Music Minute!

Did you know that MC Hammer’s ‘Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em’ album spent more weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 than any other Hip-Hop album in history?

As MC Hammer’s only chart-topping album in the US, ‘Please Hammer’ logged 21 weeks at the top of the Billboard 200. In fact, the diamond-certified LP, which was released in 1990, is currently ranked in 8th place among the longest-running #1 albums in US history and even spent more weeks at the summit than Whitney Houston’s ‘The Bodyguard’ soundtrack. The latter held the #1 slot for 20 weeks.

‘Please Hammer’ produced 3 top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, including ‘U Can’t Touch This’, ‘Have You Seen Her’ and ‘Pray’. Yet, despite being the lowest-charter of the 3 songs after peaking at #8, ‘U Can’t Touch This’ was MC Hammer’s biggest hit internationally and climbed to #3 on the Official UK Singles Chart.

Watch the video for ‘U Can’t Touch This’ below:

Now you know!