Picture Credit score: Akein O. Brown / CC by 3.0Ice Spice continues to go away her mark as her latest “Karma” collaboration with Taylor Swift earns her the most important streaming debut for a feminine rapper in Spotify historical past.
Ice Spice’s “Karma” collaboration with Taylor Swift, launched on Friday as a bonus observe on Swift’s deluxe album, Midnights (The Til Daybreak Version), earned over 5 million streams on the platform on its first day. That quantity launched “Karma” to No. 5 on the worldwide Spotify chart, incomes Ice Spice the most important streaming day of her younger profession on Spotify — accounting for practically half her 10.5 million performs that day.
Based on Chart Data, this can be a new file, breaking Nicki Minaj’s earlier file for the most important streaming debut for a feminine hip-hop artist on Spotify together with her “Tremendous Freaky Woman,” which opened with greater than three million streams following its August 2022 launch.
That mentioned, Nicki Minaj has been considered one of Ice Spice’s largest celeb champions — and time will inform if her aggressive nature will get the higher of her. In March, she additional boosted Ice Spice’s rapidly-rising profession by anointing her the “princess” of hip-hop and becoming a member of the remix of her observe “Princess Diana.”
That track additional boosted Nicki’s personal highly-lucrative profession, changing into her 14th No. 1 hit on Billboard’s Digital Music Gross sales chart — surpassing a file beforehand held by Drake.
“Karma” additional propels Ice Spice’s rise to stardom as she joined Taylor Swift to carry out the track on stage as a shock visitor throughout Swift’s Eras Tour present on the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
And now, there’s already a music video of the collaboration — that includes Swift because the scales of justice and sitting in an hourglass, whereas Ice Spice sits in a seashell like Aphrodite, holding a pearl. The 2 even lasso the moon and planet Jupiter.