Bruno Mars & Rihanna Continue Billboard Hot 100 Reign

Published: Thursday 27th Dec 2012 by David

That Rihanna reign just won’t let up!

It seems music lovers just can’t get enough of ‘Unapologetic‘ star Rihanna and ‘Marry You‘ maestro Bruno Mars, both of whom continue their reign on Billboard’s Hot 100 for another week with their respective releases.

Chart check below…

Despite being released in September, Rihanna‘s ‘Diamonds‘ sits pretty at #2 this week- while perched at #1 on the R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart, for the twelfth week.

Meanwhile, Mars holds court at #1 with ‘Locked Out Of Heaven’, while Taylor Swift ranks two spots below Riri with the killer cut ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’.

One spot beneath the Pop/Country belle comes ‘Beauty & Beat’ by Justin Bieber and Rap mogul Nicki Minaj- whose latest LP ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded‘ edges closer to global sales of 1.4 million units moved since April 3rd.

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  1. Monstarebel December 27, 2012

    Im so happy for Bruno I bought his new CD unorthodox jukebox it’s really good if you haven’t heard it you should you won’t regret it Stand Out Tracks for me are
    MoonShine
    Money Make Her Smile
    Natalie
    & Gorilla

    Congratulations to my boo Rihanna diamonds is truly a magical song I haven’t got tired of hearing it yet BTW I hope the stay video is kinda like a continuation of the WFL with that same dude in it would be hot IMO

    Oh & congratulations to Taylor aswell I knew you were trouble is one of her best songs IMO I keep that s*** on replay & I’m pretty sure its guna hit that number 1 spot soon

  2. JOHNVIDAL December 27, 2012

    TGJ info is also so misleading and partial…
    Anyway, the true news are Bruno Mars is still #1, but of course they need to make the post about Rihanna so her delusional fans can beleive once again they are the best and write 100 comment each lol
    Also, I still can´t believe they did that to R&B charts, all those pop songs will be the #1 on that list from now on, it doesn´t make sense
    Also, how can such a bland artist like Taylor Swift have those sales in the uSA? For 3 albums? For one album… it would be: ok you know one of those things from time to time. But for 3 albums doesn´t make sense. She and her music sound just like any other bland young girl/boy/band who are in their teens and would not last. So I don´t know why people are feeling like she is not different from that? Someone explain. And the “she is a songwriter” thing is not valid. Other hugely talented artists are and they don´t have her sales
    Adele phenomenon is understandable, Gaga is, and well I have not more examples cos nobody else has been slaying albums charts these last 5 years. But you know what I mean

    • NavyHeart December 27, 2012

      You’re pressed. Which part of the article was false.

      • Lax December 28, 2012

        @JOHNDIVAL,,,Who has never liked R and never will but still got a lot to say about what the NAVY is doing,,,

        JOHN THE NAVY DON’T BELIEVE WE R THE BEST “WE ARE THE BEST”.

        John let yo ass worry about learning how to Give Other Artists a dam break even if yo ass Dislike them
        Navy can write as many comments as they want
        to I have not read, no place where the rules say
        limit your comments.

        And nobody have a gun to yo head trying to make you like, support or like Rihanna it don’t matter a dam ,,But the NOTION that the Navy is going to dah, dah, dah irks the F** out of Me because People on a Message board can go or be just as dam NUTTY/CRAZY/PASSION AS THEY WANT TO BE ABOUT WHO THEY SUPPORT THE MOST, BYTCH,,,
        FUNNY YO ASS NEVER READS THE BEY HIVE WHEN THEY LEAVES BEYONCE’S RESUME” FROM WHEN SHE WAS CONCEIVED IN HER MOMS WOMB UNTIL PERSENT, ON A RIHANNA THREAD, WHY NOT SAY SOMETHING ABOUT FANS BEING DELUSIONAL FANS
        THEN,,,,@JOHN,,,,,

      • Lax December 28, 2012

        @JOHN THEY SAY IF THE SHOW FITS WEAR IT, AND THAT IS WHAT I AM DOING,,,
        IF PEOPLE WANT TO SNAP A PICTURE OF THEIR DIRTY STANK ASSES AND POST IT LET THEM..BUT IT’S NOT FAIR TO SINGLE RIH ARE HER NAVY OUT LIKE THAT, MAKE ME THINK “YO ASS IS JEALOUS” OF THE RIHANNA NAVY,,,,YOU SEE NOBODY ELSE IS DOING AS MUCH JOHN THAT IS BECAUSE WE ALL ALL VERY DIFFERENT, YOU SEE.

