"Set Fire To The Rain" topped the Hot 100 four years ago.
Adele's Set Fire To The Rain burned a path to the summit four
years ago, dethroning the then-reigning 10-week #1 smash We Found Love.
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1/25/2012
'Set Fire to the Rain' becomes the third single from '21' to lead the Hot 100 while '21' has sat atop the Billboard 200.
Adele's "Set Fire to the Rain" takes over atop the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, dethroning Rihanna's "We Found Love," featuring Calvin Harris, after 10 weeks and making history in the process.
With "21" at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 four another four weeks as of this week, "Fire" (Adele's third career Hot 100 topper) makes the set the first by a single artist to have led the Billboard 200 concurrently with three Hot 100 No. 1s.
In the 53 years that the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 have coexisted, nine albums had topped the Billboard 200 at the same time that two of their singles dominated the Hot 100. Usher had last so doubled up, with "Yeah," featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris, and "Burn" each commanding the Hot 100 in 2004 while parent album "Confessions" led the Billboard 200.
The multi-artist "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack was the first to manage the trifold concurrent feat, heading up the Billboard 200 while the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever" and Yvonne Elliman's "If I Can't Have You" each reached No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 1978.
The coronation of a third Hot 100 No. 1 in "Fire" as "21" continues to rack up weeks atop the Hot 100 reinforces the set's uncommon staying power. The strength of the album's singles has clearly been a factor in keeping "21" afloat atop the Billboard 200 for 17 (nonconsecutive) weeks, making the set the longest-running No. 1 album since the Whitney Houston-led soundtrack to "The Bodyguard" (20 weeks at No. 1) in 1992-93.
just mindblowing thinking about that today! no promo whatsoever, already 6 million sold albums and 2 previous #1's! that era is basically unique in history
i love SFTTR, such a beutiful, powerful pop-song, her most pop from 21