Rihanna‘s rejection of Sia‘s ‘Cheap Thrills’ has proven itself a serious misstep on the Bajan beauty’s part.
For, after penning her fair share of hits for other artists and wielding a series of her own hits courtesy of soaring tunes ‘Chandelier,’ ‘Big Girls Cry,’ and ‘Elastic Heart,’ the singer/songwriter has taken the Sean Paul-assisted tune to #1 on the Hot 100. Ending the 10 week reign of Drake‘s ‘One Dance’ (featuring Wizkid & Kyla), ‘Thrills’ – thanks to a timely $.69 iTunes sale – comes as the first chart-topper of Sia’s nearly 20 year career.
In addition, she is the first and only woman over 40 since Madonna‘s ‘Music’ in 2000 to top the Hot 100. Tuck in below to find out the figures that helped hoist the powerhouse to the perch of the singles charts:
As “Thrills” reaches No. 1 on the Hot 100, it holds at its No. 2 high on the Digital Songs sales chart, up by 34 percent to 122,000 downloads sold in the week ending July 21, according to Nielsen Music, the song’s best weekly sales (and Sia’s top sales frame as a lead act); the increase is good for the Hot 100’s top Digital Gainer award (aided in part by 69-cent sale-pricing in the iTunes Store).
“Thrills” also keeps at its No. 3 peak on Radio Songs (142 million in airplay audience, up 7 percent), while, onStreaming Songs, it pushes 7-6, hitting a new high (13.1 million U.S. streams, up 4 percent).
Keep it locked to TGJ for the full chart check later this week.
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Congrats Muva Sia.
Death at Demi performing at the dem national convention while your flop racist all lives matter fave is lipping and backtracking
While Cheryl dates a one directioner to stay relevant ?
While Cheryl records her fifth solo, tenth overall album. Not many girls have that type of longevity ☕️?
Love this song. I guess Rihanna will get it next week 🙂
To keep it 100, I don’t see it going #1. Although its a smash hit, I think its reached its peak. However, I would like to see it reach #1. It just further shows the hit making monster that she is.
honestly im glad rihanna turned this song down because I cannot see it fitting on Anti, But maybe it could have been a bonus track along with “s** wit me. However congrats Sia.
I actually don’t think Rihanna could have made this a #1 song.
Please, if Sia… a 40 year old white woman who appears old in the face can make this song # 1… Certainly a chart topper queen like Rihanna could have made this # 1.
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I congratulate Sia and love this song, but I do think Rih could have made this work @FRESH NAVI
Is this the song Rihanna turned down? I thought it was I’m Alive.
It was I’m alive! That’s why all this is a ki! And I’m alive was horrible
I just did a search, this was a rejected track as well. But I’m glad Sia got her first #1 tho.
This would not have worked for Rihanna. Not because sia is better. But Imthe direction anti went it just wouldn’t make sense. It would have been good maybe as a on break song. But not while promoting an album such as anti.
Alive was for Adele girls
I’m glad she went #1 i love the song so much. But at the same time BB is so racist, had this been Rihanna they would have shaded and harped at her discounting the single as a blatant attempt to get a #1.
I love Sia i just really wish the Music industry was fairer to girls of colour. People literally don’t understand how important it is for Beyonce and Rihanna to both succeed they are the only one’s doing it.
Taylor and Katy get free passes for everything. The Billboard manipulation of Taylor Swift vs Kimye was just proof of their prejudice. #Equality2016
Rihanna has 14 #1s, how is Billboard racist??? They have never shaded or harped at any artist discounting singles for a #1. Billboard is the only unbiased thing in the industry tbh. This is just race baiting.
@Grande
Although you may not fully understand, It’s not race baiting. Yes, Rihanna has 14 #1’s and Beyonce has 6 #1’s on the Billboard 200, those girls earned it! They both have worked harder than any of there peers. Beyonce just made a fvcking movie and dropped it as her album! Plus, she’s a mother while still being a performance beast. Rihanna released an album every damn year, back to back, each one garnering a #1 song with a supporting tour. Rihanna and Beynoce don’t earn their dues and respect by just cause they’re pretty and some singers like these Megan Trainors, these Demi Lovatos, and mediocrity in human form, Selena gomezs. Bey and Rih annihilate, and these other poptart broads can’t do that!. Yet, they still face certain bias sociologically when it pertains to the music industry and its publications. Everyday I hear some random new DJ from YouTube and his redundant tropical EDM song, meanwhile Tinashe out here dressing like a thot just to get a radio spin. She out here being a beard for Calvin Harris just to get her name to trend on twitter at least once. Since the beginning of this country from s**** narratives, the roaring jazz of the 1920’s, the world history making rock n’ roll, to the now global changing hip-hop, our music has always been tightly woven in the fabric of American music. Meanwhile today, I can’t hear more than two black artist played on Top 40 radio. These other talented artists such as Justine Skye, Elle Varner, SZA, The Internet, and now Alicia Keys gotta fight just to get an article with a recent photo compared to their white counterparts. Case and point, go to Billboard right and see who their cover artist this month; it’s Demi and Nick Jonas posing as 2016’s most irrelevant popstars. So yeah, race bating is just a term coined by Fox News to make bigots justify the deep rooted history and trauma inflicted upon blacks in this country.
