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Nicki Minaj made her followers wait half a decade for a brand new album, and now that it’s out, they didn’t disappoint her. The rapper returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this week together with her newest full-length, Pink Friday 2.
In its debut monitoring week, Pink Friday 2 was far and away the most well-liked album in America. The set opens at No. 1 on the Billboard 200—the chart firm’s namesake rating of the most-consumed full-lengths within the U.S.—with 228,000 equal models shifted.
That sum contains 92,000 pure gross sales. It additionally options 129,000 streaming equal album models, which come from the almost 170 million performs the tunes featured on Pink Friday 2 racked up on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music because the set was launched.
Pink Friday 2 marks Minaj’s third No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The title follows within the footsteps of each the unique Pink Friday, which dominated in 2010, and its follow-up, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. That set, one among a number of within the Pink Friday sequence, additionally peaked in first place two years after the unique.
Minaj has now reached the highest 10 on the Billboard 200 with seven totally different tasks. Along with her trio of leaders, she’s seen simply as many releases miss the throne by one spot. The Pinkprint, Queen, and her mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty all peaked at No. 2. A biggest hits compilation, Queen Radio: Quantity 1, rose as excessive as No. 10 final yr.
Pink Friday 2 was previewed by a pair of singles. In summer time 2022, Minaj dropped “Tremendous Freaky Woman,” which went proper to No. 1 on the Scorching 100. The track marked her third journey to the summit and her first on her personal. The second official single, “Final Time I Noticed You,” has so far climbed to No. 23.
