Ke$ha to Crash Hot 100 at No. 1 with ‘We R Who We R’

Ke$ha’s “We R Who We R” is set to become just the 17th song to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 when the chart is officially released today (Nov. 4).

The track is the preview single from Ke$ha’s forthcoming “Cannibal” album, set to be released on its own on Nov. 22 in addition to being packaged with her debut album, “Animal,” in a deluxe edition titled “Animal Cannibal.”

“We R Who We R” shifts 280,000 downloads in its initial week at retail, according to Nielsen SoundScan, to easily rank at No. 1 on Digital Songs, knocking Far*East Movement’s “Like a G6″ (178,000, down 13%) to No. 2 on both that chart and the Hot 100. “Like a G6″ topped the latter list for the past two weeks and had led Digital Songs for three non-consecutive frames.
Ke$ha’s track is also making an swift impact at radio, debuting at No. 49 on Radio Songs (up 81%) and jumping 36-23 on Pop Songs (up 124%).

“We R Who We R” is the second title this year to start its chart life at No. 1, following Eminem’s “Not Afraid” in May. Prior to Eminem’s debut, Britney Spears had been the last artist to enter at No. 1, with “3″ in October 2009.

Ke$ha is no stranger to the top of the Hot 100. Earlier this year she became the 11th solo female to collect at least four Billboard Hot 100 top 10s from a debut album. First single “TiK ToK” topped the chart for nine weeks starting with the Hot 100 dated Jan. 2, 2010, followed by “Blah Blah Blah” (No. 7), “Your Love Is My Drug” (No. 4) and “Take It Off” (No. 8). In addition to those titles, Ke$ha had a top 10 appearance on 3OH!3′s “My First Kiss” (No. 9) in May.

The speedy ascent of the lead track from her upcoming Cannibal makes her the first female to debut at No. 1 since Britney’s “3? took group-sex arithmetic to the top spot in 2009, and only the 17th artist in the chart’s overall history to achieve that feat.

Only 17 songs have debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 to date and Ke$ha joins the ranks of other superstars such as Mariah Carey, Carrie Underwood, Britney Spears and Whitney Houston who share the honor
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