Melissa B. — Billboard Chart History
Melissa B. is an independent R&B/pop recording artist, songwriter and producer whose career has moved across R&B, pop, dance, electronic and alternative music. Her recorded catalog includes documented Billboard chart placements, international chart activity and a growing body of streaming and music-discovery data across major platforms.
BILLBOARD CHART HISTORY
2017 — “Dancing in the Rain” — No. 1, Billboard Hot Singles Sales. Released by Juan Cristiani featuring Melissa B., the collaboration reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Singles Sales chart. The No. 1 chart date is October 28, 2017. An archived Billboard chart page and contemporaneous reporting from El País preserve the historical record.
2021 — “Set Up” — No. 36, Billboard Mainstream Top 40 Indicator. Melissa B.’s career archive also includes a Billboard-credited contribution connected to Griot B’s “Set Up.” A physical Billboard plaque presented to Melissa Bailey commemorates the project’s No. 36 position on the Mainstream Top 40 Indicator chart dated May 1, 2021.
2022 — “Physical” — No. 13, Billboard R&B Digital Song Sales. Melissa B.’s single “Physical” reached No. 13 on the Billboard R&B Digital Song Sales chart dated April 2, 2022. The preserved chart record places “Physical” at No. 13, between Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy” at No. 12 and Doja Cat & The Weeknd’s “You Right” at No. 14.
The distinction matters: these chart achievements belong to different Billboard eras and chart products. This page therefore uses the historical chart names attached to each record rather than substituting newer chart names.
CURRENT MUSIC PERFORMANCE — SONGSTATS SNAPSHOT
As of September 30, 2026, Melissa B.’s authorized Songstats artist profile catalogs 92 tracks and reports 4,392,412 Spotify streams and 7,903,938 SoundCloud streams. Songstats also reports 48,044 Shazams, reflecting continued music discovery across the catalog.
On Spotify, Songstats reports 8,825 followers, 512 total playlist placements and 1,953,893 in cumulative playlist reach. These are platform-specific measurements and are not combined into an artificial cross-platform stream total.
Melissa B.’s international chart footprint extends beyond Billboard. Songstats currently records 17 Apple Music chart appearances across 16 countries and 18 iTunes chart appearances across 12 countries.
Her dance and DJ catalog also shows sustained specialist-platform activity. Songstats reports 173 Traxsource DJ chart appearances and 13 Beatport DJ chart appearances. In September 2026, the DJ Spen & Gary Hudgins Flying Colors Mix of “Be Free,” associated with the “13 Years of Quantize” project, appeared again on Traxsource’s Overall Top 100 Albums chart.
On YouTube, Songstats currently reports more than 53.5 million Shorts views across the tracked artist data. Recent Songstats activity also recorded new radio plays during September 2026, showing that both newer material and catalog recordings continue to generate activity.
RECENT CATALOG ACTIVITY
Recent releases in Melissa B.’s Songstats catalog include “ONE UP” (August 22, 2025), “Give You My Flame” (November 8, 2025), “Higher” (July 10, 2026), “Velvet Crime” with Syreeta Thompson Trumpetlady (August 14, 2026), and “ICE Out” (August 18, 2026).
The broader catalog spans multiple eras and styles, including “Exclusively,” “Dancing in the Rain,” “Computer Love,” “Back & Forth,” “Waterman,” “Physical,” “The Light,” “Be Free,” “ONE UP,” “Higher” and “Velvet Crime.”
WHY THIS PAGE EXISTS
Billboard has discontinued a number of historical chart products over time, which means some older chart pages no longer populate the way current charts do. This page is intended to preserve a clean public-facing source trail for Melissa B.’s documented chart history while keeping those historical records distinct from current platform analytics.
The Hot Sheet image above is a September 2026 career snapshot. Because streaming, followers, chart counts and catalog matching can change as platforms update and Songstats reconciles sources, the live data in this article should be treated as a dated analytics snapshot rather than a permanent fixed total.
SOURCE REFERENCES
Billboard artist profile: https://www.billboard.com/artist/melissa-b/
Archived Billboard Hot Singles Sales chart —
October 28, 2017: https://web.archive.org/web/20171119024729/http://www.billboard.com/biz/charts/2017-10-28/hot-singles-sales
El País coverage of “Dancing in the Rain”: https://www.elpais.com.uy/tvshow/musica/un-uruguayo-en-la-cima-de-billboard
Billboard R&B Digital Song Sales — April 2, 2022: https://www.billboard.com/charts/r-and-b-digital-song-sales/2022-04-02/
Official website: https://www.melissab.com/
Songstats artist profile: https://songstats.com/artist/zd4fcux7/melissa-b
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