Pink Friday 2 – Nicki Minaj makes history by topping the Billboard 200 Chart as a female rapper in 2023

Despite several protest on the internet, Nicki Minaj manages to top the chart, with Taylor Swift in the #2 position and Drake in the #3 position

Nicki Minaj from Pink Friday 2

After a five-year hiatus following her 2018 masterpiece – Queen, Nicki Minaj unleashes Pink Friday 2, her fifth studio album, on December 8, via Young Money Entertainment and Republic Records. This long-awaited successor to her 2010 debut, Pink Friday, marks a significant chapter in Minaj's musical evolution, bridging the gap between her early stardom and her current reign as a rap veteran.

All the songs of Pink Friday 2 album

Pink Friday 2 has twenty-two songs in it including – ‘Are You Gone Already’, ‘Barbie Dangerous’, ‘FTUC’, ‘Beep Beep’, ‘Fallin 4 U’, ‘Let Me Calm Down (Ft. J. Cole)’, ‘RNB (Ft. Lil Wayne & Tate Kobang)’, ‘Pink Birthday’, ‘Needle (Ft. Drake)’, ‘Cowgirl (Ft. Lourdiz)’, ‘Everybody (Ft. Lil Uzi Vert)’, ‘Big Difference’, ‘Red Ruby Da Sleeze’, ‘Forward From Trini (Ft. Skeng & Skillibeng)’, ‘Pink Friday Girls’, ‘Super Freaky Girls’, ‘Bahm Bahm’, ‘My Life’, ‘Nicki Hendrix (Ft. Future)’, ‘Blessings (Ft. Tasha Cobb Leonard)’, ‘Last Time I Saw You’, and ‘Just The Memories’.

Pink Friday 2 copies sold

Pink Friday 2 sold like crazy in its first week. Over two-lac-twenty-eight-thousand (228,000) copies were bought. It even broke a record for being the best-selling female rap album on vinyl in the US with twenty-five thousand copies. To celebrate the success, Nicki announced a world tour – Pink Friday 2 in 2024. From March 1 in Oakland to June 7 in Berlin, the rapper is going to have thirty-seven tours across the world.

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Nicki Minaj makes history

The whopping 228,000 sold copies made Nicki Minaj claim the title of the biggest week for a female rap album in the 2020s and the top spot for an R&B/hip-hop album by a woman this year.

About Billboard 200 Chart

Every week, the Billboard 200 showcases the most popular albums in the US, taking into account various ways people interact with music, from streaming to buying physical copies. Luminate measures this popularity using ‘equivalent album units’, which combine different metrics into a single score.

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