As of October 10, only three female Rap songs in history owned a Diamond certification at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of 10 million in the United States – Nicki Minaj‘s ‘Super Bass’ as well as Cardi B‘s Hot 100 #1 hits ‘I Like It’ and ‘Bodak Yellow.’
The latter performer, already penciled in the organization’s record books for being the first female rapper attached to three Diamond-certified singles overall, made history again when she saw the status of ‘Like’ and ‘Yellow’ updated Tuesday (October 11) – just in time for her 30th birthday.
Details inside.
On Tuesday, the RIAA took to press to announce ‘Yellow’ and ‘Like’ – both found aboard Cardi’s 2018 debut album ‘Invasion of Privacy’ – had crossed its threshold for 11x Platinum status. This means they’ve sold 11 million copies each in the U.S.
By doing so, she not only becomes the first female rapper to own a plaque with as high of a certification but she also breaks a two-way tie with Minaj for the highest-certified song by a female rapper.
While only 87 songs in the history of recorded music have been certified Diamond, just 13 of those have been certified higher than Cardi’s ‘Yellow’ and ‘Like’: Lil Nas X‘s ‘Old Town Road’ (16x Platinum), Gotye‘s ‘Somebody That I Used to Know‘ (14x Platinum), Imagine Dragons’ ‘Radioactive’ (14x Platinum), John Legend‘s ‘All of Me’ (14x Platinum), The Chainsmokers‘ ‘Closer‘ (14x Platinum), Bruno Mars’ ‘Just the Way You Are‘ (13x Platinum), Chris Stapleton‘s ‘Tennessee Whiskey‘ (13x Platinum), Eminem‘s ‘Lose Yourself’ (13x Platinum), Eminem’s ‘Love the Way You Lie‘ (13x Platinum), Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee‘s ‘Despacito‘ (13x Platinum), Ed Sheeran‘s ‘Thinking Out Loud‘ (12x Platinum), Justin Bieber‘s ‘Baby‘ (12x Platinum), and Katy Perry‘s ‘FireWork‘ (12x Platinum).
Among female acts, only Perry’s ‘Firework’ (12x Platinum), Perry’s ‘Dark Horse’ (11x Platinum), Bebe Rexha‘s ‘Meant to Be’ (11x Platinum), and Lady Gaga‘s ‘Bad Romance‘ (11x Platinum) have been certified as high or higher than Cardi’s ‘Yellow’ and ‘Like.’
The sales updates bring Cardi’s career digital sales to 54 million, the most among female rappers to date.
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Boom certified on her birthday👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 She can fall off right now and still be in the record books haters keep hating all in 5 years queen
I told you WAP wasn’t certified Diamond 🤣
This what haters do f** the fact she broke a record u try to start negative s*** and when wap does go diamond you will say Payola excuses n hate
You said it already was 💀
WAP will NEVER go Diamond. Bookmark THIS 😈
Nicki set out to be a replacement lil Kim which is why her accolades aren’t that impressive. But Cardi set out to just be great and that’s why there’s no limit to her success. When you make someone else you’re goal, you’ll only go as far as they went and you’ll only be remembered for being “a little better” then they were. Oh well, another day another “Cardi surpasses Nicki” story. It’s too be expected, she’s not that great
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And cardi b was set out to be nickis replacement but cant replace nicki!! Because nobody can!!
nicki’s talent is what brought her to this level of her career,despite no grammy shes still held in high regard as the best & one of the most impactful hiphop act in history.
so cardi can keep surpasing numbers but wont surpass nickis talent & impact.
Oh well, anyone can do it in the streaming era. Super Bass’s certifications are from mainly SALES as it was released in 2011. Try again.
If it was so easy to go diamond wouldn’t Nicki have a diamond in the streaming era she released song within the last 6 years coulda easily went diamond right just like cardi did excuses again to diminish cardi power
Why more artists not diamond since it’s soooo easy in streaming era ???????????,,
Blah blah blah, Nicki has a REAL Diamond single. When will Hep B? 💀
Shayla Queen™ 👑
August 16, 2022
Times have changed, hunnie! Hear your old ass talking about pure sales like we still in 1994 💀 Pure sales are as ancient as old ass Monica himself.
