This run by “Funk” would have preemptively beaten future record-setter “ One Dance” by Drake, an 18-week topper in 2016, and it would have beaten both “ The Honeydripper” by Joe Liggins and “ Choo Choo Ch’Boogie” by Louis Jordan, each of which spent 18 weeks on top in the 1940s, when this chart was called-I kid you not- Race Records. To be exact-based on my understanding of Billboard’s genre-charts methodology-had Ronson and Mars been allowed on that chart, “Funk” would have commanded it for 19 weeks, December 2014 through April 2015, an all-time R&B chart record. 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart for a ridiculous period of time. Basically, “Uptown Funk” would have been No.
Thinking like a chart analyst, however, I got why Billboard was making this category call-even if the reason seemed a bit cynical. Send me updates about Slate special offers.
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