Thania Garcia Florida rapper Rod Wave earns his second No. 1 album with the debut of his fourth studio effort, “Beautiful Mind,” which tops the Billboard 200 chart with 115,000 equivalent album units.Meanwhile, topping this week’s Billboard Hot 100 is Nicki Minaj’s Rick James-interpolating “Super Freaky Girl,” which earns the rapper her first No.
1 as a solo artist. The track, which has quickly become a streaming favorite (21.1 million streams in its first week), is her third No.
1 on the songs chart (after two collaborations that hit the top in 2020: “Trollz,” with 6ix9ine, and “Say So,” with Doja Cat).Minaj’s out-of-the-box success with “Super Freaky Girl” isn’t just a milestone for her, but for all female rappers, in this century, at least.
It’s the first No. 1 debut for a hip-hop song by a solo female artist with no accompanying features since Lauryn Hill’s “Doo Wop (That Thing)” in 1998.
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