      • Lax December 28, 2012

        @JOHN if Yo Ass was Real and Fair & u r not yo ass would have this to say on all the artists message boards, but you
        call the NAVY NAMES BECAUSE OFTEN TIME WE WANT TO PRAISE RIHANNA,,U R MAD BECAUSE IT SEEMS RIH IS SHINNING BECAUSE OF THE NEW RULING AND SHE IS,,,STAY BITTER BYTCH,,,

      • Lax December 28, 2012

        @JOHN ,,the way they did that NEW LINE UP BILLBOARD I SEE EVEN JAYZ AND WEST BENEFITING FROM THAT CHANGE SO YO ASS CAN STFU,,,,NEGATIVE ASS AND EVEN THOUGH WE ALL LOVE WHITNEY GOD REST HER SOUL EVEN WITH WHITNEY DEMONS ,,,,

        JOHN ME,
        NAVY AND THE WORLD LOVED HER STILL SO GIVE RIHANNA A F**”N BREAK AND GTFO,,,,WITH YO NEGATIVE ASS,,,

    • BlueNavy December 27, 2012

      The one time they praise Rihanna y’all wanna complain.

    • JOHNVIDAL December 27, 2012

      I meant “I don´t know why people are feeling she is different from that” typical t*** music

    • jamilaa December 27, 2012

      shut up! RIHANNA HATER!

    • Monstarebel December 27, 2012

      you sound bitter hun…why not congratulate & keep it pushing oh I forgot you wanna get noticed…

    • OK December 27, 2012

      “Also, how can such a bland artist like Taylor Swift have those sales in the uSA? For 3 albums?”

      *shrugs* I think Taylor is just one of those “of the moment” artists who have huge sales in the beginning for no apparent rhyme or reason, but over time, their sales eventually dip and someone new comes along and is a huge seller, and the cycle begins again.

      I don’t think Taylor will see a huge decline in her sales until maybe her 6th or 7th album. Her 5th might not hit 1 million the first week, but it’ll probably do in the 500-700k range, maybe 800k, but I doubt it.

      • JOHNVIDAL December 27, 2012

        Boy!! (or girl) If we have to wait until the 6th or 7th album then she is not “of the moment”. “of the moment” would have been 1 or 2 albums doing these numbers. But damn it seems she already passed that. I can´t understand it and it´s unfair. She is not great by any means

    • JOHNVIDAL December 27, 2012

      Hmm… ok retarded navy: where did I hate on Rihanna? If anything I said something about Sam, Rihanna FANS and especially Taylor Swift overrated success. learn to read. Truth doesn´t hurt

    • PIU December 27, 2012

      Oh f*** off. TGJ were being nice for a change and you had to ruin it.

    • S****** Blonde December 27, 2012

      Gaga’s phenomenon is more about fame and her crazy outfits, she has never been big album seller.

      • JOHNVIDAL December 27, 2012

        Hmm… I can´t think of any other act bigger in album sales in the last 5 years than Gaga, Taylor and Adele. Can you?

      • S****** Blonde December 27, 2012

        If Gaga is a big album seller then so is Beyonce.

      • MonsterDNA December 27, 2012

        Selling over 10M copies of an album (worldwide) is so common since 2008, yeah.

        She has sold +23M with 3 albums, during the piracy era. That’s quite amazing. She’s huge album seller.

      • ƸӜƷ MC ƸӜƷ December 27, 2012

        S******,

        Gaga sold almost the same amount of album with 3 albums that Rihanna has sold, even the messy era that was BTW sold a hefty 6 million ww in 2 million in the U.S. <—- the same amount of albums Rih's LOUD sold.

        Lets not be delusional now.

      • S****** Blonde December 27, 2012

        @MonsterDNA

        She’s huge album seller.

