Great bass
| Great bass | |
|---|---|
| Nicki Minaj | |
| publication | April 5, 2011 |
| length | 3:20 |
| Genre (s) | Hip-Hop , Contemporary R&B |
| Author (s) | O. Maraj , Ester Dean , Wycliffe Johnson |
| album | Pink Friday |
Super Bass is a song by rapper Nicki Minaj from her debut album Pink Friday . It comes from the deluxe edition of the work and was written by Minaj together with Daniel Johnson and Ester Dean . US stars such as Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez covered the song. The song hit the charts in the United States and the United Kingdom in no time. In Germany, Minaj had her first hit with Where Them Girls At together with David Guetta and Flo Rida . Minaj first introduced the song at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards .
Music video
Super Bass is another video release from Minaj's debut album Pink Friday . The video was shot in March 2011, but the premiere wasn't until May 5, 2011. The director was Sanaa Hamri.
In the song, Minaj tells the story of a boy whom she has cast an eye on and whose attention she tries to get in a playful way. She describes how she flirts with her dream man in a club.
The video starts with a close-up of Minaj. She opens her eyes and begins to blink as the music starts. Minaj initially appears in Barbie style with a bizarre facial expression, but later smiles a lot and looks more delicate than you are used to from her. At the beginning of the video she wears a pink wig, which is later replaced by a green one. A pink Ferrari, a pink plane and a pink pool can be seen. In general, pink is the dominant color of the video. In addition to identically dressed background dancers , four huge loudspeakers made of blocks of ice stand out in the background. Minaj flirts with some muscular colored men and rides an ice motorcycle in a skin-tight pink body suit. Her pink lips, hair and make-up glow in the black light towards the end of the video while she strokes her partner's lap in dancing movements. This glow-in-the-dark scene is the climax of the video, which is not only sharply separated from the preceding scenes in terms of color, but also musically. The final scene shows Minaj slightly biting her own index finger.
reception
In the week ending May 14, 2011, Super Bass debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at number 98. The following week, the song rose fifty positions to number 48. In its fourteenth week, the song reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became the most successful song of her career so far. By the end of June 2011, the song had sold over 2,000,000 copies in the United States. This makes Super Bass the first song by a rapper that has sold over 2 million times. In the United States, the song is also the most successful by a female rapper since Missy Elliott's Work It (No. 2) in 2002 and the fifth rap song by a female rapper to make it into the American top five. On June 19, Super Bass entered the UK singles chart at number 46 and reached number 10 on July 31, 2011. The song spent six weeks in the UK's top 20 and eventually became her first top ten hit as a solo artist her greatest success in the UK.
Chart placements
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Chart placements | ||
 Austria (Ö3)
|
42 (6 weeks) | 6th |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
|
58 (3 weeks) | 3 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
|
8th (49 weeks) | 49 |
 United States (Billboard)
|
3 (39 weeks) | 39 |
Awards for music sales
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
||
 Australia (ARIA)
|
 6 × platinum
|
420,000 |
 New Zealand (RMNZ)
|
platinum
|
15,000 |
 Norway (IFPI)
|
2 × platinum
|
20,000 |
|
United States (RIAA)
|
8 × platinum
|
5,000,000 |
|
United Kingdom (BPI)
|
platinum
|
600,000 |
| All in all |
18 × platinum |
6,055,000 |
Main article: Nicki Minaj / Music Sales Awards
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Top 100 Music Hits, Top 100 Music Charts, Top 100 Songs & The Hot 100 . In: Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved May 7, 2011.
- ↑ Top 100 Music Hits, Top 100 Music Charts, Top 100 Songs & The Hot 100 . In: Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
- ^ Digital Songs (May 21, 2011) . In: Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
- ↑ Rap Songs (May 21, 2011) . In: Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
- ↑ http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/74380/week-ending-june-26-2011-songs-a-twist-at-the-voice/
- ↑ http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/74398/week-ending-aug-7-2011-songs-place-your-bets/;_ylt=AroHI7aCVaPocngs0et85JYPwiUv
- ↑ http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/74398/week-ending-aug-7-2011-songs-place-your-bets/;_ylt=AroHI7aCVaPocngs0et85JYPwiUv
- ↑ Nicki Minaj in the UK charts
- ↑ NICKI MINAJ - SUPER BASS (SONG). Hung Medien, accessed October 9, 2014 .
- ↑ NICKI MINAJ - SUPER BASS. Hung Medien, accessed October 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Super Bass Search Results Official Charts Company. Official Charts Company UK, accessed November 15, 2016 .
- ^ Nicki Minaj Chart History. Billboard , accessed October 9, 2014 .
- ^ Gary Trust: Ask Billboard: Why Is There No R & B / Hip-Hop in the Hot 100's Top 10? In: Billboard . December 23, 2014, accessed August 24, 2015 .