{"id":3402,"date":"2022-08-25T03:43:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T03:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3402"},"modified":"2022-08-25T03:43:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T03:43:24","slug":"nicki-minajs-super-freaky-girl-soars-in-at-no-1-on-billboard-hot-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3402","title":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj\u2019s \u2018Super Freaky Girl\u2019 Soars in at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The track is Minaj&#8217;s first Hot 100 No. 1 as an unaccompanied artist and her third overall.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/nicki-minaj\/\">Nicki Minaj<\/a>\u2018s \u201cSuper Freaky Girl\u201d blasts onto the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;at No. 1. Minaj earns her first Hot 100 No. 1 as an unaccompanied artist and her third overall, following \u201cTrollz,\u201d with 6ix9ine, and her featured turn on Doja Cat\u2019s \u201cSay So,\u201d both in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, \u201cSuper Freaky Girl\u201d expands upon the chart legacy of Rick James\u2019 No. 16-peaking 1981 Hot 100 hit \u201cSuper Freak,\u201d which it samples. Among other reworkings of James\u2019 classic, M.C. Hammer\u2019s \u201cU Can\u2019t Touch This\u201d reached No. 8 in 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Aug. 27, 2022) will update on&nbsp;Billboard.com&nbsp;Tuesday (Aug. 23). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nicki Minaj - Super Freaky Girl (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"1165\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/HInFfnzyqR4?wmode=transparent&#038;fs=1\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSuper Freaky Girl,\u201d released on Young Money\/Cash Money\/Republic Records, tallied 21.1 million streams, 4.6 million radio airplay audience impressions and 89,000 downloads sold in its first week (Aug. 12-18), according to Luminate, following its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/nicki-minaj-super-freaky-girl-listen-1235125895\/\">Aug. 12 arrival<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The track bows as the 1,141st No. 1 in the Hot 100\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/hot-100-64-years-fun-facts-ricky-nelson-lizzo-1235122282\/\">64-year history<\/a>. It\u2019s the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/photos\/426225\/billboard-hot-100-number-1-song-debuts\/\">63rd to enter on top<\/a>, and the first by a woman in a lead role this year. Notably, it\u2019s the first No. 1 debut for a hip-hop song by a solo female and no accompanying acts since Lauryn Hill\u2019s \u201cDoo Wop (That Thing)\u201d in 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Minaj\u2019s First Unaccompanied Hot 100 No. 1:<\/strong>&nbsp;Minaj earns her first Hot 100 No. 1 as an unaccompanied artist and her third overall. She previously reigned with her 6ix9ine collab \u201cTrollz,\u201d which bounded in at No. 1 on the June 27, 2020, chart, and her featured turn on Doja Cat\u2019s \u201cSay So,\u201d which topped the May 16, 2020, tally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Minaj\u2019s 21st Hot 100 Top 10:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cSuper Freaky Girl\u201d is additionally Minaj\u2019s 21st Hot 100 top 10, and her second this year, after \u201cDo We Have a Problem?,\u201d with Lil Baby, debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Feb. 19-dated chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minaj posts her 124th overall Hot 100 entry, dating to her first in February 2010. She boasts the seventh-most appearances in the chart\u2019s archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No. 1 in Streams, Sales:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cSuper Freaky Girl\u201d launches at No. 1 on both the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\/\">Streaming Songs<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\/\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>&nbsp;charts. Minaj adds her second Streaming Songs No. 1, after \u201cAnaconda\u201d led for three weeks in September 2014. She earns her 12th Digital Song Sales leader, the most among female rap artists, and her fourth of 2022, following No. 1 entrances for \u201cDo We Have a Problem?\u201d (Feb. 19); \u201cBlick Blick!,\u201d with Coi Leray (April 2); and \u201cWe Go Up,\u201d with Fivio Foreign (April 9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song was available for purchase via eight options since its release: explicit and clean versions of its standard mix (released Aug. 12); explicit and clean versions of its \u201cRoman Remix\u201d (released at midnight ET Aug. 18); and explicit and clean a cappella versions of both its standard version and \u201cRoman Remix\u201d (released at 10:30 p.m. ET Aug. 18). All versions were discounted to 69 cents Aug. 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lizzo, Beyonc\u00e9 &amp; Nicki:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cSuper Freaky Girl\u201d follows Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s \u201cBreak My Soul,\u201d which led the Aug. 13 and 20-dated Hot 100 charts, and Lizzo\u2019s \u201cAbout Damn Time,\u201d which topped the July 30 and Aug. 6 tallies. The tracks combine for the first streak of three songs each hitting No. 1 for the first time by solo women and no accompanying artists since Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cShake It Off,\u201d Meghan Trainor\u2019s \u201cAll About That Bass\u201d and Swift\u2019s \u201cBlank Space\u201d in September 2014-January 2015. (Before that, Katy Perry\u2019s \u201cRoar,\u201d Miley Cyrus\u2019 \u201cWrecking Ball\u201d and Lorde\u2019s \u201cRoyals\u201d reigned consecutively in September-December 2013.