Rewind the Hot 50: Is Lana Del Rey's 3 In A Row A Record?

If you're a long time reader of my blog, you'll note that lots of artists have doubled up with tracks on the CDS Music Chart Hot 50 (back to back position/placing). Many artists including Adele, Robin Thicke, Marina & the Diamonds, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Lopez, Sia, Pitbull, Eminem, Sharon Doorson, Carrie Underwood, Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, Loreen, Bruno Mars, Karmin, Katy Perry, Cher Lloyd, Justin Timberlake and Ke$ha have all done it once or twice. However, some other artists have achieved this feat numerous times - some of which were during back to back weeks. The artist with the most number of 2 back to back positioned tracks? Surprisingly Maroon 5 with a massive count of 23 back to back pair spread across 22 weeks. Other artists with around 6 or more counts are Ellie Goulding, Nicki Minaj, Lady Gaga, Calvin Harris, Christina Aguilera, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Beyoncé and Rihanna.

But what's more impressive than that? Artist who strung together 3 back-to-back-to-back tracks. The first artist to achieve this feat was Nicki Minaj on 2/9/12 (no surprise there). Drake did it next on 2/23/12. Rihanna followed on 3/29/12 and Pitbull did it a month later on 4/26/12. Then after five months of silence, P!nk (aided by a top 10 debut) took 3 back-to-back-to-back tracks into the top 10 on 9/26/12. Surprisingly, P!nk did it again the following week... and yet again the following week, becoming the first and only artist to string together 3 back-to-back-to-back tracks in 3 consecutive weeks. A few months later, Maroon 5 became the first artist to string together tracks in 4 consecutive position on a single issue. At the tail end of 2013, Lady Gaga became the second artist to string together 3 back-to-back-to-back tracks in multiple consecutive weeks. On November 21st, 2013 Lady Gaga became the second artist to string together tracks in 4 consecutive position on a single issue.

So, no. Lana Del Rey's 3 position string on this week's chart is not a record feat, yet still it's somewhat impressive.