Mariah Carey has scored her 18th #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and leaps ahead of her previous tie with Elvis Presley, who had 17. The trade publication notes that "Touch My Body" will be at the top of the new chart posted tomorrow, after 286,000 paid downloads last week.Priscilla Presley would've let out a nine-octave shriek over the news if this were six faces ago for her. Now she'll probably just stand there and nervously fidget with her bank card. Mimi now only trails The Beatles, who have 20 U.S. #1 singles.
As well, Madonna moves past Elvis; "4 Minutes," which jumps from #68 to #3 on tomorrow's chart, gives her a total of 37 U.S. Top 10 hits, beating the 36 racked up by The King. Madonna has had 12 Hot 100 chart-toppers, and last hit #1 with "Music" in 2000. "4 Minutes" ended up with 217,000 paid downloads in its first week of availability.