Which Beyoncé song featuring Jay-Z became her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single?

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“Crazy in Love,” featuring Jay-Z, became Beyoncé’s first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single.

Released in 2003, the song served as the lead single from Dangerously in Love. Its production prominently uses a horn sample from the Chi-Lites’ 1970 song “Are You My Woman (Tell Me So),” helping create the forceful opening that became one of Beyoncé’s signature sounds.

The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks and won Grammy Awards for Best R&B Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. Jay-Z’s guest verse also linked the song to the couple’s later collaborations.

“Drunk in Love” is another Beyoncé-Jay-Z duet, but it was released more than a decade later and came from Beyoncé’s 2013 self-titled album. It was not her first chart-topping single.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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