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 hip-hop term was added in the late 1990s), is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.
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[edit] History
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.
[edit] Records
- The record-holder for most number one Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles is Stevie Wonder with nineteen. His record is followed by a tie between Louis Jordan and Aretha Franklin with eighteen, James Brown with seventeen, Janet Jackson with fifteen, The Temptations with fourteen, and a tie between Marvin Gaye and Michael Jackson with thirteen.
- With fifteen weeks spent in the pole position, Mary J. Blige's "Be Without You" (2006) holds the record for most weeks at number one. This feat surpasses the fourteen-week run of Deborah Cox's "Nobody's Supposed To Be Here" (1998) and Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" (2005).
[edit] 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
