Even without the aid of a video, or any live performances in the country, Nicki Minaj‘s ‘Starships‘ continues its ascent on the UK singles chart.
Indeed, after spending last week at #7, the track has risen by two spots this week- marking her highest ever chart position in the country and breaking yet another Female Rap record.
Details below…
Now the first Femcee to score a UK top 5 since Missy Elliott‘s ‘4 My People’ and Ms.Dynamite‘s ‘Dy-na-mi-tee’, if ‘Ships’ rises again at any point from now she will become the highest charting Female Rapper in the chart’s 43 year history.
If this comes to pass, the record will extend her lead as the highest selling Rapstress of the 21st century, a feat many of he detractors are hell bent on disproving.
Elsewhere, Emeli Sande‘s ‘Next To Me’ is this week’s #3 while Rita Ora’s ‘Hot Right Now‘ slides 3 to spots #6, 21 places above Rihanna‘s ‘We Found Love’.
Jason Derulo‘s ‘Breathing‘ rises ten spots to #25 as Beyonce‘s ‘Love On Top‘ comes in at #58 in its 21st week on the chart. In at #75- rising by 31 spots in Rihanna’s ‘Talk That Talk’, 8 places beneath Azealia’s Banks‘ ‘212‘.
Onto albums, Emeli Sande‘s ‘Our Version Of Events‘ is #1, forcing Adele‘s ‘21‘ to #2 but doing nothing to disturb Lana Del Rey‘s spot at #4 with ‘Born To Die‘.
Rising by 10 places to #17 is ‘The Essential‘ by Whitney Houston as Rihanna’s ‘Talk That Talk‘ falls 3 spots to #21 its fifteenth week.
However, in what really is an impressive feat, the model’s ‘Loud’ is #27 after, 68 weeks after its release, faring better than Lady GaGa‘s ‘Born This Way’ which holds court at #42 after 41 weeks.
With pertains to Beyonce, ‘4‘ drops 10 spots to #51 while 2008’s ‘I Am‘ falls three spots to #85, 170 weeks after debuting.
Well done to all.
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Starships is a big HIT!
Go Nicki! That is a very good record,
hahahahaha stop reaching Samantha WFL has been on the charts 22weeks and remains in the top 25 lets see how long Rita Ora will stay in the top 50 lmbao…
Congratulations to Nicki… Well Done!!!!!
f*** you ThatFLOPJuice.
Nicki’s not even heavily promoting Starships and that s*** is blazing!! cheers with pompoms…….GOooo NICKI!!!
I’m confused, is she a rapper or a pop star…?
I mean congrats and all but honestly I am confused..because every where I go I see her as a pop star…
well either way shes doing her thing..good for her..cant hate on the chick hustle…
No words about my boy bruno? 😕 Katy or adele? mmm
Beyonce is flopping,thank to LOT tho
Hope nicki does something to get that song to the top real quick (video,promo etc…) dont sleep onika
She’s not rap. I’m not knockin her hustle but don’t disrespect the culture like that..
i am happy for nicki
Damn nicki is on a roll man.. PF RR is gonna do major number the first week
I say 400,000 the first week like come on now nicki is everywhere
I know I’m downloading it on my ipad2 & buying it at target
This album gonna be cray
Nicki Minaj congrats to all your success you came from nothing to something!
I can’t wait for your second album to hit the stores Im one of the people who will be supporting it.
Nicki Minaj is gonna do lil Wayne numbers the first week that’s all I gotta say and ya commenters know its true
i am getting nickis album, but “starships” is barely hip hop/rap
Congrats minaj but starships is not hip hop Sam. Stop.
Nicki please i want the song “Marilyn Monroe” as a single.
honestly I think nicki is a gaga /lil kim wanna be…
but the chick is making moves so i cant hate on that…
i do think there are way more talented chicks who should get more shine than her,,,,
but, i cant knock the chicks hustle…s***…if i ha a chance to be a fake rapper and a pop star making millions of dollars, and travel the world, i would do it..
now and days TALENTS doesnt mean s***…ITS WHOS D*** UR SUCKING OR WHO YOURE PAYING TO STAY IN THE SPOTLIGHT..
This is nonsense! Lol
She doesn’t emcee or rap very well, and does neither on this song, this isn’t nothing new Katy Perry and Rihanna do this all the time!
Its time we took Nicki out of any posts to do with Rap and Hip Hop, she does bubblegum pop, s*** bubble gum pop at that!!
Yesss Nicki Minaj Stay Slaying These B******.
Hmmmmmmmmmm
The B**** Hardly RAPS in that f****** single like really..
People need to stop praising her and saying she is break “FEMALE RAP RECORDS” Because the b**** aint RAPPING.
Nicki is a WANNA be pop star who does not have the IT Factor to be a POP star so she pretends to be a rapper (LESS COMPETITIVE) But then makes POP songs =/ ..she is all over the place..Star ships is s*** as well =S But hey the music game has been s*** from time.
Missy + Miss Dynamite did not have to sell out to cater to white ppl to get their hits that the kinda artist we should applaud and respect.
dang loud is #27!! go riri she is killing it with that album which is why i wish she would of rereleased loud instead of coming out with talk that talk even though it is doing good it would of boosted loud by atleast one million if not two million!
imo it should of been loud rereleased with
we found love
do ya thang
cake
where have you been
fool in love
cockiness (love it)
that would o been a smash!
