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Key Takeaways:
- Cardi B’s second album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 200,000 items.
- She made historical past as the primary feminine rapper to debut each of her first two albums at No. 1.
- The discharge marked the most important gross sales week for a rap album by a lady in 2025.
The numbers are in for Cardi B’s AM I THE DRAMA? On Sunday (Sept. 28), after scoring her second consecutive No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, the “Fairly & Petty” rapper took to social media to rejoice the milestone with followers.
“Thanks a lot, everyone that supported my album!” Cardi shared after the LP debuted with a formidable 200,000 album-equivalent items. She defined, “Two weeks in the past, the album was projected to do 115,000 [copies] off of ‘Exterior’ and ‘Imaginary Playerz.’ I didn’t know what the result was gonna be.”
“I didn’t put out an album in seven years and haven’t put out as a lot music within the final yr, however we simply surpassed all that expectation,” the Grammy-winning rapper continued. “Thanks to everybody who gave the album a hear, did a video to the songs, and the whole lot! You don’t know the arrogance and increase you gave me in my music to maintain pushing.”
Trying forward, Cardi mentioned that she “can’t wait to see” her followers throughout her upcoming “Little Miss Drama Tour,” slated to start in February. “Tonight, we rejoice!” the soon-to-be mom of 4 wrote, humorously including that she “can’t pop no champagne,” however she’s right down to “open up some cranberry juice or one thing!”
As Billboard reported, 110,000 of the items AM I THE DRAMA? moved got here from on-demand streams, whereas one other 88,000 have been pure gross sales. It’s price noting that Cardi put out at the least two dozen variations of the undertaking, together with 9 distinctive CD covers, 11 vinyl variants, and eight deluxe CD field units, each earlier than and after its launch.
Unsurprisingly, AM I THE DRAMA? additionally logged the most important gross sales week for a rap album by a lady in 2025, a milestone it is going to possible maintain for the remainder of the yr. For comparability, GloRilla’s GLORIOUS led the way in which in 2024 with 69,000 items.