Just some months after selecting up her seventh aggressive MTV Video Music Award (finest hip-hop for “Tremendous Freaky Woman”), Nicki Minaj has added yet one more music video-related accolade to her assortment. On Oct. 26, Minaj’s “Tremendous Bass” formally crossed one billion views on YouTube.
“Tremendous Bass” served because the fifth single from Minaj’s blockbuster 2010 debut studio album Pink Friday. Finally peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard Sizzling 100, “Tremendous Bass” turned the rapper’s first unaccompanied go to to the rating’s prime 10. In recent times, “Tremendous Bass” has appeared on a number of Billboard employees lists, together with The 100 Finest Karaoke Songs of All Time (No. 7) and The five hundred Finest Pop Songs That Appeared on the Sizzling 100 (No. 13). The music’s music video additionally earned Minaj her first of 5 finest hip-hop Moonpeople on the VMAs, essentially the most victories of any artist in that class.
Minaj — who’s a finalist for prime rap feminine artist on the 2023 Billboard Music Awards — is at present prepping Pink Friday 2, a sequel to the 2010 authentic that may function her extremely anticipated fifth studio album. Within the lead-up to the file, Minaj has unleashed a number of new songs, together with the historic Sizzling 100 chart-topper “Tremendous Freaky Woman,” in addition to the highest 40 hits “Crimson Ruby Da Sleeze” (No. 13) and “Final Time I Noticed You” (No. 23). As well as, the “Anaconda” rapper additionally teased a still-unreleased monitor titled “Massive Distinction” throughout one in every of her two performances at this 12 months’s VMAs ceremony (Sept. 12).
After a number of beforehand introduced launch dates, Minaj seems to have settled on Dec. 8 — her birthday — as the brand new avenue date for the forthcoming file. In an effort to make up for the delays, Minaj has handled followers to a number of “Pink Friday” surprises, together with alternate album covers, a freestyle over Drake & Chief Keef’s “All of the Events,” and a scrapped album minimize known as “Bahm Bahm.”
With “Tremendous Bass” crossing one billion views, Minaj now boasts a complete of 9 music movies which have reached the milestone. Furthermore, she is now the primary feminine rapper to have two solo music movies with over one billion views every, the opposite being 2014’s Grammy-nominated “Anaconda.”
Make a journey down reminiscence lane and watch the “Tremendous Bass” music video above.