Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks
The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, 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. 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 words "& Tracks" were added to the chart's title when, like the Hot 100, airplay-only tracks (album cuts) were allowed to enter the chart in 1998.
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), The Temptations (fourteen), Marvin Gaye (thirteen), and Michael Jackson (twelve).
- The longest runs at number one on the chart are by Deborah Cox's "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" (1998) and Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" (2005); both songs spent fourteen weeks at number one. Until 1998, Janet Jackson's "" held the record with ten weeks.