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A slow jam is music with rhythm and blues and soul influences. Slow jams are commonly R&B ballads or downtempo songs, and are mostly soft-sounding with heavily emotional or romantic lyrical content. The earliest known use of the term is from a July 1, 1961, article in The Chicago Defender .
Slow jams with quiet storm elements continued to be produced through the 2000s and 2010s. [4] Quiet storm songs are a mix of genres, including pop, contemporary R&B, smooth soul, smooth jazz and jazz fusion – songs having an easy-flowing and romantic character. The format first appeared in 1976 but initially it drew from songs recorded earlier.
This page lists the songs that reached number one on the overall Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hot R&B Songs, Hot Rap Songs and R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay charts in 2025. The R&B Songs and Rap Songs charts partly serve as respective distillations of the overall R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, apart from the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart which serve as a forefront for radio and video airplay counts.
Sibling duo BeBe & CeCe Winans had two number ones in 1991. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1991 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in African American-oriented genres ; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since 2005. In 1991, it was published under the ...
Issue Date Song Artist January 1 "U Know What's Up" Donell Jones featuring Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes: January 8 "Hot Boyz" Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott featuring Nas, Eve and Q-Tip ...
I'll Be There (Jackson 5 song) I'm Going Down (Rose Royce song) I'm Gonna Do All I Can (to Do Right by My Man) I'm So Proud (song) I've Got Love on My Mind; If Ever I See You Again; If I Should Die Tonight; If Leaving Me Is Easy; If You Don't Know Me by Now; Inseparable (song) It's Raining (Irma Thomas song)
Karyn White (pictured in 2011) reached number one in 1989 with "Superwoman" and "Love Saw It".. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1989 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in African American–oriented genres; the chart's name has changed over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since 2005. [1]
Quiet storm appropriates R&B and soul "slow jams" and recontextualizes them into rotations with their peers and predecessors. [15] Music journalist Jason King wrote, "Sensuous and pensive, quiet storm is seductive R&B, marked by jazz flourishes, 'smooth grooves,' and tasteful lyrics about intimate subjects.