Umm the only part of starships thats not rap is the hook and bridge #staypressed its a hip hop song.
@Commandet,,,,Amen Ofc…
Because ppl in the UK like awful techno music where’s the surprise. Ppl in UK have awful taste in music look who’s on top of choices charts.
YASSSS– EVERYTIME I COME TO THIS SITE, THERE IS ANOTHER AMAZING POST ON NICKI MINAJ THE ‘QUEEN OF HIP-HOP’, GOSH I AM SOOO PROUD OF HER, I THINK IT WILL BE A LONG TIME BEFORE A FEMALE RAPPER COMES AND PULLS OFF WHAT NICKI HAS, AND DOES IT IN AS SHORT OF A TIME SPAN AS NICKI HAS– CAN WE BELIEVE THAT SHE IS ONLY ONE ALBUM IN?!
Nicki is not even Hip Hop.Sam get off her c***.
@nats really? Cause no hip hop stations play that song where I’m from…#NYbaby…
She sings “pop” songs..then gets hailed for breaking female rap records *rolls eyes*
congratz nicki,keep doing your thing.
@NATS,
There’s a big difference between talking over a beat and hip hop. Hip hop is a CULTURE, not just talking over a beat. That is why Lauryn Hill is still considered HIp Hop even tho she sings. It is because Lauryn Hill represents Hip Hop, which is a CULTURE.
Nickis is not hip hop at all. She’s Gwen Stefani and Kesha.
The look on Nicki’s face is the one all the lesser girls have when Rihanna has yet another SMASH!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Hurricane Rihanna bring death to these ho’s!
BAM.so because ririr is wining,nicki is automatically a lesser in your eyes and don’t deserve her piece of the bread too,for your info the game is big enough for everyone and Riri and nicki is cool so that divide and conquer sh-t you on don’t fly around here,anyways Riri and nicki keep doing yall thing….and you DIANE who da f-ck is you to say nicki isn’t hip-hop not because she don’t do hip-hop music only don’t mean she isn’t hip-hop you need to educate you self,it,s people like you the reasons female rappers gets heat when they try to add other type of music to there arsonal seen it in the pass and up on till now…nicki is doing her thing for female rap rather you all like her methods are not,the fact of the matter is she put female rap on the map again.
What about Part of Me?
didn’t salt n pepa reach #2 with Push it and Let’s talk about s**?
@RDK,
What map is this and who has Nicki put on it. As I said before, Nicki has renewed public interest in female rappers but in no way has she done ANYTHING personally for them.
Nicki is NOT changing the game of hip hop. She is simply singing POP and calling it HIP HOP. There’s no evolution here.
I can’t understand how nicki is always a lil Kim wannabe and a lady gaga wannabe at the same time. How foolish. If she’s a wannabe then it has to be one or the other. You can’t be a wannabe of 2 artists who have absolutely NOTHING in common. Lady gaga and lil Kim… Yea they’re SOOOOOO much alike .. |-8
nicki got them lookin for work stay wining so happy for her
@deveal2012
UK have bad taste in music?
what about Adele, emeli sande, amy winehouse, ed sheeran, maverick sabre etc? you yanks are too busy sucking katy perrys d*** to realise.
MINAJESTY it,s nicki so they will try to tear down anything she is involve with,they are nicki haters nothing surprise me when it comes to them.
If your own definition of a “flop” is simply : a song that couldn’t reach the Top10 in the big-assed old US, then Nicki Minaj’s career is
DEAD
N** BUSTER
Anyway, this’s for IDIOTS who think she has released “7 singles” or that this era “flopped” :
Get it right.
Run the World (Girls) : LEAD SINGLE
– #1 hit on the U.S. Hot Dance/Club Play Songs chart
– Top10 hit in 7 countries (including Australia, Japan and New Zealand)
– One of the best selling singles of 2011 in 4 countries
Best Thing I Never Had : OFFICIAL SINGLE
– #1 hit on the U.S. Hot Dance/Club Play Songs chart
– Top10 hit on the U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart
– Top5 hit in 7 countries (including the U.K., Irland, New Zeland and Brazil)
– One of the best selling singles of 2011 in 4 countries (including the U.S.)
1+1 : PROMOTIONAL SINGLE
– Charted in 5 countries with NO AIRPLAY
Countdown : OFFICIAL SINGLE
– #1 on the U.S. Hot Dance/Club Play Songs chart
– #1 hit in Germany
Party : U.S. URBAN SINGLE
– Top10 hit on the U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart
Dance for You : MUSIC VIDEO
Love on Top : OFFICIAL WORLDWIDE SINGLE + U.S. URBAN SINGLE
– #1 hit on the U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart + US Hot Adult R&B Airplay
– Top10 hit in 3 countries
– One of the best selling singles of 2011 in Australia
* Currently attacking the U.S. Hot Dance/Club Play Songs chart
End of Time : OFFICAL SINGLE
* Currently attacking the U.S. Hot Dance/Club Play Songs chart, even before being released, or officially announced as a single : : and BORN TO BE A HIT