"Face" facts
Mariah Carey debuts on R&B/Hip-Hop Songs at No. 97 with "Up Out My Face", featuring Nicki Minaj. The song is the fourth charted entry from "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel", following "Obsessed" (No. 12), "I Want to Know What Love Is" (No. 40) and "H.A.T.E.U." (No. 72). Her "Angels Advocate" remix album streets March 30.
With the new song's launch, Carey extends her R&B/Hip-Hop Songs record among female artists for consecutive years with a debut. She has sent a song onto the chart in each of the 21 years she has appeared on the list, dating to the debut of "Vision of Love" on June 2, 1990.
Among fellow female format luminaries, Gladys Knight debuted on R&B/Hip-Hop Songs each year from 1967 through 1989. The first 22 years of her streak, however, are archived under a group billing - Gladys Knight & the Pips - while her 1989 entry was as a solo act.
Aretha Franklin also maintained a prominent presence on R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in all but one year between 1965 and 1989. Her streak of debuts was interrupted by a lack of new entries only in 1984. (Billboard's Chart Beat)
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