Aretha Franklin placed 112 singles on the U.S. Billboard charts. That total includes entries across Billboard’s pop and R&B charts and illustrates the extraordinary length and breadth of her recording career.
The 112-charting-single figure includes 73 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 and 96 on the R&B chart. Because those categories overlap, the numbers should not be added together; the total counts her distinct singles charting in the U.S. Billboard record summarized in her biography.
Franklin’s chart history began before her peak Atlantic Records years and continued through later eras. Her best-known successes include “Respect,” “Chain of Fools,” “Think,” “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” “Freeway of Love,” and the George Michael duet “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me).”
The figure is often confused with 73, which is the number of her Hot 100 entries, or 96, which refers to her R&B entries. Those are component figures, not the broader total asked for here. Billboard chart totals can also depend on the chart definitions and cutoff used, but 112 is the stated canonical answer for this trivia question.