Despite the successes of Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill and the like, Female Rappers have oft been forced to ‘play the back’ in the game that is Pop music.
Indeed, perhaps the fault of their labels and management teams, Femcees have very rarely enjoyed chart success with their own material, riding on the backs of hits released by the commercially potent acts whose music they feature on.
Now, in what can only mark the beginning of the end to this pattern, Rap Queen Nicki Minaj has extended her lead as one of Pop’s fastest selling debutantes.
This time, on the UK Singles Chart.
Record breaking details below…
Despite lacking a video or its own designated promo campaign, the Rapper’s ‘Pound The Alarm‘ is now one of the fastest rising singles in UK chart history, released by an artist of any genre.
For, in the space of two weeks it has risen by 118 spots, forcing itself up the chart by 91 places last week and a further 27 this week, set to hit the UK top ten by next week if its leapfrogging trend continues.
As if that wasn’t enough, her sophomore LP ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded’ has risen by 8 spots in the country’s album chart, placing it at #20.
All this, while its predecessor ‘Pink Friday‘ rocketed by 15 chart positions this week- 84 weeks after release.
Of course… Nicki is doing things very well… I’m very glad!
Slay b****!!!!!
Queen!!!!!!!!!
BEYONCE, & ADELE ARE GODDEST OF POP a.k.a GRAMMY’S RECORD BREAKER !!!
you better let em know lmao…SHADE
so because nicki,haven’t won a grammy are sold millions like them 2,make nicki other accomplishments void in your sights,get da f-ck out of her you f-cking bandwagoner i bet if adele wasn’t selling and winning all them awards you wouldn’t be riding her d*** so hard none of you did….anways keep doing you nicki keep wining and building piece by piece.
Please do not speak of this single until it reaches the top 10, till then it still is not a sucsess.
I think starships is still in the top 10 though, good for her!
damn it ain’t take you long, you wait on this site for a Nicki Minaj post huh FOH
Shut yo young stanning ass up. If you’re noticing people by screen name, you need a life. Dumb, goofy ass kids these days.
B****** ain’t s*** and they ain’t sayin nuffin, a hunnid of you fukas caint tell her nuffin!! she beez on da charts, she beez on da charts. GO NICKI!!!!!!
Well, this would actually be something worth mentioning if Nicki was achieving all of this due to rap songs and not just Pop songs that are being released by someone disguising themselves as a rapper. It isn’t fair to compare Nicki to Missy or any other real female rap artists because at the end of the day Nicki is not a rapper. She’s a Pop star who has styled herself as a ghetto Gaga/Madonna wannabe with a bad weave.
She still raps, just to a pop beat….missy and a lot of other female rappers have done different types of music before so why are you so hard on nicki??
She hardly raps in PTA, it’s mostly just her singing off-key. Missy and everyone else may have experimented with different sounds but at the end of the day they made it clear that they were RAPPERS before anything else. That isn’t the case with Nicki who seems to be trying to distance herself from Hip-Hop (her core audience and the ones who would actually support/buy her albums) with each release.
That’s why all of this is irrelevant. She never came out hip hop like the other hip hop chics. Her back ground is hip hop but she is straight up pop.
AGREED… AND IT WOULD BE EVEN BETTER IF SHE WAS DOING ALL OF THIS WITH SOME REAL COMPETITION, THERE IS NO OTHER FEMALE RAPPERS OUT RIGHT NOW. SO SHE’S WINNING BY DEFAULT. I MEAN LIL KIM DID IT AND THAT’S WHEN 5 OR 6 OTHER FEMALE RAPPERS WERE HOT AT THE TIME…AND KIM STILL SLAYED THEM BYTCHES…TIL NICKI’S ABLE TO DO THAT THEN SHE AINT WINNING SHYT. SHE’S A DEFAULT ARTIST. WACK BYTCH!
