Latin America and Caribbean
The Trinidadian-Born American Hip-Hop and R&B recording artist Nicki Minaj became extremely popular during the early 2010s. Minaj's debut studio album Pink Friday (2010) peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 a month after its release, selling 375,000 copies in its first week. This marked the second-highest sales week for a female Hip-Hop recording artist, behind Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill in 1998 (which sold 422,624 copies in its first week). She became the first female solo artist to have seven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time. Her seventh single, "Super Bass" has been certified quadruple-platinum by the RIAA, and has sold more than four million copies, becoming one of the best-selling singles in the United States. Minaj's second studio album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (2012), topped charts internationally, also spawning the top 10 singles "Starships" and "Pound the Alarm". The album became one of the best-selling albums of 2012, according to Nielsen SoundScan, selling one million copies worldwide, as well as "Starships" becoming one of the best-selling singles of that year. She is the first female artist included on MTV's Annual Hottest MC List, with The New York Times suggesting that some consider her "the most influential female rapper of all time."
In Latin America, pop music, pop rock, El Pasito Duranguense, and tropical music are still popular through the early parts of the decade. A new type of music emerged from the reggaeton, the new electro music, and it is breaking mainstream in late 2010 in Latin America, a new dance from reggaeton hooks with electronic sounds, because of the popularity of electronic/dance music in the prominent markets of the world. Pitbull is the principal representative of this genre.
Read more about this topic: 2010s In Music
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