Weekly Chart Notes: Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood
As her "Where Have You Been" bounds 11-9 on the Billboard Hot 100, Rihanna returns to a place where she has been 21 times before: the chart's top 10.
Where does her sum of 22 Hot 100 top 10s rank her historically?
In the chart's almost 54-year archives, Rihanna and Paul McCartney trail only 10 acts that have tallied more top 10s. (One of those acts includes McCartney: the Beatles place second with 34.)
Here is a look at the artists with the most Hot 100 top 10s:
38, Madonna34, the Beatles28, Michael Jackson28, Stevie Wonder27, Mariah Carey27, Janet Jackson27, Elton John25, Elvis Presley (whose career predates the Hot 100's Aug. 4, 1958, launch)23, Whitney Houston23, the Rolling Stones22, Paul McCartney
22, Rihanna20, Chicago20, the Supremes
RI-VIEW: Rihanna, who first entered the Hot 100's top 10 the week of July 16, 2005, with debut single "Pon De Replay," boasts the most top 10s of the 2010s, with 10 since the week of Jan. 2, 2010. Ke$ha, Lil Wayne, Bruno Mars and Nicki Minaj share second place with eight each in that span.
Should Rihanna continue to outpace all competitors through Dec. 31, 2019 (by which time Hot Hologram Artists will perhaps be a signature chart?), she'd earn the honor of most top 10s for the! '10s.
Which artists would she join for the most top Hot 100 10s by decade? Here's a recap:
Decade, Artist, Hot 100 Top 10 Total'50s (1958-59): Ricky Nelson, seven'60s (1960-69): the Beatles, 30'70s (1970-79): Elton John, 16'80s (1980-89): Michael Jackson, Madonna, 17 each'90s (1990-99): Mariah Carey, 19'00s (2000-09): Jay-Z, 14'10s (2010-to date): Rihanna, 10
HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE: Thanks to Rihanna, a piece of a classic country hit reaches the Hot 100's top 10 50 years after it first appeared on the chart.
"Where Have You Been" sports the line, "I've been everywhere, man," a nod, in its lyrics and melody, to Hank Snow's 1962 recording, "I've Been Everywhere." As Snow's song peaked at No. 68 on the Hot 100 the week of Nov. 17, 1962, the refrain of the Geoff Mack composition reaches the top 10 at last, a half-century later.
While it logged a modest peak on the Hot 100, Snow's version of "Everywhere" spent two weeks a t No. 1 on Country Songs in 1962.