Robin Thicke No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 After 10 Years with 'Blurred Lines'
Robin Thick scores his first no. 1 album, Blurred Lines after 10 years of releasing his first album, stealing the no.1 position from Selena Gomez's Star Dance.
The singer's sixth album made headlines and was termed as the "song of the summer." The album has sold more than 177, 000 copies. Blurred Lines now has 126 million views (and counting) and has been in the no. 1 spot of the Billiboard Hot 100 for two months now.
Sean Ross of Billboard noted how Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines without difficulty 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."
Thicke's song also sparked controversies due to its lyrics as well as its music video which a lot of people thought of as "sexist." These controversies did not stop Blurred Lines from being such a smashing hit.
Thicke also managed to overthrow One DIrection's Best Song Ever last week in the Digital Songs Chart. Currently, Blurred Lines reached the number 1 position in more than 120 countries all over the world.
It is also one of the major contenders for Video of the Year in the VMA on August 25.