I get where your coming from and agree that in this industry, black artist need to be twice as great as their white contemporaries to get equal respect. But that doesn’t mean the Hot 100 is racist. The Hot 100 is based on weekly calculations.
Ispeaktruth (as if)
So you guys always coming at me for writing essays but you write this irrelevant stuff and it´s all fine? Look, nothing you can say can be taken seriously since you stated and don´t regreat doing so that Rihanna is bigger than what Madonna has ever been. It´s a sad reality that you are a joke. Pretty much like Rihanna´s skills for music.
I agree bey and rih get hate from their own black people more than ever on here the other white girls will have their own people support rih got the bates motel part blacks are up in arms bashing her on black blogs but complain how white people do not include them but when they do still complain makes no sense here you have two black women on top in music’s these fuckers still complain and attack them Britney and Katy suck songs make it on billboard bey really deserve a number one if you ask me
I’m so glad you said this cuz I was thinking exactly the same s***.
ANTI has also Outperformed Lemonade for a second week. Sam wont post that again
Anti rise from # 5 to #4 this week, Lemonade slips 7-8.
Not pitting them against each other this time just stating that Anti is showing legs Sam is so quick to say how questionable her sales are yet here she is floating in the upper echelons of the BB200 many moons and moths after release.
When she sells gold what will be the next drag?
“Not pitting them against each other”…You just did.
Anyway big Congrats to Rih & Bey for going strong for black girls.
sorry but sam gets me peeved with his shade and i think it best to compare stats with his fave to make a point.
I think it would be great for the black community to see rih and bey collaborate! It HAS to happen! How empowering would that be for not just young African American females but all females. Would finally mean the NAVY and BEYHIVE could co-exist ? Would also send out a positive message for everyone to support each other
Who cares she’ll never catch Lemonades sales in the states or WW. Self Titled is still charting almost 3 years after its debut. Lemonade will definitely be staying on the BB200 longer now that streaming factors into play.
Enough already say we did not have no black women dominating music at all what would billboard look like and they on the same team these two get the worst hate from their own people I read some of the things on blogs both these women verses what is said about Britney and Katy on white blogs totally different tmz the worst racist blog of comment section for a jewish man Harvey allow anything
A little disappointing she used a 69 cent deal but congrats to Sia!
Shout out to Anti. #4 after all this time. Poor Kool-Aid is dropping. lol
Girl not you clinging to streams tho!
You cling to X Factor UK stage. Notice I said UK, we know your fave is stuck on an island. Ol Casted Away @ss.lol
Girl when have I clung to that? Your reads are so illogical sis. You’re a JOKE
SCREAMING!!!! YASSS YOU BETTA GATHER THE GIRLS!!!
Into You is also up to #24 on the Hot 100. Dangerous Woman is back up to #11 on iTunes currently. Im glad its rising, I just wish Ariana would get out of her house and promote her music in the US, it needs it. This era has had bad handling compared to My Everything.
On iTunes. Ha! FLOP!
Lol you’re so bothered. At its current rate, Dangerous Woman could very well outsell Anti worldwide by the end of the year. I see why you’re salty.
how the hell is Dangerous Woman going to outsell anti ww that album hasn’t even crossed 600,000 worldwide yet and sold 30,000 this week anti is still selling 20,000 worldwide each week and it’s been out waaayyy longer don’t try it boo
Yay!!! Congrats Sia!! Well Deserved! Good to see talent like Sia and Adele in the top 10! Lemonade is still in the top 10 on BB200 and sold and additional 20k in states and 56k WW! This album just might do Self Titled numbers ?☕!
If ‘4lop’ can sell 1.5 mil WITH PROMOTION, Lemonade surely will do 2 mil copies. Now it depends on the Grammy’s, if she win, it will boost her sales and push it hopefully more than Self-Titled. I really wish ST can do 2.5 million since it has longetivity, I think the surprise release impact really helps the album to stay in the chart. Same goes to IASF, hopefully it will do 3.5 mil. Beyonce catalogue sales is as good as Adele and TS, but w/o hits.
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When will Selena or Natalie chart a number one in any territory?
to be honest 2016 seems a bad year for music it’s all terrible , forgettable nothing new or original just the same old recycled songs.
gratz to her.
