Rihanna’s ‘We Found Love’ barreled into the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 last week and set a new record on the tally. However, despite continued growth, the track still fell short of toppling this week’s reigning champion, ‘Someone Like You’ by Adele.

‘We Found Love’ climbed from #9 to #7 on the Hot 100 with a 36% increase in airplay to 44 million audience impressions and 144K downloads sold. The track is the lead single from Rihanna’s upcoming ‘Talk That Talk’ album, which will debut on November 21st. The Pop star revealed the artwork of the LP yesterday.

Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’, on other hand, outpaced all contenders by ranking at #1 on the lineup for a 3rd week and has thus far sold over 2 million downloads. Meanwhile, her 4x platinum ’21′ album has moved another 112K units at retailers for a new total of 3.89 million.

Notably, a new record was set on the Billboard 200 this week that involved an unusually pairing of artists. Omarion’s title as the youngest male solo artist to enter at #1 on the chart with a debut album with ‘O’ in 2005 has been snatched by 18-year old ‘American Idol’ contestant Scotty McCreery whose ‘Clear as Day’ LP clocked the peak position with 197K copies sold.

See the leading Urban/Pop releases from the top 10 of both Billboard 200 and the Hot 100 below:

Billboard 200

2. Adele – ’21′ – 112K (total: 3.89 M)

3. Tony Bennett – ‘Duets II’ – 71K (total: 341K)

5. J. Cole – ‘Cole World: The Sideline Story’ – 54K (total: 272K)

6. Lil Wayne – ‘Tha Carter IV’ – 53K (total: 1.50 million)

Billboard Hot 100

1. Adele – ‘Someone Like You’

2. Maroon 5 – ‘Moves Like Jagger (Ft. Christina Aguilera)’

4. LMFAO – ‘Sexy & I Know It’

6. LMFAO - ’Party Rock Anthem (Ft. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock)’

7. Rihanna – ‘We Found Love (Ft. Calvin Harris)’

8. David Guetta – ‘Without You (Ft. Usher)’

10. Lady Gaga – ‘You & I’

Thoughts?