She could have a success tune titled “Like You’ll By no means See Me Once more,” however the Billboard charts have been having fun with visits from Alicia Keys for 23 years and counting.
The 15-time Grammy-winner made her Billboard chart debut in 2001 with “Fallin’,” a jazz-inflected R&B basic that reached No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100. “Fallin’” would quickly give strategy to three extra Sizzling 100 chart-toppers for Keys, together with 2004’s “My Boo” (with Usher), 2007’s “No One” and 2009’s “Empire State of Thoughts” (with Jay-Z). Along with these No. 1 hits, Keys has earned 5 different prime 10 hits, together with 2004’s “If I Ain’t Bought You” (No. 4) and 2002’s “Gangsta Lovin’” (with Eve).
On the Billboard 200, Keys has racked up 5 No. 1 titles: 2001’s Songs in A Minor (three weeks), 2003’s The Diary of Alicia Keys (two weeks), 2005’s Unplugged (one week), 2007’s As I Am (4 weeks) and 2012’s Lady on Hearth (one week). She additionally reached the chart’s prime 10 with 2010’s The Component of Freedom (No. 2), 2016’s HERE (No. 2) and 2020’s Alicia (No. 4).
Named Billboard‘s No. 1 R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the 2000s, Keys has additionally scored a slew of information on these style charts. On Sizzling R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, she boasts 15 prime 10 hits, eight of which have reached the chart’s summit. These eight chart-toppers have spent 54 cumulative weeks atop the rating, putting Keys as the girl with the third-most time spent atop the chart behind Aretha Franklin (65 weeks) and Rihanna (56 weeks). The “Un-Thinkable” singer additionally has probably the most No. 1 hits in Grownup R&B Airplay historical past, with 14 chart-toppers, together with 12-week No. 1 hit “Diary” (with Tony! Toni! Tone!).
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