Music
Nicki Minaj 'pleased at Pink Friday sales'
Published Thursday, Dec 2 2010, 02:46 GMT | By Jennifer Still
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The rapper sold over 375,000 copies of the record in the first week of its release - a success she compared to Lauryn Hill's 1998 debut The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
"I'm just so grateful and kind of still in shock. These numbers haven't been put up since 1998," she told MTV News.
"It just makes me feel proud of my team, proud of my fans, everyone who has had something to do with my dreams. Finally, we are seeing this dream come to fruition. It feels incredible."
Minaj added that the album's popularity with fans has given her a new freedom to push herself further as an artist.
"Now I can promote the body of work," she said.
"I feel like I gave birth to my baby, now I'm gonna teach it how to walk and how to talk and spoil the baby."
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