The Queen has returned.

Nicki Minaj reigns supreme this week on the Billboard 200 charts with her latest album, Pink Friday 2.

Billboard reports the album moved 228,000 in its first week sales. The total marks the largest week for a rap album by a woman in the 2020s decade, and the biggest for an R&B/hip-hop album by a woman this year. 129,000 of its SEA units equaled to 169.87 million on-demand streams of its 22 tracks. The album moved 92,000 in traditional album sales including 25,000 copies sold on vinyl.

Pink Friday 2 marks Nicki Minaj’s third No. 1 debut album and breaks the tie with Foxy Brown for the most among female rap artists in Billboard history. The album also marks Nicki’s seventh Top 10 project overall.

In 2011, her 2010 debut album, Pink Friday peaked at No. 1 a few weeks after its debut, while the follow-up, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded debuted at No. 1 in 2012. Both The Pinkprint (2014) and Queen (2018) just missed its mark and debuted at No. 2. Also on the list includes her 2009 mixtape, Beam Me Up Scotty  which she released in 2021 (No. 2) and last year’s compilation Queen Radio: Volume 1 (No. 10).

Nick Minaj’s Pink Friday 2 is the Grammy-winning rapper’s fourth studio album featuring 22 tracks including collaborations from Lil Wayne, Drake, J.Cole, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, and more. She soon added two new tracks for its Gag City deluxe version that included her “Beep Beep (Remix)” featuring 50 Cent and “Love Me Enough” alongside Monica and Keyshia Cole. 14 songs off the album have also charted in the Billboard Top 100 singles charts.

Photo: Mike Coppola