Best solo-male Hot 100 chart-topper since 2000 that didn’t also make the top 40 portion of Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart

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JT is obviously gonna walk this, but I'm curious where the other songs are going to end up.

What say you, ILM?

To be specific, I’m not just talking about male solo acts, I’m talking about non-hip-hop or R&B male soloists. I don’t add that caveat to be racially divisive; crossover support from urban radio has a huge impact on Hot 100 chart performance, because it provides a hit track with a huge pool of airplay points simultaneous with Top 40 radio. If you’re a white guy who isn’t Eminem or Justin Timberlake, you probably don’t have urban radio on your side, and it’s that much harder to top the big chart.
(* Timberlake scored three Hot 100 chart-toppers from his second solo album, but only this one failed to get appreciable urban-radio airplay; both “SexyBack” and “My Love” were big R&B/Hip-Hop chart hits.)

Source article, btw: http://idolator.com/5288192/such-great-hoots-owl-city-is-a-rare-boy-pop-chart-topper

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Justin Timberlake, "What Goes Around...Comes Around" (2007)*	11
Enrique Iglesias, "Be With You" (2000)	3
James Blunt, "You’re Beautiful" (2006)	2
Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne, "Down" (2009)	2
Daniel Powter, "Bad Day" (2006)	1
Owl City, "Fireflies" (2009)	1
Clay Aiken, "This Is the Night" (2003)	0
Taylor Hicks, "Do I Make You Proud" (2006)	0

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 26 March 2010 20:56 (fifteen years ago)

I actually kind of like "You're Beautiful" for some weird reason I can't explain. Except the album version's far superior to the radio edit.

― every potty I know can be found here (Stevie D), Friday, 26 March 2010 21:01 (fifteen years ago)

call me what you want but i voted for "Fireflies"

― some dude, Friday, 26 March 2010 21:08 (fifteen years ago)

i was hoping to be able to vote for like a gavin degraw or rob thomas or daughtry song, but oh well

i would like to vote contrarian but every song besides the JT is literal dogshit (maybe the iglesias is good actually, i forget)

― Violent (J0rdan S.), Friday, 26 March 2010 21:16 (fifteen years ago)

man, that's not even a good JT single either -- i think i'm gonna vote for enrique

― Violent (J0rdan S.), Friday, 26 March 2010 21:16 (fifteen years ago)

The Enrique song is hot trash.

― ALLAH! *rolls on floor* (HI DERE), Friday, 26 March 2010 21:16 (fifteen years ago)

(pretty much everything else except the JT song would be lucky to aspire to the level of "hot trash")

― ALLAH! *rolls on floor* (HI DERE), Friday, 26 March 2010 21:17 (fifteen years ago)

i keep trying to remember how it goes but all i just keep repeating "i can be your hero baby" in my head \(o_O)/

― Violent (J0rdan S.), Friday, 26 March 2010 21:17 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2tfJXAKXiM

― ALLAH! *rolls on floor* (HI DERE), Friday, 26 March 2010 21:32 (fifteen years ago)

(pretty much everything else except the JT song would be lucky to aspire to the level of "hot trash")

― stephen juaquin (The Reverend), Friday, 26 March 2010 22:01 (fifteen years ago)

http://i39.tinypic.com/21eqcud.jpg

― turkeylurkeyknull, Saturday, 27 March 2010 09:18 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 3 April 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 4 April 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Actually Owl City would have deserved to win.

Generally, 99 per cent of the best music has males vocals and is not R&B/hip-hop. The best stuff doesn't end up at #1 in America though (but may in the UK)

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 4 April 2010 23:17 (fifteen years ago)

Plus Timberlake shouldn't have been in this poll, as he is just as R&B/hip-hop as the rest of the bunch, the only difference being he has white skin (which is irrelevant).

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 4 April 2010 23:17 (fifteen years ago)

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