As we reported here, a slew of recent Cardi B certifications at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) further pushed the ‘Up’ rapstress up in the line of the digital era’s best-selling female acts.
Already among the leaders on the singles front thanks to her attachment to multiple Diamond-certified hits (i.e. ‘I Like It,’ ‘Bodak Yellow’), now news has surfaced the GRAMMY winner is close to adding yet another 10 million-seller to her growing number of plaques thanks to the enduring success of 2020’s ‘WAP’ (featuring Megan Thee Stallion).
As if being first all-female Rap collaboration to debut at #1 on the Hot 100, historic opening YouTube views, and one of the greatest premiere streaming weeks ever aren’t enough for the record books, the Frank Ski-sampled bop is set to make history again.
See how inside:
On March 23, the RIAA took to press to announce ‘WAP’ had crossed its threshold for 7x Platinum – a feat that signifies sales of 7 million in the United States.
With the sales ascent, the Ayo the Producer-crafted cut becomes the second highest-certified all-female song in the 70-year history of the organization.
The only female collaborations to know a taller sales equivalence count are Iggy Azalea & Charli XCX‘s ‘Fancy’ and Jessie J, Ariana Grande, and Nicki Minaj’s ‘Bang Bang.’ Both songs were released in 2014 and currently sit at 8x Platinum for sales of 8 million in the United States.
For Cardi, the ‘WAP’ certification helps elevate her to a career total of 52 million in digital single sales – making her one of the best-selling female acts of the digital age.
At writing, the only women to have sold more digital singles than her are Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and Ariana Grande.
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Congratulations to them and to all of the women you’ve listed in this article.
They are all well accomplished.
I think, however, to avoid any feuds of fan bases maybe the writers could leave mention of everyone else out.
If you’re writing about Cardi and Megan’s success, focus on them solely.
Aww. Sounds like someone doesn’t want to see with their own eyes that Cardi has eclipsed Nicki
I guess is slow news day, when they post the usual..”let’s post about third and second best numbers”
And shade other artists who are actually Numero uno…
I don’t give a flying figg about how many diamond and platinum plaque cardi b gets….she’s still going to be the most basic rapper alive…
I can’t wait till this wave of acting like a whoore is more relevant than talent is over….so
Thank gosh I don’t listen to this so called talent
Her and her label legit run to RIAA damn near every month to pay & update her certifications, tryna make her seem bigger than what she is & rush her to be the 1st to do something. All these new age artists seem to do that. Bey & Nicki haven’t updated all of their certifications in years especially Bey. Bang Bang is actually almost diamond, & fefe & starships are eligible for diamond but they just haven’t paid to update the certifications yet. RIAA needs to adapt a new policy & start updating everybody’s certifications automatically.
Bey and Nicki are flopping and don’t have anything new to get certified. WTF they gimme verify? Megatron and The Gift? Dumb dumb.
Gonna certify*
All these diamond plaques but can’t sell tickets for a single show? Hmmm 🤔
Stfu did Nicki sell out essence yet ???? That mean she a flop keep hating y’all mad cause cardi still here and she gave Meg her biggest hit ever Meg will never see a wap that dua song already falling number 25 this week 🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Cardi still where? Because I don’t see no second album or sold out show 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Essence tickets ain’t even on sale yet you Weirdo. Your always mentioning The Queens name , 😂 that’s why the No love remix didn’t even chart 😂 buy CardiB some vocal lessons she can’t rap or sing
So what? Being certified platinum or diamond because the general public bought your songs doesn’t mean they all want to pay for a live show, especially by this crisis time. Nicki has a 10 years experience so of course she’s gonna be booked more quick because she has an established fanbase. Cardi has released just 1 album, she’s on a pop scene and the c**** is there since 2 years, it wasn’t the case 10 years ago, a lot of people prefer to stay at home to listen to their favorite music.
Excuses, excuses. Excuses aren’t currency around this way, hunnie! We only do RECEIPTS 🧾
YOU ARE DUMB LIKE HELL AND THAT’S THE REASON WHY YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT MUCH, PERIOD.
Whatever dudes💅🏾 Still no album like flop mani. Both of them….
