Rihanna is the only artist to have three top 40 world singles this week.
Rude Boy zips from #17 to #3 with 247,000 copies sold. It takes the “largest points increase” title for the second week in a row. The song has only been released to the UK, US and Australia. It will get a full worldwide release March 5th.
Russian Roulette sold another 105,000 copies last week, coming in at #25. The song is less than 56,000 copies away from surpassing the 3 million digital sales mark.
Hard is #38 this week with another 66,000 copies surpassing the 1.3 million mark worldwide.
Rated R zips from #17 to #11 (almost top ten) this week with 59,000 copies sold worldwide. The album is projected to enter the top ten in the UK making it her 3rd consecutive top ten album, also setting the album up to re-enter the top 10 on the World Chart.
Current Rude Boy positions on iTunes:
Australia #1
UK #2
US #2
France #2
Ireland #2
Denmark #2
Deutschland #3
New Zealand #5
Luxembourg #6
Norway #7
Finland #8
Nederland #12
Sweden #15
Canada #17
Uhh Rude Boy was already released to Canada, almost 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately it isn't really doing anything...looks like it might become her worst performing single in Canada