Eric Benét and Tamar Braxton’s ‘Something We Can Make Love To’ Debuts on Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay Chart

Eric Benét’s duet with Tamar Braxton, “Something We Can Make Love To,” has landed on Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart (dated July 13). 

The smooth, sensual number opens at No. 29 this week on the chart led by Lucky Daye‘s “That’s You.” 

Something We Can Make Love To” is Benét’s 23rd entry on the Adult R&B Airplay chart. Of his total entries, nearly half (12) are top 10 hits. 

Here is a breakdown of Eric Benét’s top 10 hits on Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart, in order by peak:

  • “Spend My Life With You” featuring Tamia, No. 1 for five weeks (1999)
  • “Sometimes I Cry,” No. 1 for five weeks (2001)
  • “You’re The Only One,” No. 1 for four weeks (2008)
  • “I Wanna Be Loved,” No. 2 peak (2005)
  • Sunshine,” No. 2 peak (2016)
  • “Real Love,” No. 3 peak (2012)
  • “Georgy Porgy” featuring Faith Evans, No. 4 peak (1999)
  • “When You Think of Me” featuring Roy Ayers, No. 4 peak (2000)
  • “News For You,” No. 5 peak (2013)
  • “Love Don’t Love Me,” No. 9 peak (2001)
  • “Pretty Baby,” No. 9 peak (2006)
  • Insane,” No. 10 peak (2017)
Courtesy of Tamar Braxton

As for Braxton, “Something We Can Make Love To” is her 12th entry on the Adult R&B Airplay chart.

Eight entries are top 10 hits, including 2012’s “Love and War,” which spent nine weeks at No. 1:

  • Love and War,” No. 1 for nine weeks (2013)
  • The One,” No. 2 peak (2013)
  • Crazy Kind of Love,” No. 2 peak (2020)
  • Changed,” No. 2 peak (2023)
  • “My Man,” No. 3 peak (2017)
  • “Let Me Know” featuring Future, No. 5 peak (2015)
  • If I Don’t Have You,” No. 6 peak (2015)
  • “All The Way Home,” No. 8 peak (2014)
Eric Benét and Tamar Braxton's cover art for Something We Can Make Love To
JBR Creative Group

“Something We Can Make Love To” was released June 28 via Benét’s independent label, JBR Creative Group.

The Laney Stewart-produced track is the first single from Benét’s duets album. 

Speaking on the creation of “Something We Can Make Love To,” Benét told Rated R&B, “We went down to Atlanta and hung out with Tricky Stewart and Laney Stewart. Laney presented this song to us and we thought it was perfect.”

He added, “I can’t take credit for any of the writing, but it was one of those songs when I first heard it, I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, this feels like it could fit in the whole family of Eric Benét’s music. But also, it feels like something that right now, in a very timely way. It feels classic and romantic and could definitely work as a first single.”

Benét’s upcoming duets album will mark his first project since his 2016 self-titled album

Watch the video for Eric Benét and Tamar Braxton’s duet, “Something We Can Make Love To,” below.