Starships really were meant to fly, and Nicki Minaj has successfully piloted her very own craft past a huge sales milestone.
The Trinidad and Tobago-born rapper's hit single Starships didn't take too many light years to reach the million-sellers' club, safely docking four years after its original release, OfficialCharts.com can reveal.
The track, which was then Nicki's highest chart peak back in 2012, was produced by RedOne and was one of her first forays into pop, switching out her more usual hip-hop beats and heading straight to the dance floor with a banging chorus.
Starships becomes only the 166th song to have sold over one million (not including streams) in UK chart history.
The track climbed steadily upon entering at Number 16, before hitting a wall and peaking at Number 2, held off the top spot by Gotye and Kimbra's Somebody I Used To Know which, coincidentally, is also a million-seller.
I didn't think it was that big :
