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Viola Davis box office film gross has now surpassed over $15 BILLION worldwide.
She's the highest-grossing Black Film Actress in Hollywood.
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Michelle Williams is now a first time #GRAMMY nominee outside of Destiny's Child.
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Cardi B's 'AM I THE DRAMA?' has now surpassed @NICKIMINAJ's 'Pink Friday 2' to become the female rap album with the most songs charting simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 (18 total).
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24 years ago, Brandy recorded background vocals on Michael Jackson's 2001 'Invincible' album, and in return he did background vocals on Brandy's 2002 'Full Moon" album.
Michael Jackson & Brandy (2001).
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Michael Jackson has sold over 1 billion records worldwide across all credits.
He's the best selling artist in music history.
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Vivica A. Fox film gross has now surpassed over $9 BILLION worldwide at the box office.
She's the second-highest grossing Black Film Actress in Hollywood.
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.@GloTheofficial’s "Glorious" has now sold over 100,000 total units in the US (album).
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Female rappers with the most weeks spent at #1 on the Hot 100:
#1 Cardi B (@iamcardib) 16
#2 @Lizzo 9
#3 @IGGYAZALEA 7
#4 @theestallion 6
#5 @LilKim 5
#6 @DojaCat 4
#7 @MsLaurynHill 3
#8 @NICKIMINAJ 3
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Cardi B's "Invasion of Privacy" is now aiming for re-entry on the Billboard 200.
It's the longest charting female rap album of the century (@iamcardib).
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Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' has now spent 700 weeks on the Billboard 200.
It's the longest and best-selling album of all time.
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GloRilla (@GloTheofficial) has now surpassed 560 million streams on Spotify across all-credits.
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The only female rappers to reach #1 on the Billboard Global chart.
#1 Cardi B (@iamcardib)
#2 Megan (@theestallion)
#3 @Latto
#4 @Dojacat
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Michael Jackson has earned 3 billion streams on Spotify in 2025.
He's the highest streamed deceased artist of all-time.
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Megan Thee Stallion has now sold out Madison Square Garden ahead of her debut "Hot Girl Summer" arena tour.
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He is the first male hip-hop artist to reach this milestone.
WAP was the first and fastest to reach 5x Platinum eligibility in 2021.
Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' has now sold 5 million units and is eligible for 5x platinum 🔥🏆
It is the fastest hip hop song of the decade to achieve this milestone.
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Brandy & Toni Braxton are both set to receive stars on the ‘Hollywood Walk of Fame’.
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Cardi B has now reached #1 on Billboard Artist 100 for the second time in her career (@iamcardib).
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In new judge ruling, Tory Lanez has to pay Megan Thee Stallion's legal team for reasonable attorneys fees following, Vol 1 of his deposition.
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Linda Martell’s "Color Him Father" to be inducted into the #GRAMMY music 'Hall of Fame'.
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20 years ago, Heather Headley released her hit 'In My Mind'.
It peaked at #75 on the Hot 100 and has sold over 1 million units in the US.
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SZA's 'SOS' is now eligible for 9x Platinum in the US (9,000,000).
It debuted at #1 with 318K sold. It spent over 80 weeks within the Billboard 200's top 10 the longest for a Black artist, surpassing Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and won a #GRAMMY.
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JAY-Z's "Imaginary Players" enters the Top 40 of the US iTunes Hip-Hop/Rap songs chart for the first time ever.
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Megan Thee Stallion (@theestallion) now joins @iamcardib, @DojaCat & @NICKIMINAJ as the only female rappers to sell over 100 million records in the US.
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Kehlani confirms Toni Braxton will join Brandy, Jojo & Mario as features for the 'Folded' remix EP.
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Highest-certified female artists in @RIAA history:
#1 @taylorswift13 242.5M
#2 @Rihanna 217M
#3 @Beyonce 198.5M
#4 @MariahCarey 150.5M
#5 @KatyPerry 140.5M
#6 Ariana Grande 120M
#7 Whitney Houston 109M
#8 @SZA 105.5M
#9 @LadyGaga 101.5M
#10 @BritneySpears 98.5M
#11 @Madonna 87M
#12 @MileyCyrus 82.5M
#13 @billieeilish 81.5M
#14 Cardi B @iamcardib 77M
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Cardi B has sold over 10 million albums and earned over 20 billion streams as a lead act in the US (@iamcardib).
