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"Happy" reached the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending March 8, 2014, giving Williams his fourth No. 1 single on the chart, and his first as lead artist. It took twelve years and a week (as the issue date is March 8, 2014) to achieve his first Hot 100 No. 1 hit as a lead artist. [ 43 ]
Chart names. Harlem Hit Parade – 1942 to February 10, 1945. Juke Box Race Records – February 17, 1945 to June 17, 1957. Billboard's "Best Sellers" – May 22, 1948 to October 13, 1958. Rhythm & Blues – June 25, 1949 to November 23, 1963. Billboard's "Jockeys" – January 22, 1955 to October 13, 1958. Hot R&B – October 20, 1958 to ...
It was Houston's first single on the chart and her first number one. The song also remained at number one for five weeks on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks, and for 11 weeks on the Hot R&B Singles chart becoming the longest running number one on the R&B charts at the time; it remained in the top 40 for 24 weeks.
The song appeared on several notable music charts due to digital downloads and streaming. Sony Mobile used a snippet of "Slave to the Rhythm" in their advertising campaign for the Xperia Z2 mobile phone. It was performed live at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards with a "Pepper's ghost" of Michael Jackson.
List of number-one R&B/hip-hop songs of 2020 (U.S.) This page lists the songs that reached number-one on the overall Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, the R&B Songs chart (which was created in 2012), and the Hot Rap Songs chart in 2020. The R&B Songs and Rap Songs charts partly serve as distillations of the overall R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
From November 30, 1963 to January 23, 1965 there was no Billboard R&B singles chart. Some publications have used Cashbox magazine's stats in their place. No specific reason has ever been given as to why Billboard ceased releasing R&B charts, but the prevailing wisdom is that the chart methodology used was being questioned, since more and more white acts were reaching number-one on the R&B chart.
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Luminate. The chart debuted as Hot R&B LPs in the issue dated January 30, 1965, in an effort by the magazine to further expand into the field of rhythm and blues music. [1]
Billboard in October 2012 launched the R&B Songs chart and in January 2013, launched the R&B Albums chart as distillations of the main Hot R&B/Hip-Hop charts. The separate R&B song and album charts rank the top 25 songs or albums, but exclude rap titles. Effectively they are a subset of the main chart. If an album has charted on Top Latin ...