įollowing the success of Minaj's debut studio album, Pink Friday (2010), Cash Money CEO, Brian 'Birdman' Williams announced to Billboard that Minaj was aiming for a first quarter release in 2012. Minaj describing the impact she expected the then-forthcoming album to have on the music industry. It's gonna be crazy, it's gonna be important for hip-hop and pop culture. Its singles 'The Boys', 'Freedom', and 'High School' experienced moderate success on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hip Songs component chart. It contained an additional disc with seven newly recorded tracks and an exclusive behind-the-scenes DVD to supplement the standard version of the original album. On November 19, 2012, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded was reissued as an expanded version subtitled The Re-Up. The album was additionally promoted through the Pink Friday Tour and the Pink Friday: Reloaded Tour, which visited North America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania throughout May and December 2012. 'Pound the Alarm' and 'Va Va Voom' peaked at numbers fifteen and twenty-two on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. Follow-up singles 'Right by My Side' and 'Beez in the Trap' experienced moderate success on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs component chart. Its lead single 'Starships' peaked at number five on the US BillboardHot 100. The album was promoted with five singles. Internationally, the album peaked at number one in Canada and the United Kingdom, and reached the top five in Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. The album was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined album sales, track sales, on-demand audio and video streams equivalent of two million album-sale units. In doing so, it became Minaj's second number-one album in the country, and was additionally her first to debut in the peak position. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 selling 253,000 copies in its first week.
Upon its release, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded received generally mixed reviews from music critics, who were ambivalent towards its production. As its executive producer, Minaj enlisted a variety of collaborators. Stylistically, the album is divided by a first half of hip hop tracks and a second half of dance-pop songs. Looking to transition from her debut studio album, Pink Friday (2010), Minaj wanted to make a follow-up record about 'just having fun'. It was released on April 2, 2012, by Young Money, Cash Money and Universal Republic. Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded is the second studio album by Trinidadian-born American rapper Nicki Minaj.