On April 2nd 2012, Nicki Minaj released her sophomore album ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded.’
Armed with 21 tracks, the release was launched to celebrate the monumental success of her R&B-tinged Hip-Hop debut ‘Pink Friday’ and caressed most corners of the rapper’s creative universe.
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Its first half, supported by Nas, Rick, Cam’Ron, 2 Chainz and Drake, packed a street-smart punch with tracks penned to celebrate her ascent from working class dreamer to bonafide Pop icon, and assert her dominance over rivals whose lives and careers were dragged over the coals with humour and ferocity.
Let me tell you this, sister
I am, I am colder than a blister
Cause my flow’s so sick and I’m a lunatic
And this can’t be cured with no Elixir.
Its second half was inspired by the time she and her then-boyfriend Safaree Samuels spent promoting her debut album in Europe and Asia.
Partially powered by Red One, the glitchy Pop dream saw the rapper put her singing voice to good and glide through tales of high jinx (‘Whip It’, ‘Starships’, ‘Va Va Voom’), travel (‘Beautiful Sinner‘) , self-assurance (‘Masquerade’), romance ( ‘Young Forever‘) and the perils of fame (‘Marilyn Monroe‘).
Its like all the good things
They fall apart like,
Like Marilyn Monroe
Truth is we mess up
Till we get it right
I don’t want to end up losing my soul.
Today, a number of the album’s tracks have reached new milestones on Spotify.
‘Va Va Voom’, which was certified Silver in the United Kingdom weeks after its release, crossed the 74 million mark during the holidays to land at a figure of 74,570,135.
‘Beez in the Trap’:
65 million.
‘Right By My Side’:
36 million.
‘Whip It’:
24 million.
‘Pound the Alarm’:
105 million.
Chief among them?
‘Starships’:
376 million.
These numbers extend the rapper’s lead as the highest-selling/streamed female rapper of the decade and one of the fastest-selling artists to debut within the same period.
Quite interestingly, the rapper would have achieved this feat even without the benefit of her streaming figures thanks to the Herculean pure sales numbers she amassed before Billboard updated its chart system.
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STOP making up reasons to post articles about Nicki Minaj’s tired a**!
At the end of the day, the common music listener and buyer does not know or care about how many times a d*mn song is streamed or listened to online.
People only know who is HOT, who is IN DEMAND, whose public personality is likable & who presently reigns supreme.
You all can post a new data/stats article about Nicki every freakin day, but it still won’t resurrect her DEAD career or the public’s disdain for her likeness & overall being.
SHE IS DONE!
But you were the first to comment.
And you were the first to reply
Doesn’t matter who commented first last middle last cuz get this Baby.. nickis still a non factor to the GP
Facts. ?
Sad they living in the past smh
Thank you this s*** is tired like this website it’s being reported on
Bla bla bla all this B******* and still no # 1
Something Cardi has 3 of.
But who is the highest selling female rapper of the decade? ?. All the streams in the world couldn’t even help the Queen of Bacterial Vaginosis could it?
lol and still no one cares also cardi has 3 grammys and nicki has zero
Highest selling female rapper yet all of her most successful songs are POP! Biggest fraud of the decade
Why do people applaud nicki not getting s Grammy she was nominated and it’s well known. Within the industry that she was blackballed by them. They face it to Cardi this last go round to spite her. The albums Cardi was up against were better than hers and I like Cardi! Y’all dangle the Grammy over her head (white older men make the decision) but then y’all also holler BLM and diversity but applaud them black balling her
If nicki made a classic hip hop album, maybe she’d get a Grammy. Her albums are never cohesive and are always drowning in too many POP songs
OH MY GOD WHO TF CARES NO ONES BRINGING ICKI WITH THEM TO 2020 PERIODT
PERIODT!!!!
Radio ? banned her but The Barbs love them some Nicki Minaj she’ll always be the Queen and the first to do it
Its so funny seeing this site try so hard to Revive this flop no number ones no grammys after how many years in the game?? Lol pathetic flop
Your statement is ironic in itself. She was on top for a decade. Yet you call her a flop because Taylor Swift was able to get a number one over that year and she doesn’t have a Grammy because she was having a feud with the white men who control the Grammys. But go off.
Isn’t it sad when you pay hood rats to attack your husband’s girlfriend only for your husband to keep texting that girlfriend DURING a court case about that same girlfriend. It is such a shame. Anyway, how was your Christmas ?
Oh yes. It’s even sadder when you go on camera and admit that you used drug innocent men and steal from them. I’m really happy that she got a recording contract because Chlamydia only knows what she’d be doing without it. #MadameRoach #RoachofNewYork
Sit down wack a$$ and eat a tuna fish sandwich
Did you say tuna? As in fish market? Hmm hmm.
That be that cream cheese pushing it way out your loose p****
Seriously its not 2009 no one cares about this tired bleaching brawd
Satan does
Why is 376m a relevant number? It would be have been better to post about it when it was still 375m. Are you going post per extra stream?
This fraud should have been cancelled the minute she opened her big stank mouth to disrespect the QUEEN Mariah Carey! How a nappy headed pink wig-wearing Barbie wannabe have an ego big enough to disrespect music ROYALTY? A LEGEND?! This b|tch got away with her tricking a$$ for far too long! It’s fun watching you fall kNockoff Garbaj!
Biggest fraud of the decade. Highest selling female rapper yet her most successful songs are dance-pop trash like this.
Fun fact almost 9 years later the album still has not crossed the 1m sold threshold.
This post is a bit pointless but I love this album! People wanna downgrade Nicki for working with Pop sounds but Roman Zolanski out here slaying 90% of the current rappers on a dance RedOne beat and they can’t take it! I know that Nicki had to show a more mature side to her art but I kinda miss this type of quirkiness from her.
Ooh and Va Va Voom is a BOP!
How about post her sells? She’s the highest selling female rapper of the decade and of all time. She is also the 2nd highest selling rapper of the decade.
No one gives a f’ck
So you dont care and you’re commenting on the bish you hate…
Delusional is a heck of a drug….
So because nicki refused to by hits and grammys…she’s a flop….dead
Cardi b got a grammy because she sold her soul..bish doesn’t write her own rhymes and yet she got a songwriting award…
Whos the biggest fraud….
Nicki refuse to be a c*** like cardi…so of course try to replace her with a whhore who suck dack for a living
The biggest fraud is actually normani the flop
Don’t come for Nicki Minaj if you stan for normani which is too facken ratchet . Even big girl Lizzo destroyed normani career
Nicki Minaj >>>> Normani
???
Clarkson we know it’s you buffoon. You’re the only person n this site that hates Normani cause you’re a racist Camila
Stan
M.a.d nicki minaj is my favorite