Billboard 200: Nicki Minaj’s ‘Pink Friday 2’ Debuts at #1 / Makes History with More Than DOUBLE the Decade’s Previous Highest First-Week Female Rap Album’s Sales

Published: Sunday 17th Dec 2023 by Rashad

Nicki Minaj has the haters seeing red and the Billboard charts seeing pink thanks to the impressive debut of her fifth studio album.

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Nicki Minaj’s ‘Pink Friday 2’

First-Week Sales (SPS): 228,000

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First-Week Sales (Pure): 92,000

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First-Week Billboard 200 Position: #1

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Despite previously calling out Billboard for their alleged attempt to misrepresent the true sales figure attached to ‘Pink Friday 2,’ the December 8-released project still managed to move 228,000 total units by the end of its inaugural sales week.

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In addition to being Nicki’s best opening since 2014’s ‘The PinkPrint’ (which debuted at #2 to the tune of 244,000), the ‘PF2’ premiere marks the largest launch any female Rap album has had this decade – zooming past the 109,000 units that led the previous titleholder, ‘Planet HER’ by Doja Cat, to a top 5 debut in 2021.

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A history-making entry, the #1 arrival of ‘PF2’ marks the first time any rapstress has ever earned three Billboard 200 chart-toppers over her career.

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What’s more, it extends the Rap Queen’s reign as the most-decorated top 10 female rapper in the chart’s existence (7).

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While she joins Missy Elliott, Foxy Brown, Lizzo, and Eve in Billboard history books as the only female rappers to have a top 10 studio album on the all-genre chart in more than one decade, Nicki is the first and only to boast having #1s in two different decades.

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  1. Farrah’s luggage (8k+Camila) December 17, 2023

    This title is sloppy and ratchet.

    • abuse@mynic.my December 18, 2023

      LOL….. haterz are depressed.

    • Hhaaaaaaaaaaaa December 18, 2023

      Mental breakdown much?

    • Cardi whoooo?? December 18, 2023

      Ghetto Beeches are madddddddddddddddd!!!!!!

      Queen of Rap is back. Sit Loyanda!

  2. Farrah’s luggage (8k+Camila) December 17, 2023

    Still less than cardi 😂😂😂

    • Ijs December 17, 2023

      You’ve become so pathetic. You wanna be clarkson so bad

      • Farrah’s luggage (8k+Camila) December 17, 2023

        I’ve been here for years. Catch up, loser.

    • Nickiminajisqueen December 17, 2023

      Nickis debut outsold cardi debut, now let her drop another album and see how she do

    • Cardi whoooo?? December 18, 2023

      Cardiac could never …..Satanic worshipper flops harder

  3. Farrah’s luggage (8k+Camila) December 17, 2023

    No songs in the top 20 😂😂😂

    • Urg December 17, 2023

      Wow first 4 comments. U really a fan pathetic.

      • Farrah’s luggage (8k+Camila) December 17, 2023

        *was a fan. Follow along, loser. I was a Nicki fan until she became vile and once I realized her new music is trash.

    • Nickiminajisqueen December 17, 2023

      Everybody will be debuting at #8

  4. Farrah’s luggage (8k+Camila) December 17, 2023

    Can’t wait for the week 2 drop 😂😂😂

    • Cardiyuck…….. whoooo?? December 18, 2023

      Said your momma when she was about to pop your out..???

  5. Xtina December 17, 2023

    This is good for no lead single, no music videos and no promo! Get it Nicki 😋😋😋

    • CharlIsAngelz December 18, 2023

      She should’ve included Barbie World in the album imo most of the album’s hype came from the success of that song! Wtf

      • YAHSHUA IS COMING December 18, 2023

        That’s a lie. Do we have a problem ft lil baby debut at #2 on the hot 100. THAT should’ve been on the album. Get your facts straight

  6. Lou December 17, 2023

    Deserved. Queen of Rap.

    • Chey December 17, 2023

      Queen of fisher price pop

      • abuse@mynic.my December 18, 2023

        Said your illitera mommaaaaaaaa 😆

  7. December 17, 2023

    Even though they took some of her sales, this is still pretty good. congratz to her and it’s a solid album too, I’m enjoying it.

  8. truthalways December 17, 2023

    Nicki Minaj’s entire career is based on mass-buying and streaming campaigns during the first week of a project by the barbz to make her look more important than she actually is. Nobody outside of the barb fanbase cares about this album, and it has not been that well-received by the critics (2.5 stars by Slant Magazine; 6.5/10 by Pitchfork).

    When will Nicki learn that without classics, you can never be considered the Queen? It doesn’t matter how much numbers you do. Numbers come and go. Classics sustain your legacy. Nicki doesn’t even have a single Bodak Yellow in her entire discography.

    • Drewsilla December 17, 2023

      I agree with this. No one IRL is discussing or listening to her album. I checked Ticketmaster and my city isn’t sold out. They still have regular seats available for $55. You can check, NOLA. Other artists sell out in a day and resellers start doing their thing, or Ticketmaster will double the prices due to high demand. There’s no demand for her……

    • DaAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaa December 17, 2023

      I agree with you about the classics point.

      + The album is pretty bad, feels like a Pitbull music formula, sampling well known choruses from real classic songs.

      It’s just bad, giving nothing new to the table.

