Nicki Minaj sets record with ‘Super Bass’ [video]

In a week that is proving to be quite memorable for the singer Nicki Minaj’s song, ‘Super Bass’ has become the fasting selling rap song by a solo female artist in nearly ten years.

The song, which was only produced as a bonus track on Minaj’s ‘Pink Friday’ album is the highest-charting rap song in the Billboard Hot 100 since Missy Elliott won that accolade with ‘Work It,’ which reached #2 in 2002.

Scoring a remarkable 1.91 million downloads in 2011 ‘Bass’ is the 21st highest selling single this year, and one of only eight rap singles by a solo female performer to even reach the top 10 since the chart was started way back in 1958.

“Nicki isn’t like any other female rapper,” Ronald Williams, co-founder of Nicki’s label, Cash Money, reveals. “We knew she had the goods when Lil’ Wayne signed her. She’s not a female rapper; she’s a pop star who happens to rap.”

Whatever her genre, the song’s effect is felt even by those who manage the countless radio stations which air it.

“‘Super Bass’ is a fun up-tempo summer song,” CBS Radio’s VP of Programming Michael Martin tells reporters. “She has pop sensibility and presents herself as a mass-appeal artist. The video is vibrant, colorful and inviting.”

And this new accomplishment comes just a year after 28-year old Minaj became the first female artist to top Billboard’s chart of rap songs since Lil’ Kim achieved the distinction in 2003 with ‘Magic Stick.’

If Katy Perry can reach the chart’s #1 slot with her latest song she’ll become only the second artist in history, behind Michael Jackson, to do that five times with songs from one disk. Only time will tell if Minaj can equal that record as well.

Here’s the song that set Nicki’s record. What do you think?…

Wired