{"id":17770,"date":"2025-08-23T06:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T06:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/17770\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T06:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T06:15:10","slug":"rihannas-disturbia-hit-no-1-on-the-hot-100-in-2008-chart-rewind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/17770\/","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna’s ‘Disturbia’ Hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 2008: Chart Rewind"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s safe to say that Rihanna<\/a> is the premier artist of the second half of the decade, with no signs of wear and tear,\u201d Michael Menachem wrote in a review of her then-new single, \u201cDisturbia,\u201d in the July 5, 2008, Billboard issue.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis latest is a sort of \u2018Thriller\u2019 for partygoers, with multilayered vocals cascading across Ri\u2019s lower register, alongside fun scatting, a la \u2018bum bum bi dum bum,\u2019\u201d the spotlight lauded. \u201cIn short order, Rihanna has become the trustworthy \u2018it\u2019 girl of our time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe same week, \u201cDisturbia\u201d debuted at No. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>. Among Rihanna\u2019s prior 11 entries, she had never opened in the chart\u2019s top half (starting at a No. 51 best to that point with \u201cUnfaithful\u201d in May 2006).<\/p>\n

\n\tSeven weeks after its arrival, \u201cDisturbia\u201d hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 dated Aug. 23, 2008. Beginning a two-week reign, it became Rihanna\u2019s fourth leader, following \u201cTake a Bow\u201d (one week, May 2008), \u201cUmbrella,\u201d featuring Jay-Z (seven weeks, June-July 2007) and \u201cSOS\u201d (three, May 2006).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDisturbia\u201d and \u201cTake a Bow\u201d were released from the deluxe Reloaded edition, released in June 2008, of Rihanna\u2019s 2007 album Good Girl Gone Bad. \u201cUmbrella\u201d introduced the original version.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong the writers of \u201cDisturbia,\u201d Chris Brown earned his second of two Hot 100 No. 1s as an author. He previously led as a writer and recording artist with \u201cKiss Kiss\u201d in 2007. That hit was penned with T-Pain, who produced it and is featured on it.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDisturbia\u201d was solely produced by Brian Kennedy, who crowned the Hot 100 with his first entry in that role. He\u2019s since added two more top 10s: Kelly Clarkson\u2019s \u201cMr. Know-It-All\u201d (No. 10 peak, November 2011) and Brown\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Wake Me Up\u201d (No. 10, November 2012). He most recently reached the chart via The Weeknd\u2019s \u201cHere We Go\u2026 Again,\u201d featuring Tyler, The Creator, in 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDisturbia\u201d also topped the Pop Airplay and Dance Club Songs charts and was nominated for best dance\/electronic recording at the Grammy Awards in 2009.<\/p>\n

\n\tRihanna has, of course, continued to fulfill the promise of the praise in Billboard\u2019s review of \u201cDisturbia.\u201d The superstar artist and fashion mogul has upped her count to 14 Hot 100 No. 1s \u2014 the most<\/a> among all acts over the first quarter of the 21st century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s safe to say that Rihanna is the premier artist of the second half of the decade, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[4812,18,117,1883,19,17,337,2624],"class_list":{"0":"post-17770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-chart-beat","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-genre-pop","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-music-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}