PTA will snatch. Slaughter, and slay the f*** out of lessors
when it can do like this one , you can brag and do back-flips :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg00YEETFzg&feature=player_detailpage
the album still a flop. if this is what she meant by ” the album gonna be important for POP culture” , then man , that’s a major Flop.
the b**** still a flop after being sold out to pop and do some generic ass songs. ” the album will be more urban , no one if featured in it , BLAH BLAH BLAH” , liar h**.
the b**** still fake and rocking a prosthetic silicon-filled ass.
the b**** still think she’s a REAL rapper or a Clear representation of real female rappers , LOL.
You’re the biggest flip flop stan I’ve ever seen. One minute you praise Rihanna the next you drag her, same with Beyonce. You know nothing.
b**** go suck a d*** and get PAID. u don’t understand anything. i didn’t praise her , i state facts c***.
I’m not the first person to call you out on your unloyal ways so let’s not.
My gawd that pic of Nicki is gorgeous. THEM LIPS THO! muaaaah!! (kisses em)
Slay them charts Nicki!
Now You Tell Me ..Who TF Is Winning ?
Any artist. Any genre. BAM.
love this website
This is actually quite an accomplishment. Let’s not forget Nicki has been paying this song dust, it has absolutely no promo, Nicki hasn’t even posted links informing her fans to purchase PTA, & above that it has no video. Now think of the amount of success it will have after all the following things I mentioned Nicki hasn’t done with PTA come into fruition. This is one of the fastest rising singles from any genre, not just Pop or Hip Hop, slay.
Last I checked she was rapping in the song, I mean really rapping, the beat is very pop infused but that’s it. You n***** always have some slick s*** to say, shut the f*** up.
Ooop Wrong place to post,, again!! Lmao sorry!
That’s WTF you get. With ya mad ass.
Nicki is a world record breakin artist.
I’m not the biggest Nicki Minaj Fan, but i’m not a hater either. She’s having a very fruitful career and has a promising future as well. I Just wish that she would tone down her image just a bit, and rap the way i know she can (lyrical)..
THE POST DIDN’T SAY THE SONG WAS HIP HOP.
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RAP AND HIP-HOP.
RAP IS A STYLE.
HIP-HOP IS A GENRE.
SO SHE IS RAPPING ON A POP TRACK.
PIECE OF WEAVE EDUCATING THESE B****** WHILST STAYING SLEEK.
This song is obviously not Hip Hop and it also doesn’t feature a lot of rapping as most of it is just, Nicki, attempting to “sing”. She can be Hip-Pop which is fine but the issue is when people start trying to give her achievements by labeling her as the “first rapper/hip-hop artist to do this or that” when it so obviously isn’t true. Why don’t you educate yourself on the genre that you’re speaking about before making a comment. Consider your weave officially snatched, burned, and buried.
AND IN THAT ORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL THE WAY I AM LAUGHING AT YOU RIGHT NOW.
THE POST DID NOT MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT HIP-HIP, IT SAID ‘RAPPER’.
So, you and all these other lessers talking about how she’s not Hip-Hop need to learn to READ.
What’s wrong with labeling her the ‘first rapper’?
“Despite the successes of Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill and the like, Female Rappers have oft been forced to ‘play the back’ in the game that is Pop music.”
Nicki Minaj is not in the same league or category as the women just mentioned above. She is not a real rap or Hip-Hop artist and therefore real female rap artists should not be compared to her. She is a Pop star. Once again learn to read before you comment.
Lol.
Last I checked she was rapping in the song, I mean really rapping, the beat is very pop infused but that’s it. You n***** always have some slick s*** to say, shut the f*** up.
So is Fergie a female rapper cause she raps on songs to?
So Lauren Hill is a singer cause she sings on songs too?
YOU PEOPLE ARE SOO REDUNDANT.
@Piece of Weave: LAURYN (with a Y, goofy) HILL is a SINGER and RAPPER. She does both perfectly. When will Onigger do either of them? Sit down, f**.
Good for her.
keep doing you nicki,keep locking it down sista,this is the story of Nicki,s music when she don’t pay it no mind and just let it do it,s thing,if the people wants it they will f-ck with it don’t need no video for it to sell,she just need to do the video now because obviously the people loves it.
