Back in March, Nicki Minaj surpassed Aretha Franklin to have the most Hot 100 appearances of all time among women with 76.

Nicki is not slowing down with her dominance on the Billboard chart as she now has 80 entries after Future’s “You Da Baddest” single featuring herself debuted at #38.

The Young Money Barbie took to Instagram to celebrate her latest accomplishment: “YDB just became my 80th Billboard Hot 100 entry! 3 songs on the Hot 100 no album out? *my monster voice*. Swalla up here 20 weeks later? RIU 26 w/no video? (it’s coming in a few more days, no need to send Gotti anymore death threats). Love you!!!!! Let’s toast with some @myxfusions”!

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Drake has broke two Billboard “Hot 100” records with his latest project, More Life, which was released last month on March 18th.

The first record is for becoming the music artist with the most hits on “Hot 100” by a solo artist with a total of 154 entries. Drizzy actually surpassed his boss Lil Wayne, who has 135 hits on the Billboard chart.

Drizzy Drake has also broken the record for having the most appearances on “Hot 100” in a single week with 24 entries. Out of the 24 appearances on the Billboard chart, there were 22 from More Life plus Nicki Minaj’s “No Frauds” and Gucci Mane’s “Both“!

The first week sales for Drake‘s More Life playlist are in! According to Nielsen Music, the project has moved around 505,000 units since first being released on March 18th, so a big congratulations to the 6 God is in order.

Breaking down the 505,000 number, there were 257,000 sales from streaming equivalent albums, 226,000 from traditional album sales, and 23,000 from TEA units.

As More Life also went No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart, this is now Drizzy‘s seventh No. 1 album of his career, which makes him tied with Eminem and Kanye West for the second most No. 1 projects in hip-hop. Jay Z is in the lead with a total of 13.

After tying with Aretha Franklin on Billboard‘s “Hot 100” chart for the most hits among women of every genre earlier this month, Nicki Minaj has now surpassed Franklin‘s 73 appearances with a new total of 76 entries.

The Young Money Barbie‘s 3 new hits that debuted on the “Hot 100” chart this week are “No Frauds” featuring Lil Wayne and Drake at No. 14, “Regret In Your Tears” at No. 61, and “Changed It” featuring Wayne at No. 71.

Congratulations to Minaj on this amazing accomplishment as it’s been nearly 40 years that Aretha has been in the top spot. You can see how Nicki celebrated the news after the jump below!

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After Gucci Mane‘s “Make Love” single featuring Nicki Minaj debuted on Billboard‘s “Hot 100” chart at No. 78, Minaj has now tied with Aretha Franklin for the most hits among women.

The Young Money Barbie and Aretha both have a total of 73 entries on the chart, which makes them both share the first place while Taylor Swift sits in third place with 70 appearances on the chart.

Congratulations to Nicki on this amazing achievement. I am sure it will not be long until she has the most hits on the “Hot 100” chart among women!

After Major Lazer’s “Run Up” single featuring Nicki Minaj and PARTYNEXTDOOR debuted on Billboard‘s “Hot 100” chart at No. 66, Nicki has now surpassed Taylor Swift once again for the most hits among women.

The Young Money Barbie has a total of 71 entries on the chart, which puts her in second place altogether among women. Aretha Franklin is in the lead with 73 appearances and Taylor is just below Minaj with 70 hits.

Congratulations to Nicki on this great achievement. I’m sure it won’t be long until she has the most hits on the “Hot 100” chart among women!

According to Chart Data, Drake has been on Billboard’s “Hot 100” chart for 400 consecutive weeks.

Drizzy tied with his Young Money boss Lil Wayne at the end of 2016 for the most “Hot 100” hits, but now this is another amazing achievement for him as he is the first music artist to spend 400 weeks on the chart.

There are only 3 other artists with 200 or more consecutive weeks on the Billboard chart: Lil Wayne with 326 weeks, Rihanna with 216 weeks and Nicki Minaj with 207 weeks. A big congratulations to the 6 God!

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