The funny thing about features is that people only count them if/when they're successful. Like how Katy has 6 consecutively songs reach the top 10, yet she had two featurings (Starstrukk and If We Ever Meet Again.) Both of those flopped on the hot 100, yet no one counts that as breaking Katy's streak. We basically just ignore it. At the same time If We Ever Meet Again went to #1 in New Zealand, so they count that towards Katy's collection over there. That actually means she one of the artists with the most #1s there 'cause of that.
Same thing with Gaga and Video Phone. It went #1 on the Hot Dance Club chart, so it is in the middle of Gaga's streak of 10 #1s on that chart. However, it flopped on the Hot 100, so we just pretend it doesn't interrupt Gaga's Hot 100 streak.
I actually find it rather amusing. It's a simple fix really. You can just add "as a solo artist" to make your statement true.
So Katy and Gaga both hold the record of most songs that sold over 2 million as a solo artist?
The streak doesn't end cause we are counting singles with Katy as a lead.
Yea, but if it would have went top 10 then we would count it. Which is what I was trying to say.
we won't be counting them. Billboard won't count them as consecutive but will contribute to total.
Like Rihanna case. Billboard completely ignore the flop Who's That Chick when counting consecutive top 10 for Rihanna.