Chart Check [Billboard 200]: Rihanna Joins Whitney Houston As Only Black Women To Chart 5 Albums in Top 50 Simultaneously

Published: Saturday 25th Feb 2023 by Rashad

Rihanna‘s seismic Super Bowl Halftime Show proves itself the gift that keeps on giving.

As if earning praise aplenty from her celebrity peers, diehard fans (affectionately called #theNavy), and others wasn’t enough to celebrate, review of the updated Billboard charts saw her catalog of hits tackle and takedown some of today’s leading smashes.

The 13-minute showcase at the State Farm Stadium (February 12) has led to the best streaming week of her career thanks to reignited interest – a win reflected on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard 200 (to historic measure).

See how inside.

 

In the 77-year history of album charts only seven acts have placed at least five projects in the top 50: Taylor Swift, Mac Miller, Prince, the ‘Glee‘ cast, Garth Brooks, Whitney Houston, and now, Rihanna.  Uniquely, Houston is the first female act to chart 8 titles on the chart simultaneously.

The latest to join the exclusive club, the current Billboard 200 shows the Bajan diva printed five times with ‘Anti‘ (No. 8), ‘Good Girl Gone Bad’ (No. 15), ‘Unapologetic’ (No. 18), ‘Loud‘ (No. 26), and ‘Talk That Talk’ (No. 49)

It’s also worth noting that the surge of 2016’s ‘Anti,’ Rih’s last studio album,’ pushed it to its 355th week of charting – extending its reign as the longest-running R&B/hip-hop album by a woman yet.

Look below to see who joins the songstress on this week’s refreshed TGJ Chart Check: Billboard 200 edition.

Billboard 200 This Week

[main photo sources: Getty Images/Billboard]

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  1. Shayla Queen™ 👑 February 25, 2023

    Whitney had to DIE before having 5 albums in the Top 50. Rih and Taylor didn’t. Their power! 👏🏽

    • Pu$$yPop$tre$$ February 25, 2023

      Because of Streaming! If whitney had streaming in her day, Tay nor Ri would be able to touch her stats!

      • True Tea February 25, 2023

        This.

        Also Whitney was around during the 80s and 90s and dominated.

        I LOVE Rihanna but she would NOT have dominated during those eras, neither would have Taylor.

      • Shayla Queen™ 👑 February 25, 2023

        Of course they wouldn’t have dominated then, just the same as Whitney wouldn’t dominate now. It’s two different eras.

      • True Tea February 25, 2023

        And that is why the OLDER Music is outselling the NEWER music.

        This wasn’t the case during Whitney’s era.

  2. Diabetes UNBOTHERED February 25, 2023

    8 albums and NOT ONE of them S Tier

    S Tier- LEMONADE. 4. DIL. SELF TITLED. RENAISSANCE.

    A TIER- ANTI

    B TIER- IAMSF. BDAY. RATED R. GGGB

    C TIER- LOUD. UNAPOLOGETIC. TALK THAT TALK.

    D TIER- MUSIC OF THE SUN. GLM.

    • Zade (N** me daddy 🥜) February 25, 2023

      Anti is trash like your greasy fat ass

  3. Diabetes UNBOTHERED February 25, 2023

    There’s a reason why rih only has 9 GRAMMYS… The music is good but most of it lacks MUSICALITY. On the 4 album for instance 🐝 hits countless noted that her peers CANT HIT. 🐝

    • Diabetes UNBOTHERED February 25, 2023

      *NOTES

      • Shayla Queen™ 👑 February 25, 2023

        4 was her worst album yet.

      • Diabetes UNBOTHERED February 25, 2023

        Beyonce is extremely UNDERRATED…

        Beys Superbowl >>> MJs SUPERBOWL >>> RIHANNAS SUPERBOWL 😆

        32 Grammys >>> 9 GRAMMYS

        36 million PURE SALES (7 ALBUMS) >>> 30 MILLION (8 ALBUMS)

        HIGHEST SELLING PURE SALES WW
        DIL (11 MILLION >>> LOUD (6.5 MILLION)

        RENAISSANCE TOUR >>> ALL RIHS TOURS COMBINED (AND THE TOUR HASN’T EVEN STARTED YET 😆 )

        FORMATION VIDEO >>> ALL RIHANNA VIDEOS.

        Rihanna is a WEAK visual artist and WEAK artist overall compared to 🐝…

        THE UNDERRATED QUEEN 👑

      • Beyonce SUCKS!!! February 26, 2023

        You forgot this Millionaire <<<Billionaire 🤣 Let's do the math. One is worth around $500 million and the other $1.4 BILLION 🤔
        All those grammy's and sales don't mean anything when you're WAAAY under the queen of green, the Barbadian Queen🇧🇧

  4. Zade (N** me daddy 🥜) February 25, 2023

    One is dead and the other one is just lame, BYE!

