Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have made chart history this weekend with their track WAP.
The US rappers have landed at #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart with the collaboration, giving lead artist Cardi B her first-ever Australian #1 single.
WAP has also broken a 28 year record too - becoming the first female-led hip hop song to hit #1 on the chart since Salt-N-Pepa's January 1992 hit Let's Talk About Sex.
Prior to this, Dimple D's Sucker DJ had been the only female-led #1 hip hop single on the chart when it made history in March 1991.
Additionally, this is the first-ever female hip hop collaboration to earn the top spot on the chart.
In the weeks since its release, WAP has claimed a slew of records including "the highest streaming first week by a female artist, the highest streaming first week of 2020, and one of the top three hip-hop streaming debuts of all time" in the US, where it hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The track was also the highest ever debut by a female artist and the fastest song by a female artist to peak at #1on Apple Music. This also means that Cardi B now has the most #1s on the Apple Music chart by any female artist.
The success follows over at Spotify too, where she is the first female rapper to have two #1 songs on the Global Spotify chart.
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