Shayla Queen™ 👑
August 16, 2022
It’s SPS, hunnie! Get wit the times! Good GOD! No wonder you still hung up on Monignog! You old as HELL, chile!
Damn a solo diamond 💎 11 x platinum is epic. She did it without having to go pop and her first single did this cardi just beginning 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 A real rap record didn’t have Wayne or Drake to help her
LOL Cardi recites lyrics. These aren’t her accolades. They’re Pardison’s LOL
Damn a solo diamond 💎 11 x platinum is epic. Nicki did it without having to feature on REALITY TV making a clown of herself and did it from people actually purchasing her single before the streaming era 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 A real rap record didn’t have features and free YouTube streams to help
What othe rappers did reality tv help go diamond ???? Reality tv does very little cardi is the exception I’ll wait since it’s soo easy for reality stars to become this big
What other rappers did Drake and Wayne help go Diamond? Nicki is the exception.
Highest Certified songs by Female Rappers by the RIAA:
1. Bodak Yellow — 11x Platinum
2. I Like It — 11x Platinum
3. Super Bass — Diamond
4. WAP — 7x Platinum
5. Truth Hurts — 7x Platinum
6. Starships — 6x Platinum
7. Say So — 5x Platinum
Surprised doja don’t have 2 diamond singles she stay on pop radio all day 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
WAP 7x Platinum, you’ve been saying for months that it’s DIAMOND! LMAOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! 🤣
Still 7 x platinum you said cardi was over so we both wrong i guess 😂😘😘
She isn’t over? She hasn’t had a hit of her own in nearly 2 years…
Hot S*** also completely tanked and that second album still hasn’t seen the light of day despite SEVEN singles being released from it since 2018 starting with Money, EACH with a big budget music video.
Cardi had a number 1 solo in 2021 and a top 15 and top 10 this year when was meg last top 40 ??? Is she over to
Up was nearly 2 years ago and that Top 10 isn’t her own song. Reading is fundamental… As for Meg, how can she be over when she never even started?
Well seeing as IGGY’S FANCY IS 8 TIMES PLATNIUM U DEFINITELY FORGETTING THE QUEEN BUT THEM HISTORY BOOKS WONT FIRST TO DEBUT AT NUMBER ONE AND NUMBER TWO
Iggy is a RAP QUEEN! 👑
S***** comment from a low i.q cardi stan.cardi b whole career was set up to get rid of nicki but has constantly failed despite all the grammy/diamond bragging right she still in nicki’s shadow!!!
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@Main – “cardi stan.cardi b whole career was set up to get rid of nicki but ..” – Yuppers! And I don’t even get into the rap – payola (i.e. someone from Cardi’s label – who shall remain nameless for now – told BillBoard to rank her sh!t, inflat her sh1t and RIAA thusly certifies bullsh!t – debate.
#shrugs
#just sayin’
Y’all b*****s say anything. Billboard and RIAA are not on payroll by Atlantic or risking their credibility or exclusivity for Cardi or anybody else. If your fav can’t do the same things that’s THEIR FAULT, NOT CARDI’S. The excuses are pathetic
DOESN’T MATTER (according to nikki fans)
Card I b can have more diamond hits than Bruno, have more #1 hits than Mariah, more awards than Beyonce, more weeks at #1 than Lilnasx and have the highest certified song and album in history along with highest grossing tour in history…
NIKKI MINAJ IS STILL QUEEN OF RAP!!!!! 😂
^^^According to Nikki DELUSIONAL Fans Nikki invented RAP as we know it. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Yo fatty why you damn pressed by nickis impact and talent? Its not according to nickis fans girl,you bardigangs are the delusional ones who think anyone who dont like cardi b is a barb.girl that lady aint a rapper so she cant get that respect ,even if she goes 50x diamond.she still in nicki shadow.
I’m not in bardigang either, I don’t see nikki as being any better than cardi rapwise.
