Hot R&B Songs
{{Short description|Billboard chart}}
{{distinguish|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.{{cite magazine|last=Pietroluongo|first=Silvio|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/474704/taylor-swift-rihanna-psy-buoyed-by-billboard-chart-changes|title=Taylor Swift, Rihanna & PSY Buoyed by Billboard Chart Changes |magazine=Billboard|publisher=Nielsen Business Media|date=October 11, 2012|access-date=2012-10-11}} 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.
Song achievements
===Most weeks at number one===
Artist achievements
===Most number-one songs===
| class="wikitable" |
| Number
!Artist !Song !Date |
|---|
| style="text-align:center;"rowspan="12"|12
| rowspan="12"| The Weeknd | "Earned It" | April 11, 2015 |
| "Can't Feel My Face"
| July 18, 2015 |
| "The Hills"
| October 3, 2015 |
| "Starboy" (featuring Daft Punk)
| October 15, 2016 |
| "Call Out My Name"
| April 14, 2018 |
| "Heartless"
| December 14, 2019 |
| "Blinding Lights"
| March 7, 2020 |
| "You Right" (with Doja Cat)
| September 4, 2021 |
| "Sacrifice"
| January 22, 2022 |
| "Creepin'" (with Metro Boomin & 21 Savage)
| December 17, 2022 |
| "Die for You" (with Ariana Grande)
| March 11, 2023 |
| "Timeless" (with Playboi Carti)
| October 12, 2024 |
| rowspan="9" style="text-align:center;" |9
| rowspan="9" | Drake | "Hold On, We're Going Home" (featuring Majid Jordan) | October 12, 2013 |
| "Tuesday" (ILoveMakonnen featuring Drake)
| November 29, 2014 |
| "Work" (Rihanna featuring Drake)
| February 13, 2016 |
| "One Dance" (featuring Wizkid & Kyla)
| May 7, 2016 |
| "Don't Matter to Me" (with Michael Jackson)
| July 14, 2018 |
| "No Guidance" (Chris Brown featuring Drake)
| September 7, 2019 |
| "Race My Mind"
| September 18, 2021 |
| "Slime You Out" (featuring SZA)
| September 20, 2023 |
| "Act II: Date @ 8" (4Batz featuring Drake)
| March 23, 2024 |
| style="text-align:center;"rowspan="7"|7
| rowspan="7"|SZA | "The Weekend" | July 1, 2017 |
| "I Hate U"
| December 18, 2021 |
| "Kill Bill"
| December 24, 2022 |
| "Snooze"
| July 29, 2023 |
| "Slime You Out" (Drake featuring SZA)
| September 20, 2023 |
| "Saturn"
| March 9, 2024 |
| "30 for 30" (with Kendrick Lamar)
| January 4, 2025 |
| style="text-align:center;"rowspan="6"|6
| rowspan="6"| Rihanna | "Diamonds" | October 20, 2012 |
| "FourFiveSeconds" (with Kanye West & Paul McCartney)
| February 21, 2015 |
| "Work" (featuring Drake)
| February 13, 2016 |
| "Needed Me"
| September 24, 2016 |
| "Wild Thoughts" (DJ Khaled featuring Rihanna & Bryson Tiller)
| July 15, 2017 |
| "Lift Me Up"
| November 12, 2022 |
| style="text-align:center;"rowspan="5"|5
| rowspan="5"| Justin Bieber | "No Brainer" (DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper and Quavo) | August 11, 2018 |
| "Yummy"
| January 18, 2020 |
| "Intentions" (featuring Quavo)
| February 22, 2020 |
| "Peaches" (featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon)
| April 3, 2021 |
| "Essence" (Wizkid featuring Justin Bieber & Tems)
| September 11, 2021 |
| style="text-align:center;"rowspan="4"|4
| rowspan="4"| Bruno Mars | March 4, 2017 |
| "Finesse" (featuring Cardi B)
| January 20, 2018 |
| "Leave the Door Open" (with Anderson .Paak as Silk Sonic)
| March 20, 2021 |
| "Smokin Out the Window" (with Anderson .Paak as Silk Sonic)
| November 20, 2021 |
| style="text-align:center;"rowspan="15"|3
| rowspan="3"| Chris Brown | "Freaky Friday" (Lil Dicky featuring Chris Brown) | April 21, 2018 |
| "No Guidance" (featuring Drake)
| September 7, 2019 |
| "Go Crazy" (with Young Thug)
| December 26, 2020 |
| rowspan="3"| Doja Cat
| "Say So" | May 16, 2020 |
| "You Right" (with The Weeknd)
| September 4, 2021 |
| "Woman"
| March 12, 2022 |
| rowspan="3"| Khalid
| November 4, 2017 |
| "Better"
| January 19, 2019 |
| "Talk"
| May 4, 2019 |
| rowspan="3"| Beyoncé
| "Drunk in Love (featuring Jay-Z) | January 4, 2014 |
| "7/11"
| December 20, 2014 |
| "Break My Soul"
