It's official! Robin Thicke lands his first no.1 album, Blurred Lines after a decade from releasing his first album, stealing the position from Selena Gomez's Star Dance.
The singer's sixth album headlined by the "song of the summer" has sold over 177, 000 copies. The song Blurred Lines now has 126 million views (and counting) and has been in the number 1 position of the Billiboard Hot 100 for eight weeks now.
Billboard's Sean Ross recently noted how Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines easily surpassed Daft Punk's Get Lucky: When [Justin] Timberlake's "Suit & Tie" arrived this spring, it was the sort of polite retro jam that Thicke had been charting with at adult R&B for years. "Blurred Lines," a considerably less well-behaved retro jam, doesn't move pop music forward like "SexyBack" did, but it better captures the puckishness of its predecessor. And to the extent that this can be said about a song whose refrain is "We're up all night/to get lucky," it also makes Daft Punk's song sound tame.
Despite the controversial lyrics of Thicke's song and its music video which was connoted as "sexist" , it didn't stop Blurred Lines from being such a smashing hit. Apart from the Billboard 200, Robin Thicke managed to dethrone One DIrection's Best Song Ever just last week in the Digital Songs Chart. Blurred Lines also surpasses Imagine Dragon's Radiactive as the second best selling song. It also reached the number 1 position in well over 120 countries around the world. It's eased its way to the pop culture, with Jimmy Fallon even doing a rendition of it with Robin Thicke and The Roots.
On top of it all, it's also contender as the Video of the Year in this year's VMA's on Aug 25.
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