Nicki Minaj has already firmly established her position in hip-hop history, but she has now added another accomplishment to her résumé: Minaj recently reached 200 million Instagram followers, making her the first rapper to do so.
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Rappers Cardi B (138 million followers), Drake (117 million), and Snoop Dogg are the next closest on the list (75 million). Minaj is currently the platform's 18th most popular account to follow.
On her Instagram Story, Minaj celebrated the milestone by posting a screenshot from the beginning of her account, when she only had one post and slightly more than 7,000 followers. "Most followed rapper on IG?," she wrote. What do I get, a price? between 7K and 200MM. Thank to everybody.
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Behind Selena Gomez (338 million fans, the fifth most popular user overall), Ariana Grande (324 million, #8), Beyoncé (270 million, #9), Justin Bieber (250 million, No. 12),
Taylor Swift (220 million, No. 15), and Jennifer Lopez Affleck (219 million, #16), Minaj is the seventh most popular singer. In addition, Minaj is the sixth most popular musician, the second most popular black artist (after Beyoncé), and the second most popular non-American artist (behind Justin Bieber; Minaj was born in Trinidad and Tobago).