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R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, formerly the Black Singles Chart, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.

The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, doo wop, soul, and funk, it is today dominated by contemporary R&B and hip hop. It lists the most popular R&B and hip hop titled as follows:^[1]

Date range	Title
October 1942 – February 1945	The Harlem Hit Parade
February 1945 – June 1949	Race Records
June 1949 – October 1958	Rhythm & Blues Records (two or three separate charts—see below)
October 1958 – November 1963	Hot R&B Sides
November 1963 – January 1965	No chart published (see below)
January 1965 – August 1969	Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles
August 1969 – July 1973	Best Selling Soul Singles
July 1973 – June 1982	Hot Soul Singles
June 1982 – October 1990	Hot Black Singles
October 1990 – 1998	Hot R&B Singles
1998–2005	Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks
2005–2009	Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
2009–present	R&B/Hip-Hop Songs^[2]

Between 1948 and 1955, there were separate charts published for Best Sellers and Juke Box plays, and in 1955 a third chart was added, the Jockeys chart based on radio airplay. These three charts were consolidated into a single R&B chart in October 1958.

From November 30, 1963 to January 23, 1965 there was no Billboard R&B singles charts.The chart was discontinued in late 1963 when Billboard determined it unnecessary in the light of the rise of Motown and the perceived convergence of tastes of African American and European-American radio and record buying audiences, but reinstated the chart in early 1965 when differences in musical tastes of the two audiences (caused in part by the British Invasion in 1964) were sufficient to revive it.

The chart's title was modified to Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks when, like the Hot 100, airplay-only tracks (album tracks) were allowed to enter the chart in 1998. Billboard modified the name further to its current title, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, in 2005. In 2009, it was again modified to it's current title, R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. It's current number-one as of the issue dated January 2, 2010 is I Invented Sex by Trey Songz .