Bruno Mars Breaks Record for Most Weeks at No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart
Delayed, but not denied.
Following a brief interruption from Drake and Don Toliver’s “Solar Eclipse” on the Oct.
17 chart, Bruno Mars ’ “I Just Might” returns to the No.
1 spot on Billboard ’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart (dated Oct.
24) to clock a record-breaking 32nd week at the summit, officially the longest in the chart’s history, which started in October 1958.
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For its record-breaking coronation on the multimetric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, “I Just Might” registered 5.03 million official streams, 51.9 million in airplay audience and 1,000 song sales in the United States for the tracking week of Oct.
9-15, according to Luminate.
As the leaderboard shuffles, here’s a review of the longest-leading No.
1s on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, which was established as a standard, all-encompassing chart in October 1958: Weeks at No.
1, Song Title, Artist, Year(s) at No.
1 32, “I Just Might,” Bruno Mars, 2026 31, “Luther,” Kendrick Lamar & SZA, 2024-25 22, “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar, 2024-25 21, “Kill Bill,” SZA, 2022-23 20, “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X feat.
Billy Ray Cyrus, 2019 18, “One Dance,” Drake feat.
Wizkid & Kyla, 2016 18, “Industry Baby,” Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow, 2021-22 16, “Blurred Lines,” Robin Thicke feat.
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