Rihanna vaults from No. 22 to No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 (dated Feb. 25), becoming the top musical artist for the first time since the chart started in 2014, due to catalogue gains after her performance at the Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show on Feb
Rihanna played 13 songs throughout her performance, and in turn, achieved her largest streaming week ever, according to Luminate. Her song repertoire received 166.1 million U.S. on-demand official streams in the week ending Feb. 16. That’s up 156% compared to the previous week’s amount of 65 million. (She logged her previous greatest streaming week in the week ending Feb. 25, 2016, when her collected songs racked up 101.5 million clicks in the U.S., just after the release of her most recent studio album, Anti.)
Five of Rihanna’s albums chart the latest Billboard 200: Anti (No. 8), Good Girl Gone Bad (No. 15), Unapologetic (No. 18), Loud (No. 26) and Talk That Talk (No. 49). (No. 49). She becomes just the seventh act in the last 50 years to chart at least five albums in the top 50, joining Taylor Swift (who has claimed at least five titles in the region 18 times, including on the latest chart), Mac Miller (once following his death in 2018), Prince (three times, following his death in 2016), Whitney Houston (three times, following her death in 2012), the Glee cast (once in 2010) and Garth Brooks (four times in 1992). (four times in 1992).
In the Billboard Hot 100, Rihanna tallies four tracks, three of which are past No. 1s that re-enter: “Umbrella,” featuring Jay-Z (No. 37), “Diamonds” (No. 44) and “We Found Love,” featuring Calvin Harris (No. 48). (No. 48). Her current hit, “Lift Me,” which debuted at No. 2 in November, jumps 52-41.
Among other Artist 100 chart movements, Paramore re-enters at No. 5, marking the trio’s first top 10 performance, owing to its new studio album, This Is Why. The collection begins at No. 1 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums and No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 64,000 equivalent album units achieved. It won the act its first No. 1 on the Alternative Airplay chart, among six top 10s, with the title cut earlier this month.
The Artist 100 monitors artist activity across major parameters of music consumption, merging album and track sales, radio airplay and streaming to give a weekly multi-dimensional rating of artist popularity.
