Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday 2 debuts at number 1 on Billboard 200.
The first week numbers for the latest album releases are here, and Nicki Minaj earned the top spot on the US Billboard 200 with Pink Friday 2. This is Minaj’s third number 1 album in the US, which is most among female rappers.
According to Luminate, Pink Friday 2 moved 228,000 equivalent album units in the week ending December 14th. The album’s SEA units comprise 129,000 (equaling 169.87 million on-demand official streams of the 22 songs), with pure album sales of 92,000.
Billboard 200: #1(new) @NICKIMINAJ, ‘Pink Friday 2’ 228,000 [169.87 million on-demand streams | 92,000 pure sales].
— chart data (@chartdata) December 17, 2023
.@NICKIMINAJ‘s ‘Pink Friday 2’ earns the biggest vinyl sales week for a female rap album in Nielsen history with 25K sold. pic.twitter.com/MWSaNS1YoA
— chart data (@chartdata) December 17, 2023
This is the largest sales week for a female rap album in the 2020s decade, and the biggest R&B/hip-hop album by a female this year. This is Nicki’s first number 1 album in over a decade, as she previously earned it for Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded in 2012 and Pink Friday in 2011. Nicki’s previous two albums The Pinkprint (2015) and Queen (2018), both debuted at number 2 on the charts. This is also the third biggest rap album sales of 2023, following up on Travis Scott’s Utopia and Drake’s For All The Dogs.
Biggest first week sales for rap albums in 2023 👀💽
496k – UTOPIA
402k – For All The Dogs
223k – Pink Friday 2
167k – Pink Tape
137k – Nostalgia
125k – Almost Healed
123k – HOPE
89k – Business Is Business
85k – A Gift & A Curse
72k – Scarlet
70k – Set It Off
66k – Across The…— Hip Hop All Day (@HipHopAllDayy) December 18, 2023
The album’s lead single “Super Freaky Girl” earned Nicki the top spot of the US Billboard Hot 100 last year. The album’s sales is an increase of over 50k units from the first projected numbers 170-190k.
Nicki Minaj also made history on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts, as she earned 17 spots following the release of the album. 17 out of 22 tracks from the Pink Friday 2 album appear on this week’s Hot 100 chart. This now becomes the female rap album with the highest charted songs in the Hot 100 history.
.@NICKIMINAJ‘s ‘Pink Friday 2’ becomes the female rap album with the most charting songs in Hot 100 history (17 total). pic.twitter.com/TIgoMz4FRD
— chart data (@chartdata) December 18, 2023
