This calendar week Rihanna's a bad miss gone good.
Her new single "Disturbia" hardly gave the singer a third No. 1 hit from Good Girl Gone Bad and ended Katy Perry's seven-week chart-topping stripe for "I Kissed a Girl."
Perry was the first female artist to hold the top spot for seven straight weeks since, ironically, Rihanna did it last summer with "Umbrella."
Rihanna's latest single made the two-spot jump to No. 1 subsequently selling a week-best 148,000 digital downloads. Impressively, her previous chart-topper "Take a Bow" remains atop the Hot 100 Airplay chart, making this one of the rare times in which an creative person simultaneously dominates the regular Hot hundred and the Hot hundred Airplay chart with different songs.
Good Girl Gone Bad originally scored just unitary chart-topper with "Umbrella," just Rihanna released a Reloaded version lowest June that contained the new hits "Take a Bow" and "Disturbia." As happens with bonus tracks on deluxe editions, fans often buy the individual tracks alternatively of the new version and this helps drive an artist's digital track sales.
Overall, Rihanna has scored four No. 1 hits, originally with "SOS" in 2006. This ties her with Beyonc� and Mariah Carey for the decade's most chart-toppers by a female artist.
Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" ultimately fell two floater to No. 3, with Chris Brown's "Forever" guardianship at lock at No. 2. M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" claimed the No. 5 spot, a career c. H. Best, thanks to an 11-spot jump. The song took flight thanks to digital sales following its use in the Pineapple Express trailer.
Yet once more, the Jonas Brothers had the week's biggest bow. Their title track exclusive "A Little Bit Longer" sold 131,000 downloads last week to enter the Hot 100 at No. 11 and the Digital Tracks chart at No. 2 behind Rihanna.
Equally impressive, the Brothers proceed to rewrite the record books. A few weeks back, they became the first group to land three Hot Digital Songs debuts on more than six-figure gross sales each. "A Little Bit Longer" and last week's "Tonight" (131,000 copies) have since extended that record to five songs.
Helping to make this the summer of Jonas, their new album A Little Bit Longer, released on Tuesday, is a surefire lock for No. 1 on next week's Billboard 200.
Overall, Perry wasn't the only artist to understand a chart-topping streak cut short. Keyshia Cole exhausted the last nine weeks atop the R&B/Hip-Hop chart with "Heaven Sent" ahead Lil Wayne's "A Milli" dethroned it this calendar week. Likewise, Disturbed's "Inside the Fire" was on a historic 14-week run at Mainstream Rock that Shinedown shut dispirited with "Devour."
The Hot Country Songs chart continues to be comparatively fluid, however, with Taylor Swift landing her second No. 1 with "Should've Said No." The young country darling River previous topped the area charts with "Our Song."
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