Cardi B's Award-Winning Debut Album Just Broke Another Record

The "B" in Cardi B's name might not directly stand for anything since her name's a play on the popular Bacardi rum brand, nevertheless, if it did, it should be for "Break Records." The Grammy-award winning rapper's debut studio album Invasion Of Privacy that dropped in 2018 has become the longest-charting debut album by a women rapper in the past of the Billboard Hot 200. Before her, it was Lauryn Hill's 1998 debut studio album, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill.


This is just the latest of so several record-breaking and accolade-accruing moments for Cardi B's debut LP. It's been certified triple platinum and she became the initial female artist to have every track from an album to be at least certified gold. In April 2018, Apple Music revealed that the album had over a hundred million streams in a week, setting a new record for female artists. She won the Grammy award for Best Rap Album for her debut and became the initial solo woman to win in history. To outline almost every thing that this LP has won would take hours, days. Perhaps the "B" in Cardi B stands for "brilliant."


It's been nearly two years since the album has come out and Cardi hasn't taken much time off. She's released "Money," "Please Me" with Bruno Mars, and "Press," since, appeared as a visitor on a ton of songs, and is hard at work finishing up her sophomore album. In December, she revealed in an interview with Vogue that she's curious as to how fans will take her new music. "I wonder if folks are gonna relate to the new things, to the new life, to the new shit that I gotta talk about right now she mentioned. "Music is changing."