No One

Exactly five years ago, Alicia Keys was in the second week of a five-week stay at the number one on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart with the biggest-selling hit of her career, “No One.”  The first single from Keys’ As I Am album, “No One” marks the third of four number one singles on which Keys has been the lead artist or a featured artist.  Among those four, Keys’ solo song “Fallin'” and her duet with Usher, “My Boo,” have both spent more weeks at number one, yet “No One” has outsold both of those singles as well as her fourth number one single:  Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind,” which features her.