official chart Billboard Charts (Week of December 23, 2023)

[BtDecember]

1 hour ago, Renan90 said:

Nicki Minaj Scores Third No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With ‘Pink Friday 2’

Minaj now has the most No. 1 albums among female rappers. Plus: Tate McRae debuts in the top five.

 

Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday 2 debuts atop the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Dec. 23), marking her third leader — and the most No. 1s among female rappers. She previously led the tally with Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded in 2012 and her debut studio set Pink Friday in 2011.

 

Pink Friday 2 launches with 228,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 14, according to Luminate. That sum marks the largest week for a rap album by a woman in the 2020s decade, and the biggest for an R&B/hip-hop album by a woman this year.

 

The set also sold 25,000 copies sold on vinyl — the largest week for a rap album by a woman since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991.

 

Pink Friday 2 was preceded by a trio of charting songs on the Billboard Hot 100: “Super Freaky Girl” (No. 1 in 2022), “Red Ruby Da Sleeze” (No. 13, 2023) and “Last Time I Saw You” (No. 23, 2023).

In total, Pink Friday 2 marks Minaj’s seventh top 10 album, the entirety of her charting efforts, on the Billboard 200. She has also hit the region with The Pinkprint (No. 2, 2015), Queen (No. 2, 2018), Beam Me Up Scotty (No. 2, 2021) and the best-of compilation Queen Radio: Volume 1 (No. 10, 2022).

 

Also in the new top 10 of the Billboard 200, Tate McRae lands her first top 10-charting set with the No. 4 arrival of Think Later.

 

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Dec. 23, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Dec. 19. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

 

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/nicki-minaj-pink-friday-2-number-one-debut-billboard-200-albums-chart-1235560607/

 

Billboard 200: #1(new) @NICKIMINAJ, ‘Pink Friday 2’ 228,000 [169.87 million on-demand streams | 92,000 pure sales].

Billboard 200: #2(=) @taylorswift13, 1989 (Taylor's Version) 109,000 (2,545,000 units since release). *peak: #1 for 3 weeks*

Billboard 200: #3(=) @Drake, For All the Dogs 68,000 (1,310,000 units since release). *peak: #1 for 2 weeks*

Billboard 200: #4(new) @tatemcrae, THINK LATER 66,000 [75.99 million on-demand streams | 8,000 pure sales].

Billboard 200: #5 (=) Christmas @MichaelBuble (115 weeks) *peak #1 for 5 weeks*

Billboard 200: #6(-2) @MorganWallen, One Thing At A Time 63,000 (4,870,000 units since release). *peak: #1 for 16 weeks*

Billboard 200: #7(-1) @taylorswift13, Midnights 57,000 (6,392,000 units since release). *peak: #1 for 6 weeks*

Billboard 200: #8(-1) @sza, SOS 53,000 (3,713,000 units since release). *peak: #1 for 10 weeks*

Billboard 200: #9(+2) @taylorswift13, Lover 49,000 (6,358,000 total units). *peak: #1*

Billboard 200: #10(-1) @taylorswift13, folklore 49,000 (5,475,000 units since release). *peak: #1 for 8 weeks*

Taylor casually charting 4 albums in the top 10

[SashaDevachelli]

Congratulations to a fellow NEW YAWKA on a RECORD BREAKING achievement, Tanya this is the only thing that matters!!! Enjoy it

[ImpressMeMuch]

4 minutes ago, Dreajae said:

Not a fair comparison. The digital and physical sales market was at its peak when Nicki debuted.

 

255k with 103k pure sales in an uncertain yet fast-paced growing streaming market was the bar for Nicki to beat. She did well, but didn't beat it like she wanted.

Lmao are you good? 
 

IOP came out five years ago, and eight years after the original PF. You can’t say PF was too far back to compare but not acknowledge that the market has dramatically changed further since then too. 

[Dreajae]

6 minutes ago, ImpressMeMuch said:

Lmao are you good? 
 

IOP came out five years ago, and eight years after the original PF. You can’t say PF was too far back to compare but not acknowledge that the market has dramatically changed further since then too. 

 

The physicals market had callopsed by 2018. Streaming was quickly growing, but it wasn't as dominate as today. She did 103k pure and broke records with 13 tracks. Doja in the last 2 years finally broke some of those records. 

 

Nicki was trying to beat IOP in streams/sales after 5 years. But also do 300k to join the ranks of Bey, SZA, Drake and Kanye.

[Click Clack]

 

it’s tea time 

 

[Oxygen]

Taylor

 

Great numbers for Tate too  

[Jimmy.]