        You Little Monsters really love her, don’t you, John is the biggest among them. Adele is a huge album seller in the piracy era, call me when one of Gaga’s album reach the 20 million mark worldwide.

      • S****** Blonde December 27, 2012

        @ƸӜƷ MC ƸӜƷ
        Sorry, i just don’t think she’s a huge albums seller, her sales are decent but that’s it, Rihanna is not a big album seller either, i’m not being delusional, just saying the truth.

      • MonsterDNA December 27, 2012

        @S****** Blonde

        So since she doesn’t sell has much albums as Adele, she cannot be considered as an “huge album seller” ? Aside from ’21’, which album has surpass ‘The Fame’ sells during the piracy era ? No one.

        ‘The Fame (Monster)’ is the best selling album of 2010. ‘Born This Way’ the 2nd best selling album of 2011 (and now has sold 7M copies in one year).

        With 2 albums and half she almost equals Rih and Beyoncé’s albums sells.

        She really is.

      • S****** Blonde December 27, 2012

        Sorry is just can’t see her as one, considering her fame, her albums should sell as much of 21, piracy era doesn’t mean anything, she’s at her best moment, Adele is a proof that piracy means nothing if people really want to listen to your music.

      • ƸӜƷ MC ƸӜƷ December 27, 2012

        S******, you more than anyone should know that ADELE is the new Nora Jones, the new Atlantis Morettes. No one has experience this type of success like that other than those two ladies that I compared Adele to. You’ll see that even Adele will never match 21’s sales again. And with sales of 13-15 million of TF+TFM and 6-7 million of BTW I’m sure it solidifies Gaga as an album seller. We’ll see with this era. The reason why Rihanna is called a single seller is because she sold 27 million album ww and 62+ million singles………

      • ƸӜƷ MC ƸӜƷ December 27, 2012

        *Alanis Morissette

    • MonsterDNA December 27, 2012

      I usually do like your comments, but this one is an exception.
      Taylor Swift shares her history with her fans, as for ADELE, though her music. Her sincere history. You can feel it when she’s on stage and she interacts with her public.

      I wasn’t really “IN” Taylor Swift before ‘RED’, but i’ve discovered her discography, and i’m quite impressed actually. And ‘RED’ isn’t even her best album imo, but ‘Speak Now’.

      She’s not a very talented vocalist, but the interest in her is not about the vocals, but more about what she sings about. Therefore she’s an artist, and she totally deserves her amazing success.

  3. Touché December 27, 2012

    Congrats Bruno(:

    • Touché December 27, 2012

      ….Oh and Rihanna and Taylor. I got distracted by Bruno again lol.

      • Monstarebel December 27, 2012

        &? Bruno deserves to be number 1 Rihanna n Taylor have had that number 1 spot several times so the shade isn’t needed xoxo

      • Touché December 27, 2012

        Um ok? I wasn’t even shading Rihanna or Taylor, I just said I was distracted by Bruno’s success which is why I didn’t put Rihanna and Taylor in my first comment.

  4. MCThePlaceToBe December 27, 2012

    But her album isn’t even in the top 70. Paw zat.

    • Monstarebel December 27, 2012

      Honey keep it cute I like Mariah but let’s not forget about triumphant ok?

      • BeyWhoUWanna December 27, 2012

        Mariah doesn’t have to sell another record in her life and she’ll be a legend. How does your album come out in November but fall out of the top 40 by December?

    • FOLLOW ME @gdboyratedloud December 27, 2012

      itunes=/=billboard 200 dumbass. its still in the top 40 of that chart and sold another 65k last week

      stay mad

  5. NAVi December 27, 2012

    cool, not even gonna comment any further on this post, sam is just fishing for omments, congrats to bruno and riri. next!

  6. BeyWhoUWanna December 27, 2012

    Too bad the album is 80 now. Whoops there it is.

    • FOLLOW ME @gdboyratedloud December 27, 2012

      awwww you checking itunes for the kween thats nice but also stupid how you keep checking for someone you dont care about.

      my fav is selling WITHOUT a discount while all those other albums are 7.99

      mad?

  7. DragginForMrsCarter December 27, 2012

    Floppity. Where’s the album though?