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JT's "City Cinderella" re-enters the US iTunes Hip-Hop/Rap albums chart (@ThegirlJT).
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Cardi B's "Gangsta B*tch Vol 1" re-enters the US iTunes Hip-Hop/Rap albums chart (@iamcardib).
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Cardi B's "Invasion of Privacy" remains the best-selling female rap album of the century (@iamcardib).
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Cardi B has now sold over 255 million total song units in the US (@iamcardib).
She's the second best-selling female rapper in history.
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JT’s #GRAMMYs Submissions:
💿: City Cinderella
• Album of the Year
• Best Rap Album
• Immersive Audio Album
🎵: OKAY
• Record of the Year
• Song of the Year
• Best Rap Song
• Best Rap Performance
• Best Music Video
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Lauryn Hill and Cardi B are the only female rappers in history to have an album sell over 7 million units in the US.
• The Miseducation of LH — 12.6M
• Invasion of Privacy — 7.2M
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Queen Latifah to be honored at the 46th Annual Kennedy Center Honors.
She’s the first female rapper to be honored at the prestigious ceremony.
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Janet Jackson is expected to earn her 42nd career Hot 100 chart entry with "Principal".
It will mark her first chart entry since 2018.
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Cardi B's "Bodak Yellow" is the most streamed female rap song of all-time on Apple Music platform (@iamcardib).
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Cardi B has now surpassed 69 million @RIAA certified units as a lead artist in (Digital sales):
The most for a female rapper in RIAA history.
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Highest certified female artists in @RIAA Digital sales:
#1 @Rihanna 188M
#2 @Beyonce 161.5M
#3 @TaylorSwift13 137.5M
#4 @KatyPerry 121.5M
#5 Ariana Grande 107M
#6 @SZA 92.5M
#7 @LadyGaga 82.5M
#8 @MileyCyrus 72.5M
#9 @MariahCarey 69.5M
#10 @iamcardib 69M
#11 @BritneySpears 59M
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.@GloTheofficial’s "Glorious" is predicted to debut with 48-60K first week sales with over 60-80M on-demand streams.
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Megan Thee Stallion’s 'BIGGER IN TEXAS' earns its biggest streaming day with over 100,000 streams on Spotify in the last 24 hours.
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The top contenders for "Best Rap Song" nomination at the 2025 #GRAMMYs.
• Not Like Us
• HISS
• Yeah Glo!
• Enough (Miami)
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Roxanne Shanté to receive the 'Lifetime Achievement Award' at the 2025 #GRAMMYs.
The Hip-Hop pioneer debuted in 1984, with "Roxanne’s Revenge" blazing a trail for female rappers after her. She has since sold over 5 million records worldwide.
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Jay-Z's "Imaginary Players" saw over 100% increase in streams, since the announcement of @iamcardib's "Imaginary Playerz".
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.@IAMSUMMERWALKER and @iamcardib's "Bitter (Narration by Cardi B)" has now sold over 1 million units in the US.
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The contenders for "Best Rap Performance" nomination at the 2025 #GRAMMYs (via Billboard & Variety).
Enough (Miami)
HISS
Yeah Glo!
FTCU
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Cardi B's "Outside" is now aiming for a top 10 debut on the Billboard Hot 100 (@iamcardib).
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Cardi B by the Numbers:
• 5 Hot 100 #1s
• 16 total weeks at #1
• Highest certified female rapper in Digital Sales (58M)
• Biggest-selling female rap album of the century
• Most DIAMOND-certified singles by a female rapper (3)
• Guinness World Records (6)
• 18 billion total streams on Spotify across all-credits
• 100 million records sold WW
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Cardi B's "Imaginary Players" to sample Jay-Z's "Imaginary Player" and The Isley Brothers's "Between The Sheets".
It will be released Friday, August 15.
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Cardi B's 'AM I THE DRAMA?' is now the best-selling female rap album this decade by total units in the US (@iamcardib).
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.@latto’s "Sugar Honey Iced Tea" has now sold over 400,000 total units in the US.
