UK Number 40s: Meghan Trainor ft T-Pain - Been Like This (2024)

 

Meghan Trainor has had both a number 1 and a number 40 and these could be the positions of her first and last Top 40 hits. She debuted in 2014 with chart topper "All About That Bass" and by 2018 she'd clocked up 6 Top 40 hits. A 4 year gap then followed before another 3 Top 40 hits came.

T-Pain made his debut in 2006 with "I'm Sprung" which is his only Top 40 hit to date on his own. By 2011 he'd clocked up 9 Top 40 hits but didn't return until 2019 when he was a credited artist on a remake of "I'm Sprung" by Tory Lanez titled "Jerry Sprunger". Then came this, his final Top 40 hit to date. I'm expecting his next to come around 2030.

UK Number 40s: T-Pain ft Chris Brown - Best Love Song (2011)

 

Both Chris Brown and T-Pain made their Top 40 debuts in 2006. This was Top 40 hit number 8 for T-Pain and number 14 for Chris Brown. For the first time in doing these posts though I don't really want to mention how many Top 40 hits either act has had as they've probably had more by the time you read this.

T-Pain has been a lot more low key since this collaboration, but Chris Brown has been quite prolific. He had at least one Top 40 hit every year between 2006 and 2020, nobody else could claim the same thing. Included in that was a couple of chart toppers.

What I will say is Chris Brown has probably had more Top 40 hits than you think so inevitably some of them will end up in the lower reaches.