USHER'S 20 BIGGEST BILLBOARD HITS From ColomboZone

Only an elite class of artists can conquer more than one Billboard chart simultaneously and seemingly effortlessly. Usher is amongst the few. The singer has ruled charts including the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Mainstream Top 40, and of course, The Hot 100 over the course of his two-decade career. From Usher's sophomore album, "My Way," to his seventh studio album, "Looking 4 Myself" (due June 12), he has taken sonic risks, blended genres, and ultimately evolved into one of music's favorite performers. With the release of his new 14-track opus, the time is right for a ranking of Usher's top 20 Hot 100 hits.

  

This ranking is based on actual performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 chart through the tally dated June 9, 2012. Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at No. 100 earning the least. To ensure equitable representation of the biggest hits from each era, certain time frames were weighted to account for the difference between turnover rates from those years .

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My Way

Usher
Hot 100 Peak Position: 2

Usher took advantage of the Jermaine Dupri-produced "My Way" to the show off his bad boy attitude. The singer even  throws in some bars mid-through this 1998 smash. "That's why your girlfriend's pagin' me / And she know like he know / You don't see her like I see her, so she's out the door," Usher rhymes.

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9

DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love

Usher Featuring Pitbull
Hot 100 Peak Position: 4

Usher's "Versus" EP showcases the singer dipping his toes deep into euro-dance. The album's first single featured Pitbull and quickly climbed the charts in 2010, becoming Usher's 16th Hot 100 top 10.

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8

U Remind Me

Usher
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1 (four week)

Although lyrically "U Remind Me" is about a woman Usher can't date because she stirs up past feelings of his ex, the "8701" single will always be remembered as the song in which we first saw Usher and Chilli together. Their relationship bloomed after she played his leading lady in the song's video back in 2001.

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7

Love In This Club

Usher featuring Young Jeezy
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1 (three weeks)

Usher and Young Jeezy brought the bedroom to the nightclub in the Polow da Don-produced, "Love in This Club." The "Here I Stand" lead single, which crowned the Hot 100 in 2008, was widely praised for its lustful lyrics and birthed a popular radio remix featuring Lil Wayne and Beyonce.

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6

OMG

Usher featuring will.i.am
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1 (four week)

Usher turned a popular SMS phrase into a hit with the first single from "Raymond V. Raymond." Written and produced by Black Eyed Peas frontman, will.i.am, "OMG" received mixed reviews due to Usher's use of auto-tune, but eventually catapulted the R&B singer into a valley of achievements as the single became his ninth Hot 100 No. 1 in 2010.

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5

My Boo

Usher and Alicia Keys
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1 (six weeks)

This 2004 duet, which came just as both singers' careers reached new heights, benefited also from the Usher's palpable chemistry with R&B songstress Alicia Keys. The quite believable on-screen romance both signers shared in the music video surely helped propel the song's remarkable run of six weeks atop the Hot 100.

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4

Burn

Usher
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1 (eight weeks)

Inspired by Usher's fizzling two-year relationship with Chilli, his long-time collaborators and friends Dupri and Bryan-Michel Cox penned one of the most essential break-up songs of the early 2000s. 2004's "Burn" claimed the Hot 100 No. 1 slot for two straight months.

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3

U Got It Bad

Usher
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1 (six weeks)

Usher kicked off the Chilli years in 2001 with "You Got it Bad," the second single from of his third studio album, "8701." Based on the true story of a studio session gone awry, the single swiftly rose to No. 1 and became the No. 15 on Billboard's ranking of the biggest Billboard Hot 100 songs of 2000-09.

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2

You Make Me Wanna

Usher
Hot 100 Peak Position: 2

Usher didn't let his underwhelming self-titled debut album stop him. The singer returned with his head-turning sophomore album "My Way." In 1997, first single "You Make Me Wanna," took Usher to the Hot 100's top five for the first time and won him a Billboard Music Award, Soul Train Music Award and Grammy nomination.

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1

Yeah!

Usher featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris
Hot 100 Peak Position: 1 (12 weeks)

"Confessions" spotlighted Usher's transformation from R&B star to pop star, starting with the addictive crunk/R&B clash, "Yeah!" The Lil Jon and Ludacris assisted track, which ruled the Hot 100 for an amazing four months in 2004, is Usher's longest running No. 1. And to think that Arista Records and Usher were initially skeptical of it's role as lead single off, "Confessions."

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