Rihanna's 'What's My Name?' Makes Her A Chart Immortal

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It has been a strong month for record-breaking chart performances by women. Taylor Swift opened up the proceedings by moving one million copies of her third album Speak Now in a single week and then managed to get every single one of those tracks into the Billboard Hot 100. The Ke$ha's new single "We R Who We R" debuted at the top of the chart (that's only the 17th time that has happened).

Rihanna, whose new album Loud comes out this Tuesday, November 12, is the latest chart conqueror. Her new single "What's My Name?" made a gigantic leap into the number one spot on this week's Hot 100, knocking off Ke$ha and giving her a third chart-topper this year (she previously topped the chart by herself with "Rude Boy" and with Eminem on "Love the Way You Lie"). She is the first artist to score three chart-toppers in a single year since 2008 — when she herself scored the trifecta with "Take a Bow," "Disturbia" and on the chorus of T.I.'s "Live Your Life."

For her career, Rihanna has six solo singles that made it to the top of the chart and has eight appearances overall if you include the two collaborations above. While she still has a ways to go before she can catch up with Mariah Carey (who owns the record for chart-topping singles by a solo artist with 18), but she already has two trifectas to Carey's one (she topped the charts with "Someday," "I Don't Wanna Cry" and "Emotions" in 1991). Madonna had three number one songs in a 12 month span, though the feat fell across two different calendar years (1986 and 1987). All told, it's an amazing feat that should get the market excited not only for Loud but also for Rihanna's long and fruitful future.

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