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2021 Issue date Song Artist(s) Ref. January 2 "Better Days Ahead" Gerald Albright [1]January 9 [2]January 16 [3]January 23 "Blue Moon" Skinny Hightower
No. Initial peak entry Artist(s) Title Weeks Ref. 2019; 217 December 14 Kayla Waters "Full Bloom" 6 [1]2020; 218 January 25 Lisa Addeo "Listen to This"
Classic Metal (TV-MA)* - A mix of 1970s-1990s heavy metal music. Coffee Shop Cuts - Eclectic mix of singer-songwriters from Adult Alternative to R&B. Contemporary Instrumentals - Instrumental music, containing a mix of smooth jazz, new age, beautiful instrumentals and instrumental cover versions of songs. Country Hall of Famers; Country Party Hits
2023 Issue date Song Artist(s) Ref. January 7 "Nothing Ever Hurt like You" Mindi Abair [1]January 14 "Let It Breathe" Michael Broening [2]January 21
2024 Issue date Song Artist(s) Ref. January 6 "South Bay" Michael Lington [1]January 13 [2]January 20 [3]January 27 [4]February 3 "My Heart to Yours" Ellis Hamilton
The smooth jazz format also added R&B; according to Cary Goldberg of JVC, Paul Hardcastle "brought a sophisticated, urban groove" to the format. She said, "Instead of bringing jazz to R&B, he's brought an R&B groove to contemporary jazz." [7] The smooth jazz music mix included 70 percent instrumentals and 30 percent vocals.
It avoids the improvisational "risk-taking" of jazz fusion, emphasizing melodic form, and much of the music was initially "a combination of jazz with easy-listening pop music and lightweight R&B." [1] [2] During the mid-1970s in the United States, it was known as "smooth radio"; the genre was not termed "smooth jazz" until the 1980s. [3]
The Best Smooth Jazz... Ever! is a compilation album released in 2004 by EMI. It is the first jazz music part of the series "The Best... Ever!". Track listing