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Bruno Mars Breaks the All-Time Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Record at 32 Weeks

“I Just Might” returned to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart dated October 24 for a cumulative 32nd week at the top — the most since the chart took its current form in October 1958 — passing the 31 weeks of “Luther,” Billboard reported.

By Davies Daily Staff Reports · Sunday, October 25, 2026

Bruno Mars performing on The Romantic Tour at Rogers Stadium.
Bruno Mars performing on The Romantic Tour at Rogers Stadium. Photo: Glenn Samonte, CC BY 4.0 — via Wikimedia Commons.

Bruno Mars has broken the all-time record on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. “I Just Might” returned to No. 1 on the chart dated October 24 for its 32nd week at the top, the most weeks any song has spent at No. 1 since the chart took its current form in October 1958, Billboard reported. Billboard confirmed the record on October 20, and the 32 weeks are a cumulative total, not consecutive weeks.

The record Mars passed belonged to “Luther,” by Kendrick Lamar and SZA, which spent 31 weeks at No. 1 across 2024 and 2025, Billboard reported via Parade and AllHipHop. Behind those two on the chart’s all-time list, according to the Billboard figures published by Parade, are Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” with 22 weeks at No. 1; SZA’s “Kill Bill,” with 21; and Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, with 20.

The 32 weeks are cumulative because the run was interrupted. Drake and Don Toliver’s “Solar Eclipse” held No. 1 on the chart dated October 17 for one week before “I Just Might” returned to the top, Billboard reported. Parade reported that only two songs have displaced “I Just Might” at No. 1, both of them featuring Drake: “Solar Eclipse” in October, and “Janice STFU,” which held the top spot for seven weeks between May and June.

For the tracking week of October 9–15, Luminate figures carried by the outlets reporting the record agree on two of the song’s three components: a radio airplay audience of 51.9 million and 1,000 downloads sold in the United States. The streaming figure is reported two ways. 24Hip-Hop, citing Luminate, put the song’s official U.S. streams at 5.03 million for the week. Parade put the same figure at 5.3 million. Both versions are printed in the box below, as the outlets published them.

The Numbers, In Two Versions

24Hip-Hop, citing Luminate: 5.03 million official U.S. streams for the October 9–15 tracking week, with a 51.9 million radio audience and 1,000 downloads.

Parade, citing Luminate data reported by Billboard: 5.3 million official U.S. streams for the same week, with a 51.9 million radio audience and 1,000 downloads.

The two reports agree on the airplay audience and the download total. They differ on streams: 5.03 million against 5.3 million.

“I Just Might” is the lead single from Mars’ album The Romantic. AllHipHop reported that Mars released the single on January 9 and that the album followed on February 27 through Atlantic Records. It is his fourth solo album and his first since 24K Magic, a gap of about a decade between solo albums, AllHipHop reported. The song also became Mars’ 10th No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Billboard reported via Parade.

The record extends a long history for Mars on this chart. Parade listed his earlier Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs No. 1s as “That’s What I Like” in 2017, “Finesse” with Cardi B in 2018, “Please Me” with Cardi B in 2019, and “Leave the Door Open” in 2021, recorded with Anderson .Paak as the duo Silk Sonic. “I Just Might” debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated January 24, according to the chart history published with the record reports, and has been displaced only by the two Drake-featuring songs since then.

Billboard confirmed the record on October 20, four days before the chart date that made it official. On the chart dated October 24, “I Just Might” stood at 32 cumulative weeks at No. 1, one week past “Luther” and alone at the top of a list the chart has kept, in its current form, since October 1958.

The Facts

  • “I Just Might” returned to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart dated October 24, for a cumulative 32nd week at the top (Billboard).
  • 32 weeks is the most since the chart took its current form in October 1958; the previous record was “Luther” by Kendrick Lamar and SZA, at 31 weeks.
  • The total is cumulative: Drake and Don Toliver’s “Solar Eclipse” held No. 1 for one week, on the October 17 chart, during the run.
  • For the October 9–15 tracking week, reports agree on a 51.9 million radio audience and 1,000 downloads; reported streams are 5.03 million (24Hip-Hop) and 5.3 million (Parade).
  • The song is the lead single from The Romantic, released February 27, and was Mars’ 10th No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Sources: Billboard (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart report, confirmed October 20, 2026, carried by Parade and AllHipHop); 24Hip-Hop; Luminate chart data.

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