I don’t see or hear what you do in nikki. Accolades out of the equation, CardI is Better than nikki. Accolades back in the equation CARDI B IS WAY BETTER THAN NIKKI…
IOP was filled with SINGLES (moneybag, thru your Phone) some didn’t even get released.
(There are some songs on IOP I hate tho)
Nikki music and albums are nowhere near as good which is why CardI is TECHNICALLY more successful than Nikki ALREADY.
Nikki first #1 in 15+ years is both commendable and embarrassing at the same time 🤣
Cardi still can’t rap, FREESTYLE.
She cannot create any thought provoking music. She cannot perform live with clothes on otherwise the ppl would be bored to tears.
She farted on IQ, she is FAKE from head 2 toe but claim to be a REAL B*tch.
There is nothing innovative about twerk Music.
Nuff Said!
Awww Old Teabag trying to come off insightful lmaoooooooooo 🤣
Aww!
You another one of those who stan a Woman who sit up on IG and fart.
When keepin’ it real GOES WRONG = Cardi B
ME stan H******** B?! You done lost yo damn mind chile!
Im suprised how she get all those numbers
Nikki first #1 in 15+ years is both commendable and embarrassing at the same time 🤣
Meanwhile Cardi FIRST SONG was a #1 Hit. Artist with #1 hits right out the gate tend to have bigger longer lasting careers long term.
It wasn’t her first song. She’d dropped many singles over the years and mixtapes…
2 singles 11 x platinum doja and Nicki can’t relate 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 doja pop ass don’t even have 1 diamond the most she’s gone is 5 x platinum 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Stay on topic. I said Bodak Yellow wasn’t her first single, you dumb thug-wannabe.
Yo diabetis lady,none of cardi b songs will ever have the cultural impact that “super bass” had!!
top 10 in billboards most karoake songs in the last decade,its the only female rap song in the top 10! & to think super bass never went #1 is crazy .so You can keep bragging bout sales but like i ended you earlier i’ll end you again
“cardi b will never be better/talented or have the type of impact nicki has and is having in hiphop” the end.
Super bass was generic forgettable bubblegum pop. Literally every official single cardi b released has made the TOP 40. 😂
Already QUEEN OF RAP in 5 years with only 1 album out 🤣
CardI is more successful than Nikki. Its FACT. I know its a hard thing to accept 😅
cardi b is only the queen of rap in your delusional mind,lmaooo
she isnt even the hottest female rapper from the bronx right now its ice spice
lol,stay mad miss diabetis.
“cardi b is more succesful than nicki” is not fact,its only dumb people who name themselves diabetis that say such.
nicki is the richest,best selling,most awarded and most valuable woman in hiphop!
Atlantic buying it all up. #PAYOLA
Exposed and proven 💯 But dumb ass Dc just doesn’t want to believe it.
Yup y’all excuse for everything it’s really sad how much y’all hate if wasn’t payola y’all would say oh well she didn’t write it or say oh she can’t do it again y’all hating so much the reason she has so much success ha ha 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Where’s Cold Flop and that second album, huh? After SEVEN SINGLES released from it over the last FOUR YEARS lmaoooooooooo 🤣 What a flop.
People are saying ‘Superbad’s is in the top 10 karaoke songs’ IS NOTHING SHORT OF EMBARASSING 🤣🤣🤣🤣
H******** talking about her bowel movements and being constipated in interviews, farting on IG and handing half a million dollars to her cheating husband on stage is nothing short of embarrassing 🤡
You can never relate to having a 10year old song still recited word for word till this day all around the world! Cultural impact!
Yup. The point went completely over his dumb head.
A POP song did that 🤣 f****** Katy Perry could have done Superbass and it wouldn’t make a difference
‘A 10 year old song did that’ – okay give cardi the chance to have a 10 year old song eventhough the diamond singles will still have people singing along, even WAP
Go girl NUMBER 1 FAN
Meanwhile we’re going into 2023 and Cardi has no second album….
yay vardi b!!❣️🔥❤️💯🥳
*Cardi B! my baaad, couldnt edit
ew, y’all hatin’ & arguin about sum dumb s***!
Congrats to Cardi B! 🥳🔥❤️💯
#bardigang
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