Cardi B quietly made history several times over at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on the day her latest album, ‘Am I the Drama,’ was released.
Beyond seeing the LP snatch the record for fastest album to go Platinum, the rapstress also learned ‘Bodak Yellow‘ – the leading hit from her debut studio effort ‘Invasion of Privacy‘ – now sits as the highest-certified traditional hit ever performed by a woman of color.
As if that’s not enough, the comprehensive updates delivered to her catalog of hits pushed her to the front of the line among female rappers.
Details inside.
Per the RIAA, the slew of certification updates attached to Cardi titles like ‘Invasion of Privacy’ and ‘Am I the Drama’ as well as songs ‘WAP,’ ‘Up,’ ‘Press,’ ‘Money,’ ‘Bodak Yellow,’ and more have pushed her cumulative sales to 77 million in the United States.
Leap-frogging over the previous leaders Nicki Minaj (65.5 million) and Doja Cat (60.5 million), the counts account for the performers’ single and album commercial performances combined and makes Cardi the overall best-selling female rapper in American history.
Among all female acts, Cardi ranks 14th behind Taylor Swift (242.5 million), Rihanna (217 million), Beyonce (198.5 million), Mariah Carey (150.5 million), Katy Perry (140.5 million), Ariana Grande (120 million), Whitney Houston (109 million), SZA (105.5 million), Lady Gaga (101.5 million), Britney Spears (98.5 million), Madonna (87 million), Miley Cyrus (82.5 million), and Billie Eilish (81.5 million).
Note: It’s worth calling out that the RIAA only credits certifications to lead acts, so any certified song where any artist mentioned in this article is listed as a feature is not officially added to their career counts.
Am I The Fraud? Yes.
Nicki about to go another tirade. She certainly threw the phone out the window after reading that lmao
“Queen” DETHRONED
Nicki still wins baby
Time for Sicki to hang it up. FLATSCREEN
I’m not a Barb, but Nicki still wins hands down. Nicki first made herself a pop star, influencing every other female rapper after her to become a pop star.
And now she coked up and crashing out, just like every other Young Money artist 💀
Cardi has replaced Nicki just like Nicki did to Kim. And Nicki and her fans can’t handle it 😂
Guess what it took nicki a year to get that title and shes held until “now”, didn’t take the queen 8 years to get it, and she will be losing this record again next time nicki drops, the real tea is nicki is still the highest selling female rapper because she hasn’t updated her plaques since 2016 if nickis s*** was updated she would’ve never passed nicki
She lost the title in 2021 ! Regains it back last year let’s do our research before we type BS!
And Cardi only has 2 albums out. I can see why Nicki is so bothered.
If only Nicki had Cardi’s hit making skills. Nicki does not have a good ear for music but is the better rapper clearly.
They should separate physical and digital sales from streaming sales. I felt like streaming sales are not the same as physical sales. It’s easier to cheat the streaming sales nowadays.
It’s a difference between being happy for people and being deceptive and in denial. Yall really IGNORED the ghost writing read; it’s giving Parti’s Cardi all over the album no shade this album is late. It’s successful and popular but late. Literally and metaphorically. Not even giving clickbait but cuz folks really live off the attention but something’s need to be responded to for public view. Yall don’t know how to debate that’s why America don’t know how to vote cuz it’s the same rhetoric and bullying that happens on the main stages of politics. Yall just get stupid for no reason and these folks don’t even support your interests. Further it’s the labels behind this distributions and disseminations of view and mediocrity while they make money off it, not the artists. Especially those with these 360 deals or whatever. It’s just not all it’s cracked up to be. It be these fans hyping things up more into controversy behind closed doors and bagged faces because there’s so many’s hands in the pot these folks livelihood depend on the deception. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 not wishing bad on anyone but the people, the fans the music needs to return so real fans of music and real pure sales can show the beauty of true artistry, or the transparency and the over due CREDIT and UNDUE BURDENS from and of the different artists that create the image of celebrities folks idolize today. These numbers may be crazy and others may be selling millions fast but don’t be fooled. This. Ain’t. It. lol and yall know it’s true. Congrats to everyone but let honesty do what it do too.