{"id":2056649,"date":"2025-09-29T03:02:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2056649"},"modified":"2025-09-29T03:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:02:59","slug":"200k-first-week-cardi-b-just-made-billboard-history-with-am-i-the-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/200k-first-week-cardi-b-just-made-billboard-history-with-am-i-the-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"200K First Week! Cardi B Just Made Billboard History With AM I THE DRAMA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cardi B just shut the entire music industry down. Her second album, AM I THE DRAMA?, entered the Billboard 200 and claimed the No. 1 position with 200,000 units, including a staggering 88,000 pure sales. That ain\u2019t just a win for Cardi, that\u2019s a win for every woman rapper who\u2019ve ever been told they could never top the charts without a man\u2019s stamp of approval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This makes Cardi the\u00a0first female rapper in history to see her first two albums debut at No. 1.\u00a0Sis did that with\u00a0Invasion of Privacy, and seven years later, she did it again. That\u2019s called consistency, longevity, and straight-up domination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">AM I THE DRAMA didn\u2019t just debut at No.1, it also registered the biggest first-week U.S. sales ever for any woman rap album in the year 2025.\u00a0Cardi is no longer included in the dialogue, she\u00a0defines the dialogue.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\"><strong>Cardi\u2019s Appreciation and Glow-Up<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In true Cardi fashion, the star celebrated the milestone this weekend, being the ultimate humblebrag. On X (previously Twitter), she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iamcardib\/status\/1972428076848951645?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:posted;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">posted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mb-4 border-l-2 pl-5 italic text-tertiary\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThank you sooo much everybody that supported my album!! Two weeks ago the album was projected to do 115k off of Outside and Imaginary Players.. I didn\u2019t know what the outcome was gonna be I didn\u2019t put out a album in 7 years and haven\u2019t put out as much music in the last year but we just surpassed all that expectation\u2026 Thank you to everyone who gave the album a listen, did a video to the songs and everything!! You don\u2019t know the confidence and boost you gave me in my music to keep pushing.. I can\u2019t wait to see you guys on tour. Tonight we celebrate!!! I can\u2019t pop no champagne\u2026 but maybe I can open up some cranberry juice or something!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">And that is why Cardi is still winning. She is a superstar who doesn\u2019t flinch from the nerves, the uncertainty, the gratitude. Hip-hop is based on truth, and Cardi has never stopped delivering hers.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\"><strong>The Queens of No. 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Now, let us put this feat into perspective. Woman rappers who\u2019ve achieved the most Billboard 200 No. 1 albums:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Foxy Brown: 2* (both entered No. 1 on the R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Albums, but only one did on the Billboard 200)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cardi now comfortably ranks second behind Nicki Minaj, and the two Bronx natives collectively have redefined the story of what female rap is capable of commercially. They\u2019ve shown there\u2019s no limit, no barrier, no other outcomes than bars, bops, and fanbases that are worth billions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whereisthebuzz.com\/200k-first-week-cardi-b-just-made-billboard-history-with-am-i-the-drama\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:200K First Week! Cardi B Just Made Billboard History With\u00a0AM I THE DRAMA?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">200K First Week! 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That ain\u2019t just a win for Cardi, that\u2019s a win for every woman rapper who\u2019ve ever been told they could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2056650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[313169,305552],"class_list":["post-2056649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-billboard-200","tag-cardi-b"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/200K-First-Week-Cardi-B-Just-Made-Billboard-History-With.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2056650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}