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cFreaky\u201d First on R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop &amp; Rap Charts:<\/strong>&nbsp;Concurrently, \u201cSuper Freaky Girl\u201d starts atop the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-b-hip-hop-songs\">Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\/\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a>&nbsp;charts, which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100. Minaj achieves her eighth No. 1 on each genre ranking, and second this year, after \u201cDo We Have a Problem?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rick James\u2019 \u201cSuper Freak,\u201d which \u201cSuper Freaky Girl\u201d samples, hit No. 3 on Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs in September 1981, while M.C. Hammer\u2019s \u201cU Can\u2019t Touch This,\u201d which also samples James\u2019 original, spent a week at No. 1 in June 1990. On Hot Rap Songs, which originated in 1989, \u201cTouch\u201d reached No. 2. (Among other notable reimaginations of \u201cSuper Freak,\u201d Jay-Z\u2019s \u201cKingdom Come\u201d hit No. 52 on Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs and No. 98 on the Hot 100 in 2006 and Gucci Mane\u2019s \u201cFreaky Gurl\u201d rose to Nos. 19 and 62 on the respective charts in 2007.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harry Styles\u2019 former&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/hot-100-songs-longest-leading-no-1s\/\">10-week Hot 100 No. 1<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cAs It Was\u201d holds at No. 2. It also logs a 12th week atop the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/summer-songs\/\">Songs of the Summer<\/a>&nbsp;chart, as it has led the seasonal survey, which tracks the biggest hits between Memorial Day and Labor Day, each week this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lizzo\u2019s \u201cAbout Damn Time\u201d keeps at No. 3 after two weeks atop the Hot 100. It notches a seventh week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (82.4 million, down 7%) and rebounds for a 12th frame atop the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-and-b-songs\/\">Hot R&amp;B Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s \u201cBreak My Soul\u201d falls to No. 4 on the Hot 100, after claiming its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/beyonce-break-my-soul-second-week-atop-hot-100-1235126710\/\">second week at No. 1<\/a>&nbsp;a week earlier. It leads the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/dance-electronic-songs\/\">Hot Dance\/Electronic Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for an eighth week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kate Bush\u2019s \u201cRunning Up That Hill (A Deal With God)\u201d dips 4-5 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 3. Its revival sparked by its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/culture\/tv-film\/kate-bush-running-up-that-hill-stranger-things-finale-reaction-1235110039\/\">sync<\/a>&nbsp;in the fourth season of Netflix\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Stranger Things<\/em>, the song, originally released in 1985 (when it reached No. 30), tops the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rock-songs\">Hot Rock &amp; Alternative Songs<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-rock-songs\/\">Hot Rock Songs<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-alternative-songs\">Hot Alternative Songs<\/a>&nbsp;charts for an 11th week each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve Lacy\u2019s first Hot 100 top 10, \u201cBad Habit,\u201d holds at its No. 6 high and Nicky Youre and dazy\u2019s \u201cSunroof\u201d rides 8-7 for a new best, as each act\u2019s first top 10 scores top Airplay Gainer honors for a third week (65.6 million, up 9%), as well as the chart\u2019s Streaming Gainer award (10 million, up 15%). \u201cSunroof\u201d also becomes Nicky Youre and dazy\u2019s first leader each on both the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/pop-songs\/\">Pop Airplay<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/adult-pop-songs\/\">Adult Pop Airplay<\/a>&nbsp;charts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Future\u2019s \u201cWait for U,\u201d featuring Drake and Tems, descends 7-8 on the Hot 100, following a week at No. 1 beginning in its debut week in May; Bad Bunny and Chencho Corleone\u2019s \u201cMe Porto Bonito\u201d rebounds 11-9, after reaching No. 6, as it rules the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/latin-songs\/\">Hot Latin Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a 14th week; and, rounding out the Hot 100\u2019s top 10, Post Malone\u2019s \u201cI Like You (A Happier Song),\u201d featuring Doja Cat, returns to the tier, rising 13-10, after hitting No. 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Aug. 27), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on&nbsp;Billboard.com&nbsp;tomorrow (Aug. 23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3402\" data-postid=\"3402\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3402 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The track is Minaj&#8217;s first Hot 100 No. 1 as an unaccompanied artist and her third overall. 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