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Ten weeks at number one for Rihanna
23.07.07
Rain: Rihanna's aptly named single 'Umbrella' has proved a huge hit
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R&B sensation Rihanna's massive hit Umbrella has become the longest-running number one single for more than a decade.
The release by the Barbados popstar has now dominated the top slot for ten consecutive weeks.
The last song to spend more than nine weeks at number one was Wet Wet Wet's Love Is All Around in 1994, which clocked up 15 weeks.
After a weekend of torrential rain the singer's aptly named single Umbrella has become an unlikely anthem for much of the UK.
Rihanna has become only the seventh artist in chart single history to reach double figures for weeks at the top. Three of the previous six came in the early 1990s - Wet Wet Wet, Bryan Adams and Whitney Houston - with the other three soon after the charts began in the 1950s.
The 19-year-old R&B star kept the top position after holding off up-and-coming London singer-songwriter Kate Nash who rose one to the second slot with her single Foundations.
Up one in third place was veteran star Timbaland with The Way I Are, while Fergie's Big girls Don't Cry fell two to four. Latin heartthrob Enrique Iglesias rose two to number five with Do You Know and the Hoosiers jumped a couple of places to six with Worried About Ray.
When You're Gone by Canadian rock chick Avril Lavigne fell one to seven while super-producer Mark Ronson's Oh My God jumped four to eight. British favourites Arctic Monkeys fell four to nine with Fluorescent Adolescent and rockers My Chemical Romance fell one to ten.
In the album charts One Chance - the debut release from TV talent show winner Paul Potts - has gone straight to number one.
The 36-year-old singer, a former mobile phone salesman, outsold the number two release, We'll Live And Die In These Towns by Enemy, by over 100,000 copies. Rock super group the Traveling Wilburys remain in the third slot with their greatest hits album Collection.
