Cardi B

It’s Cardi’s party! The former stripper catapulted into the spotlight with her rap “Bodak Yellow” in 2017, which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts that summer. Her first studio album, Invasion of Privacy, debuted in the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart the following year, and she would become the first woman to have five singles in the top 10 simultaneously on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop charts, per her website.

Cardi made music history again at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in 2019, as the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album as a solo artist – a record she still holds today.

“Bodak Yellow” would also go on to earn the RIAA diamond certification (10x platinum), making her the first female rapper to achieve the feat.

Continuing to slay in 2020, Cardi became the first female rapper with the most songs with a billion Spotify streams, for “I Like It” and “Girls Like You” with Maroon 5, per Forbes.

The mother of two and Billboard‘s 2020 Woman of the Year has also collaborated with other women making names for themselves in music, including Megan Thee Stallion and Normani, and has continued to be an entrepreneur and savvy businesswoman.