Rihanna becomes the first artist in the 20-year history of Billboard’s Nielsen BDS-based Pop Songs radio airplay chart to tally 10 No. 1s, as “Stay,” featuring Mikky Ekko, rises 2-1.
Rihanna breaks a tie with Katy Perry, who’s notched nine No. 1s since her 2008 arrival; also impressively, Rihanna has rung up her No. 1 sum since just 2006, when “SOS,” her first leader, reached the summit. She’d last led with “We Found Love,” featuring Calvin Harris, for eight weeks, marking her longest command, in late 2011/early 2012.
The record for most No. 1s is the latest for Rihanna on Pop Songs. She previously established the marks for most entries (35) and top 10s (23) dating to the ranking’s Oct. 3, 1992, launch.
“Stay” also charges 11-7 on Adult Pop Songs, becoming her third top 10 on the list, and debuts at No. 30 on Adult Contemporary. (It’s reached No. 3 on the all-format airplay/sales/streaming-fueled Billboard Hot 100.)
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Rihanna Lands Most No.1s on RADIO SONGS CHART
Rihanna moved her tally of number one songs on Billboard Radio Songs charts to eleven to join Mariah Carey at the top of the list. She achieved this feat with "Stay" which is certainly making the rounds on the charts.
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RIHANNA WINS BIG AT BILLBOARD
Rihanna was one of the biggest winners of the night before the ceremony even started!
Rihanna sweeps the R&B categories at the Billboard Music Awards taking place in Las Vegas today (March 19). The singer won an award in all three R&B categories — Top R&B Artist, Top R&B Album (“Unapologetic”), Top R&B Song (“Diamonds”) — and separate to R&B, Top Radio Songs Artist.
The singer is tied for second most awards of the night with Gotye. She was nominated for 10 awards in total. She did not appear at the ceremony.(MAY 2013)
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6th Platinum for Rihanna
Rihanna scores her sixth million-selling album in the U.S. this week, as her latest release, “Unapologetic,” sails past the million mark, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
“Unapologetic,” released late last year, sold another 9,000 (down 17%) in the week ending May 26, bringing its to-date total to slightly more than 1 million. The set — her seventh studio album — also became her first No. 1 on the Billboard 200, following six earlier top 10 entries.
In reaching the threshold in its 27th chart week on the Billboard 200 (falling 33-39 this week), “Unapologetic” is selling at a faster clip than her previous album, 2011′s “Talk That Talk.” The latter took 43 frames to reach 1 million.
Of Rihanna’s seven studio releases, all but one have sold a million. Only her debut, 2005′s “Music of the Sun,” has missed the mark, moving 607,000 to date. Her biggest selling set is 2007′s “Good Girl Gone Bad,” with 2.8 million. Her total album sales stand at 9.8 million.
“Unapologetic” has tallied four hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart so far: “Diamonds” (No. 1 for three weeks), “Pour It Up” (19), “Loveeeeeee Song,” featuring Future (55) and “Stay,” featuring Mikky Ekko (3). Her next top 40-focused single is “Right Now” (featuring David Guetta), which is percolating under the threshold of the Pop Songs airplay chart.
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Rihanna leads with most 3-million sellers in the U.S.
Rihanna’s “Diamonds” tops the 3 million mark in digital sales in the United States this week. It’s Rihanna’s 11th 3 million-seller, which extends her lead as the artist with the most 3-million-sellers in digital history. “Diamonds” reaches the 3 million mark one week after Rihanna’s follow-up hit, “Stay” (featuring Mikky Ekko), hit the mark.
Here are Rihanna’s 11 3-million-sellers, in descending order of sales: Eminem’s “Love The Way You Lie” (5,892,000), “We Found Love” (featuring Calvin Harris, 5,013,000), “Disturbia” (4,593,000), T.I.’s “Live Your Life” (4,511,000), “Umbrella” (featuring Jay-Z, 4,236,000), “S&M” (3,543,000), “Don’t Stop The Music” (3,521,000), “Only Girl (In The World)” (3,459,000), “Run This Town” (co-equal billing with Jay-Z and Kanye West, 3,229,000), “Stay” (featuring Mikky Ekko, 3,092,000), “Diamonds” (3,004,000).
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“Stay” becomes Rihanna’s first Billboard Adult Contemporary Top 10 song
Rihanna’s career path to further crossover success reaches a notable milestone: with an 11-9 rise, “Stay,” featuring Mikky Ekko, marks her first top 10 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart. (Earlier this month, the ballad likewise became her highest-charting entry on Adult Pop Songs, having reached No. 2.) In contrast, last month “Stay” became Rihanna’s record-setting 10th No. 1 on Pop Songs, where she also holds the marks for most top 10s (23) and appearances (36). She first arrived on the latter list eight years ago with the No. 2 dancehall-ready “Pon De Replay,” but she didn’t grace AC until three years later, when “Take a Bow” nudged to a No. 21 peak.
The ultimate benefits that acts reap from adding AC success after scoring at pop? Reaching adult consumers, who are more affluent and, thus, more likely to buy albums than younger pop audiences. AC hits can also have much longer shelf lives – by years – than pop-only titles, so a song like “Stay” might become an AC staple in a way that only a handful of pop hits do on current-based pop radio. It may also open programmers’ thinking to her prior hits. Rihanna’s “Umbrella” was too young-leaning for AC in 2007, but it receives play at the format now, just like “Holiday” has become an AC standard for Madonna.
Essentially, “Stay” might be putting a song to the name Rihanna for adult listeners, who are likely familiar with her pop culture-wise but might not have been that familiar with her music. Now, she’s gaining that musical familiarity. (So, too, for that matter, are bands like fun., Mumford & Sons and Of Monsters and Men, as acts that start at rock likewise are only the right hit away from scaling the AC chart.)
So, while the run of “Stay” on Pop Songs (where it falls 7-10 in its in 19th week) is waning, the song’s AC rise may mean that its radio lifespan is only beginning.
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RIHANNA MAKES HISTORY IN FRANCE(June 9th, 2013)
Rihanna made history at the weekend as she became the youngest artist to headline at Stade de France in Paris in front of a sold-out 80,000 strong crowd.
The 25-year-old thanked her ‘fans of a lifetime’ as she continues her European leg of her Diamonds World Tour.
‘I couldn’t do this alone, I needed 80’000 people to join me!!! And you did, so thank you for being the fans of a lifetime, we’re the ones they’re gonna talk about decades from now!’ she boasted on her Instagram page accompanying the message with a snap of the packed crowd.
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RIHANNA MAKES HISTORY IN LONDON(June 15th, 2013)