http://nowdailynews.blogspot.com - Was it really just a little more than two years ago that Nicki Minaj made her Billboard chart debut? With so many hits racked up in such little time, it certainly seems like she's been killing it on our tallies longer than that.
Minaj made her Billboard chart bow on Aug. 29, 2009, entering at No. 8 on the Bubbling Under Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with "I Get Crazy." The track, which featured her Young Money label founder Lil Wayne, eventually topped out at No. 37 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs list on Jan. 23, 2010.
Since then, it's been nothing but a blur of dizzying chart highs for the leading lady of hip-hop. She's racked up 27 Billboard Hot 100 singles (at press time) and nine top 10 singles on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. "Moment 4 Life" became her first chart-topper on either list, spending five weeks lodged in the top slot of the R&B/hip-hop tally in February.
Her debut studio album, "Pink Friday," arrived Nov. 23, 2010, and flew in straight at No. 2 on both Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and the Billboard 200, selling 375,000 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That marked the second-best sales week for a female hip-hop artist since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991. Only Lauryn Hill did better, when "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" started at No. 1 with 423,000 in 1998.
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