Cardi B made history with her second No. 1 album, “AM I THE DRAMA?,” breaking records and silencing doubts after a seven-year hiatus.
Cardi B stormed the charts and rewrote Hip-Hop history this week as her second studio album AM I THE DRAMA? debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, making her the first female rapper to have her first two albums open at the top spot.
The Bronx-born Cardi B moved 200,000 album-equivalent units in the first week, according to Luminate, with 88,000 of those being pure album sales. That figure marks the biggest first-week sales for a woman in rap this year.
“Thank you sooo much everybody that supported my album!!” Cardi wrote on social media. “Two weeks ago the album was projected to do 115k off of Outside and Imaginary Players.. I didn’t know what the outcome was gonna be I didn’t put out a album in 7 years.”
She added, “You don’t know the confidence and boost you gave me in my music to keep pushing.. I can’t wait to see you guys on tour. Tonight we celebrate!!!”
In a nod to her recently revealed pregnancy, Cardi joked, “I can’t pop no champagne… but maybe I can open up some cranberry juice or something!”
@iamcardib Thank 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’t know what the outcome was gonna be I didn’t put out a album in 7 years and haven’t put out as much music in the last year but we just surpassed all that expectation… Thank you to everyone who gave the album a listen, did a video to the songs and everything!! You don’t know the confidence and boost you gave me in my music to keep pushing.. I can’t wait to see you guys on tour. Tonight we celebrate!!! I can’t pop no champagne… but maybe I can open up some cranberry juice or something!
Her first album, Invasion of Privacy, also debuted at No. 1 back in 2018. The project sold 255,000 units in its first week.
That project earned Cardi B a Grammy for Best Rap Album, making her the first solo female rapper to win in that category. Every track on the album eventually went platinum or higher, and it remained on the Billboard 200 for over 100 weeks.
The seven-year gap between albums only amplified anticipation for AM I THE DRAMA?, which has now cemented Cardi’s place in Hip-Hop history.
Related