Kelly Clarkson will make history on this week's Billboard
Hot 100, to be posted tomorrow (Jan. 29) on Billboard.com,
with the largest leap to No. 1 in the chart's 50-year
history. Her new single, "My Life Would Suck Without You,"
is set to rocket 97-1 after selling 280,000 digital downloads in its
first week of availability.
The song is also faring well at radio, jumping 58-38 on the Hot 100
Airplay chart and 27-18 on the Mainstream Top 40 list.
"My Life" introduces Clarkson's March 17 RCA album "All I Ever Wanted."
This is the second time the artist has set the record for largest jump to
No. 1. She took her "American Idol" victory song, "A Moment Like This,"
52-1 on the chart dated October 5, 2002.
That mark lasted nearly five years until Maroon 5 soared
64-1 with "Makes Me Wonder" in May 2007 and had been broken
four more times since, most recently by Britney Spears' "Womanizer"
(96-1).
"My Life" is Clarkson's first No. 1 since her debut single,
though she has placed six other songs in the top 10 during this time,
including the No. 2-peaking "Since U Been Gone" in April 2005.
"Never Again", the first single from her last set,
the relatively poor performing "My December,"
opened at No. 8 on the Hot 100 in the May 5, 2007, issue, starting
with 107,000 downloads, and spending a total of two weeks in the top
10.
