Despite its success across Europe, Dirrty struggled in the US and stalled at Number 48, mainly due to lack of radio play which counts towards the Billboard Hot 100.
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The lead from her huge-selling second album Stripped, Dirrty spent two weeks rubbing itself up against the Number 1 spot, and has scored 593,000 combined sales (including 30.6m streams) to land in Christina's all-time Top 5. Christina was pulling no punches her – the video was set at a very rough boxing match – on this fantastically gritty Number 1 from 2002. If Lady Marmalade was the starter, Dirrty was the main. Image: Kevork Djansezian/AP/Shutterstock Dirrty On her rundown, it clocks in as her fourth biggest song overall with 869 ,000 combined sales, including 41.4m streams. With Lil Kim, Pink and Mya on board, this was a guaranteed hit – another Number 1. 2001's Lady Marmalade was a real turning point for Christina – while she'd been spotted out and about sporting a more outré look, this was the first time we'd seen Christina fully expressing herself and letting out her wild side. It lands as her third biggest song with combined sales of 884,000 made up of 718,000 CDs and downloads sales and 25.1 million audio and video streams.Ĭollaborating has been key to Christina's success over the years, and some of her most enduring hits have been her team-ups with other huge artists. Shifting 172,000 copies in that first seven days on sale, Genie in a Bottle spent two weeks at Number 1. A genuine phenomenon when released in 1999, demand was so high that the US import charted the week before its official UK release.
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Take a look at Aguilera's Top 20 biggest singles in the UK at the bottom of the page - it makes for a great show setlist, by the way - but first, some highlights: Genie in a BottleĮvery pop superstar's career has to start somewhere and Christina's kickoff was better than most.
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To mark her 20 years in music, she's begun her first Las Vegas residency Xperience, joining several other stars including Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey and Gwen Stefani who have reinvigorated what was once a retirement ground for heritage acts. To date, she's landed 23 Top 40 hits on the Official Singles Chart, 17 of which peaked inside the Top 10, with four going all the way to the top. Christina Aguilera's turnaround rate for albums may be slower than your average popstar at six in 20 years, but she rarely fails to deliver the goods each time.