Rihanna was ranked as #1 Billboard’s Top Artist in their yet another chart summaring the last 20 years in Pop Charts history! Congratulations RiRi!

Having first arrived on Pop Songs only as recently as 2005, her accomplishments are exceptional. She has the most chart appearances (34), the most top 10s (21) and the most No. 1s (nine, a mark she shares with the No. 6 artist, Katy Perry). She’s reigned with “Umbrella” and shined with “Diamonds,” the latter of which debuts this week.

The week of Oct. 3, 1992, Billboard premiered the Pop Songs radio airplay chart, as then-new Nielsen BDS-based monitoring technology allowed for unprecedented accuracy in gauging the biggest hits on mainstream top 40 radio. Twenty years later, Billboard is celebrating the anniversary by counting down the top 40 artists on the Pop Songs chart over the past two decades.

THE TOP 40 POP SONGS ARTISTS 1992-2012, Nos. 40-21:

40 JEWEL

39 TAYLOR SWIFT

38 FERGIE

37 KE$HA

36 HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH

35 TLC

34 SHERYL CROW

33 NO DOUBT

32 BRUNO MARS

31 GOO GOO DOLLS

30 3 DOORS DOWN

29 BOYZ II MEN

28 CELINE DION

27 FLO RIDA

26 DESTINY’S CHILD

25 ALANIS MORISSETTE

24 ‘N SYNC

23 EMINEM

22 CHRIS BROWN

21 NELLY

20 AVRIL LAVIGNE

19 MAROON 5

18 JENNIFER LOPEZ

17 BACKSTREET BOYS

16 BEYONCE

15 MATCHBOX TWENTY

14 NICKELBACK

13 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

12 CHRISTINA AGUILERA

11 LADY GAGA

10 MADONNA

9 JANET JACKSON

8 THE BLACK EYED PEAS

7 USHER

6 KATY PERRY

5 MARIAH CAREY

4 KELLY CLARKSON

3 BRITNEY SPEARS

2 P!NK

1 RIHANNA (The Pop Charts Queen)

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