Nicki Minaj has broken barriers throughout her illustrious career and her latest album, Pink Friday 2, continues to set the bar higher.
According to Chart Data, Minaj’s latest offering has broken another record by becoming the fastest album by a female rapper to surpass one billion streams on Spotify.
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The Young Money hitmaker is now also the first female rapper in history to have five albums surpass one billion streams on the streaming platform.
2010’s Pink Friday, 2012’s Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, 2014’s The Pinkprint and 2018’s Queen have all previously reached the milestone.
.@NICKIMINAJ's 'Pink Friday 2' becomes the fastest album by a female rapper to surpass 1 billion streams on Spotify. pic.twitter.com/5JxJCWOZ0B
— chart data (@chartdata) January 10, 2024
.@NICKIMINAJ becomes the first female rapper in history to have five albums surpass 1 billion streams each on Spotify. pic.twitter.com/DL8nTjO6PP
— chart data (@chartdata) January 10, 2024
Pink Friday 2 arrived to much fanfare in December — the same day as Nicki Minaj’s 41st birthday — and quickly made a splash, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 228,000 first-week units.
In doing so, Nicki became the first female rapper in history to score three No. 1 albums, breaking a long-standing tie with Foxy Brown.
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Brown — who topped the chart twice in the 1990s with Chyna Doll and The Firm: The Album, a collaboration with Nas, AZ, and Nature — congratulated the Queens, New York native on social media.
“Umm sir! Only Nic could break tha king[‘s] record,” Foxy wrote, before adding: “Hella proud. 26 year record is brazy tho. Y’all mean to tell me no bitch broke that shit in my absence! Took twin to set tha bar again!”
Pink Friday 2 also set a new record on the Billboard Hot 100 last month when 17 of its 22 songs landed on the chart, the most from any album by a female rapper.
Not everyone shares Foxy Brown’s enthusiasm for Nicki Minaj’s recent success, though. Earlier this month, Wack 100 drew the ire of the Barbz after claiming that Pink Friday 2 isn’t as record-breaking as reports suggest.
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“I don’t know about no breaking records. Ain’t none of them [first-week] numbers breaking nobody’s records right now from no artist,” he said on Clubhouse.
Wack also suggested that Cardi B is the bigger artist right now, despite Nicki having a deeper discography.
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The self-proclaimed Queen of Rap seemingly responded by rhetorically asking her followers on X (formerly Twitter): “Barbz did we break any records?”
