Nicki Minaj Album Release Date: Here's Everything We Know So Far

This is it, Barbz!

Nicki Minaj is due to release her highly-awaited sometime this year. In her recent Instagram Live, she revealed that the date for NM5, the currently untitled fifth Nicki Minaj album, already has its release date.

Since she released "Do We Have A Problem" with Lil Baby earlier this year, Barbz has been asking Minaj for a date or even more details about the sequel to "Queen."

At the time, in an interview with James Corden on the "Late Late Show," Nicki said that she would be releasing it in the summer of 2022. Fans were even surprised when she released three consecutive songs after "DWHAP."

She had her own single, "Bussin," "We Go Up" with Fivio Foreign," and "Blick Blick" with Coi Leray.

But the summer of 2022 has passed, and Nicki's album wasn't still at bay.

However, Nicki had been busy performing on different festivals - at Essence Festival, Wireless, and even on Rolling Loud New York as the headlining act.

During the third quarter of the year, Minaj even hyped up the release of her record-breaking single, "Super Freaky Girl."

The track debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts - marking the first No. 1 rap song to debut at the summit since Lauryn Hill's "Doo Wop (That Thing)" in 1998.

Nicki even went on to receive her Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, performing a career-spanning medley of her hits, including the debut of "Super Freaky Girl." Many believe that Nicki is about to return to her pop-rap era with the track's release, to many Barbz's excitement."

But in the past month, Nicki had been dropping some hints on when her album would come out.

Earlier this week, Nicki said in a statement to Interview Magazine that it is because of the overwhelmingly positive reception of "Super Freaky Girl" that prompted her to decide to release her new album this year.

Not more than a week later, she slipped up and revealed that she had already pinpointed the release date for the new Nicki Minaj album.

As of this writing, Nicki hasn't explicitly revealed what date it would be, but the coming weeks would be interesting as Rihanna, one of her closest friends, is poised to release her own too.