Rihanna scores a No. 1 debut on Billboard’s European Albums chart with “Loud” (Def Jam/Universal), and makes it a double by starting a fourth week atop European Hot 100 Singles with “Only Girl (In The World)” (Def Jam/Universal).
“Loud” enters at No. 1 in Switzerland, No. 2 in Germany and Ireland, No. 3 in France and Austria, No. 6 in Spain and Holland, No. 7 in Norway. It sells 91,000 in the United Kingdom for a No. 2 debut there. “Only Girl,” meanwhile, holds at No. 2 in France, Spain and Denmark, and climbs 4-2 in Sweden.
In related news, Rihanna captured her fifth top 10 set with “Loud” coming in at No. 3 with 207,000 in the US market — her best sales week yet. All five of her studio efforts have reached the upper tier. She previously hit the top 10 with “Music of the Sun” (No. 10, 2005), “A Girl Like Me” (No. 5, 2006), “Good Girl Gone Bad” (No. 2, 2007) and “Rated R” (No. 4, 2009).
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