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Hot R&B Songs

Hot R&B Songs

Billboard chart

Not to be confused with Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.

Hot R&B Songs is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States. It lists the 25 most popular R&B songs, calculated weekly by airplay on rhythmic and urban radio stations, digital download sales and streaming data.[1] It was established on October 11, 2012, as a way to highlight "the differences between pure R&B and rap titles in the overall, wide-ranging R&B/hip-hop field" and serves, along with the Rap Songs chart, as a distillation of the overall Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.[1]

Song achievements

Most weeks at number one

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Artist achievements

Most number-one songs

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Most number-one debuts

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Artists with most weeks at number one on the chart

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Most top ten hits

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Most chart entries

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Album achievements

Most number-one songs from one album

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Most top ten songs from one album

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Selected additional R&B Songs chart achievements

  • Khalid is the first and only artist to occupy the entire top 5 of the R&B Songs chart. He achieved this on the chart dated April 20, 2019 with the songs "Better" and "Talk" staying steady at positions 1 and 2, respectively, while "My Bad" and "Saturday Nights" climbed up to numbers 3 and 4, and "Outta My Head" entered the chart at number 5.[45][46]
  • Khalid, The Weeknd, and Drake all hold the record for charting the most songs within the top 10 simultaneously – eight songs. Summer Walker holds the female record, with six, on the October 19, 2019 chart. [47]

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