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Pink Friday is the debut studio album by Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj. It was released on November 22, 2010, by Cash Money Records, Universal Motown Records and Young Money Entertainment. After signing a recording contract with Young Money Entertainment in 2009, Minaj began planning the album that same year and work continued into 2010. Minaj enlisted a variety of producers whose efforts resulted in a primarily hip hop and pop album with additional influences from electronic music. The album features guest vocals from Eminem, Rihanna, Drake, will.i.am, Kanye West, and Natasha Bedingfield. Over a decade since its release, Pink Friday continues to attract wide praise from mainstream and hip hop critics alike and has developed a cult following.
The album was promoted with six singles from the standard edition; "Your Love", "Check It Out", "Right Thru Me", "Moment 4 Life", "Did It On'em", and "Fly". Two additional singles was released from the deluxe edition; "Super Bass" and "Girls Fall Like Dominoes", the former in which became one of Minaj’s signature hits, peaking at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and entered the top ten worldwide, while five other singles peaked within the top 40 on the Hot 100. Minaj also supported the album with a five-date promotional concert tour during October 2010. After a much anticipated release, Pink Friday debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, selling 375,000 copies in its first week, marking the second highest sales debut ever for a female rapper since Lauryn Hill. The album later peaked at number one, becoming Minaj's first number one album.[1]
The album received positive reviews from critics, however some were ambivalent on Minaj's exploration of pop.[2] Internationally, it also charted within the top 20 in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.[3] As of February 2018, the album has sold two million traditional copies in the United States.[4] The album has been certified 3× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined album sales, track sales, and song streams equivalent of three million album-sale units. Pink Friday was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 54th Grammy Awards in 2012, alongside Minaj's other nominations for Best New Artist and Best Rap Performance for the single "Moment 4 Life".
In 2022, Rolling Stone included Pink Friday in their list of "200 Greatest Hip-Hop Albums of All Time" at number 31, stating that the album "proved you could own the charts without dialing back your confrontational individuality, and it set the table for a generation of artists."[5] A sequel to the album, Pink Friday 2, was released in 2023.
- ^ Caulfield, Keith (December 2010). "Kanye West, Nicki Minaj Score Big Debuts on Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
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- ^ "Rewinding the Charts: In 2011, Nicki Minaj's 'Pink Friday' Was Red-Hot". Billboard. February 19, 2018. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
- ^ Weingarten, Charles Aaron,Mankaprr Conteh,Jon Dolan,Will Dukes,Dewayne Gage,Joe Gross,Kory Grow,Christian Hoard,Jeff Ihaza,Julyssa Lopez,Mosi Reeves,Yoh Phillips,Noah Shachtman,Rob Sheffield,Simon Vozick-Levinson,Christopher R. (June 7, 2022). "The 200 Greatest Hip-Hop Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 12, 2024.
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