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pWotD Episode 3194: Nicki Minaj
Welcome to popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today.
With 227,431 views on Thursday, 29 January 2026 our article of the day is Nicki Minaj.
Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty (born December 8, 1982), known professionally as Nicki Minaj ( NIK-ee min-AHZH), is a Trinidadian rapper, singer, and songwriter. Dubbed the "Queen of Rap", she is noted for her animated rap flow, musical versatility, and alter egos. Minaj began rapping professionally in the early 2000s and gained recognition with her three mixtapes between 2007 and 2009.
Minaj's debut studio album, Pink Friday (2010), opened with the largest female rap album sales week of the 21st century and spawned the single "Super Bass". She explored dance-pop on her second US number-one album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (2012), which produced the single "Starships". She returned to her hip-hop roots with The Pinkprint (2014) and Queen (2018), which yielded the singles "Anaconda" and "Chun-Li". Minaj achieved her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles in 2020 with Doja Cat's "Say So" and 6ix9ine's "Trollz". Her fifth album, Pink Friday 2 (2023), made her the female rapper with the most US number-one albums (three) and spawned her first solo US number-one single, "Super Freaky Girl". Its concert tour became the highest-grossing by a female rapper.
Minaj is one of the world's best-selling music artists and the best-selling female rapper, with over 100 million records sold. She has over 54 million certified singles sold in the US and three diamond-certified singles by the RIAA. Her various accolades include a Brit Award, five Billboard Music Awards, nine American Music Awards and eight MTV Video Music Awards (including the Vanguard Award). Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2016.
Minaj founded the record label imprint Heavy On It in 2023. Outside of music, her other endeavors include a fragrance line, a press on nails line, a Loci sneakers collection, and the radio show Queen Radio (2018–2023). She has also voice acted in the animated films Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) and The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019), and acted in the comedy films The Other Woman (2014) and Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016). On television, she served as a judge on the twelfth season of American Idol (2013). Her outspoken views have received significant media attention.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:07 UTC on Friday, 30 January 2026.
For the full current version of the article, see Nicki Minaj on Wikipedia.
This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.
Follow us on Mastodon at @[email protected].
Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.
Until next time, I'm neural Salli.
Welcome to popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today.
With 227,431 views on Thursday, 29 January 2026 our article of the day is Nicki Minaj.
Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty (born December 8, 1982), known professionally as Nicki Minaj ( NIK-ee min-AHZH), is a Trinidadian rapper, singer, and songwriter. Dubbed the "Queen of Rap", she is noted for her animated rap flow, musical versatility, and alter egos. Minaj began rapping professionally in the early 2000s and gained recognition with her three mixtapes between 2007 and 2009.
Minaj's debut studio album, Pink Friday (2010), opened with the largest female rap album sales week of the 21st century and spawned the single "Super Bass". She explored dance-pop on her second US number-one album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (2012), which produced the single "Starships". She returned to her hip-hop roots with The Pinkprint (2014) and Queen (2018), which yielded the singles "Anaconda" and "Chun-Li". Minaj achieved her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles in 2020 with Doja Cat's "Say So" and 6ix9ine's "Trollz". Her fifth album, Pink Friday 2 (2023), made her the female rapper with the most US number-one albums (three) and spawned her first solo US number-one single, "Super Freaky Girl". Its concert tour became the highest-grossing by a female rapper.
Minaj is one of the world's best-selling music artists and the best-selling female rapper, with over 100 million records sold. She has over 54 million certified singles sold in the US and three diamond-certified singles by the RIAA. Her various accolades include a Brit Award, five Billboard Music Awards, nine American Music Awards and eight MTV Video Music Awards (including the Vanguard Award). Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2016.
Minaj founded the record label imprint Heavy On It in 2023. Outside of music, her other endeavors include a fragrance line, a press on nails line, a Loci sneakers collection, and the radio show Queen Radio (2018–2023). She has also voice acted in the animated films Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) and The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019), and acted in the comedy films The Other Woman (2014) and Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016). On television, she served as a judge on the twelfth season of American Idol (2013). Her outspoken views have received significant media attention.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:07 UTC on Friday, 30 January 2026.
For the full current version of the article, see Nicki Minaj on Wikipedia.
This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.
Follow us on Mastodon at @[email protected].
Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.
Until next time, I'm neural Salli.
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