If solely they’d an “Ask a Billboard Charts Division Member” lifeline.
On the season premiere final night time (Wednesday, July 23) of ABC’s Who Desires To Be a Millionaire, contestants Drew Carey and Aisha Tyler have been cruising alongside, till they bought to a query concerning the Scorching 100.
The 2 stars (who every beforehand hosted Whose Line Is It Anyway?) had received $16,000 for his or her charities — La Maida Challenge and Worldwide Rescue Committee, respectively — once they have been confronted with the next query from host Jimmy Kimmel: “With a whopping 11, which of those singers has extra #1 hits on the Billboard Scorching 100 than the opposite three mixed?”
The alternatives: “A: Whitney Houston / B: Celine Dion / C: Tina Turner / D: Britney Spears”
Carey and Tyler have been initially heading in the right direction. “I feel it’s A or B,” Carey mentioned. “I really suppose it’s A or D,” Tyler countered. As they contemplated the query additional, they drifted towards Spears, given, partially, that Houston died in 2012.
They determined to ask the viewers, who voted and settled on Spears (60%) because the consensus appropriate reply, adopted by Houston (38%) and rounded out distantly by Dion (2%) and Turner (0%).
The pair trusted the viewers and Tyler the delivered the fateful phrases: “Britney Spears, remaining reply.”
The right reply then flashed in inexperienced … Whitney Houston.
“The reply rhymed with ‘itney’,” Kimmel consoled Carey and Tyler.
Sadly not the scholars of the Billboard charts that they wanted to be for that individual query, the tandem discovered that Houston achieved 11 profession Scorching 100 No. 1s. Spears has scored 5; Dion, 4; and Turner, one.
Houston’s 11 leaders, between 1985 and 1995: “Saving All My Love for You,” “How Will I Know,” “Biggest Love of All,” “I Wanna Dance With Any individual (Who Loves Me),” “Didn’t We Nearly Have It All,” “So Emotional,” “The place Do Damaged Hearts Go,” “I’m Your Child Tonight,” “All of the Man That I Want,” “I Will At all times Love You” and “Exhale (Shoop Shoop).”
Spears has topped the Scorching 100 with “…Child One Extra Time,” “Womanizer,” “3,” “S&M” (with Rihanna) and “Maintain It In opposition to Me,” between 1999 and 2011.
Houston boasts the ninth-most No. 1s within the Scorching 100’s 67-year historical past. The Beatles lead with 20, adopted by Mariah Carey (19), Rihanna (14), Drake, Michael Jackson (13 every), Madonna, the Supremes and Taylor Swift (12 every). Janet Jackson and Stevie Surprise (10 every) have additionally every earned double-digit totals.
Regardless of their elimination, Carey and Tyler’s night time ended on an essential optimistic, as they obtained $32,000 for his or her charities.
Additionally good: the subsequent Who Desires To Be a Millionaire contestants bought their very own Scorching 100 query appropriate. Jeopardy host Ken Jennings and Kimmel frenemy Matt Damon knew that the briefest hit ever on the chart, Jack Black’s “Steve’s Lava Rooster,” is from A Minecraft Film.
“We hear that quite a bit in my home,” Kimmel famous of the 34-second-long (or, quick) hit.
