Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown — Right By My Side

A mid-tempo R&B-pop collaboration from Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded era is broadly charting today across 131 country and platform charts. Written by Ester Dean alongside Minaj and produced by Pop & Oak, the track pairs Minaj's melodic register — closer to her Pink Friday ballad mode than her rap persona — with Chris Brown's radio-smooth chorus work, drawing comparisons at release to Jordin Sparks and Brown's "No Air." Vulture noted it at the time as evidence of Minaj's crossover pop ambitions, sitting stylistically beside her Rihanna collaboration "Fly." It arrived as the third single from an album that also produced the RIAA diamond-certified "Starships," making it a deep cut from one of the more commercially dominant pop-rap records of its era. The track has re-entered after a nine-day gap, suggesting a sustained rather than spike-driven presence.