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Kelly Clarkson's "My Life Would Suck Without You" vaults from #97 to #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 this week.

That sets a new record for the biggest leap into the top spot in the chart's 50-year history.

The old record was held by Britney Spears' "Womanizer," which shot from #96 to #1 in October. Clarkson's song also enters the Hot Digital Songs chart at #1, after selling 280,000 downloads in its first week. "My Life Would Suck Without You," the lead single from Clarkson's upcoming fourth album All I Ever Wanted, is her second #1 on the Hot 100.

"A Moment Like This," her American Idol victory song, shot from #52 to #1 in October 2002. (At the time, that was the biggest leap into the top spot in Hot 100 history.) "Suck" is Clarkson's first #1 on Hot Digital Songs. Her 2004 smash "Since U Been Gone" just missed the top spot, though it has sold more than 2 million cumulative downloads.

(Incidentally, Clarkson's use of the word "suck" in the title is cheeky, but not unprecedented. The Rolling Stones titled a 1981 hits compilation Sucking In The Seventies. Primus titled its 1990 breakout album Suck On This. The Murmurs had a Hot 100 hit in 1994 titled "You Suck," which does make the point succinctly.)

Paul Grein in Chart Watch

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