The Queen of Rap. Roman. Nicki Lewinski, Nicki the Ninja, Nicki the Boss, Nicki The Harajuku Barbie. The list of nicknames Nicki Minaj has accumulated over the course of her career goes on and on, and so does her list of Billboard hits — may as well add Nicki the Chart-Topper to the heap.
The Trinidad-born, Queens-raised artist got her big break in 2009 when Lil Wayne invited her to become the first woman on his Young Money Entertainment imprint — after which she soon solidified herself as an icon with her game-changing debut album Pink Friday in 2010. Since then, she’s topped the Hot Rap Songs chart a whopping 10 times. But it wasn’t until 15 years into her career that she earned her first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, with a 2020 feature on Doja Cat’s viral TikTok smash “Say So.” (Her first unaccompanied hit to rule the ranking came two years later, with her Rick James-sampling, Hammer-honoring “Super Freaky Girl” ascending to the top in August 2022.)
That’s not to say Minaj wasn’t an absolute force on the Hot 100 in the decade-plus leading up to “Say So,” though. In fact, she’ll forever hold the title of the first woman to notch 100 entries on the chart — a number she’s since exceeded dozens of times over — thanks to her immaculate catalog of colorful boss b–ch anthems, cutthroat diss tracks and trailblazing assertions of female power and sexuality.
From her “Barbie” necklace-wearing days to now, keep reading to see Nicki Minaj’s biggest Hot 100 hits below.