  5. marilyn monh-O-E ® 👠(#1 DIVA) February 25, 2023

    Sorry but Rihanna’s baby is so damn ugly💅🏾 She should’ve let Jay n** her. Maybe her baby will looking better.. even Blue Ivy looks better than her ugly ass baby

    • Diabetes UNBOTHERED February 25, 2023

      😆 & that FOREHEAD, his mother’s CHILD 👶

    • ♠️What Would 50cent do. ♠️ February 25, 2023

      She will be bleaching the baby skin just like her

      • Shayla Queen™ 👑 February 25, 2023

        How can you always talk about children in such a disgusting manner?

      • Shayla Queen™ 👑 February 26, 2023

        I don’t even care about mine, I prefer to stay here 24/7 while she forgets about me. I’m the worst mother but I don’t mind 💁🏼‍♀️

  6. ♠️What Would 50cent do. ♠️ February 25, 2023

    Look everybody at BILLBOARD NEEDS TO BE TERMINATED lil Wayne should have been on top list of greatest rappers with ,50 cent and Jay-Z..

    • Shayla Queen™ 👑 February 25, 2023

      Hell to the naww!

    • Diabetes UNBOTHERED February 25, 2023

      Lil wayne OVERRATED, Nas is better by far.

      • Shayla Queen™ 👑 February 25, 2023

        Beyoncé is OVERRATED. Rihanna is better by far.

      • Shayla Queen™ 👑 February 25, 2023

        Even Mýa is better than Beyoncé. She has a lot more character and personality at least.

      • Diabetes UNBOTHERED February 25, 2023

        Beyonce is UNDERRATED…

        Beys Superbowl >>> MJs SUPERBOWL >>> RIHANNAS SUPERBOWL 😆

        32 Grammys >>> 9 GRAMMYS

        36 million PURE SALES (7 ALBUMS) >>> 30 MILLION (8 ALBUMS)

        HIGHEST SELLING PURE SALES WW
        DIL (11 MILLION >>> LOUD (6.5 MILLION)

        RENAISSANCE TOUR >>> ALL RIHS TOURS COMBINED (AND THE TOUR HASN’T EVEN STARTED YET 😆 )

        FORMATION VIDEO >>> ALL RIHANNA VIDEOS.

        Rihanna is a WEAK visual artist and WEAK artist overall compared to 🐝…

        THE UNDERRATED QUEEN 👑

      • Shayla Queen™ 👑 February 25, 2023

        You can keep repeating it until you believe it. Doesn’t and won’t ever make it true.

      • Shayla Queen™ 👑 February 26, 2023

        Just like me when I claim to be a Queen and to have a daughter 🤗

    • Savage February 26, 2023

      Stop smoking that stuff Wayne is not even too 20

  7. NBM February 25, 2023

    Rihanna can’t sing or perform but that catalogue is something SERIOUS!!

  8. Diabetes UNBOTHERED February 25, 2023

    @Shayla Q****

    7 #1 ALBUMS >>> 2 #1 ALBUMS 😆 🤣 😂

    • Shayla Queen™ 👑 February 25, 2023

      Renaissance is falling down the charts as we speak lmaoooooooooooo 🤣

    • Shayla Queen™ 👑 February 25, 2023

      Anti is #8 after 355 weeks on Billboard 200.

      Renaissance is #12 after only 29 weeks on Billboard 200.

    • Shayla Queen™ 👑 February 25, 2023

      Also, read the headline: Beyoncé has never had 5 albums chart simultaneously in the Top 50. Even after her TWO Super Bowl halftime performances. Cry about it 😂

      • Diabetes UNBOTHERED February 25, 2023

        IASF is 2x DIAMOND 💎 in BRAZIL

        SELF TITLED too is DIAMOND in BRAZIL

        Your Rihanna doesn’t have ANY Diamond Plaques lol 😆 😂 🤣

        Rihanna also HAS NEVER had a BIG DEBUT WEEK like LEMONADE which sold as much in PURE SALES first 7 days as did ANTI PURE SALES still STALLED at 600k US Today.

        Thank God for STREAMS.

      • Shayla Queen™ 👑 February 25, 2023

        Lemonade pure sales is 485,000 💀

      • Shayla Queen™ 👑 February 25, 2023

        Stop bragging on Brazil, you desperate fool 🤣

    • Diabetes UNBOTHERED February 25, 2023

      @SHY Q****

      I said first 7 days for a reason. LEMONADE sold 485k in first FOUR DAYS. it sold what ANTI sold in ONE WEEK…

      PURE SALES.

