Nicki Minaj Reveals Queen Physical CDs Come W/ More New Music

Young Money’s Nicki Minaj is keep physical CDs alive. The hip-hop diva has announced her new Queen solo album is out in actual Target stores.

Onika went to Instagram to reveal Target shoppers have added incentive to cop a physical version.

Last night, Minaj went to IG and hyped up some early album achievements.

As things currently stand, Nicki’s LP is going head-to-head with rap star Travis Scott‘s Astroworld for the top Billboard 200 chart spot.

On next week’s Billboard 200 albums chart, Nicki Minaj’s new Queen and Travis Scott’s reigning champ Astroworld are vying for No. 1, according to industry forecasters. Those in the know suggest that the two sets could each earn around 160,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Aug. 16. (Billboard)

Based on early estimates, Nicki should have no problem beating out competition from Trippie Redd and Jason Mraz.

Nicki Minaj’s Queen rules the new-release roost this week. Let’s take a look at how this and two other new sets are looking.

Nicki Minaj (YMCMB/Republic) 135-150k total activity, 45-55k album
Trippie Redd (TenThousand) 66-71k, 13-15k
Jason Mraz (Atlantic) 28-32k, 24-27k

Nicki currently has the #1 album and #3 track (“Barbie Dreams”) at iTunes and the #2 album and song at Apple Music. “Barbie” is #16 at Spotify U.S. (HITS Daily Double)