Just saw Ciara’s mini tribute to Brandy on instagram singing Sittin Up In My Room. It was cute. I miss good music.
So. BTW, I say Brandy singing on the 7 train today, and like the last time, no one cared.
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Saw
I’ve loved Sia way back since “Soon we’ll be found”, but I’m glad that this single took off exceedingly well. I’ll never understand why the radio stations have her singles on waiting lists for months when it’s obvious they’re smash hits.
Yasssssss congrats Sia!!!! I love this song
Good for sis
Wow so happen for SIA she has worked so hard writing many songs. Glad she has her first no. 1(tho its discount). TBH chandelier should have been her first.
Also who cares about the positions on BB200 when lemonade is still selling more copies in us & WW also at full price.
I agree with both of your points. Lemonade has obviously slayed Anti (not that sales are the important thing, but seeing these Rihanna fans still thinking she has done better… it´s appalling. They don´t have basic logic or something). And I also think Chandeliar should have been another #1 for Sia. It had it all and was even for the grammys and all. It was the perfect opportunity.
Ahhh Sia! From Wild Ones, Titanium, Chandelier , Elastic Heart and now she’s number one. I love This Is Acting. The album is so good. House On Fire, Footprint, Space Between, One Million Bullets. On top of that , 1000 FOF spent its 100th week on the charts right?
Mark literally shades everyone from Beyoncé to Gaga to Xtina to Madonna to Ariana. I love Rihanna, but these people(LB,Centurion and now Ispeaktruth) makes me hard to give credit to her, tho I did sometimes. I noticed that the people that he don’t shade is either talentless(Rih) or LOCAL has been (Aaliyah,JJ,TLC). One of them does not have a Grammy tho.
Girl, did you just try and shade Janet Jackson and TLC. Girl, you tried it. Also, Mark loves himself some Bey, he has a love hate relationship with the Queen. ISpeakTruth is a bipolar mess “He exhibits all the signs”, just pay him dust. LB and Centurion are the same person.
Are you serious? Then that explains a lot. There aren´t even 4 or 5 delusional Rihanna fans of that caliber then. It´s only 3 if Centurion and LB are the same 🙂
Yeah they most likely are, too much similarities between the two.
Elastic Heart is still my favorite from her.
Mine too.
Sooo glad someone like Sia got a #1 finally!
She at leats has talent. She definitely has a VOICE and she´s a songwriter. Not timeless or anything. But pretty good, with a nice mix of commercial appeal and some quality.
Also glad that a woman over 40 years old finally got a #1 again. Good news if only for that.
And finally glad that it finally happens to an artist who doesn´t rely on looks at all (obviously far from it in this case LOL).
I can’t with people saying billboard charts are racially bias when the top 10 of the hot 100 has been dominated by blacks since 2014 with a few exceptions
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Anyway, congrats sia, it’s about time
Ki their point was its harder to be successful when you’re black period sis. So stop
It’s not the charts it the people who work at Billboards, the way the write articles and their inherent biases towards a certain kind of artists. Rihanna is only celebrated on the singles charts by them because of how hard she works.
O remember when Rihanna Remixed S&M and added Britney and Katy Discounted and added Missy to Last Friday Night. The shade that followed the Rihanna one was no where near that of Katy’s she wasnt shaded at all.
Also BB shaded Rihanna for the Samsung Deal, yet Lady Gaga and other Artist do promotional stunts like this. Madonna was even giving out her last album with a pizza order and bubdle deals and it was no where near the shade BB threw Rihanna’s way on Twitter.
Its never a bed of Roses and this is why i stick with Rihanna as hard as i do, because when she wins i feel like i win at the same time.
This song is so old, why is it just number one now??
Its a grower and radio just star ed playing it plus a discount.
It’s called a sleeper hit. Just like “Just Dance” and “Poker Face” were/became. Not a new concept.
You commenters who seemingly have to debate and bring up Rihanna and Beyonce on unrelated points and dig into stan battles are so annoying. Ugh. Worry about the topic at hand rather than defending Beyonce who doesn’t care about you at all.
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I am glad Sia finally got a number 1 hit as an artist, and probably on my favorite song by her. Her most Pop music format song or single to date/in America.
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It also is amazing and a trend that needs to continue to happen that women over 40 can get # 1 hit singles on the Hot 100. 16 years since Madonna and longer by a few since Cher 40+ hit number 1 is too long in between.
Congrats on her first and LAST no 1
I didn’t know this was her, I love her
Congrats
I have a feeling one dance will be back to #1. Views in general is a streaming beast. But Sam you know you would drag Rih if she discounted one of her current singles to .69 and it went #1. You would be beside yourself with the shade ?