Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, formerly known as Top Soul Singles, Top Black Singles, and Top R&B Singles (before the term was added in the late 1990s), is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States. The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African-American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, doo wop, soul, and funk, it is today dominated by contemporary R&B and hip-hop. It lists the most popular R&B and hip-hop songs, calculated weekly by airplay on rhythmic and urban radio stations and sales in urban record stores.
The chart's title was modified to Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks when, like the Hot 100, airplay-only tracks (album tracks) were allowed to enter the chart in 1998. Billboard modified the name further to its current title, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, in 2005.
Records
- Stevie Wonder holds the record for the most number-one R&B hits, with nineteen. Other recording acts with a high number of R&B number-ones include Louis Jordan (eighteen), James Brown and Aretha Franklin (tied with seventeen), Janet Jackson (fifteen), The Temptations (fourteen), Marvin Gaye (thirteen), and Michael Jackson (thirteen).
- The longest run at number one on the chart is by Mary J. Blige's "Be Without You" (2006); this song has spent fifteen weeks at number one. With fifteen weeks, Blige has surpassed the fourteen week run of Deborah Cox's "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" and Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together".
See also
- List of number-one R&B hits (United States)
- Rhythm and blues
- Hip-hop music
- Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay
- R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay panel
- List of Billboard charts
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