Drake’s ‘You Broke My Heart’ Tops Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Radio

April 30, 2024 Vaseline stjohnson 0

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Drake shoots to No. 1 on Billboardon the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart (dated May 4) with “You Broke My Heart,” flying from No. 8. The single reaches the top of the chart after a 20% increase in charts. weekly reproductions that made it the most popular. played the song on major R&B/hip-hop radio stations monitored in the US in the tracking week of April 19-25, according to Luminate. The song, of scary hours deluxe edition of his For all dogs album, reaches No. 1 in its 19th week on the chart – Drake’s longest climb to the top.

The new leader gives Drake a record-breaking 46th No. 1 on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay. He remains by far the all-time champion: Lil Wayne comes in a distant second, with 20 No. 1s. Here’s a rundown of the acts with the most number ones on mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay since the release list in 1993:

46, duck
20, little wayne
19, Chris Brown
17, usher
13, Beyoncé

As “You Broke My Heart” jumps seven spots to reach the top, it makes the biggest jump to No. 1 in more than seven years, since Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles,” featuring Gucci Mane, also jumped 8-1 on the list. dated December 3, 2016. In total, “You Broke My Heart” is the sixth of 440 champions on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay to jump from No. 8 or lower directly to No. 1.

Position change, song title, artist, date #1 reached
31-1, “Before you leave my life”, Monica, January 13, 1996
19-1, “Anniversary”, Tony Toni Tone, October 9, 1993
9-1, “No Diggity”, BLACKstreet with Dr. Dre, September 14, 1996
8-1, “Bills Bills Bills”, Destiny’s Child, July 10, 1999
8-1, “Black Beatles”, Rae Sremmurd with Gucci Mane, December 3, 2016
8-1, “You broke my heart,” Drake, May 4, 2024

Despite Drake’s virtually automatic status as a hitmaker on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, where about a third of the superstar’s 137 appearances reached No. 1 and another 45 finished in the top 10, “You Broke My Heart” endured the longest wait. to number 1 among his entire collection of hits. The single reaches the top in its 19th week on the chart, four weeks longer than his previous slowest hit, “All Me,” featuring 2 Chainz and Big Sean, which concluded a 15-week run in January 2014. (The slow by Drake) The steady but steady climb to No. 1 with “You Broke My Heart” makes it the 13th song to take at least 19 weeks to reach No. 1. The longest journey with “Free Mind” by Tems, which it took 33 weeks to enter number 1? penthouse in 2022.)

The prolonged rise, however, is due in part to several Drake singles active on the format simultaneously. When “You Broke My Heart” debuted on the chart in December, it arrived in the middle of two vibrant Drake singles: “Rich Baby Daddy,” featuring Sexyy Red and SZA, a song that had just hit No. 2 a couple of weeks ago. before and was sliding into the top five, and “First Person Shooter,” his collaboration with J. Cole, which topped the Billboard Hot 100, was climbing into the top 20. While both songs would be on the decline in February, a new contender entered the mix. : Drake teamed up with 4batz for a remix of the latter’s viral “act II: date @ 8,” with new promotional efforts highlighting the rising star’s hit single. On the latest Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, where “You Broke My Heart” reaches No. 1, “act ii: date @ 8” advances 6-4 with an 8% weekly streaming increase.

Elsewhere, streaming gains help “You Broke My Heart” reach No. 13-9 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, which ranks songs by combined audience totals on adult R&B and mainstream stations. R&B/hip-hop. There, the track improved to 9.7 million viewers during the week of April 19-25, up 17% from the previous period.