"in Netherlands. On the UK Singles Chart, the song debuted at number 16 on July 22, 2006, and the next week, it peaked at number two. ""Unfaithful"" re-entered the chart in both 2010 and 2011, when it reached numbers 31 and 50 respectively. More than 315,000 copies of the song have been sold in the UK. The accompanying music video for ""Unfaithful"" was directed by Anthony Mandler. After their work on ""Unfaithful"", Mandler became Rihanna's regular collaborator, and worked on most of Rihanna's videos, including ""Disturbia"" (2008) and ""Russian Roulette"" (2009). The video premiered May 1, 2006 on MTV, and"
"became the ""Greatest Airplay Gainer"" that week. In the issue dated July 30, 2005, the song peaked at number two on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, being held off of the top spot by Mariah Carey's ""We Belong Together"", which spent a total of 14 non-consecutive weeks at number one. ""Pon de Replay"" spent a total of 12 weeks inside the top ten of the Hot 100 and 23 weeks on the chart in total. The song also peaked at number one the US ""Billboard"" Dance Club Songs and Digital Songs charts, number two on the US Mainstream Top 40 chart,"
"2005, and peaked at number three for three consecutive weeks. The song spent a total of 41 weeks on the chart. The song also debuted at number four on the Norwegian Singles Chart and peaked at number three in its fifth week; the song spent a total of 15 weeks on the chart. ""Pon de Replay"" also peaked inside the top five in Denmark, Austria and Sweden, peaking at numbers four, five and five, respectively. ""Pon de Replay"" also peaked inside the top ten in Italy and Finland, peaking at numbers six and eight, respectively. However, the song was less"
"2006, she performed ""SOS"" and ""Unfaithful"" on the MTV series ""Total Request Live"". On September 20, 2006, Rihanna opened the 2006 MOBO Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London with a performance of ""Unfaithful"". On November 2, 2006, Rihanna performed ""SOS"" live at the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards held in Copenhagen, Denmark. On November 15, 2006, Rihanna performed ""Unfaithful"" at the 2006 World Music Awards, which also took place in London. On November 22, 2006, Rihanna performed ""SOS"" and ""Unfaithful"" on the Australian morning show ""Sunrise"". Rihanna further promoted ""A Girl like Me"" through her debut concert tour,"
"at the top of the UK R&B Chart, ""Replay"" was succeeded by Owl City's ""Fireflies"" and Rihanna's ""Rude Boy"", respectively. It was the first song released in 2010 in the UK to be certified Gold with sales in excess of 400,000. In June 2010, it was announced that ""Replay"" was the third highest selling single of the year in the UK at that point. In the US, ""Replay"" managed to reach the number two spot on the Hot 100 for one week, behind only Kesha's ""Tik Tok"". As of December 2012, ""Replay"" has sold over 4 million digital copies. Replay"
"edit and instrumental versions of ""SOS"", as well as the album track ""Break It Off"", which features Jamaican reggae singer Sean Paul. ""SOS"" contains a sped up sample of ""Tainted Love"", which was originally written by Ed Cobb in 1965 and popularized by English synthpop duo Soft Cell, when they released their cover version in 1981. It received positive reviews from music critics, especially for its energy and Rihanna's vocal performance. It peaked at number one on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100, and became the singer's first number one single on the chart. It also peaked at number one on"
"the song is ""a poppy piece of dancehall reggae with slapping, syncopated beats recalling big-band jazz"". The song received generally positive reviews from music critics. Sal Cinquemani of ""Slant"" Magazine praised the song, and compared it to Beyoncé 2003 chart topper ""Baby Boy"", because of how both songs feature ""a dancehall-pop mixture"". Barry Walter of ""Rolling Stone"" called the song ""sexy and savvy"". In the United States, ""Pon de Replay"" debuted at #97 on June 11, 2005, and ascended into the top 10 of the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart at #9 in the issue dated July 16, 2005, and"
"number three on the UK Albums Chart. However, none of the four singles released from the album managed to reach the top fifty of the UK Singles Chart. Her second album, ""Back to Black"", was released in October 2006, reaching number one on the UK Albums Chart and number seven on the ""Billboard"" 200 in the United States. The album was certified 11-times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and was the best-selling album of 2007 in the UK. The first single from the album, ""Rehab"", peaked at number seven in the UK and at number nine on the"
