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Getty Image Where will Nicki's 'Pink Friday 2' land on the 'Billboard' charts?

Nicki Minaj’s new album has been well-received by fans after months of build-up and a rollout that included unconventional strategies like and the . The album, which features appearances from , , and even (sort of), is also doing pretty well commercially. But is it enough to get Nicki her second No. 1 debut on the 200? According to HitsDailyDouble (which is rarely wrong about this sort of thing), it looks likely, with the new album trending toward 200,000 album-equivalent units (which would include both streams and straight sales). Interestingly, according to the @Chartsdata account on Twitter (aka “X”), this would make it her biggest debut since in 2014, which sold 244,000 album-equivalent units its first week, good for a No. 2 debut on the albums chart. . ’s 'Pink Friday 2' now aiming for #1 debut on the Billboard 200 with increased sales forecast, challenging for 200K (via ). It would mark her biggest debut since ‘The Pinkprint’ in 2014. — chart data (@chartdata) Nicki’s second album, , actually did debut at No. 1 after selling 253,000 copies in its first week. The first eventually reached No. 1 in its 11th week after a No. 2 debut with 375,000 (which kind of goes to show how stressing out over first-week numbers is a ridiculous way to do things). Minaj infamously had a when debuted at No. 2 in 2018 with 185,000 album-equivalent units, coming in behind Travis Scott (although she made some good points), and it looks like she took some lessons from that album’s success to build up to an even bigger rebound with . Read more