Nicki Minaj's Wal-Mart "Ban" Explained

A Rocky Williform Company Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday Roman Re-Loaded: The Re-Up wasn't sold in huge retail chains like Target and Wal-Mart, and industry expert Keith Caulfield explained why. The situation is more or less about numbers--and the relative unpopularity of reissued albums. "Expanded reissues aren't always guaranteed big sellers. It really depends on the extra content and timing of the release ... Nicki's reissue was seemingly timed to profit from holiday shopping," Keith Caulfield, Billboard's associate director of charts and retail, told MTV News. But that doesn't mean that reissues don't ever sell well. "In the week Katy Perry reissued Teenage Dream, the combined sales of the reissue and the original album were 33,000," he said. "That was up 190 percent compared to the previous week." Author: Rayna Dean