Now that Nicki Minaj has dropped three new hitย tracks, she has surpassed Aretha Franklin’s decades-long record for most Hot 100 songs of any female artist.
The Queen of Soul held the record for nearly 40 years with 73 chart-making songs.
Now Minaj has 76 Hot 100 entries, with the debut of three new songs that made Billboard’s Hot 100: “No Frauds,” with Drake and Lil Wayne (No. 14), “Regret in Your Tears” (No. 61) and “Changed It,” with Lil Wayne (No. 71).
Franklin first beat singer Connie Francis for the record in the summer of 1977 when she dropped her 54th Hot 100 song, “Break It to Me Gently.”