Another day, another Nicki Minaj record.
Barely two weeks after the Rap Queen was unceremoniously snubbed from mention at the 2025 GRAMMY nominations reveal has she learned she’s the recipient of major industry awards elsewhere.
Details inside.
Taking to press on Monday (November 18), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) revealed multiple of Minaj’s titles had their certification statuses updated.
See the full list below.
Diamond (for sales of 10 million in the U.S.)
- ‘Starships’ (Single)
4x Platinum
- ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded’ (Album)
2x Platinum
- ‘Pound the Alarm’ (Single)
- ‘Right By My Side’ (Single)
Platinum (for sales of 1 million in the U.S.)
- ‘Stupid Hoe’ (Single)
With the new awards above, Minaj now has three Diamond-certified singles to her name as the ‘Starships’ news follows previous reports of hits ‘Bang Bang‘ (2014) and ‘Super Bass‘ (2011) already crossing the sales threshold.
She now ties the first femcee to lay claim to the feat, Cardi B, in the RIAA’s record books for most Diamond-certified hits among female rappers.
As the RIAA does not include an artists’ featured hits in their respective career counts (unlike Billboard) , it’s worth nothing that Nicki is the first female rapper to be credited as a leading act on all three of her 10-million sellers (‘Super Bass,’ ‘Bang Bang,’ and ‘Starships’).
Further, Minaj is the first female rapper to have multiple Diamond-certified songs solo (a/k/a without features).
The updates push Minaj’s cumulative sales to 65.5 million in the United States – making her the best-selling female rapper of all time in the country.
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All these certifications mean nothing they’re paid for and fodder for stans to gloat about. Who’s still singing starships in 2024
I view Cardi B & Nikki as being EQUALLY successful all things considered. Good news for Cardi, bad news for the OVERRATED 1. 🙉
Tusa is diamond, and it wasn’t a feature btw.
WAP will be diamond by June. last certification was 8x plat in 2023. i am sure it will be diamond soon
Granny will never win a grammy though
NEITHER will you…..lol!
I’m not a rapper I don’t want 1 stupid
Nicki has more overall awards than botched b.
Who gives af about botched pedonika
. When Nicki drop a new album she will push this Latino woman beater further away from any history status next to Nicki
Nicki has 4 diamond songs, not 3!!!
Starships
Super Bass
Bang Bang
TUSA
Get your article together, please.
And besides #s and accolades, no btch RAPS better than Nicki…NONE.
LMAOO I said the same thing!!!!
These are not rap songs,lame pop songs garbz
Stay mad ho 💋
For those that came just for the comment will run and tell this Don’t believe the hype cardi b and Nicki Minaj are both Queens in their own right they are not even comparable they are two different caliber type women with total different type of styles of wrapping I love them both here they go trying to once again degrade and put two amazing artists against each other. You could be a part of the plan or you could be a part of the problem or you can just do what’s right It’s up to you just saying..