| August 4, 2022 |
===Most number-one debuts===
| class="wikitable" |
| Number
!Artist !Song !Date |
|---|
| style="text-align:center;"rowspan="6"|6
| rowspan="6"| The Weeknd | July 18, 2015 |
| "Call Out My Name"
| April 14, 2018 |
| "Sacrifice"
| January 22, 2022 |
| "Creepin'" (with Metro Boomin & 21 Savage)
| December 17, 2022 |
| "Die for You" (with Ariana Grande)
| March 11, 2023 |
| "Timeless" (with Playboi Carti)
| October 12, 2024 |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |4
| rowspan="4" | Drake | "Work" (Rihanna featuring Drake) | February 13, 2016 |
| "Don't Matter to Me" (with Michael Jackson)
| July 14, 2018 |
| "Race My Mind"
| September 18, 2021 |
| "Slime You Out" (featuring SZA)
|September 20, 2023 |
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="6" |3
| rowspan="3" | Justin Bieber | "No Brainer" (DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper and Quavo) | August 11, 2018 |
| "Intentions" (featuring Quavo)
| February 22, 2020 |
| "Peaches" (featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon)
| April 3, 2021 |
| rowspan="3"| Rihanna
| "Diamonds" | October 20, 2012 |
| "Work" (featuring Drake)
| February 13, 2016 |
| "Lift Me Up"
| November 12, 2022 |
| style="text-align:center;"rowspan="4"|2
| rowspan="2"| Quavo | "No Brainer" (DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper and Quavo) | August 11, 2018 |
| "Intentions" (Justin Bieber featuring Quavo)
| February 22, 2020 |
===Artists with most weeks at number one on the chart===
===Most top ten hits===
=Most chart entries=
Album achievements
=Most number-one songs from one album=
| class="wikitable" |
| Number
!Artist !Album !Year |
|---|
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|3
| 2015 |
| SZA
| SOS | 2022 |
| rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;" |2
| Rihanna | Anti | rowspan="2"|2016 |
| Bruno Mars |
| Justin Bieber
| Changes | rowspan="2"|2020 |
| The Weeknd |
| Silk Sonic
| 2021 |
| Doja Cat
|2021 |
=Most top ten songs from one album=
| class="wikitable" |
| Number
!Artist !Album !Year |
|---|
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|10
| SZA | SOS | 2022 |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|9
| 2015 |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|8
| The Weeknd | Starboy | 2016 |
| The Weeknd
| 2020 |
| Drake
| 2022 |
| Beyoncé
| 2022 |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|7
| Drake | Scorpion | 2018 |
| Khalid
| rowspan="2"|2019 |
| Summer Walker
| Over It |
| Summer Walker
| 2021 |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|6
| The Weeknd | Dawn FM | 2022 |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|5
| Beyoncé | BEYONCÉ | 2013 |
| Rihanna
| Anti | 2016 |
| Drake
| 2017 |
| The Weeknd
| 2019 |
| Bryson Tiller
| 2020 |
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.{{Cite web|url=https://uproxx.com/hiphop/khalid-top-5-rb-songs-chart/|title=Khalid Is The First Artist To Simultaneously Have The Top 5 R&B Songs|date=2019-04-16|website=UPROXX|access-date=2019-04-29}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/khalid-becomes-first-artist-in-history-to-secure-top-5-spots-on-randb-songs-chart-news.77446.html|title=Khalid Becomes First Artist In History To Secure Top 5 Spots On R&B Songs Chart|website=HotNewHipHop|date=16 April 2019 |access-date=2019-04-29}}
- 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. {{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9422631/summer-walker-life-earth-number-1-top-rb-albums-chart|title=Summer Walker's 'Life on Earth' Debuts at No. 1 on Top R&B Albums Chart|magazine=Billboard|last=Trevor|first=Anderson|date=July 17, 2020|access-date=July 21, 2020}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.billboard.com/charts/r-and-b-songs#/charts/r-and-b-songs Billboard R&B Songs Chart] – online version.
{{US R&B Chart}}
{{Billboard charts}}
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