Has @Superbitch been seen in the chart section since the updated HDD numbers were released on Tuesday? 

they were perched for an update 

 

[tomo]

Made Atrl Great Again

MAGA

 

 

Talent won. 

Edited December 17, 2023 by tomo

[Last Boy on Earth]

Deserved  is 

[Nickimeetsatrl]

47 minutes ago, Dreajae said:

Very good numbers for Nicki after the $5 flash sale and rallying up her fans to "beat" other artists who frankly aren't standing Nicki.

 

Let's be honest; Cardi will do just as well, if not better. Especially in light of recent events and feeling like she has to prove something to that man who has officially broken her.

Let’s hope she hire the same writers to help narrate her life again 🤭

[Breathe On Moi]

I’m so happy I love Nicki Minaj, imagine being miserable and LOSING! ugh it smells!

 

[SmittenCake]

1 hour ago, ImpressMeMuch said:

All clocked in the recently browsing list but oddly quiet…

 

edit: sksksks wait I hadn’t read page three

 

1 hour ago, Danes said:

Some users right now:

 

 

OP When you have LONGEVITY

 

1 hour ago, Anvarie said:

 

Yep, you were the first thing on my mind 

 

1 hour ago, Stankonia said:

If @Pink Whitney spent as much time streaming Bongos as he does stalking Nicki CB2 would be out by now

 

 

1 hour ago, Click Clack said:

not sure why girls are mentioning Invasion of Payola, it makes more sense to compare it to nicki’s FIRST album.

 

how much did Pink Friday sell again?  

 

 

1 hour ago, Jimmy. said:

LMAAAAOOOO

 

”Wipe away her sales” 

“the meltdowns will be amazing”

 

Congratulations Queen

 

1 hour ago, ImsoLOUD said:

Queen of Rap!!!!! 
 

there are a few ATRLers that need to come to the podium rn 

 

 

1 hour ago, Symmetra said:

That one user coming in here and getting whacked

 

2 hours ago, Anvarie said:

@Pink Whitney @G.U.Y @DuffLavigne @Gagaqueen @KOMH @nasa @Saud

 

come get your plate sweeties 

 

 

2 hours ago, Anvarie said:

Why’s it so quiet? Where yall at? The numbers are in 

 

That one always-angry Beyonce fan 

 

perdue chicken about to pop a nerve

 

the silence not only in this thread but plenty of others 

 

the 100 forms of coping mechanisms 

 

The grand congregation of naysayers, eagerly awaiting the grand finale of Nicki Minaj's career, only to end up with egg on their faces yet again. Seems like they've booked front-row seats to the wrong show, doesn't it?

 

Edited December 17, 2023 by SmittenCake

[G.U.Y.]

Tasty McDonald's got a top 5, E-I-E-I-O!

[KOMH]

Billboard reading her 

 

Pink Friday 2‘s sales were bolstered by the album’s availability across a range of variants, in both digital download and physical configurations on its street date (Dec. 8). It was issued as a 10-track album in two CD editions (a standard version and a signed version sold through Minaj’s webstore) and four vinyl editions (including three retailer-exclusive versions, all with different covers and color vinyl).

 

Concurrently, an expanded 22-song version of Pink Friday 2 was issued via digital retailers, in both a clean and explicit edition. Four later iterations of the digital album were released through the tracking week through Minaj’s webstore, in both clean and explicit versions, all with alternative cover art, and sold for $5 each. On Monday (Dec. 11), a 23-track version added a remix of the album’s “Beep Beep” with 50 Cent. Tuesday brought a 23-track edition with the bonus track “Love Me Enough,” featuring Monica and Keyshia Cole. Wednesday saw the 22-track edition drop with a new alternate cover. Finally, on Thursday, a 24-track version dropped containing both the “Beep Beep” remix and “Love Me Enough.”

[Jude]

Some ppl here are obtuse. They say it's unfair to compare an album from 2018 to an album from 2010 yet they compare a debut album to a 5th album?

 

Congratulations to the one and only QUEEN OF RAP!

[ultraviolence.xx]

9 minutes ago, KOMH said:

Billboard reading her 

 

Pink Friday 2‘s sales were bolstered by the album’s availability across a range of variants, in both digital download and physical configurations on its street date (Dec. 8). It was issued as a 10-track album in two CD editions (a standard version and a signed version sold through Minaj’s webstore) and four vinyl editions (including three retailer-exclusive versions, all with different covers and color vinyl).