      The Queen album was good

    • Anubis December 17, 2023

      She was giving the damn craptastic album for $5. It better go to #1. They were predicting 500,000 early on…her team must have put out that BS. The album is pure garbage. I can’t believe she thinks that is her best work.

  9. Dc December 17, 2023

    And still didn’t outsell invasion of privacy 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • What Would 50 Do December 17, 2023

      Cardi album was released in 2018 bodak yellow was 2017. she had a year of promotion. … PF2 had no promotion.

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

      • BEYNAISSANCE December 17, 2023

        Any excuse you can pull out of the sky huh uglee. If Nicki is Queen she should be pulling big numbers like her peers. That 2nd week bout to look a fool like it always does and the tour gross is gonna be HILARIOUSSSSS. Nicki needs more than just her Barbz , she needs the GENERAL PUBLIC baby. Cry about it🥲

      • Cardiyuck…….. whoooo?? December 18, 2023

        Shut your zitty pie hole…..Cardick B who…

        beehcessss!!!!!!!!!

    • What Would 50 Do December 17, 2023

      You said Nicki” bout to” and she . “Gonna be”. Like you daydreamin’
      The facts are she had no promo.
      The other b**** had a year

      • Paulo December 17, 2023

        EXCUSES😭😭😭😭

  10. Red Sonja December 17, 2023

    Selling new version for FIVE bucks. Scamming Cuuuuunnnnt.

  11. Chicken Wing December 17, 2023

    I’ll say her Barbz go HARD for her. This trash ass album that had no business being a sequel to the classic that was Pink Friday deserved to sell 45k first week. The album is trash, no cohesion or creativity at all. Pink Friday was a great album. Creative, whimsical, no raunchy or braggadocious at all. I miss the old fun Nicki. She was onto something.

    • What Would 50 Do December 17, 2023

      This is her best album.

    • Diabetes UNBOTHERED December 17, 2023

      Nikkis music is TERRIBLE and the original PF is even WORSE than PF2. I’d say PF2 is OKAY 6.5/10 And PF is so bad that I never listened to it simply because I CAN’T not from lack of trying, it’s horrible 5/10

      • Flopcki December 17, 2023

        Yes dear Nicki has a poor ear for music. She manages to make all her stuff sound cheap and dated.

  12. What Would 50 Do December 17, 2023

    Brrrrrrr HahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahHahahHHahhHahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahhahahhaahshshhaha. Brrrrrrr brrrrrrr brrrrrrr brrrrr. Pink Friday 3 coming soon

  13. Candace Owens December 17, 2023

    $5 album from a 2 dollar whoorre.

  14. Bravo!! December 17, 2023

    Now we hope this album can keep the momentum on the billboard. I hope her album don’t drop out the top 10 within a week

  15. UHoesFunny December 18, 2023

    Ahhh btches mad 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Nicki got yet ANOTHER #1 album and sold more than 200k w/ over 90k PURE SALES. Meanwhile Doja did 6k pure sales 😂😂😂😂 Cardi scared to drop and CAN NO LONGER DROP 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Lotto punching the air. All these btches dumb and SEETHING. BUM BTCHES. SUCK IT!!!! ITS BARBIE BTCHHHH 🎀

  16. DELMAR BARBZ December 18, 2023

    Why defend a cheap ass bardi w**** whose album IOP had to be paid for to sell so much. If she was really great as u praise cardi the w**** even her husband wouldnt be cheating her. and even bongos failed to be a great comeback . why are u even here at this site viewing her news cheap ass bardi gang badak yellow b******.

  17. DELMAR BARZ December 18, 2023

    BEING QUEEN OF RAP DOESNT MEAN OUTSELLING UR FORMER STRIPPER RIVAL AND HAVING TO OFFER UR COOKIE TO WIN GRAMMYS LIKE CARDI B. ITS ABOUT THE GAME AND THAT IS NICKI CAN DO RAP,POP,HIPHOP,ELECTRIC AND ALL CARDI CAN DO IS SPIT SALIVA AND THROW MICS AND SHOES GRAMMY W****

  18. DELMAR BARZ December 18, 2023

    BARDIS ARE WORRIED AND I LIKE TO SEE THEM TREMBLING AND HILARIOUSLY COMMENTING THEIR FRUSTRATIONS OUT.

  19. Cardiyuck…….. whoooo?? December 18, 2023

    Cardick B stans are seething ……too funny 😆

  20. ShugAveryPee December 18, 2023

    Yall can give her whatever Khia achievements there is to give. No one is still impressed with this album after she made it $5 and released a deluxe version right behind it 😂

    That Christmas music gonna slay her next week and then her whole fan base gonna go mute 😂😂😂 #FREEFALLCITY

    • UHoesFunny December 20, 2023

      We already got a #1 album on Billboard. Our goal was accomplished dirt bag 🤣 go support your fav and buy BOZOS. Oh wait I forgot, yall let that FLOP HARD 🤣🤣🤣 just like the other singles LOL

      • DELMAR BARBZ December 20, 2023

        b**** ours got 3 number one and 7 top 10 overrall b**** . u may call our queens album bad that ur comments cant match her ratchet rap monster thats silent in her. cardi b raps day night to show her iop revelance buh once barbie b**** decides to be rap monster no lion roars back

  21. Chris December 27, 2023

    Cardi did 255 her first week or am I tripping? I’m super confused

    • Chris December 27, 2023

      Nvm I figured it out 😂😂

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