Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” trumps Mariah Carey record

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I think that it’s safe to say no one saw “Blurred Lines” coming, and no one knew how big it would be. We’re talking redefining-song-of-Mariah-Carey’s-career-big.

In this week’s edition of Billboard, Robin Thicke‘s ”Blurred Lines,” which features Pharrell and T.I., collected the most multi-format audience impressions on the Billboard Radio Songs Chart (218.9 million) since Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together” which reached 212.2 million in July 2005. Additionally, “Lines” has set the record for the most weeks selling over 400,000 songs on the Billboard Digital Songs chart, with the record formerly held by Gotye’s “Somebody I Used To Know.”

Thicke’s album Blurred Lines comes into the Billboard 200 this week with over 170,000 copies sold, a good amount more than originally predicted.

Source: Billboard