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A global, multilingual list of rhythm and blues and contemporary R&B musicians recognized via popular R&B genres as songwriters, instrumentalists, vocalists, mixing engineers, and for musical composition and record production.
Mariah Carey (pictured in 2010) had her first chart-topper with "Vision of Love".. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1990 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in African American–oriented genres; the chart's name has changed over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since 2005. [1]
Carey became Billboard's most successful female artist of the decade, and one of the most successful R&B acts of the 1990s. R&B artists such as Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, R.Kelly and Mariah Carey are some of the best selling music artists of all time, and especially in the 1990s brought Contemporary R&B to a worldwide ...
Artist January 6: Tender Lover: Babyface: January 13 January 20 January 27: Back on the Block: Quincy Jones: February 3 February 10 February 17 February 24 March 3 March 10 March 17 March 24 March 31 April 7 April 14 April 21: Tender Lover: Babyface April 28: Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em: MC Hammer: May 5 May 12 May 19 May 26 June 2: Poison ...
Mariah Carey amassed the most number-one hits (14 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (60 weeks) during the 1990s. Carey is also the only artist to spend at least one week at the summit of the chart in each year of the decade.
Artist(s) Weeks at number one Ref. 1995 September 2 From the Cradle: Eric Clapton: 1 [2] September 9 Cover to Cover: The Jeff Healey Band: 1 [3] September 16 From the Cradle: Eric Clapton 9 [2] November 18 Greatest Hits: Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: 17 [4] 1996 March 16 Ledbetter Heights: Kenny Wayne Shepherd: 20 [5] August 3 Good ...
totals are counted from the start of the stay at No. 1 - for example, a hit which reached No. 1 in November 1945 and stayed there 11 weeks is included in the 1945 list but not 1946. As well as the R&B best sellers (BS) chart, between 1948 and 1957 there was also an R&B juke box (JB) chart, and from 1955 to 1958 there was an R&B airplay (JY ...
Issue date Song Artist(s) January 2 "I Will Always Love You" † Whitney Houston: January 9 January 16 January 23 January 30 February 6 February 13 February 20 "Hip Hop Hooray" ...