Hot R&B 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 All-Format radio stations, digital download sales and streaming data. 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
| Weeks | Artist | Song | Year | Ref. |
| 48 | The Weeknd | "Blinding Lights" | 2020–21 | |
| 34 | Leon Thomas | "Mutt" | 2025 | |
| 32 | SZA | "Snooze" | 2023–24 | |
| 30 | SZA | "Kill Bill" | 2022–23 | |
| 22 | Tommy Richman | "Million Dollar Baby" | 2024 | |
| 20 | Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla | "One Dance" | 2016 | |
| 20 | The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk | "Starboy" | 2016–17 | |
| 20 | Bruno Mars | "That's What I Like" | 2017 | |
| 20 | The Weeknd and Playboi Carti | "Timeless" | 2024–25 | |
| 19 | Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams | "Blurred Lines" | 2013 |
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Artist achievements
Most chart entries
| Entries | Artist | Source |
| 99 | Chris Brown | |
| 77 | The Weeknd | |
| 64 | Drake | |
| 57 | Beyoncé | |
| 52 | Summer Walker | |
| 52 | Bryson Tiller | |
| 48 | Khalid | |
| 45 | SZA | |
| 37 | Jhené Aiko | |
| 34 | H.E.R. | |
| 32 | Justin Bieber |
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.
- 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.