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US Charts: Rihanna Tops Whitney Houston & Christina Aguilera Flops
Written by Trent | Filed under Bruno Mars,Charts,Christina Aguilera,Flo Rida,Ke$ha,Ne-Yo,Rihanna,The Weeknd,Whitney Houston
The single cover of Rihanna’s new song, ‘Diamonds’.
The US charts have been announced and they entail more excitement than Mary J. Blige’s Burger King commercial. From Rihanna’s crowning moment on the Billboard Hot 100 to Christina Aguilera’s ‘Lotus’ wilting on the Billboard 200, the lineups will surely leave you at a loss for words.
Rihanna earned her twelfth #1 single on the Hot 100 this week as ‘Diamonds’ ascended to the top of the chart. This feat bumped the Bajan ahead of Whitney Houston in the history books among artists with the most ruling titles. The latter diva scored 11 such hits throughout her career.
Now tied with Madonna and The Supremes, Rihanna’s 12 #1 songs place her in fourth position among acts with the most chart-toppers on the Hot 100. Only The Beatles (20), Mariah Carey (18) and Michael Jackson (13) have more #1 hits. Interestingly, Rihanna only co-wrote 1 of those twelve tracks (‘Rude Boy’) whereas Carey, who has more #1 songs than any solo artist in Hot 100 history, wrote 17 of her 18 winners.
Rihanna’s new album, ‘Unapologetic’, is on track to debut at the top of the Billboard 200 next week. The LP, which I so graciously reviewed for your reading pleasure and you can enjoy it by simply clicking here, will be her first #1 set on the listing since she launched her career in 2005.
Meanwhile, Aguilera’s ‘Lotus’ album didn’t shine bright like a diamond. Instead, the record was received like a dull lump of coal on Christmas morning and was quickly discarded by Americans, who preferred to spend their money records with far less noise.
‘Lotus’ entered the Billboard 200 at #7 this week with only 73K copies sold. In case you didn’t notice, those are the worst opening sales of Aguilera’s career to date and are even lower than those of ‘Bionic’, which debuted with 110K units in 2010. There is no word regarding how the loud singer will justify this latest commercial disaster.
See the other leading releases in the top 10 of both Billboard 200 and the Hot 100 below:
1. One Direction – ‘Take Me Home’ – 540K (debut)
2. Taylor Swift – ‘Red’ – 145K (total: 1.89 M)
3. Various Artists – ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2′ – 93K (debut)
4. The Weeknd - ‘Trilogy’ – 86K (debut)
5. Soundgarden - ‘King Animal’ – 83K (debut)
6. Rod Stewart - ‘Merry Christmas, Baby’ – 80K (total: 242K)
7. Christina Aguilera – ‘Lotus’ – 73K (debut)
8. Various Artists – ‘Now 44′ – 70K (total: 169K)
9. Green Day - ‘Dos!’ – 69K (debut)
10. Lana Del Rey - ‘Paradise’ – 67K (debut)
1. Rihanna – ‘Diamonds’
2. Maroon 5 – ‘One More Night’
3. Ke$ha – ‘Die Young’
4. Bruno Mars – ‘Locked Out of Heaven’
5. fun. – ‘Some Nights’
6. Ne-Yo – ‘Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself)’
7. PSY – ‘Gangnam Style’
8. Lumineers - ‘Ho Hey’
9. Taylor Swift – ‘We Are Never Getting Back Together’
10. Flo Rida – ‘I Cry’
Watch the video for Rihanna’s ‘Diamonds’ below:
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Thank you for all of this info! NO OTHER BLOG gives us all of this!
Why do ppl keep forgetting Elvis has 17 number ones???
Because most we before the launch of the Hot 100
the queen. unapologetic has at least 2 more #1s waiting to happen. she gonna knock mariah out the lead by her next album
Pfffft delusional.
how is that delusional though, i dont see any thing wrong with riri topping mc’s record. Hell, rihanna could have a 100 number 1′s and that wont make her better than any of these iconic acts like whitney, beatles,mj, mariah etc
You may not like it, but it’s doable. I predict Rihanna will topple Mariah in the next 3 to 4 albums if she steadily pumps out 1-2 #1 hits per album, as she has consistently done. She may even overtake The Beatles if she can keep the coke out of her nose, but who knows how that will go…
chubtina aguilessor also debuted at #28 onn the uk charts with 9,422.. wayment, looks like no one is here for floptus.
or maybe the world is just over floptina in general. welp
Congratulations to Rihanna and good luck to Xtina.
Don’t forget that Mariah has another album coming out soon so Rihanna may have a tougher time beating Mariah if Mariah plays her cards right with this next album
she will NEVER *snap snap* beat the queen!
Mariah, she’s coming for yours loooool
Yep Mariah get more number ones, your the best. You deserve them.
Those numbers for Christina are not great, but they are atleast decent, for someone whose song really hasn’t been huge, and she has had little to any promo.
So Kelly Rowland’s Here I Am outsold Lotus by 5,000 copies and y’all went in on how that was a “flop”.
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