Chris Brown Lands His 15th Rhythmic Airplay No. 1 With ‘It Depends’

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As a featured enactment connected the song, Bryson Tiller earns his 2nd ruler.

Chris Brown tops Billboard‘s Rhythmic Airplay illustration for the 15th time, jumping 3-1 connected the Oct. 18-dated survey with “It Depends.”

“It Depends,” which features Bryson Tiller, marks Brown’s archetypal ruler successful astir a year, pursuing the one-week reign of “Residuals” successful November 2024. In betwixt those 2 leaders, helium appeared connected the ranking twice, paced by the No. 2 highest of “Holy Blindfold” successful September.

With 15 No. 1s, Brown, who archetypal reigned with “Run It!” successful 2005, maintains his lasting arsenic the enactment with the fourth-most rulers successful Rhythmic Airplay’s past (the illustration began successful 1992). He takes implicit the apical spot connected the latest ranking from Drake, whose “Which One” (a collaboration with Central Cee) gave him his chart-leading 43rd No. 1.

Most No. 1s, Rhythmic Airplay:
43, Drake
17, Rihanna
16, The Weeknd
15, Chris Brown
13, Bruno Mars
13, Lil Wayne
13, Usher
12, Beyonce
12, Nicki Minaj

As for Tiller, “It Depends” marks his 2nd Rhythmic Airplay leader, some arsenic featured acts; helium reigned for 8 weeks successful 2017 arsenic portion of DJ Khaled’s “Wild Thoughts,” alongside Rihanna. Tiller’s champion arsenic a pb enactment is “Whatever She Wants,” which peaked astatine No. 3 past year.

Concurrently, “It Depends” holds its reign connected Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay for a 2nd week, and it besides appears astatine No. 3 connected R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay and astatine No. 16 connected Adult R&B Airplay.

The opus ranks astatine No. 39 connected the multimetric Billboard Hot 100. In summation to its vigor airplay (30.7 cardinal assemblage impressions successful all), “It Depends” earned 7.3 cardinal authoritative U.S. streams and sold 1,000 downloads, according to Luminate.

“It Depends” is presently a standalone single. Brown’s astir caller album, 11:11, was released successful November 2023. It peaked astatine No. 9 connected the Billboard 200 and has earned 1.1 cardinal equivalent medium units since release.