Rihanna seems to be suffering little ill effects from her face-meets-the-pavement encounter with former boyfriend Chris Brown. The racy and sexually provocative hit “Rude Boy” takes singer Rihanna back to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts for the sixth time, the fifth time as a lead singer.
Rihanna incidentally replaced her label mate Taio Cruz at the apex of the Billboard Hot 100 chart when her single “Rude Boy” jumped from 4 to 1. The Caribbean queen’s latest No. 1 hit was with T.I. on the dance anthem “Live Your Life” back in 2008. Rihanna’s other No. 1 hits: “SOS,” spent three weeks in the top slot in 2006; Umbrella, which featured Jay-Z, spent seven weeks in the top spot; “Take a Bow,” reached No. 1 for just one week in 2008; and the dance cut “Disturbia, hit No. 1 for two weeks, also in 2008.
Interesting tidbit: Since breaking out on the scene in 2005, Rihanna has landed more Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hits than any other artist in the game. Justin Timberlake is the only other artist close. He has had five hits land at No. 1 in the same time frame. –terry shropshire