SAM UR S*** NEGATIVE ALL TIME Y UR NOT TALKINg ABOUT CHRIS BROWN WHo HAS THE HIGGEST ENTRY THIS WEEK UH 1 album FORTUNE ALREADY PRODUCED 2 top 5 hits in the UK turn up the music #1 Don’t wake me up #3 uh
YESSS No1 on Itunes UK!!! DONT WAKE ME UP and is set to debut at number 3 on the singles chart this week probably number 1 the following week! TB UK is slaying! but people on that negative s***.
I probably won’t get many likes cause I am not BASHING anyone Oh well.. But Nicki is a force to be reckoned with. Although I appreciated her more pre-Pink Friday ( The Same way I appreciated Gaga more pre-BTW) but she is still slaying and I am proud of her. She has crossed over so good for her.
“Despite the successes of Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill and the like, Female Rappers have oft been forced to ‘play the back’ in the game that is Pop music.”
She isnt a female rapper on this song it is a pop song which she “sings” on very badly
You know what’s funny chris Brown hasn’t come in the UK SINCE 2009 But his latest album fortune has produced 2
Super hot tunes turn up the music #1 and Don’t wake me up #3 wow well done teamBreezy And Nicki good luck with pop tracks hmmm ur voice s sooo not pop
when nicki album was slaying in Uk was nicki there mo she wasn’t,just get da f-ck out of here do,s this have anything to do with Cb no it,s about nicki doing her think why can’t you f-ckers just give props and leave at that yall always on that hating sh-t.
REAL TALENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPT9BAbMBaM
OK, good for her.
I think she should focus on rapping, though, because she has the worst vocals ever. EVER.
Unless she wants to get hit singles like “Bullships” and the very very, very, VERY annoying “Turn Me On”, and that’s when you realize you should stop calling her “Rap Queen” and mentioning her name with the same sentence with Missy Elliott and Lauryn Hill.
Rap Queens don’t go and stick their noses up RedOne’s stinking ass and take the deepest, richest whiffs just to get dance-pop Top10’s.
Neither do they talk all kinds of degrading s*** on another rap Legend who’s been in the game for like 15 years and tell her lame b******* like “Meet me when you’re on Billbawrd”.
Say I don’t get it, is there a Rap Legend—-RedOne Asslicker kind of feud??
Co-sign. I don’t know why some people don’t understand the difference between true Hip-Hop/Rap artists and gimmicks such as Ms. Minaj.
I guess money really does talk. Good accomplishment but where is the real hip hop Nicki??
shot da f-ck up you so called real hip-hop heads are so annoying go ask eminem jay-z and kayne and others were is the real hip-hop no rapping over pop beats no collab with pop singers and all that,what is nicki the only one you f-cks can step to,talking about real hip-hop alot of underground rapper release straight fire straight underground hards sh-t did anyone of you real hip-hop head bought any no most of them don’t even see the charts and if they do it,s a miracle if they move 7000 units,you tou bias hypocrites can keep talking to def ears.
I don’t understand why your young, dumb ass writes these long ass run-on sentences disguised as dissertations. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
One of pops fastest selling debutantes? With this currently flopping album?
TOO ALL YOUR DUMB IDIOTS OUT THERE…NIKI IS A RAPPPER THAT MAKES POP MUSIC, WHICH HIP HOP INFLUENCES.
THE PROBLEM WITH MOST OF THE PUBLIC IS THEY ASSOCIATE RAPP WITH HIP HOP AND RIGHTLY SO, BUT BECAUSE YOU RAP DOESN’T MAKE YOU A HIP HOP ARTISTS JUST AS MUCH AS SINGING ALONE DOESN’T MAKE YOU A N OPERA ARTISTS.
Hope this should end the debates as to what niki is. I also want to add people keep saying niki is making pop music, but when she makes urban music who buys it? whens the last time you bought a single, and most people who vista the site fit the urban demographics and hence don’t buy music but probably consume the most of it
CONGRATS NICKI…
SEE WHAT BEING A SELL OUT DOES FOR YOU!!!!
