MINAJ, NICKI - STARSHIPS - REMIXES

Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, born December 8th, 1982, in Trinidad & Tobago, is known professionally as Nicki Minaj. Minaj gained fame as a rapper and singer, through Lil Wayne and her former group, 'The Hoodstarz'. As a musician, Minaj was recognized for her musical versatility, alter egos, and the animated flow of her raps. She first gained underground attention after releasing her debut mixtape, Playtime Is Over. Two more mixtapes. Sucka Free and Beam Me Up Scotty, followed before her debut studio album, Pink Friday. The acclaimed album sold over 375k copies in its first week, the second-highest first-week sales for a female rap album. Maraj is one of the best-selling artists with over 100 million records sold among her extensive discography. Minaj has two diamond-certified singles, Bang Bang and Superbass. Superbass is her best-selling single to date being twelve times certified platinum, the highest certified solo single by a female rapper. Billboard staff ranked Minaj as the top-selling female rapper of the 2010s and one of the greatest rappers of all time. Maraj has the most number-one albums (Pink Friday, Pink Friday … Roman Reloaded, and Pink Friday 2) and top-ten songs (23) in the United States for a female rapper. In 2017, Maraj broke the record for the most entries on the Billboard Hot 100 by any female recording artist, surpassing Aretha Franklin. Later in 2018, Nicki became the first female artist to surpass 100 entries on the Billboard Hot 100. She has nine music videos with more than one billion views on YouTube, Minaj became the first female rapper to do so. These videos are Side to Side, Bang Bang (Both with over 2 billion views), Swalla, Tusa, Hey Mama, Beauty and a Beat, Anaconda, FEFE, and Super Bass. She is one of the two female artists to have nine music videos reaching this achievement, tying with Rihanna. The Pink Friday 2 World Tour (also known as Gag City Tour), is Minaj's fourth solo tour, and fifth overall. Consisting of 79 shows across three continents, the Pink Friday 2 World Tour was the most extensive tour of Minaj's career. It began on March 1, 2024, in Oakland, California, and concluded on October 11, 2024, in Elmont, New York. It was her first concert tour in over five years -- following The Nicki Wrld Tour (2019) -- and her first tour within North America in over nine years, since the Pinkprint Tour in 2015. Monica was the supporting act for the first North American leg of the tour, while Bia, Tyga, and Skillibeng supported the second leg. With a gross of over $108.8 million based on the first 70 shows, it concluded as the highest-grossing tour by a female rapper and the fourth-highest-grossing tour by any rapper or hip hop artist in history. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.