Billboard Update: Mariah's Record-Breaking 18th #1!

^This week's #1 album on the Billboard 200 chart

This week's #1 single on the Hot 100 chart^

See full charts HERE.

This week's album news is exciting for Bad Boy's new group Day26, who overtake their fellow Making The Band-ers Danity Kane at #1 with their self-titled debut album, selling 190,000 copies in the first week. I, for one, am happy for them (I contributed to the above number!), as they are great singers & a wonderful new edition (no pun intended...) to the R&B genre. Day26 broke their own share of records as the first male group to debut at #1 in seven years & the highest bow for a group's debut album since ... you guessed it, Danity Kane, back in 2006. However, this week's single news is the headline-maker & the news that us Mariah fans have been dying to hear: Mariah Carey has reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the 18th time with the lead single, "Touch My Body," from her upcoming album E=MC² (due April 15th -- only 12 days!) in its seventh week on the chart, allowing her to pass Elvis Presley & become the (sole) artist with the second-most #1 singles of the rock era. Though she is still shy of The Beatles by two #1s, Mariah has the most #1s by a solo artist. She also set a new record for first-week digital single sales, with 286,000 for "Touch My Body," besting the 277,000 for Rihanna's "Umbrella" last year. This week's top 5 singles on the Hot 100 chart are pretty incredible, so check out a list of them below, as well as a few more Mariah tidbits:

1 - Mariah Carey "Touch My Body"

2 - Usher ft. Young Jeezy "Love In This Club"

3 - Madonna ft. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland "4 Minutes"

4 - Leona Lewis "Bleeding Love"

5 - Jordin Sparks ft. Chris Brown "No Air" (its peak!)

Additional Mariah Facts:

• Mariah, with 78 cumulative weeks atop the Hot 100, is only two weeks shy of Elvis Presley for the all-time record!
• Mariah (with 18) is only behind Paul McCartney (with 32) & John Lennon (with 26) for most #1 hits by a songwriter!
• "Touch My Body" bests Mariah's previous first-week single sales record (for "Heartbreaker") by 15,000 copies!
• Mariah has become the first woman & only the third artist of the Soundscan era to reach 50 million in record sales!

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