Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande‘s Hit “Rain on Me” debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and made history in a few ways! making chart history in several ways.
1- 1st time that a song by multiple female solo artists replaced another #1 song by multiple female solo artists (“Savage” by Megan Thee Stallion and Beyoncé)
2- Gaga’s 4th song to debut at #1- more than any other artist in history. Mariah Carey, Justin Bieber and Drake are close with 3 each.
3- Gaga’s 5th chart topper overall and her second #1 debut. She has set the record for the longest time in between #1 debuts. It’s been nine years, three months and a week since “Born This Way” was #1 in 2011.
4- Gaga is now the third artist to have reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the 2000s, 2010s and 2020s, following Mariah Carey and Beyoncé.
And this may be the start of more records broken with her new album which hasn’t even been out a week yet!
(Image: Interscope via AP)