page_title: List of Best Selling Soul Singles number ones of 1969
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of Best Selling Soul Singles number ones of 1969 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: Trade ad for the singer Tyrone Davis's single "Let Me Back In". To better adapt it to his respective Wikipedia article, the ad was cropped and edited in a graphics editing program. The original can be viewed at the source below.
context_page_description: Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs is a chart published by Billboard that ranks the top-performing songs in the United States in African-American-oriented musical genres; the chart has undergone various name changes since its launch in 1942 to reflect the evolution of such genres. In 1969, it was published under the title Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles through the issue of Billboard dated August 16 and Best Selling Soul Singles thereafter. During that year, 17 different singles topped the chart, based on playlists submitted by radio stations and surveys of retail sales outlets.
  In the issue of Billboard dated January 4, Marvin Gaye was at number one with "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", the song's fourth week in the top spot. Gaye returned to number one in June with "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" and was one of three acts to have two number ones in 1969 along with James Brown and the Temptations. Gaye's cumulative total of ten weeks in the top spot was the most achieved by any artist and the six weeks which "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" spent atop the chart was the year's longest unbroken run at number one.
caption: "Can I Change My Mind" was the first chart-topper for Tyrone Davis.
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