Rihanna’s “Work” featuring Drake is the #1 song on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart this week, the publication announced today (February 22).
This is the singer’s fourteenth song to reach the top spot on the chart, the third most of all-time. Rihanna surpasses Michael Jackson, who previously held the #3 spot with 13. Her other tracks to hit #1 include “Diamonds,” “We Found Love” and “What’s My Name,” which also features Drake.
Ahead of Rihanna, the Beatles have 20 songs and Mariah Carey has 18 songs to reach the position.
Rihanna responded to the accomplishment on social media, thanking her fans, the Navy, on Twitter and then posting a video on Instagram of Homer Simpson and Family Guy‘s Peter Griffin washing cars and twerking.
Drake thanks Rihanna on Instagram for both of the songs that reached #1.
“Two number ones and they are both cause of you…” the Toronto rapper writes with a screenshot of the video for “Work,” which was released today. “Midas Touch Riri. Thank you!!!”
“Work” appears on Rihanna’s eighth studio album, ANTI, which hit the top spot on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart in its second week of release. The LP was first released to TIDAL, where the singer’s partnership with Samsung helped the album sell 1 million copies within the first day. Billboard did not recognize those sales, which resulted in ANTI debuting at #27.
View Rihanna and Drake’s social media posts celebrating “Work” at the top of Hot 100 below:
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Drizzaveli got the Midas Touch. Everything he touches goes #1 and/or platinum. #DrakeIsLoveDrakeIsLife
You mispelled Rihanna.
No, you misspelled drake. All of his albums go to no.1 and he now leads all of music charts despite being hiphop instead of pop.
No, I has it right. Drake isn’t leading any of the music charts. And he is not hip-hop, not with songs like Hotline Bling. Dude is pop as shit.
It’s a stupid song…
Rihanna has 14 number ones in the US….REALLY? Because TWO of her songs are by OTHER artists TI (Live Your Life and Eminem Monster) she sings CHORUS on both and gets credit for number one.
MJ has had 13 number ones in the US….BUT hold on ! He has had 4 Number ones also with the Jackson 5 where he SANG THE ENTIRE SONGS and 1 with USA FOR
AFRICA which he CO-WROTE and SANG on the chorus.
By that ESTIMATION Michael Jackson’s TALLY is IN FACT 18 Number 1 US singles.. BILLBOARD are fukin bending the rules for some artists…What a JOKE !!
Anyway…. today, in the digital, download and stream era …. ANY average singer can have No.1 spot, like that guy from (ex-)One Direction, Zayen Malik (how this could happen is beyond me)
The price of the digital download is sooooo low that any stupid song can be No.1.
In the 70s, 80s and even in the 90s, all the people had to buy the physical copies of singles or albums (LP, Cassette, or CD)
Today, you can buy one album for 0.99 cent.
WTF?
And… the new rules of Billboard allow to co.cout the streaming into sales….
Its insane.
I couldn’t name more than one of her “songs” if my life depended on it.
And only because that “song” includes the word “umbrella” in it like a thousand times. Must consider the quality of the work before it becomes a hit.
That’s easy to do now that artist are dropping new singles every week.
Only in the internet you read this but i don’t really hear her music on the radio which is good!!
Rihanna is a product not a real artist.
She should have a million songs bc she puts out a new album every second. Her record company is all about money, the focus is quantity not quality which is exactly why she has #$%$ songs.
She needs to take more control over her career. They are trying to push this headline bc her album didn’t sell as good as usual , they need something positive to say.
No one cares about how many #$%$ songs this singer has, we care about how good the songs are. Work sounds just like everything else she pushed out in the past. Her albums are all the same.