Kanye West now has more Top 40 songs than Michael Jackson

This past week Kanye West's feature on ScHoolboy Q's "That Part" earned him his 40th Top 40 song on Billboard's list.

That's more than Michael Jackson's and Frankie Valli's 39 Top 40 hits.

In West's 2013 song "I Am a God," he said he is "the only rapper who compared to Michael."

Here are other popular musicians' accomplishments on the same list, which dates back to the Hot 100's inception 58 years ago:

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