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Stats: Most consecutive number-one lead singles
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Most consecutive number-one lead singles
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Madonna - #1 — "Like a Virgin" (Lead single from "Like a Virgin", 1984)
- #1 — "Live to Tell" (Lead single from "True Blue", 1986)
- #1 — "Who's That Girl" (Lead single from "Who's That Girl: Soundtrack", 1987)
- #1 — "Like a Prayer" (Lead single from "Like a Prayer", 1989)
- #1 — "Vogue" (Lead single from "I'm Breathless", 1990)
- #1 — "Justify My Love" (Lead single from "The Immaculate Collection", 1990)
#3 — "Erotica" (Lead single from "Erotica", 1992)
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Mariah Carey - #1 — "Vision of Love" (Lead single from "Mariah Carey", 1990)
- #1 — "Emotions" (Lead single from "Emotions", 1991)
- #1 — "I'll Be There" (Lead single from "MTV Unplugged", 1992)
- #1 — "Dreamlover" (Lead single from "Music Box", 1993)
#21 — "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (Lead single from "Merry Christmas", 1994)
Whitney Houston- #1 — "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who
Loves Me)" (Lead single from "Whitney", 1987)
- #1 — "I'm Your Baby Tonight" (Lead single from "I'm Your Baby Tonight", 1990)
- #1 — "I Will Always Love You" (Lead single from "The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album", 1992)
- #1 — "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" (Lead single from "Waiting to Exhale: Original Soundtrack Album", 1995)
#15 — ""When You Believe" (with Mariah Carey) (Lead single from "My Love Is Your Love", 1994)
Katy Perry- #1 — "I Kissed a Girl" (Lead single from "One of the Boys", 2008)
- #1 — "California Gurls" (featuring Snoop Dogg) (Lead single from "Teenage Dream", 2010)
- #1 — "Part of Me" (Lead single from "Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection", 2012)
- #1 — "Roar" (Lead single from "Prism", 2013)
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Mariah Carey- #1 — "Fantasy" (Lead single from "Daydream", 1995)
- #1 — "Honey" (Lead single from "Butterfly", 1997)
- #1 — "Heartbreaker" (featuring Jay Z) (Lead single from "Rainbow", 1999)
#2 — "Loverboy" (Lead single from "Glitter", 2001)
Janet Jackson- #1 — "Miss You Much" (Lead single from "Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814", 1989)
- #1 — "That's the Way Love Goes" (Lead single from "janet.", 1993)
- — "Got 'til It's Gone" (featuring featuring Q-Tip and Joni Mitchell) (Lead single from "The Velvet Rope", 1997)
- #1 — "All for You" (Lead single from "All for You", 2001)
#45 — "Just a Little While" (Lead single from "Damita Jo", 2004)
Rihanna- #1 — "SOS" (Lead single from "A Girl like Me", 2006)
- #1 — "Umbrella" (featuring Jay Z) (Lead single from "Good Girl Gone Bad", 2007)
- #1 — "Take a Bow" (Lead single from "Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded", 2008)
#9 — "Russian Roulette" (Lead single from "Rated R", 2009)
Rihanna - #1 — "Only Girl (In The World)" (Lead single from "Loud", 2010)
- #1 — "We Found Love" (featuring Calvin Harris) (Lead single from "Talk That Talk", 2011)
- #1 — "Diamonds" (Lead single from "Unapologetic", 2012)
Britney Spears- #1 — "Womanizer" (Lead single from "Circus", 2008)
- #1 — "3" (Lead single from "The Singles Collection", 2009)
- #1 — "Hold It Against Me" (Lead single from "Femme Fatale", 2011)
#12 — "Work Bitch" (Lead single from "Britney Jean", 2013)
Usher- #1 — "U Remind Me" (Lead single from "8701", 2001)
- #1 — "Yeah!" (featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris) (Lead single from "Confessions", 2004)
- #1 — "Love in This Club" (featuring Young Jeezy) (Lead single from "Here I Stand", 2008)
#31 — "Papers" (Lead single from "Raymond v. Raymond", 2009)
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Michael Jackson- #1 — "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" (Lead single from "Bad", 1987)
- #1 — "Black or White" (Lead single from "Dangerous", 1991)
#5 — "Scream" (featuring Janet Jackson)/"Childhood"" (Lead single from "HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I", 1995)
Kesha- #1 — "TiK ToK" (Lead single from "Animal", 2010)
- #1 — "We R Who We R" (Lead single from "Cannibal", 2010)
#2 — "Die Young" (Lead single from "Warrior", 2012)
Bruno Mars - #1 — "Just the Way You Are" (Lead single from "Doo-Wops & Hooligans", 2010)
- #1 — "Locked Out of Heaven" (Lead single from "Unorthodox Jukebox", 2012)
TLC- #1 — "Creep" (Lead single from "CrazySexyCool", 1994)
- #1 — "No Scrubs" (Lead single from "FanMail", 1999)
#12 — "Girl Talk" (Lead single from "3D", 2002)
Taylor Swift- #1 — "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" (Lead single from "Red", 2012)
- #1 — "Shake It Off" (Lead single from "1989", 2014)
Fixed and updated. Greatest hits, reissues, soundtrack albums are counted for list.
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#1 "No Scrubs" (Lead single from "FanMail", 2014)
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Lol
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Fixed.
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Madonna has 4/5 (not sure about LAV) on the UWC too:
#1 - "Like A Virgin" (Lead single from "Like A Virgin", 1984)
#1 - "Live To Tell" (Lead single from "True Blue", 1986)
#1 - "Like A Prayer" (Lead single from "Like A Prayer", 1989)
#1 - "Vogue" (Lead single from "I'm Breathless", 1990)
#1 - "Justify My Love" (Lead single from "The Immaculate Collection", 1990)
Also, since 1984, all of her lead singles have gone Top 3 except GAYL. 
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Why aren't 3 by Britney and Part Of Me by Katy counted? I kinda understand Katy but why not Britney?
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Oh nevermind I see it now
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mariah's Christmas album shouldnt be counted though..
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Katy's Part of Me was technically a lead single ,but okay.
Also you could have ignored the EP era known as The Fame Monster 
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3 is a lead single 
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Destiny's Child - Bills, bills, bills and Independent Women
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Tbh Mariah has 6 consecutive #1 lead singles.
AIWFCIY was a Christmas album.
Would you consider Anything Goes as Gaga's lead single?
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Originally posted by Rated
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Madonna - #1 "Like a Virgin" (Lead single from "Like a Virgin", 1984)
- #1 "Live to Tell" (Lead single from "True Blue", 1986)
- #1 "Who's That Girl" (Lead single from "Who's That Girl", 1987)
- #1 "Like a Prayer" (Lead single from "Like a Prayer", 1989)
- #1 "Vogue" (Lead single from "I'm Breathless", 1990)
#3 "Erotica" (Lead single from "Erotica", 1992)
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Fixed.
6, if you include Justify My Love - The Immaculate Collection
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#5 "Scream" (featuring Janet Jackson)/"Childhood"" (Lead single from "Erotica", 1992)
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Britney's nerds to be updated.
Womanizer - Circus Era
3 - Singles collection
Hold It Against Me - Femme Fatale
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Poor Rih ruining her string with Russian Roulette 
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Originally posted by highwind44029
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Originally posted by iC0NIC
Also, since 1984, all of her lead singles have gone Top 3 except GAYL. |
And "Die Another Day" (or "American Life") and "Hung Up". 
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Great work. 
Everyone in here is being so hard on the OP.
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Poor Mariah... Done in by a Christmas album.
#Justice4MiMi
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Part of Me was a lead single tho.
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