Cardi album all the songs were certified platinum or more so she don’t have to be pressured by her label to release album but it’s coming to f u k everything up y’all b i t c h e s stay mad 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Payola, hunnie! Those ain’t no real sales or even streams 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 If you ain’t selling tickets, it means the GP ain’t really interested
100k in 4 years 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣
You need to stop with that payola thing, if it was so easy than why she didn’t reach n°1 or at least 2 with Money or Press? This is ridiculous, anytime an artist achieve something there’s always someone to find any excuse to take their sucess away from them.
ur the biggest hypocrite to talk. anytime normani wins you come and throw your “nelly furtado” shade 🤣🤣🤣 have a seat dumb ass
How can you be so dumb? Really, how is this possible? Cardi already released her first album and there was no super hype on her before it drops! Where is she today? On top, WAP and UP are big worldwide hits, just like her first singles so why do you compare with Normani? Cardi music has a big impact on radio around the world, not Normani so WTF do you need to understand how dumb you are?
Cardi has a 6 Month old baby dumb a s s u act as if she’s just sitting on her ass you try raising a 6 month and 3 year old kid she’s not pressed to rush to release a record to please your dumb ass and you still will hate
Because she was “too busy” laying on her ass with her legs spread. Lazy h*** she is.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
not you speaking on her personal life. nicki has a 1 year old baby anddd??? makes no difference, cardi is a bum and she’s lazy and her payola contract is up 🆙 so now she’s scavenging for a hit single 🤣🤣 4 years and no sophomore album, not a good look at all. she’s holding on to fake accolades in the meantime until atlantic figures out a plan b 💀
A hit is a hit! Hope they get to Diamond eventually. To me it’s crazy that they didn’t get major awards for WAP
WAP was trash 🗑 with nursery rhymes, no punchlines or metaphors in the whole song these girls aren’t icons or legends, nothing but industry plants messing up The History of Rap
This is NOT female empowerment, it’s female DEGRADATION. Are y’all that dumb to not see that it’s the MEN in power pushing this narrative of being a h*** now equating to female empowerment? Y’all still as slow Cardi’s reading skills.
Nicki got 181 million instagram followers lol and can’t get a solo number 1 must be bots 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cardi 127 million followers and can’t sell out West Fest even WITH all those other artists 😂😂😂😂😂 Must be bots 💀
Why no rap b i t c h had a number 1 since up huh dumb b i t c h and payola works in radio not RIAA sales dumb a s s
Because of payola, dumb bird 🦅
If payola was being used why didn’t they use it for all her singles hating b i t c h
Because CLEARLY they thought she’d be able to stand on her own by that point and they were SADLY mistaken! 😂😂😂😂😂😂 So BACK came the payola! How do you think she suddenly went from two HUGE flops to two HUGE #1’s again? 👀
The way Cardi has ended nicki with only one album 😩😂😂😂😂😂 Just wait for album #2!
we’ve been waiting but she scared to drop it 😂 different climate nowadays she know she won’t get the numbers lmaoo
She just had a second baby, has a Facebook show, was preparing a movie, etc. Cardi is booked and had a SOLO #1 hit just last year. What’s Nicki’s excuse?
the movie she unprofessionally dropped out days before filming? 💀 because she’s sooo busy 😂 doing what!! how you claim to be a “rap” superstar but you doing everything but rap 🥴 and now you can’t even sell out none ya days. that remix with summer was a flop 🤣 terrible move, she’s busy making all the wrong plays seems to me lmaoo.
The only thing Cardi is busy with is responding to and arguing with nobodies on Instagram 😂😂😂😂 Soooooo busy! 💀
Exactly but you do know they never gonna stop hating when her second album sell they gonna say payola when she gets another number 1 they gonna say she won’t get another one it will keep going this how miserable haters are full of reasons why it’s actually sad
You hate on ERRRRRRBODY, playa! 💀🤣
Lick by sheensa is way better than WAP💅🏾
Who that flop b i t c h thought she was gonna have a hit with Meg that s h i t tanked
You’re so threatened by Megan! SCREAMING 🤣
how you diamond 🤔 but you can’t even sell out two measly concerts??? can someone pls explain, it’s not adding up and it’s giving “paid for” 💀
Having a diamond hit never meant that you can sell out a live show, especially when you just start your career and a worldwide crisis is on the way to stuck people at home for a long time plus she hasn’t 10 years of fanbase behind her like Nicki, you should be able to understand that all.
gurl shut up 😂 you always wanna jump in the mix with her uneducated opinions 💀 this comment was pointless. all i read were excuses on top of excuses. a superstar is a superstar, which cardi is NOT. stop blaming everything else for why this btch can’t sell a discounted ticket and it’s been a whole 2 and a half months already. ugh you bums disgust me. always got an excuse for why somebody is FLOPPING. meanwhile camicky is exploiting ukrainian to promote her FLOP single w ed sheeran. sick 😂
How Nicki got 181 million followers on Instagram and can’t get a number 1 solo something not adding up 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Cardi’s face is certainly adding up! All the way out of her bank account! 💵 SCREAMING 🤣
That explains why they never book her for any major shows are stadium or arena tours, these shows she isn’t selling out were a test to see if she was ready, and no one better use the c**** excuse. I guess bot queen better stick to her bots until they replace her with another plant.
