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, Madonna 34, the Beatles 28, Michael Jackson 28, Stevie Wonder27, Mariah Carey 27, 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, Rihanna 20, 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, ...