      PURE SALES Rihanna career total is only 30 million ww LMAO with 8 albums

      Also only 9 GRAMMYS 🤪

      Rihanna is here for SINGLES 💩
      The Quuen is here for ALBUMS 🐝

      • Beyonce SUCKS!!! February 26, 2023

        Beyonce music SUCKS and her singing is mediocre! She can sell a billion and she is still horrible.
        How are you 50 and still singing songs like you’re 20? Grow up ghetto diva. She can’t even make coherent sentences and her vernacular is that of a 15 year old ghetto hood chick.

      • Beyonce SUCKS!!! February 26, 2023

        And Rihanna is a multi BILLIONAIRE on her own; a smart business women. Beyonce is a…nevermind. BeYAWNce could perform naked and still isn’t worth Rih’s spit. Even J-hud got her EGOT and BeYAWNce trying so hard with her non acting ass. She couldn’t act her way out of a brown paper bag filled with 💩
        🤣🤣🤣

  9. Diabetes UNBOTHERED February 25, 2023

    RENAISSANCE Will be the BIGGEST TOUR OF ALL TIME

    The 🐝 is a CELEBRITY to celebrities unlike Rihanna. THE QUEEN OF MUSIC has her own LABEL PARKWOOD ENTERTAINMENT where she gave BIRTH to an ENTIRE GENERATION (ADELE, LIZZO, CARDI B, RIHANNA, CHLOE, HALLE).

    25 YEARS
    12 #1 HITS
    10 #1 ALBUMS
    4 MASSIVE TOURS
    32 GRAMMYS
    300 MILLION RECORDS SOLD
    100 MILLION ALBUM UNITS SOLD
    BILLIONS OF STREAMS

    4 CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM IN A ROW 🏆
    MORE GOLD PLATINUM AND MULTI PLAT HITS THAN MICHAEL JACKSON.

    BOW DOWN TO THE QUEEN OF CHRIST🙇‍♂️ 🙇‍♀️

    • Shayla Queen™ 👑 February 25, 2023

      The album itself is no longer even Top 10.

      Anti is Top 10 after 355 weeks. The longest album by a black woman on the chart.

      • Diabetes UNBOTHERED February 25, 2023

        I’d hope so…

        Rih did just perform at the SUPERBOWL 🤐

        Anti still walked home with 0 GRAMMYS 😆 🤣 😂

        Beyonce has never made a GRAMMY-LESS Album 😆 🤣 😂

        & I said first 7 days for a reason. LEMONADE sold 485k in first FOUR DAYS. it sold what ANTI sold in ONE WEEK…

        PURE SALES.

        PURE SALES Rihanna career total is only 30 million ww LMAO with 8 albums

        Also only 9 GRAMMYS 🤪

        Rihanna is here for SINGLES 💩
        The Quuen is here for ALBUMS 🐝

      • Shayla Queen™ 👑 February 25, 2023

        Yet Anti has been on the charts longer than Lemonade, Lion Ling The Gift and Renaissance combined lol.

        I didn’t see Beyoncé with 5 of her albums in the Top 50 after HER TWO Super Bowl halftime shows 🤣

    • Diabetes UNBOTHERED February 25, 2023

      @ SHY Q****

      Beyonce is NEW to the STREAMING ERA, it’s new territory for lemonade especially cause it was added late. Streaming wasn’t as big back then.

      If rih dropped a surprise album it would generate high streams EXTREMELY LOW PURE SALES like Anti 😆

      • Shayla Queen™ 👑 February 25, 2023

        Anti came out around the same time as Lemonade so don’t make excuses lmaoooooooooooo 🤣

    • Beyonce SUCKS!!! February 26, 2023

      No one will ever bow down to the Queen of SATAN! The Navy supported Rih and helped her become a billionaire. I guess the flee hive don’t like Bey that much 🤣🤣🤣. The Navy went all in and sprayed those annoying bees with RAID. 🇧🇧

  10. Diabetes UNBOTHERED February 25, 2023

    @ SHY Q****

    OKay so the 🐝 and rih both 💩 on Eachother in many regards but u must admit THE 👑 Has TOURING lol

    Can’t argue with that. THE QUEEN already has 4 MAMMOTH TOURS… 🦣

    Renaissance will be the 5th. Personally I think Rih would make a great OPENING ACT

    I actually liked rih’s SB PERFORMANCE.

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