Nicki Minaj ‘Pink Friday 2’ Tops The Charts

The Queen has returned.

Nicki Minaj reigns supreme this week on the Billboard 200 charts together with her newest album, Pink Friday 2.

Billboard studies the album moved 228,000 in its first week gross sales. The complete marks the biggest week for a rap album by a girl within the 2020s decade, and the most important for an R&B/hip-hop album by a girl this yr. 129,000 of its SEA models equaled to 169.87 million on-demand streams of its 22 tracks. The album moved 92,000 in conventional album gross sales together with 25,000 copies offered on vinyl.

Pink Friday 2 marks Nicki Minaj’s third No. 1 debut album and breaks the tie with Cunning Brown for essentially the most amongst feminine rap artists in Billboard historical past. The album additionally marks Nicki’s seventh Prime 10 mission general.

In 2011, her 2010 debut album, Pink Friday peaked at No. 1 just a few weeks after its debut, whereas the follow-up, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded debuted at No. 1 in 2012. Each The Pinkprint (2014) and Queen (2018) simply missed its mark and debuted at No. 2. Additionally on the record contains her 2009 mixtape, Beam Me Up Scotty  which she launched in 2021 (No. 2) and final yr’s compilation Queen Radio: Volume 1 (No. 10).

Nick Minaj’s Pink Friday 2 is the Grammy-winning rapper’s fourth studio album that includes 22 tracks together with collaborations from Lil Wayne, Drake, J.Cole, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, and extra. She quickly added two new tracks for its Gag Metropolis deluxe model that included her “Beep Beep (Remix)” that includes 50 Cent and “Love Me Enough” alongside Monica and Keyshia Cole. 14 songs off the album have additionally charted within the Billboard Top 100 singles charts.

Photograph: Mike Coppola