Adele ’21′ was crowned as Billboard’s Top Album of 2011 so it was no surprise that the record also notched top honors in her UK home territory. However, the British Soul singer had to share space in the top 10 of the UK Year-End charts with a range of foreign in artists in what could [...]
Just when it seemed that Adele’s ’21′ had lost momentum on the Billboard 200, the record exhibited a massive surge in popularity and achieved a new sales peak during the Christmas sales rush. However, while Adele’s ’21′ was successful on the basis of quality material, people had to be convinced to purchase Rihanna’s ‘Talk That [...]
Last week, Rihanna matched the 7-week #1 run of her monster hit ‘Umbrella’ with her latest chart-topper, ‘We Found Love’. However, the latter tune has surpassed its predecessor to give the vixen her long-running #1 song on the lineup as well as the longest residency at the summit of any song in 2011.
Rihanna has landed a stunning 11 #1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 throughout her career but few of them have held the top slot for more than 3 weeks. However, thanks to the continuous gains in airplay of her latest hit, ‘We Found Love’, the colourful vixen has finally matched the success of her longest-running [...]
Rihanna’s ‘We Found Love’ has clocked a 6th week atop the Billboard Hot 100 and increased her cumulative career total time at the top to 40 weeks yet it was her mentor who achieved a historic feat on the tally. Jay-Z has achieved his 18th top 10 single on the lineup – the most for [...]
Rihanna’s reign atop the UK Albums Chart was shorter than her vocal runs. In fact, after achieving a historic debut at #1 on the tally last week, the Barbadian as already been ousted from the chart’s summit.
Rihanna became the first female artist in history to score 6 #1 singles on the Official UK Singles Chart earlier this year and now that her ‘Talk That Talk’ album has been released, she has nabbed yet another spot in the history books. In fact, the Pop star has positioned herself in a class with [...]
Bruno Mars delivered a powerful performance of his ‘It Will Rain’ single on ‘The X Factor (US)’ last evening. With an almost pitch-perfect rendition of the tune, the singer/songwriter brought the drama of ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part 1)’ film, for which he composed the tune, to the stage.
The 18th episode of ‘The X Factor (US)’ aired yesterday! In this live installment of the series, two contestants were sent home – the act with the lowest number of votes and another by judges Simon Cowell, LA Reid, Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger.
Sales indicators that projected that Drake’s ‘Take Care’ would enter the Billboard 200 at #1 within the range of 625K to 725K copies have proven to be quite accurate. In fact, the record has debuted with sales exceeding 631K units.