WHEN YOU DO SELL OUT MATERIAL… IT PAYS OFF.
THANKS FOR NOT BEING REAL
hahahah 😆
So its better to be real and broke? Get out of here. Kim has put out solid real hip hop s***. Did true hip hop heads buy it? Hell nah. Miss me with that. If Red One offered Kim tracks right now do you think she would turn it down? Yeah.right.
KIM ALWAYS DID DIFFERENT MUSIC, KIM STARTED THIS BARBIE MOVEMENT BACK IN THE EARLY 2000’S BUT NOW THAT SHYT IS WACK AND PLAYED OUT. IT’S 12 YEARS LATER AND NICKI WIT HER LATE ASS WANNA ACT LIKE SHE STARTED THIS SHYT…KNOWING DAMN WELL SHE DIDNT. AND FYI IN CASE U DIDNT KNOW LIL KIM WAS MAKING UP BEAT SONGS AND TECNO SONGS WAYYYYY BEFORE NICKI. AND KIM WOULD SING HER OWN VERSUS AND STUFF. LISTEN TO KIM’S 2ND AND 3RD ALBUMS. GEEZ YALL YOUNGINS NEED TO DO YOUR HOMEWORK BEFORE U SPEAK ON SOMETHING
Hmmm another pop song eh?…NONE of her raps song on top 100 so this B**** is effectively Britney spears. Fine but STOP CALLN THIS FUNKY B**** A RAPPER SAMATHA!!! This W**** CL-LEEEARLY is a pop b****. Mo one cares that this TRAMP dont like she pop wit her STINK P**** ASS!. This S*** neefs to accept her PISSY ass pop. And yes I druuug that S****…WHO NEXT?!
Beez in da trap is in the top 100. Its doing better than that joint with C – breezy. Peeked at 7 on the rap charts and I think its around 8 or 9 on Hip Hop/R&B. That joint she did with Khalid is moving up the chart. Dat s*** with BOB she did is gonna rank high. I think she would do better if she did more hip hop. But since the b**** like that smell of green she gonna stick to what sells. I can’t hate. Ya gotta play da game and get dat green.
Sorry NICKI IS GARBAGE!!! IF SHE NOT STEALING FROM MISSY, LIL KIM AND FOXY, SHE STEALING FROM BRITNEY, GAGA AND ALL THE OTHER POP ARTISTS!! SHE’S NOT A REAL ARTIST- SHE’S A SWAGGER JACKER- PERIOD!!! GARBAGE!!!!
True. But garbage sells. The pink haired b**** is selling. As for swagger Jacking Britney bit Janet and Aaliyah so hard the Ho need to go to jail theft. I dont think I need to remind you how Foxxy jacked Kim. This always happens in this game. Michael Jackson dealt with it best. He never let the swagger jackers get to him and that why he was and still is the king. But the game is the game and jacking is part of it.
If only the UK mattered. LOL
Congratulations are in order. People are hating on Nicki because she is doing what is CURRENTLY IN THE MARKET. I think we do not have to explain how music is a business again do we. Nicki has got a solid career ahead of her. Good for you Nicki.
The only thing that matters is that her fans love her music. F da hatas for real yo!
AND IT WOULD BE EVEN BETTER IF SHE WAS DOING ALL OF THIS WITH SOME REAL COMPETITION, THERE IS NO OTHER FEMALE RAPPERS OUT RIGHT NOW. SO SHE’S WINNING BY DEFAULT. I MEAN LIL KIM DID IT AND THAT’S WHEN 5 OR 6 OTHER FEMALE RAPPERS WERE HOT AT THE TIME…AND KIM STILL SLAYED THEM BYTCHES…TIL NICKI’S ABLE TO DO THAT THEN SHE AINT WINNING SHYT. SHE’S A DEFAULT ARTIST. WACK BYTCH!
Lolz nicki minaj ain’t no s*** or any thing she’s just a good rap singer and no one can change her but her self if people don’t like nicki minaj then don’t but ima freaking fan to !!!:)