After the whole thing about that Nicki Minaj diss track and the discussions that followed the inevitable happened: Nicki’s star status got even bigger. Immediately after being caught in the attention raised by Remy Ma, various tracks were released with Nicki’s famous featurings.
I think she’s on 3 or 4 tracks, at this time and all these tracks helped her get her name into the history books, because she is now the female artist with the most Billboard Hot 100 hits to her name. Since her debut in 2010, Nicki has got 76 songs in the charts. The last female artist to hold this record was Aretha Franklin. She’s managed to reach the Hot 100 73 times and actually hung on to this record for 70 years!
Somehow I think Nicki’s record might not have that same fate. Nicki is not the only one who’s following the strategy of doing as many featurings and collaborations, and in this day and age, constantly releasing new music. I’m sure that someone might be breaking her record a lot sooner than 70 years from now. Nevertheless, I was quite surprised that many other female artists are not even coming close to 76 Hot 100 hits. Even big stars like Madonna and Ariana Grande have not yet been able to collect that many hits.
I wish I could start a whole explanation now about why Nicki Minaj has managed to do it. What makes her so special than the others, but to be honest, I haven’t got a clue. Nicki is one of those artists that I don’t fully get. And it doesn’t help much that I’m not really into rap music either, but even in her brushes with dance music, I can’t really explain why she works well on those tracks. Or confirm that she does work better than any other female artist could on those track. I just always assume that her secret to success is about that way she looks nowadays (or as Bette Midler once sang in one of her shows: “Tits and Ass”). One thing’s for sure though, the music scene today would be a lot less interesting without her to talk about.
