When Pink Friday climbed to #1 in its 11th week on the charts, the charts looked like this:
1. ‘Pink Friday’ Nicki Minaj
2. ‘21’ Adele
3. ‘Loud’ Rihanna
4. ‘Sigh No More’ Mumford & Sons
5. ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ Kanye West
Billboard had no choice but to highlight how rare it was at the time for an album to climb a chart like hers did. Nicki had THEN dropped 2 albums by 2012, and Adele was STILL in the Top 5 along with Madonna.
When it comes to competition? Never fix your mouth to say Nicki didn’t have any.