Prince's 'With This Tear' Tops R&B Charts

0:00It's May 2nd. Welcome in. This is Entertainment and Celebrity News, where pop culture meets AI. I'm Cory with the story. Princess of State just dropped with this tear. To mark the 10th anniversary of his passing and its blowing up the charts posthumously. The track debuts at number 6 on Billboard's R&B digital song sales chart and number 8 on the R&B hip-hop digital song sales chart landing him in the top 10 on both at once. This is Princess 9th top 10 on the R&B hip-hop list and is 14th on the R&B side, boosting his career totals to 31 and 28. Appearance is respectively. Originally written by Prince for Celine Dion, it's now a fresh bestseller from his vault. Fans and charts alike show his enduring pull, tying with this tear, with classics like 1999 and a piano version of Purple Rain at that number 6 peak on R&B digital. From the hip-hop chart, it matches Raspberry Beret at number 8, his 7th highest there.

1:02It's his first debut on the R&B hip-hop digital song sales in a full decade since the surge after his death in 2016. Just last July, America hit number 7 on the R&B chart too. Meanwhile, Purple Rain climbs from number 194 to 189 on the global 200, while its album jumps to number 2 on. On tracks, nipping at the heels of K-pop demon hunters up top, Prince's legacy keeps raining purple hits.