Lorde's "Royals" commands the Billboard Hot 100 for a sixth week, while Eminem and One Direction soar onto the chart with top 10 debuts. The bow for Eminem is especially notable, as, among other honors, the song grants the rapper his first No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and helps him earn a Hot 100 honor not accomplished since the Beatles 49 years ago.


What's this, a man in the Hot 100's top three? Indeed, as, after seven weeks of only women occupying the region, Eminem debuts at No. 3 with "The Monster," featuring Rihanna. The arrival ties for his third-best among 48 career visits, matching the September start of "Berzerk," the lead single from his album "The Marshall Mathers LP 2," which is set to debut at No. 1 on next week's Billboard 200 with the year's second-best sales frame. Eminem has started better on the Hot 100 only with "Not Afraid" (No. 1, 2009) and "Love the Way You Lie," also featuring Rihanna (No. 2, on its way to a seven-week reign, in 2010.

Monster" opens at No. 1 on Hot Digital Songs with 373,000. It's his ninth No. 1 on the chart, tying him with Katy Perry for the second-most leaders in the tally's history


The rapper becomes just the sixth act ever to place at least four songs in the Hot 100's top 20 simultaneously, joining the Beatles (who boasted a record six for two consecutive weeks in April 1964


Thus, Eminem is, amazingly, the first artist since the Beatles, the week of May 16, 1964, to chart four titles in the Hot 100's top 20 all as a lead artist.

More honors for Eminem: "Monster" opens atop Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, where, incredibly, it's his first No. 1 among 42 career visits. He'd previously peaked as high as No. 2 with "Rap God," "Berserk" and 2009's "Forever." Rihanna notches her third Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs No. 1, following "Take a Bow" (2008) and "Diamonds" (2012-13). "Monster" concurrently begins at No. 1 on Rap Songs, where it's the sixth and fourth leader for Eminem and Rihanna, respectively.

Eminem breaks up an all-lead female top three on the Hot 100, as Lorde, Cyrus and Katy Perry ("Roar," see below) had monopolized the region for seven straight weeks.

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YASSSS BOW DOWN BISHES

Rap God fkn SLAYING

And he wouldn't have been #1 if not for the recent rule change. Why is Billboard always trying it?

Eminem is noT playing this era, that's for sure.

Yeah! He is doing everything great so far keep it up EM

there is a billboard link to the article you know

Oop, the King effortlessly taking over.

yas get those stats

50 Cent (2005), T-Pain (2007-08), Lil Wayne (2008) and Ludacris (2010).

However Eminem and The Beatles are the only ones to do it as lead artists.

legend.

And only Beatles did it without using featured artists presumably?

REAL legends.

Slay Marshall