"SOS (Rihanna song) ""SOS"" is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna from her second studio album ""A Girl like Me"" (2006). It was written by Jonathan ""J.R."" Rotem, E. Kidd Bogart and Ed Cobb, with production was handled by Rotem, Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers. It was released on 14 February 2006, as the lead single from the album. ""SOS"" is a dance-pop song which samples Soft Cell's 1981 recording of ""Tainted Love"", a song written by Cobb in 1965. Critical reception of ""SOS"" was generally positive, with the majority of music critics praising the inclusion of the ""Tainted Love"""
"chart summit with Shakira's smash hit and Lily Allen's debut single. Another debut single to be released was German dance group Cascada's Everytime We Touch which went on to peak at #2, as Hips Don't Lie held them of the top spot. It ended 2006 as being the UK's fifteenth best selling single. Pop band McFly scored their fifth UK number one single Don't Stop Me Now/Please, Please but the following week dropped to number 6 in the top 40. The week after Shakira climbed back on top with ""Hips Don't Lie"", the first time since 2004's single Call on"
"the chart as a lead artist since ""Like Toy Soldiers"" in 2005. Eminem however was featured on Akon's chart topping single ""Smack That"" in 2006. As for Rihanna, the chart topper placed her with Elvis Presley and The Beatles in the chart's history, as just one of three acts to have scored seven number ones in Britain over seven consecutive years. The song was commercially successful around Europe, reaching the top of the charts in 8 countries and entered the top 10 in every territory it charted in. In Asia and Oceania, the single was a huge hit reaching the"
"""Pon de Replay"" debuted at number 13 on the Australian Singles Chart on September 25, 2005, and peaked at number six in its ninth week on the chart. The song spent a total of 10 weeks in the top ten chart positions and twenty-two weeks on the chart in total and was certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association, denoting shipments of over 70,000 copies. Elsewhere, the song achieved moderate commercial success in Europe, peaking inside the top ten of eight different charts. In Switzerland, the song debuted at number eight on the Swiss Music Charts on September 11,"
"in April 1985. The song remained on the chart for almost six months, and became one of Britain's highest-selling singles of the year. Based in France, she recorded a single with the French actor, Alain Delon: ""I Don't Know"". It was included in the original soundtrack of the 1985 French film, ""Parole De Flic"" (Cop's Honor). Her subsequent releases failed to make any impression (except ""I Like You"" which made No. 81), and she is remembered as a one-hit wonder. In the United States, she had success on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, where her song entitled ""I Like"
"was released on 15 April 2006, also as a physical maxi single. The package consisted of the radio edit and instrumental versions of ""SOS"" and ""Break It Off"", in addition to the music video for ""SOS"". In the United Kingdom, ""SOS"" was released on 17 April 2006, as a CD single. Upon the release of the album, ""SOS"" garnered positive reviews from music critics. Bill Lamb of About.com praised the sampling of Cobb's ""Tainted Love"" and Rihanna's vocal performance, with specific regard to her lower register. However, Lamb criticized Rihanna for not displaying any sense of originality. Additionally, Lamb compared"
"entered the music industry in 2003 with help from Evan Rogers. She landed a contract with Def jam Recordings after auditioning for rapper and producer Jay Z. She entered the music industry with her debut album ""Music in the Sun"" and second album ""A Girl Like Me"", which exerted an everyday, humble, pretty and ‘exotic’ Caribbean girl aesthetic. Granting her a top 10 record on the U.S Billboard 200 list in 2006, she began to take over the music industry with her hit single “Pon de Replay”. In 2007 she released her third studio album Good Girl Gone Bad, where"
"2 March 1985. It climbed to #1 in its fifth week, and stayed at the top for four weeks, alterning with Al Corley's ""Square Rooms"". After that, it dropped to number 6 and almost kept on falling. It remained for 14 weeks in the top ten and 23 weeks on the chart (Top 50). It disappeared from the chart on 17 August after a furtive re-entry at #49. With this song, Jeanne Mas became the first female artist to reach number one on the new SNEP French Singles Chart. As the previous single ""Toute première fois"", ""Johnny Johnny"" achieved Gold"
