Kathmandu,
August 24,
After releasing 121 singles in the last 12 years, Nicki Minaj has set a new chart record in the US.
The star's latest song, Super Freaky Girl, also marks Minaj’s first solo single to top the Billboard Hot 100, the first chart-topping hip-hop song since Lauryn Hill’s “Doo Wop (That Thing)” in 1998. To reach the No. 1 feat, “Super Freaky Girl” was available for purchase through eight different options, per Billboard. Explicit and clean versions of the song’s standard mix were released on August 12; explicit and clean versions of the song’s “Roman Remix” released at midnight on August 18; and beforehand, explicit and clean a cappella versions of both its standard version and “Roman Remix” dropped at 10:30 PM ET earlier that evening. All eight versions of “Super Freaky Girl” were discounted to 69 cents on August 18.