By maintaining its momentum through the weekend, Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” made good on Billboard’s forecast to reach the apex of the Hot 100 singles chart.<\/p>\n
Billboard confirmed the news Wednesday, announcing that the suddenly-controversial pop star has claimed her first number one on the key singles chart. She previously peaked at number two with both “Party in the USA” and “We Can’t Stop.”<\/p>\n
Cyrus’ ascent knocks Katy Perry’s “Roar” off the throne, thus ending the hitmaker’s latest streak at two weeks. Despite losing the number one position, “Roar” remains a force in the sales, airplay and stream categories, and there is nothing to suggest Perry’s single will rapidly fall much farther down the ladder. A return to the top spot is, in fact, quite possible.<\/p>\n
Lorde’s “Royals” holds at number three for the week, finally besting Robin Thicke’s monster “Blurred Lines.” That song falls to number four, besting Avicii’s “Wake Me Up” by one positoin.<\/p>\n
The remainder of the top ten includes, in order, Jay-Z’s “Holy Grail,” Lady Gaga’s “Applause,” Eminem’s “Berzerk,” Drake’s “Hold on, We’re Going Home” and Lana Del Rey and Cedric Gervais’ “Summertime Sadness.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3,206],"tags":[813,176,486,640,116,588,641,643,678],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n