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.

1 History
2 Chart statistics and other facts
3 See also
4 External link

[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] Chart statistics and other facts

Artists with the most number-one Hot R&B/Hip-Hop hits:

1. Stevie Wonder — 19

2. Louis Jordan - 18 (tie)

2. Aretha Franklin - 18 (tie)

4. James Brown - 17

5. Janet Jackson - 15 (+1 as a featured artist for the track 'Diamonds')

6. The Temptations - 14

7. Marvin Gaye - 13 (tie)

8. Michael Jackson - 13 (tie)

9. R. Kelly - 11

10. Mariah Carey - 10

11. Usher - 8 (tie)

12. Prince - 8 (tie)

13. Earth, Wind and Fire - 8 (tie)

14. Whitney Houston - 8 (tie)

15. Luther Vandross - 7

16 Monica - 6 (tie)

17. Mary J Blige - 6 (tie)

18. The Isley Brothers - 6 (tie)

19. The Jackson 5 - 6 (tie)

20. Bobby Brown - 6 (tie)

21. En Vogue - 6 (tie)

22. Keith Sweat - 6 (tie)

23. Aaliyah - 5 (tie)

24. Stephanie Mills - 5 (tie)

25. Jodeci - 5 (tie)

26. Boyz II Men - 5 (tie)

27. New Edition - 5 (tie)

28. [[]] - 5 (tie)

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).