Nicki Minaj Is Back On Billboard’s Albums Charts

Nicki Minaj’s Queen Radio: Volume 1 returns to some the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums floor plan arsenic "Beauty and a Beat" rises globally. INGLEWOOD, CA - AUGUST 27: Nicki Minaj attends the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards astatine The Forum connected August 27, 2017 successful Inglewood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Getty Images

Throughout her career, Nicki Minaj has sent 7 projects to the Billboard 200 ranking, the astir important and all-encompassing albums tally successful the United States. That group consists almost wholly of accepted workplace albums, on pinch a mixtape aliases 2 and 1 top hits compilation.

Queen Radio: Volume 1 arrived successful September 2022 and instantly brought the rapper backmost to the apical 10. This week, that postulation reenters the roster and besides returns to different Billboard albums chart, while 1 of Minaj’s biggest collaborations becomes a streaming deed again.

Nicki Minaj Returns to the Billboard 200

Queen Radio: Volume 1 reenters the Billboard 200 ranking astatine No. 164. According to Luminate, the compilation moved astir 10,300 balanced medium units during the astir caller search frame. Only a fewer twelve of those units came from existent purchases. Streams of Minaj’s galore deed songs powerfulness the immense mostly of the collection’s full and nonstop it backmost to the ranking for a sixty-third week.

Nicki Minaj’s Compilation Once Climbed Into the Top 10

The hits task peaked astatine No. 10, wherever it launched respective years back. While Queen Radio: Volume 1 ranks arsenic Minaj’s lowest-peaking postulation connected the Billboard 200, that favoritism is really an awesome one, arsenic it intends she has ne'er grounded to push moreover 1 of her charting efforts into the loftiest region.

Nicki Minaj Barely Returns to the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart

At the aforesaid clip that it lifts backmost onto the Billboard 200, Queen Radio: Volume 1 besides finds its measurement backmost to the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The genre-specific roster features only 50 spaces, and Minaj’s compilation narrowly returns to the tally astatine No. 48. The group erstwhile roseate to No. 6, and it is counted among the Grammy nominee’s apical 10 wins.

Only 1 different Minaj-associated task has peaked little connected the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums floor plan than Queen Radio: Volume 1. Sucka Free, which is credited to Young Money, Lil Wayne and Minaj, spent 1 framework connected the tally astatine No. 95 – a position that nary longer exists – backmost successful July 2010 and has ne'er been seen since.

Nicki Minaj’s Compilation Has Outlasted Two of Her No. 1 Albums

While Queen Radio: Volume 1 whitethorn beryllium Minaj’s lowest-peaking merchandise connected the Billboard 200 ranking, it is besides 1 of her longest-charting. The Pinkprint remains her astir durable project, pinch 124 weeks connected the tally. Pink Friday follows pinch 77, while Queen Radio: Volume 1 is now up to 63 frames arsenic it returns.

The compilation has already outpaced titles for illustration Pink Friday 2 and Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. Both of those workplace albums reached No. 1 connected the Billboard 200, but neither has yet managed to walk a afloat twelvemonth connected the roster.

Nicki Minaj Returns With Justin Bieber

Minaj besides manages a comeback pinch only 1 single, connected the all-genre Streaming Songs chart. “Beauty and a Beat,” her collaboration pinch Justin Bieber, returns to the ranking astatine No. 47.

The azygous has now spent a landmark 30 weeks connected the database of the most-streamed tunes successful the U.S., and it topped retired successful 5th place. “Beauty and a Beat” was the beneficiary of a viral bump aft Bieber performed it during his Coachella headlining sets earlier this year, and it’s remained a smash ever since.

Nicki Minaj Climbs connected Two Global Charts

“Beauty and a Beat” besides lives wrong the apical 10 connected some of Billboard’s worldwide songs rankings. The collaboration gains crushed connected the 2 tallies this week.

The Bieber and Minaj smash rises to Nos. 4 and 6 connected the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. and Billboard Global 200, respectively. It sat astatine Nos. 5 and 8 connected those 2 tallies only 1 framework ago.