Payola, in the music industry, is the illegal practice of paying a commercial radio station to play a song without the station disclosing the payment. Under US law, a radio station must disclose songs they were paid to play on the air as sponsored airtime.[1]
Here u go google works dumb a s s 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Swear and call names. Like a petulant ghetto little child. Just like Cardi herself.
if cardi was really. “that btch” ppl would be thirsty to jump on a feature…nobody checking for this btch 😂 i ain’t see none of the raps girls on the shade room hollering how they wanna work w cardi 💀 that’s becuz she’s basic. she’s done NOTHING innovative for rap music, or the culture, so keep being deluded by the fake numbers all you want 🤣 the GP has spoken, they DO NOT fck w this hoë. and now she out in bronx making trap music, just like onika 😂 she’s so obsessed chi. a fan
Basic with 3 diamond records an album that all the songs were certified platinum or more album still on charts f u k those other rap b i t c h e s they all will never have her career Meg jump on anything and still won’t have song big as wap 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
chi you just proved my point lol
those fake numbers mean nothing, she’s not a real rap btch and she certainly doesn’t have more money or a prettier face than nicki hehe 🙃
those accolades mean nothing compared to real life. cardi is all hype no real bite. cardi fans including cardi are not consistent. y’all didn’t even stream no love 😂 too busy worries about nicki and now ya song FLOPPED. terrible mistake, song was horrible. great start for her era lmaoo
FYI the term payola is used in radio play and you calling me dumb da f u k googlr it payola can’t translate into RIAA certifications they are their own company you can’t pay RIAA to make up sales they tracked dumb f u k
You get so MAD!!! We LOVE to see it! 😈
Nicki and doja were first female rap duo at #1 thanks
That’s nice, we love Doja lol…and I need the Barbz to understand that Cardi’s sophomore album WILL be certified Platinum the first week out if she includes WAP…k thanks, bye 🤣🤳🏽
but why would somebody put a 4 year old song on their new album 💀 only a clout chaser would with manipulated numbers lmaooo
@UHoes, because it’s her song, she’s a businesswoman and isn’t stupid lol 😂💯 U mad? 🤣 Even my girl Barbra Streisand would put WAP on her new album if it was her song, so bye lmaoooooooooo 💋
nah that’s just a dumb hype move lmaooo. easy way to claim a “successful” album based on previous payola. gimmicks. this girl is not a natural talent. just full of tricks and hype. where’s the innovation, and please don’t say that singing on no love 😂
Congrats ladies 🎉 My girl Iggy still has a seat on the throne since 2014…it’s about to be a whole bunch of big asses sitting on there lmaooooooooooooo…girl, scoot over, damn 😂🤳🏽💋
Iggy yaaaaaaaaaaas! The QUEEN! 💯👑🔥
This goes to show how credible you are calling iggy a queen cardi sold more than her 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Cardi ain’t sold SHÎTT dummy! 100k in 4 years! LET THAT SINK IN! lmaoooooooooo 🤣 Iggy Azelea had a huge worldwide organic SMASH with Fancy. Try again, negro! 😜
Iggy flop a s s bodak yellow was bigger cardi ran her away 🤣🤣🤣
How her album been on billboard almost 4 years and it only sold 100 k believe that if u want keep hating I’ll believe them RIAA album certifications
@Dc it’s called payola sis 😂 atlantic paid for those numbers. cardi fans are so dumb omg lmaooo
Payola, in the music industry, is the illegal practice of paying a commercial radio station to play a song without the station disclosing the payment. Under US law, a radio station must disclose songs they were paid to play on the air as sponsored airtime.[1]
So again how is a diamond RIAA certified 10 million units sold payola y’all b i t c h e s dumb af
Cardi fans are as dumb as Cardi herself. You’d have to be to support someone so dumb who can’t even SPEAK properly “and whatnot okurrrrrrrrr!” SCREAMING 🤣🤣🤣🤣
lmaooo i know the definition sweetie. i glad you know how to use google. that doesn’t change the fact that she used it abundantly 💀 she’s running out though because NO LOVE received absolutely NO LOVE, it doesn’t make any sense. if you sell records, you should be able to sell concert tickets. period. any superstar could. she’s a plant 🌱 and soon will be replaced by the “next best” they all try to copy nicki’s formula but don’t have a solid fan base. just haters, that will stream but not buy tickets 🤣🤣