For 42 years, the Fab Four have held the record for most Number One hits on the Billboard Hot 100. But could Rihanna break it?
Source: beatlesblogger.com
Rihanna would still need to score nine Number One hits to break the record. She currently has 12 Number Ones and the Beatles had 20. But Rihanna has a few things going for her the Fab Four never did.
She's a solo artist, not a band.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
The reason the Beatles stopped racking up Number Ones was because they broke up and stopped recording together. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, former Beatles scored an additional 16 Number Ones as solo artists (or in Paul McCartney's case, with his new band, Wings), but none of those songs count in their total. Rihanna won't ever have to worry about this.
