//Beyonce Takes All The ‘Single Ladies’ To Number One//
December 4, 2008 by TJ
Filed under Billboard Charts
Beyonce likes it, so she put a ring on the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart this week. Her alter-ego Sasha Fierce’s debut single, “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It),” from her new album I Am…Sasha Fierce bumps T.I. and Rihanna’s “Live Your Life” to No. 2 after three consecutive weeks at No. 1, making this Bey’s fifth chart topper. The tally also ties her with Rihanna for the most number one singles by a female artist this decade. With luck, she could soon take the lead as another track, “If I Were A Boy,” sits pretty at No. 3. ”Ladies” got its boost to the top spot on the strength of 228,000 downloads according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Retro-sexual dance goddess (and Grammy nominated artist) Lady GaGa enters the Top 5 with “Just Dance” featuring Colby O’Donis and after a slow build-up, Jason Mraz finally rolls into the Top 10 with his folksy-pop hit “I’m Yours.”
This week’s top 10 singles according to Billboard:
- Beyonce – Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
- T.I. featuring Rihanna – Live Your Life
- Beyonce – If I Were A Boy
- T.I. – Whatever You Like
- Lady GaGa featuring Colby O’Donis – Just Dance
- Katy Perry – Hot N Cold
- Ne-Yo – Miss Independent
- Pink – So What
- Britney Spears – Womanizer
- Jason Mraz – I’m Yours
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This actually puts Beyonce one ahead of Rihanna, b/c Live Your Life is not her song, she’s only featured on it. It also puts her one ahead of Mariah, too.
As a lead artist, yes, Beyonce would rule the roost for sure. However, when Billboard put together their list that got everyone counting No. 1’s in the 2000s, they made no specification that the artist had to be the lead artist on a song. They even counted Kanye West’s feature on Twista’s “Slow Jams” as one of the songs that gave him a tally of 3 for the decade. So under their guidelines, Rihanna more than makes the cut for a tie due to that technicality.
Billboard’s resident Chart Beat expert explains it here:
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003873214
Ok, so I’m wrong. :)