Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" Goes Double Platinum, Breaks Female Rap Record

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» by Randy Roper August 11, 2011, 11:07am

Nicki Minaj Goes Double Platinum With "Super Bass"

Nicki Minaj continues to kill the charts, while vying for the title of best female rapper to ever do it.

Nicki's double platinum “Super Bass” is the most successful solo single by a female emcee in almost a ten years, after landing at No. 3 on Billboard's Hot 100, making it the highest charting solo single by a female rapper since Missy Elliot's “Work It” reached No. 2 and held the spot for 10 consecutive weeks in 2002.

"Nicki isn't like any other female rapper," Cash Money co-founder Ronald "Slim" Williams said of the young YMCMB star. "We knew she had the goods when Lil Wayne signed her. She's not a female rapper -- she's a pop star who happens to rap."

Also from Billboard:

"Super" is also just the eighth rap single by a solo female to reach the top 10 in the chart's 53-year history.

Minaj has been all over hip-hop and mainstream R&B radio airwaves -- and Billboard's charts -- since late 2009, charting eight top 10 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

Yet, on the all-format Billboard Hot 100, "Bass" marked only her third top 10 -- and first as a lead artst.

She previously earned top 10s courtesy of being a guest star on Trey Songz's "Bottoms Up" (No. 6) and Britney Spears' "Till the World Ends" (No. 3).

"Super Bass," meanwhile, has moved 1.91 million downloads in 2011, making it the year's 21st-biggest overall seller and the seventh-largest R&B/hip-hop digital song.

Are you happy Nicki?

Check out stills from her "Super Bass" video and some of  her best looks below.

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  • PLEASE BELIEVE NICKI MINAJ IS WHAT’S REAL!

    I WILL SAY THIS NICKI MINAJ IS WHAT FEMALE RAP ALWAYS NEEDED!NOT ALL THAT IM A BAD ***** FU....,SHE IS A BAD ***** FU.... WITHOUT ALL THE FOUL SH.T COMMING OUT HER MOUTH.YES NICKI MINAJ IS SO AWSOME THAT SHE COULD NEVER BE DEFINED,SHE IS SO UNPREDICTABLE THAT WHY SHE IS HOTTTTTT!AN MOST WANTED ALL OVER THE WORLD FOR HER PRESSENCE TO BE IN THE BUILDING.WE MAY HAVE TO CLONE HER ONE DAY!!SHE A BAD ***** FU.... WHAT SHE LOOK LIKE! THE BADDEST BI... BI.CH ON THE PLANET!!LOVE NICKI MINAJ BIGGEST FAN!

  • Westside cutie!!!!

    @please believe..... How much is Nicki's camp paying u! U sound like a delusional stan! Nicki Facade is not all that! The only people listening to her garbage is u and lil' youngins who call themselves barbies! That girl is pathetic! Hip Hop is officially dead! : /

    • PLEASE BELIEVE NICKI MINAJ IS WHAT’S REAL!

      WESTSIDE CUTIE AKA CRAB IN A BUCKET,IF YOUR A GIRL YOUR COMMENT IS OF JEALOUSY AND IN NICKI'S WORLD WHO GIVES A F.CK!!!LOVE NICKI MINAJ BIGGEST FAN!

  • Trinity

    Nicki has officially taken over the world and has taken Lady GaGa's crown. TeamMinaj all da way baby!

  • trulo

    is my comments not being posted?? like i was saying this chic is a POP artist! why is she even on HIP HOP WIRED!... please save us the foolishness

    • PLEASE BELIEVE NICKI MINAJ IS WHAT’S REAL!

      TRULO,YOU THE ONLY DA.B FOOL ON THIS PAGE YOU UNBELIEVERS WILL FALL FIRST!!NICKI MINAJ THE QUEEN OF HIP HOP IS ON TOP OF YOUR WORLD!!YOU CANNOT BREATH BECAUSE SHE ON YOUR NECK.#GIVE IT UP!!!TEAMMINAJ IS BUILDING OFF OF VERSITILITY!!!TO NICKI'S HATERS SHE WILL RETIRE WITH BOTH CROWNS!SHE GOIN IN ON POP!! THE QUEENS HATERS MUST BE GETTEN TIRED,LOVE NICKI MINAJ BIGGEST FAN!

  • Trinity

    Umm maybe cause she's a rapper. If she generates this much hate and jealousy after one pop song imagine what she could do with another. Haters you could kill yourselves!

  • WN

    Whoever is saying Nicki is a pop artist, don't you ever get tired of hating? Ppl have been saying for the past 2 years that Nicki is pop, She remains on Hip-Hop, as WELL AS pop websites. Just give it up, umad cuz Nicki is dominating the hip-hop AND pop world.

  • PLEASE BELIEVE NICKI MINAJ IS WHAT’S REAL!

    TEAM MINAJ/YMCMB GOT DIS ON LOCK!!LOVE NICKI MINAJ BIGGEST FAN!

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