After releasing three mixtapes between 2007 and 2009, Minaj signed a recording contract with Young Money Entertainment in 2009.

The following year, Minaj won another award for Best Female Video for her single "Starships".

She received her first Grammy nomination in 2011 in the category Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for the single "My Chick Bad" with fellow rapper Ludacris at the 53rd ceremony.

In 2024, Minaj's collaboration "Barbie World" with Ice Spice and Aqua for the film Barbie received two nominations at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Rap Song and Best Song Written For Visual Media.

[citation needed] Minaj won the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award in the 2022 MTV VMAs, becoming the second female rapper to do so, after Missy Elliott.

The BET Social Awards are an annual awards show, airing on BET, that celebrate the very best (and worst) of social media, including the biggest memes, most popular gifs, hashtags, and all the trends that claim your timeline.

Within the first half of a year, the general public casts their votes for the annual Billboard.com's Mid-Year Music Awards.

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is one of three United States performing rights organizations, along with ASCAP and SESAC.

It collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.

The Bravo Otto is a German accolade honoring excellence of performers in film, television and music.

The Capricho Awards was an annual awards with categories consisting of music, TV, cinema, Internet, among others and organized by the Brazilian teen magazine Capricho, with open voting on the official website of Editora Abril.

Ebony is a monthly magazine that focuses on news, culture, and entertainment; its target audience is the African–American community, and its coverage includes the lifestyles and accomplishments of influential black people, fashion, beauty, and politics.

The Global Awards are held by Global and reward music played on British radio stations including Capital, Capital XTRA, Heart, Classic FM, Smooth, Radio X, LBC and Gold, with the awards categories reflecting the songs, artists, programmes and news aired on each station.

The Heat Latin Music Awards is an annual awards show that airs on the HTV cable channel, which is usually held in early June, that honors the year's biggest Latin music acts, as voted by HTV viewers.

HipHopDX is an online magazine of hip hop music criticism and news.

The Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards were established in 1996 by Kanya King.

It is held annually in the United Kingdom to recognize artists of any race or nationality performing music of black origin.

In this event artists are awarded for their songs and videos through online voting from channel viewers.

The NET Honours debuted in 2013 as a special recognition award presented to deserving individuals in the Nigerian entertainment industry during the Nigerian Entertainment Conference Live (NEC Live) event, organised by Netng.

The NewNowNext-Awards is an American annual entertainment awards show, presented by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender-themed channel Logo.

Los Premios Juventud (Youth Awards) is an awards show for Spanish-speaking celebrities in the areas of film, music, sports, fashion, and pop culture, presented by the television network Univision.

Los Premios Lo Nuestro (Spanish for "Our Thing") is a Spanish-language awards show honoring the best of Latin music, presented by Univision, a Spanish-language television network based in the United States.

The Premios Tu Música Urbano is a music industry awards ceremony launched by Telemundo Puerto Rico in 2019 to recognize artists who "transcended and boosted the success of Latin urban music around the world" for the past year.

They were one of Britain's biggest and best publicised music awards, helped in no small part by the often boisterous behavior of the celebrities who attend the event.

The Shorty Awards, also known as the "Shortys", is an annual awards show recognizing the people and organizations that produce real-time short form content across Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Instagram and the rest of the social web.

The Source is an American hip hop and entertainment website, and a magazine that publishes annually or semiannually.

Award winners are decided by public voting, from a list of nominees presented by the event organizers.

They also honour awards for style, music artists, social networks and movie stars.

A Webby Award is an award for excellence on the Internet presented annually by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a judging body composed of over two thousand industry experts and technology innovators.

They give awards to the best artists or music videos based on votes from the general public.