Rihanna’s Umbrella hit is the biggest debut in iTunes six-year history.
Rihanna yesterday notched up yet another record – this time on the world’s biggest download application, iTunes.
She has so far scored 276 000 downloads and counting with her newest hit Umbrella, after only a week on iTunes. It is the biggest debut in iTunes’ six-year history, according to the download site, and beat out Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie and Justin Timberlake’s Sexy Back.
iTunes was released as a McIntosh-only application in 2001, and was made available to Windows two years later.
Umbrella, is also the No. 1 entry on the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard Pop 100 – giving the Bajan singer her sixth Top 10 record in just two-and-a-half years.
The Nation Newspaper
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