On the Billboard Hot 100 this week, Stay falls from #3 to #4 although it tops Radio Songs for a second consecutive week. It also falls on Digital Songs, from #4 to #5 with 140,000 copies sold (2,650,000 total). It jumps from #6 to #5 on Adult Pop Songs.

Pour It Up falls from #42 to #44 on the Hot 100. It is #59, down 5 spots, on Digital Songs selling 32,000 copies (Total: 1,031,000). It tops the 1 million sales this week and becomes Platinum.

Unapologetic climbs two spots on the Billboard 200, from #22 to #20 selling a bit less than 15,000 copies (973,000 total).

On the Billboard Hot 100, “Stay” jumps from #6 to its original peak #3. It also climbs from #7 to #6 on Adult Pop Songs. However, it falls one spot on Digital Songs, from #3 to #4 with 162,000 copies sold (Total: 2,510,000). It becomes Rihanna’s 11th #1 on Radio Songs, as it rises 2-1. Rihanna is now tied with Mariah Carey for the most #1s. Take a look at Rihanna’s 11 #1 singles on Radio Songs:

“Umbrella” feat. Jay-Z (4 weeks at #1)
“Take A Bow” (6)
“Live Your Life” [T.I. feat. Rihanna] (8)
“Rude Boy” (6)
“Love The Way You Lie” [Eminem feat. Rihanna] (8)
“Only Girl (In The World)” (3)
“What’s My Name?” feat. Drake (7)
“S&M” (3)
“We Found Love” feat. Calvin Harris (12)
“Diamonds” (3)
“Stay” (1 to date)

“Pour It Up” falls from #37 to #42 and “Loveeeeeee Song” from #69 to #73 on the Hot 100. “Pour It Up” sold 36,000 copies, placing it at #54 on Digital Songs. Its total now is 999,000 and will be certified “Platinum” next week!

“Unapologetic” climbs from #25 to #22 on Billboard 200, selling 15,000 copies bringing its total to 959,000.

Rihanna’s “Stay,” featuring Mikky Ekko, ascends 6-3 on the Hot 100 and returns to it’s peak position on the chart. Thanks to the 4% of all format radio impressions (134 million) and the increased digital sales. The song rises to no.1 on the Radio Songs chart, being her 11th no.1 and tying her to Mariah Carey for the most.

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Stay falls from #4 to #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week. However it climbs from #4 to #3 on Digital Songs with 162,000 downloads (Total: 2,348,000). It also jumps from #11 to #7 on Adult Pop Songs, becoming her third top 10 and debuts at #30 on Adult Contemporary. Stay also becomes Rihanna’s 1oth #1 on Pop Songs, as it rises 2-1. Rihanna is the first artist to reach 10 #1s on Pop Songs. She also holds the record for the most entries (35) and the most Top 10s (23).  Also, Stay is the second piano-and-vocal-only song to reach #1 on the list, after Bruno Mars’ When I Was Your Man, which she dethrones after 3 weeks at #1.
Take a look at her 10 #1s on Pop Songs:

SOS (one week at No. 1)
Take a Bow (three)
Disturbia (three)
Live Your Life (two)
Rude Boy (two)
Love the Way You Lie” (two)
Only Girl (In the World) (three)
S&M (one)
We Found Love (eight)
Stay (one to date)

Pour It Up climbs from #38 to #37 on the Hot 100 and sold 37,000 copies placing it at #52 on Digital Songs (Total: 963,000). Loveeeeeee Song falls from #64 to #69 and is at #115 on Digital Songs selling 16,000 copies bringing its total to 450,000.

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.)

Also notably, “Stay” is only the second piano-and-vocal-only No. 1 of the 259 songs to have ruled Pop Songs. The first? The song that “Stay” dethrones after three weeks at the summit, Bruno Mars’ “When I Was Your Man.”

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According to MediaTraffic, Rihanna is the 9th most successful artist of all times (singles only). In fact, she has 10 #1 singles on the Global Track Chart, tying her with the Beatles and Britney Spears for the 5th most #1s. Her singles spent a total of 55 weeks at #1, placing her at #4 for the most weeks at #1. And finally she is at #10 for the most tracks in the Top 1o with 21.
Congrats Rihanna!

Stay rises from #6 to #4 on the Hot 100, from #5 to #2 on Pop Songs and from #5 to #3 on Radio Songs. It stays at #5 on Digital Songs selling 207,000 copies (Total: 2,009,000). It is now certified 2x Platinum in the US and becomes Rihanna’s 17th Multi-Platinum song. It is #2 on the Canadian Hot 100.

Pour It Up however falls on the Hot 100 from #20 to #30 and on Digital Songs from #20 to #39 selling 53,000 (Total: 884,000).

Unapologetic falls 3 places on the Billboard 200, from #17 to #20 (19,000 | 907,000 total).

The music industry today celebrates a major milestone in its digital evolution, with the total number of digital singles sold in the UK hitting one billion – according to data tracked by the Official Charts Company.

Adele’s Someone Like You was also confirmed as the most downloaded single of all time by the Official Charts Company, followed closely by Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5 FT Christina Aguilera, and Gotye FT Kimbra’s Somebody That I Used To Know.

However, the highlight on this list is the repeated appearances by Rihanna. She lands 3 singles with over 1 million downloads, making it the most for any artist.

‘We Found Love’ landed straight at no.5 selling 1.27 million copies and with a chart peak of #1. ‘Love The Way You Lie’ is on no.11 with 1.12 million sales while ‘Only Girl (In The World)’ sold 1.07 copies and lands at no.14

Congratulations Rihanna!

Thanks to its discount to £5.99 on UK iTunes, Unapologetic jumps 14 spots on UK Albums Chart, from #24 to #10. It is now certified certified 2x Platinum with sales of over 600,000 copies. Congrats Rih!

Stay falls from #23 to #27 and Diamonds from #35 to #41.

Stay falls from #5 to #6 on the Hot 100 this week. It also falls on Digital Songs, from #3 to #5 selling 229,000 copies (up 3%) bringing its total to 1,802,000. 2x Platinum next week! However it jumps from #6 to #5 on Radio Songs and from #7 to #5 on Pop Songs.

Pour It Up falls to #20 on the Hot 100, down from it’s peak #19 last week. It sold 78,000 copies placing it at #20 on Digital Songs, down from #17 last week (Total: 831,000).

Diamonds sold 25,000 copies placing it at #86 on Digital Songs (Total: 2,855,000).

Loveeeeeee Song falls to #59 on the Hot 100, down 1 spot. It is #102 on Digital Songs this week, down 22 spots, selling 23,000 copies (Total: 396,000).

Unapologetic falls 7 spots to #17 on the Billboard 200 selling 28,000 (888,000 total).