Key Takeaways:

• Cardi B’s second album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 200,000 models.
• She made historical past as the primary feminine rapper to debut each of her first two albums at No. 1.
• The launch marked the most important gross sales week for a rap album by a lady in 2025.

The numbers are in for Cardi B’s AM I THE DRAMA? On Sunday (Sept. 28), after scoring her second consecutive No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, the “Pretty & Petty” rapper took to social media to have a good time the milestone with followers.

“Thank you so much, everybody that supported my album!” Cardi shared after the LP debuted with a powerful 200,000 album-equivalent models. She defined, “Two weeks ago, the album was projected to do 115,000 [copies] off of ‘Outside’ and ‘Imaginary Playerz.’ I didn’t know what the outcome was gonna be.”

“I didn’t put out an album in seven years and haven’t put out as much music in the last year, but we just surpassed all that expectation,” the Grammy-winning rapper continued. “Thank you to everyone who gave the album a listen, did a video to the songs, and everything! You don’t know the confidence and boost you gave me in my music to keep pushing.”

Looking forward, Cardi mentioned that she “can’t wait to see” her followers throughout her upcoming “Little Miss Drama Tour,” slated to start in February. “Tonight, we celebrate!” the soon-to-be mom of 4 wrote, humorously including that she “can’t pop no champagne,” however she’s right down to “open up some cranberry juice or something!”

As music/chart-beat/cardi-b-am-i-the-drama-numer-one-billboard-200-chart-1236077406/”>Billboard reported, 110,000 of the models AM I THE DRAMA? moved got here from on-demand streams, whereas one other 88,000 have been pure gross sales. It’s value noting that Cardi put out a minimum of two dozen variations of the mission, together with 9 distinctive CD covers, 11 vinyl variants, and eight deluxe CD field units, each earlier than and after its launch.

Unsurprisingly, AM I THE DRAMA? additionally logged the most important gross sales week for a rap album by a lady in 2025, a milestone it should probably maintain for the remainder of the 12 months. For comparability, GloRilla’s GLORIOUS led the best way in 2024 with 69,000 models.