  8. Fierce P**** December 27, 2012

    I actually like Diamonds. Sia did a nice job and Rihanna’s voice actually sounds nice on it and brings the song to life.

    • Monstarebel December 27, 2012

      glad u kept it positive hun happy holidays

  9. SAINT.TROPEZ LOVES RIH RIH December 27, 2012

    RIH SNATCHIN WIGS LIKE ALWAYS

  10. SAINT.TROPEZ LOVES RIH RIH December 27, 2012

    UNAPOLOGETIC NEXT WEEK GOES GOLD .ALL OF RIH ALBUMS HAVE GOLD CERTIFICATIONS

  11. Jay Scorpio December 27, 2012

    Congratulations to my boo Rihanna diamonds is truly a magical song I haven’t got tired of hearing it yet BTW I hope the stay video is kinda like a continuation of the WFL with that same dude in it would be hot…. AGREED!!!

    • Monstarebel December 27, 2012

      Yaaas (-:

    • Lax December 27, 2012

      YESSSSS,,,,

  12. SAINT.TROPEZ LOVES RIH RIH December 27, 2012

    RIH SOLD OUT STADE DE FRANCE .WHEN WILL YOUR FAVE

  13. SAINT.TROPEZ LOVES RIH RIH December 27, 2012

    NAVY AND I ARE BEAUTIFUL LIKE DIAMONDS IN THE SKY

  14. @PWetsh PEGGYHYLS Wetsh December 27, 2012

    Unapologetic sank hard #84 on it 6th week shame!!!! Shame they call her international star lol!!! Diamond is the only major hit in the album (only in France, UK AND US) there is no other song she tried stay but failed to make the top ten worldwide lol unapologetic present R**** S closure

    • SAINT.TROPEZ LOVES RIH RIH December 27, 2012

      500 000 SOLD IN USA IN HER 7TH ALBUM
      PLATINUM IN THE NEAR FUTURE
      YOUR FAVE HAS NOT GRACED THE TOP TEN IN AGES

      • @PWetsh PEGGYHYLS Wetsh December 27, 2012

        My fab have 4 albums with 150 world wide platinum plus 4 albums that are over 2x PLATNUM in the UK AND US PLUS DC MY FAV HAVE 8 album certified 5x PLATNUM

      • @PWetsh PEGGYHYLS Wetsh December 27, 2012

        It won’t sell 500,000 her us copies is 430,000k she won’t sell 70k next week

    • FOLLOW ME @gdboyratedloud December 27, 2012

      itunes =/= billboard 200

      nice try tho

      dumb b****

      and how you know how much unapologetic gon sell next week???

      can i borrow yo time machine???? stay stupid

      • @PWetsh PEGGYHYLS Wetsh December 27, 2012

        Why u mad b****? How am I dumb ur FAV goes gold mine goes PLATNUM f*** up rihtards

  15. SLAYRIAH CAREY December 27, 2012

    Yasss RiRI. Tearing up the charts as usual. NAVY<3

  16. SAINT.TROPEZ LOVES RIH RIH December 27, 2012

    DIAMONDS IS RIH BIGGEST HIT IN GERMANY. 10 CONSECUTIVE WEEKS ON TOP
    YOUR FAVE COULD ONLY DREAM ABOUT THAT

  17. King B>Rihanna December 27, 2012

    My midnight lover Bruno Mars deserve all his success. His current album is f****** thing and that is me putting aside the fact that I love him.

  18. 2013 Is the Year Beyonce’s Career Officially Ends(yours truly, zzzzb) December 27, 2012

    Unapologetic is doing great WW haters

    • King B>Rihanna December 27, 2012

      Your name is really cute.

  19. Honesty December 27, 2012

    Whether you like her or not, she is WINNING

    Congrats

  20. SAINT.TROPEZ LOVES RIH RIH December 27, 2012

    CIARA THE FLOPPEST FLOP IN HISTORY OF FLOP
    KELLY ROWLAND SECOND PLACE
    XTINA THIRD

    • Touché December 27, 2012

      Why even bring them up?

  21. SLAYRIAH CAREY December 27, 2012

    Bruno Mars is so talented and I love ‘Locked out of heaven’. He’s my second fave male artist after Chris brown.
    He should do a song with Rihanna.

