The countdown to this year's ESSENCE Music Festival is on! (Got tix?) 37 days to go! It's like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Mary J. Blige, Kanye West, Jill Scott, Chaka Khan, Trey Songz ...

If you made an Usher playlist using only his biggest hits it would last an hour and 42 minutes, according to the one we built on Apple Music. The Super Bowl halftime show is slotted for 12-15 minutes.