"Jeanne Mas Jeanne Mas, born on 28 February 1958 in Alicante, Spain, but naturalised in France, is a French pop singer and actress. She is well known in France, Switzerland, Canada and Belgium for a number of hit singles released in the 1980s. Her first success was ""Toute première fois"" in 1984. This song was simultaneously released in the United Kingdom in English. Two of her singles charted at number one in France: ""Johnny, Johnny"" and ""En Rouge et Noir"" in 1985 and 1986, respectively. Her 1980's albums are good examples of the Euro disco electropop style popular in Continental"
"300 copies separated ""One More Sleep"" from attaining the number-two position, which was claimed by Avicii's ""Hey Brother"". With ""One More Sleep"" peaking inside the top five at number three on the UK Singles Chart, Lewis set a new record for British female solo artist with the most top five singles in the history of the chart, bringing her total to eight. ""A Moment Like This"" and ""Bleeding Love"" both reached number-one in 2006 and 2007, respectively. In 2008, the double A-side ""Better in Time""/""Footprints in the Sand"" peaked at number two, ""Forgive Me"" peaked at number five and ""Run"""
"British female solo artist to have a number one single since the Sugababes topped the chart in January 2006; it stayed at number one for five weeks. It also reached number one in Switzerland, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands. In Spain, the single reached number two on the Spanish Singles Chart by PROMUSICAE. It was certificated Platinum with sales over 40,000 units. ""Bleeding Love"" was a hit on radio stations around the world, reaching number one in the airplay charts of the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Latin America, Estonia and Japan. In the Greek Airplay"
"Club Play and number two on the Dance Radio Airplay chart, while the original version went to number two on the Adult Top 40 and spent ten weeks at number one on the Adult Contemporary chart. ""Unwritten"" was not as successful in the United Kingdom as her previous chart-topping hit ""These Words"", but made an impressive showing on the charts, peaking at number six. It is one of her few singles to peak higher in the U.S. than in the UK. Two different music videos were made for the promotion of the song: one was shot in 2004 in the"
"last name, their favorite, had to be dropped following an injunction, and they split up again."" Helen Shapiro Helen Kate Shapiro (born 28 September 1946) is an English pop singer, jazz singer and actress. She is best known for her two 1961 UK chart toppers, ""You Don't Know"" and ""Walkin' Back to Happiness"". Shapiro was born at Bethnal Green Hospital in the East End district of Bethnal Green, London. Her early childhood was spent in a Clapton council house in the London borough of Hackney, where she attended Northwold Primary School and Clapton Park Comprehensive School until Christmas 1961. She"
"in the UK where it went triple platinum as well as being a hit throughout continental Europe, however unlike her debut it did not match the same level of international success. The first single released was ""Paid My Dues"". The song became an overall hit, in 2001, peaking in Denmark, Italy, Norway, and Switzerland, and reaching the top ten in several other mainland European countries. The second single, released in 2002, ""One Day in Your Life"", reached number eleven in the UK and the top ten in many European countries. The next single ""Why'd You Lie to Me"" reached the"
"nearly two years, ""Get Right"" allowed Lopez to re-enter the media spotlight immediately upon its release. In the United Kingdom, ""Get Right"" debuted at the top of the UK Singles Chart on February 20, 2005 – for the week ending date February 26, 2005 – selling 49,928 copies in its first week of release and dethroning U2's ""Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own"" to become her twelfth top-ten hit in Britain, as well as her second number one song in the country after ""Love Don't Cost a Thing"" in January 2001. The following week, ""Get Right"" fell a"
"Pop Songs charts. The song also peaked at number seven on the Radio Songs chart and peaked at number 40 on the Adult Contemporary chart. On 30 June 2015, ""SOS"" was certified 2× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipments of over 2,000,000 copies. In Europe, ""SOS"" achieved moderate chart success in multiple territories. In Belgium (Flanders), the song debuted at number 18 on 22 April 2006, and peaked at number two in its fourth week charting. In Switzerland, ""SOS"" debuted and peaked at number three on 21 May 2006, and stayed inside the top-ten of"
"her first UK hit: Debbie Harry with her band Blondie and their single ""Denis"". Amid much public discussion about the two singers' merits, Bush came out on top, while Blondie stalled at number two. ""Wuthering Heights"" remained at number one for an entire month until it was replaced at the top by Brian and Michael's celebration of the then-recently deceased artist L. S. Lowry, ""Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs"". Bush's début single finished the year as the tenth highest-selling and was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry, denoting sales of over half a million. Success was not"
