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ntWith his fourth LP, critical darling Kendrick Lamar cemented his commercial prowess. DAMN.</em>u2019s lead single, u201cHumble.,u201d topped the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, while follow-ups u201cDNA.,u201d the Rihanna-assisted u201cLoyalty.u201d and the Zacari-supported u201cLove.u201d sustained the momentum. DAMN.</em> spent 10 weeks at No. 1, fueling itsrun to a year-end 2017 win on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Of course, critics loved it, too u2014 DAMN. </em>was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2018, becoming the first recipient outside of the classical or jazz genres.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”R&B Hip-Hop Quarter Century Album Charts, Kendrick Lamar”,”image_credit”:”Courtesy Photo”,”url”:”https://www.billboard.com/lists/lil-baby-my-turn-number-1-top-rb-hip-hop-albums-21st-century/”,”image_id”:1236052599,”image”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-7-Kendrick-Lamar-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-7-Kendrick-Lamar-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=240″,”width”:240,”height”:240},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-7-Kendrick-Lamar-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=480″,”width”:480,”height”:480},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-7-Kendrick-Lamar-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=600″,”width”:600,”height”:600},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-7-Kendrick-Lamar-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=768″,”width”:768,”height”:768},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-7-Kendrick-Lamar-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:1024}},”fullWidth”:575,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t
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ntEqual parts tragedy and triumph, the albumu2019s massive commercial reception celebrated the exciting possibilities of Brooklyn-based rising drill star Pop Smoke, marred by the reality that its creator never lived to see it, having been murdered four months before its release. The loss still fresh, fans rallied to the set upon its July 2020 release u2014 on what would have been the rapperu2019s 21st birthday u2014 prompting a No. 1 debut on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Thanks to cuts including u201cWhat You Know Bout Love,u201d u201cFor the Nightu201d and u201cThe Woo,u201d the album racked up 21 weeks in the chartu2019s top spot u2014 the most of any rap album in the 2000-24 window.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”R&B Hip-Hop Quarter Century Album Charts, Pop Smoke”,”image_credit”:”Courtesy Photo”,”url”:”https://www.billboard.com/lists/lil-baby-my-turn-number-1-top-rb-hip-hop-albums-21st-century/”,”image_id”:1236052597,”image”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-6-pop-smoke-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-6-pop-smoke-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=240″,”width”:240,”height”:240},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-6-pop-smoke-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=480″,”width”:480,”height”:480},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-6-pop-smoke-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=600″,”width”:600,”height”:600},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-6-pop-smoke-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=768″,”width”:768,”height”:768},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-6-pop-smoke-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:1024}},”fullWidth”:575,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t
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ntPost Maloneu2019s third album extended his winning streak atop the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as his third No. 1. Driven by an extensive, nearly yearlong campaign of singles, big wins included teaming with hip-hop acts such as Young Thug (u201cGoodbyesu201d), DaBaby (u201cEnemiesu201d) and Swae Lee on u201cSunflower,u201d a Hollywoodu2019s Bleeding </em>inclusion that also features on the soundtrack to the hit film Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse</em>. The seven weeks at No. 1 in 2019 represents a personal best for Post Malone and Hollywoodu2019s Bleeding </em>surpassed his own beerbongs & bentleys</em>, from 2018, for the then-record as the album with the most weeks in the chartu2019s top 10.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”R&B Hip-Hop Quarter Century Album Charts, Post Malone”,”image_credit”:”Courtesy Photo”,”url”:”https://www.billboard.com/lists/lil-baby-my-turn-number-1-top-rb-hip-hop-albums-21st-century/”,”image_id”:1236052596,”image”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-5-post-malone-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-5-post-malone-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=240″,”width”:240,”height”:240},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-5-post-malone-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=480″,”width”:480,”height”:480},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-5-post-malone-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=600″,”width”:600,”height”:600},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-5-post-malone-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=768″,”width”:768,”height”:768},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-5-post-malone-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:1024}},”fullWidth”:575,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t
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ntThe long, long wait for SZAu2019s sophomore album u2014 five years after her 2017 debut, Ctrl </em>u2014 more than surpassed expectations. Sailing into the No. 1 spot with ease, SOS </em>became near-unsinkable, leading the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for 16 straight weeks upon its December 2022 arrival and adding another 11 frames by the end of 2024. Combined, its 27 weeks atop the chart are the most for any album in the quarter-century period. Its singles, too, enjoyed historic feats: The albumu2019s u201cKill Billu201d spent 21 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, a then-record, while u201cSnoozeu201d crept to an unprecedented 37 frames atop R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay in 2023-24.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”R&B Hip-Hop Quarter Century Album Charts, SZA”,”image_credit”:”Courtesy Photo”,”url”:”https://www.billboard.com/lists/lil-baby-my-turn-number-1-top-rb-hip-hop-albums-21st-century/”,”image_id”:1236052595,”image”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-4-sza-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-4-sza-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=240″,”width”:240,”height”:240},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-4-sza-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=480″,”width”:480,”height”:480},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-4-sza-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=600″,”width”:600,”height”:600},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-4-sza-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=768″,”width”:768,”height”:768},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-4-sza-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:1024}},”fullWidth”:575,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t
