Rihanna's passed The Beatles in the running for the artist who's spent the highest number of weeks at the top of America's Billboard Hot 100 chart.
As her track Work reaches it ninth week at number one, it means Rihanna's now spent sixty weeks in the top position across her career - The Beatles managed fifty-nine.
She's still in second place overall though - Mariah Carey's spent seventy-nine weeks at number one with her music.
It should be noted that Rihanna has been a featured artist on a few of the No. 1's she has been credited with, which was not the case for The Beatles. Those collaborations include T.I.'s "Live Your Life" as well as "Monster" and "Love the Way You Lie," both released by Eminem. In total, those three tracks accounted for a total of 17 weeks spent at No. 1 on the chart.
Elvis Presley would have the same number of weeks at No. 1 as Mariah Carey if one counts the data from before the official inception of the Billboard Hot 100, in August 1958.
Congrats to Rihanna on the amazing achievement. Think she can spent 20 more weeks at the top to officially become the artist who's spent the most time at No. 1?