"were Billie Piper who scored a third UK No. 1 with new release ""Day & Night"", following her two chart toppers from 1998, British DJ and singer, Sonique who scored a chart topper with a re-issue of her No. 24 hit from 1998, ""It Feels So Good"" after massive sales in the US and followed it up with a No. 2 hit, ""Sky"" and Irish singer, Samantha Mumba who kickstarted her career with her debut single ""Gotta Tell You"" peaking at No. 2, her follow-up hitting the Top 5 and her debut album settling in the Top 20. Geri Halliwell"
"filled with entries by users showing support for Madonna, as well as conspiracy theories about why she was not played on radio. The song, however, reached the top of the Hot Dance Club Play chart for two weeks, as well as Hot Dance Airplay chart for five weeks. As of April 2010, the song has sold 366,000 digital units in the United States. In the United Kingdom, it debuted at number one on the chart dated February 26, 2006. The song became Madonna's 12th number one single in Britain and second consecutive single from the album to peak the British"
"the top 15. On the UK Album Charts it reached number 3. It has sold over 1.6 million copies in the UK and 8.5 million copies worldwide. In 2004, their album Monkey Business was also a big success. Afterward the group went on a hiatus. They came back in with the album 2009 ""The E.N.D."", and 2010 ""The Beginning"". Both albums did well on the charts. From 2012 to present apl.de.ap started solo ventures, with a music video called ""Jump In"" featuring Jessica Sanchez. In March 2013, Apl.de.ap was confirmed to be one of the four coaches of the inaugural"
"100 for the week of 20 May 2006. On 8 July it topped the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, becoming her first number one single. It spent six weeks at the top spot and was replaced by Fergie's ""London Bridge"". It reached the top position on ""Billboard"" Pop Songs and Hot Dance Club Play chart. ""Promiscuous"" reached number twenty-two on the ""Billboard"" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and number thirty-six on Hot Latin Songs chart. The song was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of 1,000,000 digital copies. It also made number three on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100"
"the UK Singles Chart in July 2004. The track was originally released as an instrumental promo in 2003 and was inspired by Simon's ex-wife, Lola. Their second single, ""Back to Basics"", was released in March 2005 and reached #10 in the UK chart, while the third single ""Incredible"" reached #12. Their debut album, ""Sound Advice"", was released in March 2006 and peaked at #76 in the UK Albums Chart, before being released in the United States on Ultra Records in September 2006. The fourth single which featured Nile Rodgers of Chic, was called ""Sensitivity"" and charted at #40 on July"
"than ""La Tortura"", the lead-single of ""Fijación Oral"". After the moderate success of ""Don't Bother"" and of the album, her label Epic Records asked Wyclef Jean, in early 2006, to remake his song ""Dance Like This"" with Shakira, attempting to revive sales of the album. After that, ""Hips Don't Lie"" was released as the second single from the album (first from the reissue) on 28 February 2006. The song received positive reviews from critics, while it gained 6 awards. Commercially, the single proved to be more successful than ""Don't Bother"", peaking at number-one in more than 13 countries, including Australia,"
"on 1 June, and ""What You Don't Do"" on 7 August. ""Unstoppable"" performed poorly, only making appearances on the Belgium Flanders Ultratip chart and the US ""Billboard"" Twitter Emerging Artists. The second single ""What You Don't Do"" experienced more success than its predecessor peaking at number fifty four on the Flanders Ultratip chart and peaking at number twenty nine on the US ""Billboard"" Adult R&B chart. ""Blood"" was a commercial success, debuting at number two on the UK Albums Chart, missing out on the top spot by 1,300 copies. Blood (Solo) is an EP by Lianne La Havas, released on"
"was the first number one single in the U.S charts by a British solo female artist since Kim Wilde in 1987. The 2000s also saw the reunion of Take That, who went on to achieve new stardom by the end of the decade. In the early 2010s, the British boy and girl bands, The Wanted, One Direction, and Little Mix have experienced worldwide success, charting highly in Britain as well as North America. British soul in the 2000s was dominated by female singers, many of them white, including Natasha Bedingfield, Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse, Estelle, Adele and Duffy, all of"