Rihanna this week becomes the first artist to amass five 3-million-selling digital hits (combining lead and featured credits). She scores with Eminem's "Love The Way You Lie," which has sold 3,000,000 digital copies in the past 11 weeks. Rihanna's four previous 3-million-sellers are: "Umbrella" (featuring Jay-Z), "Don't Stop The Music," "Disturbia" and T.I.'s "Live Your Life."
Fergie and will.i.am are runners-up to Rihanna, with four 3-million-sellers each. They each scored with three Black Eyed Peas hits: "Boom Boom Pow," "I Gotta Feeling" and "Imma Be." In addition, Fergie topped the 3-million-download mark with "Big Girls Don't Cry," while will.i.am scored with Usher's "OMG."
Four artists are next in line with three 3-million-sellers each: the just-mentioned Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Lil Wayne.
Basically:
5 songs above 3.000.000 sales:
- Rihanna
4 songs above 3.000.000 sales:
- Fergie
- Will.I.am
3 songs above 3.000.000 sales:
- BEP
- Gaga
- Katy Perry
- Lil Wayne
She is also the youngest of all (22) being Gaga the second youngest (24) and then Katy (26)
NONE of Rihanna's songs are above 4 Millions! (thats kind of funny. lol)
Disturbia is around 3.960.000
Live Your Live is around 3.750.000
Umbrella is around 3.400.000
Dont stop the music is around 3.200.000
and LTWYL is exactly 3.000.000
So I think that LTWYL will eventually pass the 4M this year and Disturbia too (hopefully) and Live your life will pass the mark sometime in the future....
I don't really see how this is 'leading the pack' when she doesn't have a 4 million or 5 million seller, but then again it's just a title. And even though two of the songs are features....good for her. Well deserved.