Nicki Minaj set to rock MTV VMA stage

MTV has announced that Grammy
Award-nominated superstar Nicki
Minaj will take the 2014 MTV Video
Music Awards stage for what is sure to be one of
the night's most talked-about performances. The
multiplatinum hip-hop titan will perform her alluring
and pounding new hit single, Anaconda, for the first
time, from her highly anticipated album The
PinkPrint, due out later this year.
The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards is presented by
MTV in association with Sprite and powered by
MTN . Taking place at the Forum, Inglewood,
California on Sunday, 24 August 2014, the show
premieres live on MTV on Monday, 25 August 2014
at 03:00 CAT, with the primetime premiere on
Monday, 25 August 2014 at 21:00 CAT (red carpet
show at 20:00 CAT).
"The VMAs is a pretty big deal so people go all out
for it," said Nicki Minaj. "I am very, very excited and
looking forward to the performance."
Nicki Minaj is no stranger to the VMA stage, with
past performances on the 2010 MTV Video Music
Awards pre-show performing her first number one
single, Your Love, and in 2012, she joined Alicia
Keys on the main stage for a fiery performance of
Girl on Fire. Additionally, Minaj earned a VMA
Moonman trophy in 2011 for Best Hip-Hop Video for
Super Bass and in 2012 for Best Female Video with
Starships.
Her debut studio album, Pink Friday, achieved
record-breaking numbers in 2010, by becoming
certified Platinum only a month after its release due
to the Top 40 hits, Your Love, Moment 4 Life feat.
Drake, Check it Out, Right Thru Me , and Super Bass
which was RIAA-certified 8x Platinum. Nicki Minaj
debuted at the top of the charts once again with her
second studio album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
behind the hit singles of Beez In The Trap feat. 2
Chainz , Pound The Alarm, Va Va Voom, and the
RIAA-certified 4x Platinum and Top 5 single,
Starships. The album became one of the best selling
albums of 2012 according to Nielsen Soundscan . At
the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, Minaj led all rap
artists with seven nominations and scored three
wins including Top Rap Artist, Top Rap Album, and
Top Streaming Artist. In addition, Nicki has won four
American Music Awards, an MTV EMA and two
additional Billboard Music Awards.
Nicki Minaj is currently the most charted female
rapper in the history of music including the most
digital sales for a female emcee, and ranks in the
Top 6 of all female artists with the most Hot 100
Billboard entries (51) due to recent hits like Love
More with Chris Brown, Bang, Bang with Jessie J
and Ariana Grande and her own critically acclaimed
first single from The PinkPrint, Pills N Potions.
With two number one albums with worldwide sales
exceeding 5 million, over 50 million in digital sales
as a solo and featured artist, she and Adele are the
only two artists to ever sell 1 million copies of five
different songs in one year. The Young Money/Cash
Money Records superstar recently expanded her
talents onto the big screen with her movie debut in
the 20th Century Fox comedy, The Other Woman ,
opposite Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann.
Nicki Minaj joins previously announced performers
Beyoncé, Usher, Rita Ora, Iggy Azalea, Maroon 5
and 5 Seconds of Summer at the 2014 VMAs for
what promises to be an electrifying live event and
TV experience.