After seven years, Cardi B has made her long-awaited return to the Billboard 200 with Am I the Drama?
Bardi’s sophomore studio album opened atop the all-format ranking with 200,000 first-week units, making her the first female rapper in history to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with her first two albums. Housing the Hot 100-charting singles “Outside” (No. 10) and “Imaginary Playerz” (No. 70), Cardi’s 23-song new set also includes the No. 1 hits “Up” and “WAP” (with Megan Thee Stallion). Over the weekend, Cardi graced NYC’s Global Citizen Festival alongside Shakira, Rosé, Tyla and Ayra Starr.
“Thank you sooo much everybody that supported my album!! Two weeks ago the album was projected to do 115k off of [“Outside”] and [“Imaginary Playerz”],” Cardi wrote on X (Sept. 28). “I didn’t kn