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Gaye had a total of 13 number-one hits in his career (" I'll Be Doggone ", " Ain't That Peculiar ", " Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing ", " You're All I Need to Get By ", " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ", " Too Busy Thinking About My Baby ", " What's Going On ", " Mercy Mercy Me ( The Ecology )", " Inner City Blues ( Make Me Wanna Holler )", " Let's Get It On ", " I Want You ", " Got to Give It Up " and " Sexual Healing ") as well as many other top ten hits.

Of his thirteen number-one singles, all of which reached that position on Billboard's R & B charts, " Sexual Healing " was his longest-running, at ten weeks, which then set a record as the most weeks spent at number-one for an R & B single of all time after the R & B chart was reinstated in November 1965 and was later overtaken by 1990s singles such as Whitney Houston's " I Will Always Love You " and R. Kelly's " Bump n ' Grind ".

Three of the songs (" I Heard It Through the Grapevine ", " Let's Get It On " and " Got to Give It Up ") reached number-one on the Billboard Hot 100, while eighteen songs in general made the top-ten of the Hot 100.