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ntCountering his Thank Me Later </em>debut LP, Drake structured his sophomore album around a darker, morose aesthetic and, while not the first to cross-pollinate, blurred the lines between hip-hop and R&B, where rappers became more comfortable and more frequent vocalists. 2011u2019s Take Care </em>easily found a No. 1 debut on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and soared to 12 weeks on top u2014 the longest rule among Drakeu2019s 16 champs to date. Its longevity at the summit previewed an extensive life on the ranking at large: Take Care </em>has spent 475 weeks on the chart (through the Aug. 30 list), the most among all albums in the surveyu2019s archives. Shout out to the setu2019s run of hit singles, including a pair of Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs No. 1s in u201cMake Me Proud,u201d featuring Nicki Minaj, and u201cThe Motto,u201d featuring Lil Wayne.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”R&B Hip-Hop Quarter Century Album Charts, Drake”,”image_credit”:”Courtesy Photo”,”url”:”https://www.billboard.com/lists/lil-baby-my-turn-number-1-top-rb-hip-hop-albums-21st-century/”,”image_id”:1236052594,”image”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-3-drake-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-3-drake-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=240″,”width”:240,”height”:240},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-3-drake-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=480″,”width”:480,”height”:480},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-3-drake-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=600″,”width”:600,”height”:600},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-3-drake-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=768″,”width”:768,”height”:768},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RBHH-ALBUMS-QC-3-drake-2025-billboard-1200.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:1024}},”fullWidth”:575,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t
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The set leadsBillboard‘s 100-position Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums of the 21st Century retrospective. Here’s a breakdown of the 2000-24 top 10.
8/27/2025
Lil Baby
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Lil Baby gets his turn atop a Billboard 21st century charts retrospective as the rapper’s 2020 LP My Turn ranks at No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums of the 21st Century survey. The 100-position recap is based on performance on the weekly Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart from the start of 2000 through the end of 2024.
My Turn, released through Quality Control/Motown Records, became Lil Baby’s first No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, debuting atop the ranking dated March 14, 2020. Supported by singles including “Woah,” “The Bigger Picture” and “Sum 2 Prove” — all top 10 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart — and a deluxe edition that May, My Turn spent six weeks at No. 1 and was the chart’s year-end champ for 2020.
My Turn still had many more achievements ahead. Thanks to continued streaming activity, the LP lingered in the chart’s upper ranks for months. By March 2022, it broke the record as the album with the most weeks in the top 10 with its 85th week in the tier. That October, it crossed the historic milestone as the first album to log 100 weeks in the top 10 since the list’s start in 1965. By the end of 2024, My Turn had captured 128 weeks in the top 10 — nearly two-and-a-half years. (The sum marks the best for an album by a male artist in the chart’s history.)
Reflecting the biggest names in R&B and hip-hop from Y2K to today, check out the top 10 albums on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums of the 21st Century chart below and the entire 100-position ranking in Billboard’s Greatest of All Time charts menu.
Following the reveal of Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the 21st Century chart, check back Thursday (Aug. 28) for Billboard’s Top Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs of the 21st Century chart and Friday (Aug. 29) for Billboard’s rundown of The Top Producers of the 21st Century on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart, with all coverage of Billboard’s 21st Century Charts here.
Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artists, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs of the 21st Century recaps reflect performance on weekly charts dated Jan. 1, 2000, through Dec. 28, 2024. The Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artists category ranks the best-performing acts in that span based on activity on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. (Titles released prior to mid-1999 are excluded, although such entries that appeared on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums or Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in that span contribute to the calculation of the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artists chart.) The Top Producers of the 21st Century on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart reflects producers with the most No. 1s on weekly Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts dated Jan. 1, 2000, through Dec. 28, 2024, with ties broken by most top 10s and most overall chart entries.
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Juice WRLD, Goodbye & Good Riddance
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo Juice WRLD’s debut studio album elevated the Chicago native — who combined hip-hop with pop, rock and alt influences — into one of his generation’s leading voices. The album sparked his first mainstream hits “All Girls Are the Same” and “Lucid Dreams”; the latter topped the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for two weeks. The LP opened at No. 10 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums in June 2018 and climbed to its No. 3 high that August. Since then, the set by the rapper, who passed in 2019, has consistently revisited the weekly top 10, with its latest look in December 2024.
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J. Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo Named after one of J. Cole’s childhood addresses, 2014 Forest Hills Drive jolted the rap game to close 2014, with its arrival that December. While the album can’t claim any top 10 hit on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, as a complete package it stands alone in its architect’s catalog. Its 395 weeks on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart through December 2024 are more than J. Cole’s eight other charting projects combined, and, hey, it did find an enduring hit — “No Role Modelz” has become a reliable go-to on DSPs.