 

Concurrently, an expanded 22-song version of Pink Friday 2 was issued via digital retailers, in both a clean and explicit edition. Four later iterations of the digital album were released through the tracking week through Minaj’s webstore, in both clean and explicit versions, all with alternative cover art, and sold for $5 each. On Monday (Dec. 11), a 23-track version added a remix of the album’s “Beep Beep” with 50 Cent. Tuesday brought a 23-track edition with the bonus track “Love Me Enough,” featuring Monica and Keyshia Cole. Wednesday saw the 22-track edition drop with a new alternate cover. Finally, on Thursday, a 24-track version dropped containing both the “Beep Beep” remix and “Love Me Enough.”

they do that for every release. does this look familiar?

 

Quote

 

Midnights arrived after months of pre-release promotion and pre-orders — and its sales figure is bolstered by an array of available versions and variants of the album. It is available to purchase in a standard digital album (both clean and explicit); a deluxe digital album (clean and explicit, each with seven additional songs); an iTunes-exclusive version with a bonus spoken word track (clean and explicit); four standard CD editions (each with a different cover, both clean and explicit); four vinyl LP editions (each with a different cover and colored vinyl); and a cassette tape. Target is also selling an exclusive “Lavender” edition of the album on CD and colored-vinyl LP, with the CD boasting three bonus tracks.

Plus, in the weeks leading up to release, Swift’s webstore sold pre-orders of signed copies of the four standard CD albums and the four standard vinyl LPs. Midnights is also available in deluxe boxed set with a CD edition of the album and a Swift-branded T-shirt, exclusively for Capital One cardholders.

 

Some superfans may have also been enticed to purchase all four variants of the album on either CD or vinyl, as the back covers of the four albums fit together like a puzzle to display a clock face (a literal reference to Midnights!). Swift shared the news through her social media in mid-September, saying: “If you put all the back covers together, she’s a clock. It’s a clock… It makes a clock.” (Swift’s official webstore sells hardware to hold the four CDs or the four vinyl LPs together as a wall clock.) The idea of assembling multiple versions of an album’s back cover (or cover) together to reveal a larger complete image isn’t unique to Swift, as other acts (frequently in the K-pop world) have employed a similar marketing idea.

 

 

[KillingYourCareer]

GO NICKI!

[KOMH]

1 minute ago, ultraviolence.xx said:

they do that for every release. does this look familiar?

 

 

Not quite

 

Four later iterations of the digital album were released through the tracking week through Minaj’s webstore, in both clean and explicit versions, all with alternative cover art, and sold for $5 each.

 

 

OT: 

 

[Click Clack]

9 minutes ago, Jude said:

Some ppl here are obtuse. They say it's unfair to compare an album from 2018 to an album from 2010 yet they compare a debut album to a 5th album?

 

Congratulations to the one and only QUEEN OF RAP!

i mean some girls don’t even have TWO albums to compare, let alone 5

 

 

 

[bad guy]

Tate doing Future Nostalgia debut numbers when this is her first big hit 

 

OT: Another L for Shelvedi B stans 

 

[JBJT2786]

Nearly twice my inital prediction

 

The Barbz came through this time. Congratz to Nicki.

[EliMaraj]

Queen of Rap! Her legacy will NEVER be undone. So so so proud of her for achieving this 15 years into her career. 

[UnusualBoy]

She killed it

[Slate]

55 minutes ago, KOMH said:

Billboard reading her 

 

Pink Friday 2‘s sales were bolstered by the album’s availability across a range of variants, in both digital download and physical configurations on its street date (Dec. 8). It was issued as a 10-track album in two CD editions (a standard version and a signed version sold through Minaj’s webstore) and four vinyl editions (including three retailer-exclusive versions, all with different covers and color vinyl).

 

Concurrently, an expanded 22-song version of Pink Friday 2 was issued via digital retailers, in both a clean and explicit edition. Four later iterations of the digital album were released through the tracking week through Minaj’s webstore, in both clean and explicit versions, all with alternative cover art, and sold for $5 each. On Monday (Dec. 11), a 23-track version added a remix of the album’s “Beep Beep” with 50 Cent. Tuesday brought a 23-track edition with the bonus track “Love Me Enough,” featuring Monica and Keyshia Cole. Wednesday saw the 22-track edition drop with a new alternate cover. Finally, on Thursday, a 24-track version dropped containing both the “Beep Beep” remix and “Love Me Enough.”

[Parallel]

Think Later debuted with the same numbers as Future Nostalgia 

B-but I thought Tate was a faceless industry plant that nobody knew outside Greedy