Rihanna f/ Jay-Z - "Umbrella"

[I HATE LA REID]

#2 at the Hot-100-airplay chart that's my girl!

[Dance In The Dark]

WooHooo!

[tozion]

'UMBRELLA' REIGNS: When Rihanna leapt 34-1 with "SOS" in May 2006, it was the second-biggest move to No. 1 in the history of The Billboard Hot 100. This week, the Barbadian-born singer takes an even bigger jump to the top, as her "Umbrella" (SRP/Def Jam) flies 41-1. This time, that's only good enough to be the third biggest charge to pole position in the 49-year existence of the Hot 100.

Still, Rihanna owns two of the five biggest moves to No. 1. Justin Timberlake briefly held that same record, but one of his debuts has been pushed out of the top five. Here are the biggest jumps to No. 1 in Hot 100 history,
including all songs that have advanced to No. 1 from below the top 30:

64-1 "Makes Me Wonder," Maroon 5 (May 12, 2007)
52-1 "A Moment Like This," Kelly Clarkson (Oct. 5, 2002)
42-1 "Give It to Me," Timbaland featuring Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake (April 21, 2007)
41-1 "Umbrella," Rihanna featuring Jay-Z (June 9, 2007)
34-1 "SOS," Rihanna (May 13, 2006)

32-1 "This Is Why I'm Hot," Mims (March 10, 2007)
31-1 "SexyBack," Justin Timberlake (Sept. 9, 2006)

"Umbrella" is the second No. 1 for Rihanna and the third for Jay-Z. He has been in the featured position on all three of his chart-toppers:

"Heartbreaker," Mariah Carey featuring Jay-Z (two weeks, October 1999)
"Crazy in Love," Beyonce featuring Jay-Z (eight weeks, July-August, 2003)
"Umbrella," Rihanna featuring Jay-Z (one week to date, June 2007)

Rihanna's single is strong in both sales and airplay. "Umbrella" opens at No. 1 on Hot Digital Songs and inches up 3-2 on Hot 100 Airplay.

"Umbrella" represents just one-half of the biggest cumulative gain in the top two of the Hot 100. The runner-up spot is held by Shop Boyz' "Party Like a Rockstar" (Ondeck/Universal Republic), which pole vaults 51-2.

[backintime]

Randomly (and obviously wrongly), this is now the sales gainer on the Hot 100

[I HATE LA REID]

#1 in australia... this song is HUGE!

[hoodboy424]

Top 10 R&B Smash!

15 10 RIHANNA Umbrella (f/Jay-Z) 2031 1626 405 20.805

[backintime]

#1 for a third consecutive week in the UK

[tozion]

This sounds so hot with live instruments on MTV!

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

This is Top 10 at Urban now. Her first top 10 there probably?

[tozion]

I'm pretty sure "Unfaithful" did too.

[hoodboy424]

RiRi worked to get this song!.

Rihanna battled Mary J. Blige to record her worldwide hit 'Umbrella'.

The 19-year-old singer loved the song as soon as she heard it but was devastated when she heard Blige wanted it as well.

So, Rihanna used all her charm to convince the songwriters to give it to her.

Rihanna told the Daily Telegraph newspaper: "Any songwriter would die for Mary to sing one of their songs. So I just prayed that I got it. It was perfect for me - it had a West Indian groove.

"When I saw one of the songwriters at the Grammy Awards, I went up to him and said, 'Listen, 'Umbrella' is my song.'

"He must have thought I was really pushy and laughed it off. But I held his face and I turned it back to my own, 'No, I'm serious, I need 'Umbrella'.

"Two days later we found out the song was mine."

[breakthrough]

rofl. she didnt work for it. that song was offered to britney, mary, and akon and they all rejected it.

the performance on the mtv movie awards was visually the best performance i have ever seen from her. the vocals were a complete train wreck as usual tho.

[breakthrough]

I was reading some article that said that this is her first top 10 single at urban. "Unfaithful" went to like #18. So get it Rihanna. I still dont see her album selling well for some reason tho.

[Q]

Why are there two different versions of the video? Are ballet shoes to white for BET or something?

[hoodboy424]

^^Someone said because it showed too much leg which makes no sense.

[Grenade]

The video on BET is the second edit of the video, MTV just always kept the original one.

[breakthrough]

Yeah. MTV just never bothered to add the newly edited version to their rotation.

[detsaw]

I actually liked her Leno performance. I'm glad she didn't have to hold an umbrella and focused more on actually changing up the arrangement.

[Grenade]

Yeah, the Leno performance was pretty good, especially for her.

[tozion]

Jumps 17-10 R&B.

[I HATE LA REID]

wow

[H.A.T.E. U]

How long do you guys think this will stay at #1 on the Hot 100?

[dperkins]

I am predicting 6 weeks.

[I HATE LA REID]

4 weeks

[backintime]

What's being held off iTunes at the moment? I need to know to make an accurate judgement. Is that dreadful R. Kelly/Usher song on yet?