tickets if they bought the collection.
Taking to Twitter, she ranted in a series of posts: “Travis sold over 50K of these. With no requirement of redeeming the album! With no dates for a tour, etc. I spoke to him.
“He knows he doesn’t have the #1 album this week. I love my fans for the #1 album in AMERICA… I put my blood sweat & tears in writing a dope album only for Travis Scott to have Kylie Jenner post a tour pass telling ppl to come see her & Stormi. lol.
“Im actually laughing. #Queen broke the record of being number 1 in 86 countries. Thank Jesus & thank you to my fans. (sic)”
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Nicki vowed to address it further on her ‘Queen Radio’ show, and then turned her attention to Spotify, suggesting debuting her album on her Beats 1 show meant the competing streaming service was punishing her.
She argued: “Spotify put drake’s face on every playlist but told me they’d have to teach me a lessons for playing my music 10 mins early on #QueenRadio.
“Even tho they’ve been giving away my music for free for years & I am one of the top Spotify artists of all time.”
She pointed to Drake’s own show on Apple’s Beats 1 network and argued he was rewarded where she has felt punished.
She added: “Spotify had to teach me a lesson but rewarded the man who has had an Apple radio show the longest; inadvertently helping the Apple platform the most.
“Oh I can’t wait for #QueenRadio on Tuesday. They took away my promotion they had promised for the 1st cpl days b/c of this.”
