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urban contemporary music. Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American, Black-American, community in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based ...
number-one R&B songs of 1957. Mickey & Sylvia topped the jockeys chart with "Love Is Strange". In 1957, Billboard magazine published three charts specifically covering the top-performing songs in the United States in rhythm and blues (R&B) and related African-American -oriented music genres. The R&B Best Sellers in Stores chart ranked records ...
Teenaged singer Tevin Campbell (pictured in 1996) had two number ones in 1992. "All Woman" was a chart-topper for British singer Lisa Stansfield (pictured in 2014). Keith Sweat (pictured in 2023) spent two weeks at number one with "Keep It Comin'". Mary J. Blige (pictured in 2009) gained her first number one with "You Remind Me". Key. †.
The Spinners topped the chart for the first time with "I'll Be Around".. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1972 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented music genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of such genres and since 2005 has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop ...
Ray Charles had three number ones in 1962. His recording of "I Can't Stop Loving You" was the year's longest-running chart-topper.In 1962, Billboard published a chart ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in rhythm and blues (R&B) and related African American-oriented music genres; it was published under the title Hot R&B Sides through the issue of the magazine dated October 27 ...
List of number-one R&B/hip-hop songs of 2021 (U.S.) This page lists the songs that reached number-one on the overall Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, the R&B Songs chart (which was created in 2012), and the Hot Rap Songs chart in 2021. The R&B Songs and Rap Songs charts partly serve as distillations of the overall R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Indicates best-charting R&B single of 1996 [1] Issue Date: Song: Artist: January 6 "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" Whitney Houston: January 13 January 20
British rhythm and blues (or R&B) was a musical movement that developed in the United Kingdom between the late 1950s and the early 1960s, and reached a peak in the mid-1960s. It overlapped with, but was distinct from, the broader British beat and more purist British blues scenes, attempting to emulate the music of American blues and rock and ...