Nicki Minaj announces first new album in five years

The Pound the Alarm singer revealed her album would be released on 20 October via a Twitter post on Monday. The new album would mark the Starships rapper's fifth LP, coming five years after the release of 2018's Queen, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The announcement of Nicki's forthcoming album followed a hint via Instagram last month that she would headline a tour. The rapper captioned an Instagram video scored by her collaborative single with Drake and Lil Wayne, Seeing Green: