Check out this week’s R&B selections as well as favorites from past weeks through our Best New R&B Songs Of The Week playlist.

The Hot 100 is Billboard’s most competitive chart, as it ranks the most-consumed songs in the U.S. every week, taking into consideration sales, streams, video plays, and radio airplay.

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