KEYS 'UN'-LOCKS BIGGEST HIT: With 11 weeks at No. 1 on R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)" represents Alicia Keys' longest stay at the summit among her eight trips to the top. The track's performance passes the 10-week rule of "No One" in 2007.
Keys has now turned in 53 total weeks at No. 1, matching Usher for the most frames in charge since R&B/Hip-Hop Songs converted to Nielsen Music data as of the Dec. 5, 1992, chart. Here is a look at the artists with the most weeks spent at No. 1 in that span:
53, Alicia Keys
53, Usher
39, R. Kelly
31, Beyonce
30, Monica
Coincidentally, Usher's "There Goes My Baby" is primed to thwart Keys from besting his sum, as Billboard R&B/hip-hop charts manager Raphael George notes that less than 1 million listener impressions separate the top two titles on the survey and Usher's song is still gaining in airplay.
Included in each artist's R&B/Hip-Hop songs discography is the twosome's "My Boo." The duet reigned for three weeks in 2004. Alicia Keys and Beyonce also have a song set for release entitled "Put It In A Love Song".
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