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Cardi B Earns 10th No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay Chart with GloRilla-Collab “Tomorrow 2”

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Cardi B is back on top…

The 30-year-old half-Dominican American rap superstar returns to No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart as her GloRilla-collaboration “Tomorrow 2” races 5-1 to lead the list dated December 3.

Cardi BThe coronation traces to the song’s 8% jump in spins that made it the most played song of the week at U.S. monitored R&B/hip-hop radio stations, according to Luminate.

As “Tomorrow 2” seizes the top slot, Cardi B notches her 10th No. 1 on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay and grants her entry as the ninth member of a select club of acts with double-digit career totals.

Here’s a refreshed leaderboard of the artists with the most No. 1s on the list since it launched in 1993:

43, Drake
20, Lil Wayne
17, Chris Brown
16, Usher
13, Beyoncé
11, R. Kelly
10, Cardi B
10, Jay-Z
10, Rihanna

And as “Tomorrow 2” joins the roster, here are Cardi B’s 10 No. 1s on the radio ranking:

Song Title, Artist (if other than Cardi B), Weeks at No. 1, Peak Date
“Bodak Yellow (Money Moves),” nine, Sept. 16, 2017
“No Limit,” G-Eazy featuring A$AP Rocky & Cardi B, five, Dec. 9, 2017
“I Like It,” with Bad Bunny & J Balvin, one, July 28, 2018
“Ring,” featuring Kehlani, one, Nov. 17, 2018
“Money,” five, Feb. 2, 2019
“Backin’ It Up,” Pardison Fontaine featuring Cardi B, one, March 9, 2019
“Please Me,” with Bruno Mars, six, April 13, 2019
“Up,” one, March 27, 2021
“Wild Side,” Normani featuring Cardi B, three, Jan. 1, 2022
“Tomorrow 2,” with GloRilla, one (to date), Dec. 3, 2022

Elsewhere, “Tomorrow 2” pushes 5-2 on Rap Airplay after a 14% burst in audience in the week ending November 27 and steps 6-4 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay with a 15% hike to 15.2 million in weekly audience. Plus, it rises 15-14 on Rhythmic Airplay, following a 6% gain in weekly plays at the format.

A.CHAL Releases New Single “To the Light”

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A.CHAL is sharing his light…

The Peruvian R&B singer-songwriter and producer, whose real name is Alejandro Chal, has released his latest single “To the Light.”

A.CHAL aka Alejandro Chal

A.CHAL has been making waves in the music industry since his 2013 debut EP Ballroom Riots where he showed off his skills as producer.

But it wasn’t until last year when he released his first studio album Welcome to GAZI that he became a charting artist, and proved to be a promising fresh voice in the hip-hop/R&B genre. His single “Round Whippin” reached No. 35 on Billboard‘s Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, and his songs have amassed 20 million U.S. streams to date.

A.CHAL’s self-love single “To the Light” is a quasi-reflection of A.CHAL’s journey to find himself as an artist while also establishing a connection with the Latin audience.

“I had been spending a lot of time in the desert and the desert gave me a specific mood that I wanted to bring that to life.” A.CHAL tells Billboard. “We met our director RJ Sánchez around that time and he shot and produced the video on his own. He wanted to portray that feeling of isolation you feel in the desert. The music provokes that emotion but the desert provides an open canvas to think about whatever it is you’re going through. It’s an honest piece of work and definitely relate to it. I actually just came back from the desert and felt like I re-shot the video.”