  22. S****** Blonde December 27, 2012

    Plays: “Treasure” by Bruno Mars.

    • ƸӜƷ MC ƸӜƷ December 27, 2012

      A new Bruno stan?

      His first album is much better, get into it!

      • S****** Blonde December 27, 2012

        Not his first album is X to me, this one make me stan for him.

  23. Slayty Perry December 27, 2012

    Yes Bruno! Locked Out Of Heaven is currently my fav song! Out of all the current male artist Bruno is my favorite

  24. Bhive December 27, 2012

    Make sure ya go cop that kreayshawn album tho I went to hot topic to get something for my brother. And saw it in there with dust all over it cause nobody was getting it so I just went on and brought it and that s*** was banging! It’s a trunk banger for real. I’m surprise that s*** only sold 3k cause that s*** had some bangers on there. I would not call it a classic but damn you can call it a great cd!

    • Touché December 27, 2012

      Heffa please, Nobody is gonna that wackass CD.

      • Touché December 27, 2012

        *buy

  25. JOHNVIDAL December 27, 2012

    WOW omg I wasn´t expecting this: Bruno Mars sold 178,000 copies more in his second week, just as much as in his first week! Big success.
    I was a bit dissapointed at public not buying more copies of his album the first week but damn now they have really done their thing. Congrats Bruno Mars! See? That´s having important success on album charts 🙂

  26. THE GREAT LACEFRONCE. December 27, 2012

    Of Course the Queen still reigns! your fave hasnt had a #1 on BB since 2008 🙂 😕

    BTW, Onigger sure is a FLOP, she has only moved 1.4 m ww since April ??? 😕 Queen Rih sold 1.2 m ww in 4 weeks 🙂

    • King B>Rihanna December 27, 2012

      your avi is everything

      • THE GREAT LACEFRONCE. December 27, 2012

        yesss b**** 🙂

  27. ƸӜƷ MC ƸӜƷ December 27, 2012

    Congrats to everyone, but especially Bruno. This guy really has a special talent.

  28. mope December 27, 2012

    good for bruno and taylor. the rest of the post is s***. just singles with meh albums.

  29. FOLLOW ME @gdboyratedloud December 27, 2012

    you know what i cant stand???

    when ppl jump on bandwagons and become stans of artist just because they sell well.

    my fav could be a flop ass and i would still drag heauz for that b****

    when will you ppl????

    oh look at me im a taylor swift stan now because her album sold a million first week!!!
    oh i love country music now!!!!

    GET THE F*** OUTTA HERE

  30. Legendtina December 27, 2012

    Congrats to Bruno!

  31. @PWetsh PEGGYHYLS Wetsh December 27, 2012

    Y’all chech @baddiebey instagram she just like a picture then #beypost it amazing also remember to follow me @PEGGYHYLS5

  32. TAYLOR SWIFTS NUMBER 1 FAN!!! December 27, 2012

    Amazing to see Taylor swifts single back up to 4 after 10 weeks out!

    Chart News ‏@chartnews
    @TaylorSwift13 this week becomes the 1st artist since @TheBeatles to log six or more weeks at #1 with 3 consecutive studio albums in the US.

    Chart News ‏@chartnews
    US album sales: #1 @TaylorSwift13, Red 275,508 (2,866,047 total)

  33. Fierce P**** December 27, 2012

    Monstarebel: thanks. U 2. I know I have my shady moments with Rihanna but I can actually give credit where it’s due sometimes also.

  34. MISHKA December 27, 2012

    Well deserved, Bruno. “Locked out of heaven” is incredible.

    For once, I actually like the Top 4: those are really good and original songs.

    When the music is this good, I don’t have space to shade.

  35. Life December 27, 2012

    F*** this flopping w**** of Babylon.

    • Lax December 28, 2012

      What did Alicia do, shes in this game too
      Burno dropped this past week who will drop next week, though for Rihanna to be compared to, Who will Beyonce be
      compared to when she drops her first week.
      All the new Music coming and we will all see together how the cow ate cabbage, want we @life,,,,stay Pressed, Deery.
      Its clear Yo ass is Jealous and Bitter,,,ha, ha, ha,,,

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