SZA Logs Record-Extending 50th Week at No. 1 on R&B Songwriters Chart – Billboard

SZA provides a record-furthering fiftieth week at No. 1 on Billboard’s R&B Songwriters chart (dated Oct. 28), due to her tune “Snooze” and Drake’s “Slime You Out,” on which she’s featured.

The tracks rank at Nos. 1 and a pair of, respectively, on the most recent Scorching R&B Songs chart. SZA co-wrote “Snooze” with Babyface, BLK Beats, Leon G. Thomas III and Khristopher van Riddick-Tynes. She’s additionally a co-writer on “Slime You Out,” with Drake, 40, BNYX, Noel Cadastre, Grant Lapointe, Chris Powell and Dalton Tennant.

Every week earlier, SZA broke the file for probably the most weeks notched at No. 1 on R&B Songwriters, as her forty ninth body on the summit lifted her previous The Weeknd, with 48. Alongside the way in which over her file run, her smash “Kill Invoice” spent 30 weeks at No. 1 on Scorching R&B Songs.

Throughout Billboard’s 13 weekly songwriter charts, SZA joins a choose variety of abilities who’ve reached the milestone of 50-or-more weeks at No. 1. Right here’s a recap.

Weeks Spent at No. 1, Chart Identify, Artist:
121, Gospel Songwriters, Kirk Franklin
96, Latin Songwriters, Dangerous Bunny
62, Dance/Digital Songwriters, f a l l e n
62, Dance/Digital Songwriters, SAINt JHN
57, Different Songwriters, Dave Bayley
56, Rock & Different Songwriters, Zach Bryan
56, Rock Songwriters, Zach Bryan
53, Dance/Digital Songwriters, Elton John
53, Dance/Digital Songwriters, Bernie Taupin
50, Rock & Different Songwriters, Dave Bayley
50, R&B Songwriters, SZA

In March, Kirk Franklin turned the primary and, so far, solely inventive to have led a songwriters survey for 100 weeks.

Spending 50 weeks atop one among Billboard’s 13 producers charts is much more uncommon. Solely 5 producers have achieved the feat: Joey Moi, with 122 weeks spent at No. 1 on Nation Producers; Tainy (119, Latin Producers); Jonathan Lindsey Smith (84, Christian Producers); Kanye West (59, Gospel Producers); and Jeff Pardo (54, Christian Producers).

Billboard launched the Scorching 100 Songwriters and Scorching 100 Producers charts, in addition to genre-specific rankings for nation, rock & different, R&B/hip-hop, R&B, rap, Latin, Christian, gospel and dance/digital, in June 2019, whereas different and arduous rock joined in 2020, together with seasonal vacation rankings in 2022. The charts are based mostly on whole factors accrued by a songwriter and producer, respectively, for every attributed tune that seems on the Billboard Scorching 100. The genre-based songwriter and producer charts observe the identical methodology based mostly on corresponding “Scorching”-named style charts. As with Billboard’s yearly recaps, a number of writers or producers break up factors for every tune equally (and the dividing of factors will result in occasional ties on rankings).

The complete Scorching 100 Songwriters and Scorching 100 Producers charts and full style rankings could be discovered on Billboard.com.