Celebrate Me
IngaRose isn't a person, and her breakout single doesn't pretend otherwise — a warm, well-built self-love anthem that scores better than it should for being honest about what it is.
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Hate That I Made You Love Me
Ariana Grande's Petal lead single debuted at No. 1 on the reputation of the writer's room behind it, then cooled to No. 5 as the actual listening caught up with the mixed reviews — a rare case where the chart's second act is more honest than its first.
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Greatest of All Time!I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Throwback Thursday, 1968: Motown rejected this record twice and buried it on an album. Radio DJs overruled the label and made it the biggest single Motown had ever had.
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Leak It
FLO's lead single from Therapy At The Club turns the impulse to overshare into the year's tightest R&B hook, and the group's harmonies do the rest.
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Man I Need
Olivia Dean's gospel-flecked demand for reciprocal effort has already cleared a billion Spotify streams and topped charts on four continents, and — unlike most of this week's chart — the acclaim genuinely tracks with the record.
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Mutt
Leon Thomas compares himself to his own dog on the title track of the album that turned him from a behind-the-scenes songwriter into a Grammy-winning artist in his own right — one of the year's least likely Album of the Year nominees.
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Stomp
Kirk Franklin & God's Property built a No. 1 R&B radio hit out of a Funkadelic sample and a gospel choir, and split the church over it in the process — the sound of a genre's ceiling getting tested in real time.
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Texas Hold 'Em
Beyoncé became the first Black woman to top Hot Country Songs and the first to reach No. 1 on the Hot 100 with a country record — a genuinely historic single that plays it safer than the history around it suggests.
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