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6 years ago, @iamcardib became the first solo female rapper to win 'Best Rap Album' at the #GRAMMYs.
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Cardi B is now aiming for a debut record of seventeen songs charting, a record on the Hot 100.
She could earn the most simultaneous entries for a female rapper and overall entries for a female rap album.
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.@iamcardib's "Outside" to debut at #9 on the Hot 100.
It will tie Cardi B's own "Enough (Miami)".
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Cardi B’s (@iamcardib) sophomore album will be eligible for Platinum upon release.
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#GRAMMYs Best Rap Performance Winner: BIGGER IN TEXAS by Megan Thee Stallion.
Community note
At the time of this tweet, 2025 Grammy Award Winners have not yet been announced. The 2025 GRAMMYs will occur on Feb. 2, 2025. grammy.com/news/2025-gram
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SZA was left out of the nomination for "Artist of the Year" at the #VMAs despite releasing one of the biggest albums of 2022-2023.
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5 years ago today, @iamcardib released the massive hit single "I Like It" featuring Bad Bunny (@sanbenito) and J Balvin (@JBALVIN).
The single debuted at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 without an official single release. It peaked at #1 on the Hot 100, and stayed within the top ten for over 20+ consecutive weeks. It was nominated for Record of the Year at the 61st Annual #GRAMMYs. It was certified 11x Platinum by the @RIAA, becoming the second song from her debut LP to reach this milestone, extending her record as the female rapper with the most — Diamond Certified singles in the US and became the first song by a female rapper to surpass 1 Billion streams on Spotify, earning her a Guinness World Record for a tie among all female acts. "I Like It" is the most streamed song by a female rapper in the US, UK and Canada and ranked at #384 on Rolling Stone’s — 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time.
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.@JanetJackson has now earned a new Hot 100 hit in each of the last five decades (1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s).
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Kehlani is the now the front-runner to win Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance for "Folded" at the 2026 #GRAMMYs.
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Highest certified female artists in RIAA history:
#1 @Rihanna — 183M
#2 @Beyonce — 161.5M
#3 @taylorswift13 — 137.5M
#4 @katyperry — 121.5M
#5 Ariana Grande — 95.5M
#6 @ladygaga — 82.5M
#7 @MariahCarey — 68M
#8 @SZA — 62M
#9 @MileyCyrus — 61.5M
#10 @iamcardib — 58M
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Highest certified @RIAA female rappers in Digital Sales (Lead credits):
#1 @IamCardiB 69M
#2 @DojaCat 55M
#3 @NickiMinaj 54M
#4 @theestallion 31M
#5 @IGGYAZALEA 21M
#6 @Lizzo 20.5M
#7 @Saweetie 12M
#8 @MissyElliott 10M
#9 @GloTheofficial 9.5M
#10 @Latto 9.5M
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Cardi B and Lil' Kim are currently the only albums by female rappers charting on the US iTunes.
#1 AM I THE DRAMA
#125 The Naked Truth
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Highest Certified Black male artists in US Digital Certifications (Singles):
#1 @Drake 244M
#2 @kanyewest 163M
#3 @theweeknd 132M
#4 @trvisXX 127.5M
#5 @chrisbrown 115M
#6 @JColeNC 96.5M
#7 @1future 95M
#8 @LilTunechi 95M
#9 YOUNGBOY NEVER BROKE AGAIN 85M
#10 @JuiceWorlddd 84M
#11 @LILUZIVERT 84M
#12 @Usher 82.5M
#13 @xxxtentacion 76.5M
#14 @whamcbfw4 76M
#15 @djkhaled 68M
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Billboard on Cardi B and her next era (@iamcardib).
“If Cardi B retired today, she’d already be a Hall of Famer. She has five Hot 100 No. 1’s, to go with 11 top 10s, and 46 entries on the chart, all in a seven-year span.
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Female rappers with the most #1 hits in Billboard Hot 100 history:
#1 Cardi B @iamcardib (5)
#2 Megan @theestallion (3)
#3 @NICKIMINAJ (3)
#4 @DojaCat (2)
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14 years ago, @LilKim released her diss track "Black Friday".
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