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The Weeknd, The Highlights
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo In an era of greatest-hits albums growing increasingly sporadic, with artists’ catalogs readily available for streaming, The Weeknd bucked the trend and capped his 2021 Super Bowl LV halftime show with The Highlights, a collection spanning material since 2011. You know the songs — “The Hills,” “Can’t Feel My Face,” “Blinding Lights” and the like — so no surprise that their combined streaming prowess has ensured the album’s regular attendance in the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart’s top ranks. The Highlights spent four weeks at No. 1 in 2021-22 and became the superstar’s seventh of nine leaders through July 2025.
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Kendrick Lamar, DAMN.
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo With his fourth LP, critical darling Kendrick Lamar cemented his commercial prowess. DAMN.’s lead single, “Humble.,” topped the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, while follow-ups “DNA.,” the Rihanna-assisted “Loyalty.” and the Zacari-supported “Love.” sustained the momentum. DAMN. spent 10 weeks at No. 1, fueling itsrun to a year-end 2017 win on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Of course, critics loved it, too — DAMN. was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2018, becoming the first recipient outside of the classical or jazz genres.
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Pop Smoke, Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo Equal parts tragedy and triumph, the album’s massive commercial reception celebrated the exciting possibilities of Brooklyn-based rising drill star Pop Smoke, marred by the reality that its creator never lived to see it, having been murdered four months before its release. The loss still fresh, fans rallied to the set upon its July 2020 release — on what would have been the rapper’s 21st birthday — prompting a No. 1 debut on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Thanks to cuts including “What You Know Bout Love,” “For the Night” and “The Woo,” the album racked up 21 weeks in the chart’s top spot — the most of any rap album in the 2000-24 window.
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Post Malone, Hollywood’s Bleeding
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo Post Malone’s third album extended his winning streak atop the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as his third No. 1. Driven by an extensive, nearly yearlong campaign of singles, big wins included teaming with hip-hop acts such as Young Thug (“Goodbyes”), DaBaby (“Enemies”) and Swae Lee on “Sunflower,” a Hollywood’s Bleeding inclusion that also features on the soundtrack to the hit film Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse. The seven weeks at No. 1 in 2019 represents a personal best for Post Malone and Hollywood’s Bleeding surpassed his own beerbongs & bentleys, from 2018, for the then-record as the album with the most weeks in the chart’s top 10.
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SZA, SOS
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo The long, long wait for SZA’s sophomore album — five years after her 2017 debut, Ctrl — more than surpassed expectations. Sailing into the No. 1 spot with ease, SOS became near-unsinkable, leading the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for 16 straight weeks upon its December 2022 arrival and adding another 11 frames by the end of 2024. Combined, its 27 weeks atop the chart are the most for any album in the quarter-century period. Its singles, too, enjoyed historic feats: The album’s “Kill Bill” spent 21 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, a then-record, while “Snooze” crept to an unprecedented 37 frames atop R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay in 2023-24.
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Drake, Take Care
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo Countering his Thank Me Later debut LP, Drake structured his sophomore album around a darker, morose aesthetic and, while not the first to cross-pollinate, blurred the lines between hip-hop and R&B, where rappers became more comfortable and more frequent vocalists. 2011’s Take Care easily found a No. 1 debut on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and soared to 12 weeks on top — the longest rule among Drake’s 16 champs to date. Its longevity at the summit previewed an extensive life on the ranking at large: Take Care has spent 475 weeks on the chart (through the Aug. 30 list), the most among all albums in the survey’s archives. Shout out to the set’s run of hit singles, including a pair of Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs No. 1s in “Make Me Proud,” featuring Nicki Minaj, and “The Motto,” featuring Lil Wayne.
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Kendrick Lamar, good kid, m.A.A.d city
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo Kendrick Lamar graduated from status as a regional phenom to national prominence through good kid, m.A.A.d city, his 2012 major-label debut album. Creatively inspired from his adolescent years in Compton, Calif., its West Coast-brand of hip-hop sparked the rapper’s first three top 10s on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart — “Swimming Pools (Drank),” the Drake-assisted “Poetic Justice” and “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe” — while the LP debuted at No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. The collection heralded great things for its creator, with all five of his subsequent albums ruling the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for multiple weeks.
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Lil Baby, My Turn
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo “I called it My Turn ’cause I feel like everybody else had a lil’ turn,” Lil Baby explained in an Instagram Live video previewing his then-forthcoming album. “It’s my turn now.” Indeed, the rapper’s declaration rang true. Released in February 2020, My Turn gave Lil Baby his first No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, with his fifth charted effort. Supporting singles “Woah,” “The Bigger Picture” and “Sum 2 Prove,” all top 10 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and a deluxe edition in May helped My Turn rack up six weeks at No. 1 and to the chart’s 2020 year-end No. 1 rank.
Meanwhile, the accolades didn’t end that year. Steady streaming sums provided a cushion for the album, which persisted for weeks, then months, in the top 10. By March 2022, My Turn broke the record as the album with the most weeks in the chart’s top 10, with its 85th frame in the tier. That October, it became the first album to register 100 weeks in the top 10 since the list started in 1965. It may be a long wait before another album gets its turn in such a spotlight.
