Robin Thicke: 'Blurred Lines' Becomes First No. 1 Single, Singer Talks Its Racy Video [VIDEO]
Robin Thicke has just notched his first No. 1 hit, with his song Blurred Lines, Billboard announced Wednesday.
The song, which features T.I. and Pharrell Williams, has been on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for since April, but in its eighth week on the charts, it jumped five spots.
The song is also atop the charts for Billboard's Digital, Airplay, and Streaming charts; Blurred Lines is the first song to at the top of all three charts at once since the three new charts' inception in March 2011.
Blurred Lines marks some other individual records for Thicke's career. It is his third No. 1 song on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and his first song to top one million downloads. His 2007 Hot 100 hit, which peaked at only No. 14, was his previous highest, at 946,000.
Thicke even got a shout-out from his fellow No. 1 artists. The rock band Queens Of The Stone Age, who topped this week's album chart with their new album ...Like Clockwork, recently covered the song on BBC Radio 1 on an appearance Monday at the station's Live Lounge.
Thicke said the new chart topper came about from his desire to recreate the atmosphere of his favorite song, Marvin Gaye's Got To Give It Up. He and Pharrell put the song together within an hour.
"One of the first things Pharrell did was go, 'Hey, hey, hey!'" Thicke told Radio.com, recalling the scene, "and then we started having such a great time. We were dancing around the studio like old men. We were doing our old men barbecue dances."
The video for the song has also made waves, for its racy content. The uncensored video, featuring three topless models dancing, was released in March, and had over a million hits on Youtube before it was removed. A censored version, where the models wear plastics suits, remained on the video website.
The singer said the nude models were an idea from his director, Diane Martel.
"As long as it's fun and the girls are comfortable, let's do something silly," he described his reaction to The Associated Press in April. "Let's take some chances."
More importantly for Thicke, however, is that he also enjoys the effect the video's had on his wife, actress Paula Patton.
"My wife is an artist first and wife second. So she's my creative partner and muse," he told British newspaper The Daily Star.
"She was excited about it right away and loved the video and wanted to watch it like 10 times, then she would jump on my bones."
Check out Thicke's Blurred Lines video here, and watch Queens Of The Stone Age cover the song.
