Scoring her third No. 1 album with her recent release Pink Friday 2, Nicki Minaj has now surpassed Foxy Brown with the most number one albums created by a female Rap artist.
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The OG Pink Friday, released in 2011, was Nicki's first number one album, followed by Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, released in 2012. And now with the addition of Pink Friday 2, Nicki officially broke her tie with Foxy.
As for Brown, her number one projects include her joint album with Nas, AZ and Cormega and Nature The Firm, released in 1997, and her 1999 sophomore album, Chyna Doll.
Aside from launching with “228,000 equivalent album units earned” or consumed in the U.S. in its first week, according to Billboard, Nicki’s accomplishment marks the “biggest” debut for an “R&B/Hip-Hop album by a woman this year.” And additionally “marks the largest week” for a female Rap album “in the 2020s decade.”
On Sunday, December 17, Brown took to her Instagram stories to share her reaction to Minaj’s feat. First sharing a chart data screenshot alongside some words of her own , writing “UMM SIR!… ONLY NIC COULD BREAK THA KING RECORD… 3RD #1 DROPPIN’ 2024,” seemingly sharing she has plans to deliver her her next album in 2024.
Foxy followed that up with another, more boastful shout out, “HELLA PROUD!… 26 YR RECORD IZ BRAZY THO… Y’ALL MEAN TO TELL ME NO B**** BROKE THAT S*** IN MY ABSENCE!…,” she wrote, “TOOK TWIN TO SET THE BAR AGAIN!”