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Mariah Carey (pictured in 2010) had her first chart-topper with "Vision of Love".. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1990 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]
Not only did Billboard start allowing airplay-only tracks to chart, it broadened its radio panel to include "R&B, adult R&B, mainstream rock, triple-A rock, and country outlets", which was formerly "confined to the mainstream top 40, rhythmic top 40, adult top 40, adult contemporary, and modern rock formats." [3]
Carey became Billboard's most successful female artist of the decade, and one of the most successful R&B acts of the 1990s. R&B artists such as Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, R.Kelly and Mariah Carey are some of the best selling music artists of all time, and especially in the 1990s brought Contemporary R&B to a worldwide ...
Issue date Album Artist January 6: Tender Lover: Babyface: January 13 January 20 January 27: Back on the Block: Quincy Jones: February 3 February 10 February 17
R&B; pop; Virgin: Regarded as a template for pop artists transitioning to a darker or rebellious sound and as a precursor to the development of alternative R&B. [434] Accolades: 21 October 1997 () Mogwai Young Team: Mogwai: Post-rock; noise rock; instrumental rock; Chemikal Underground: NME's "The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time": #177 [49]
Wilson Phillips (pictured) had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, "Hold On" at number one and "Release Me" at number 19. Janet Jackson (pictured) had five songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1990.
The Mainstream Top 40 airplay-based chart debuted in Billboard magazine in its issue dated October 3, 1992, with rankings determined by monitored airplay from data compiled by Broadcast Data Systems, a then-new technology which can detect when and how often songs are being played on radio stations.
Sugar Free" has since been sampled by AZ for his song "Sugar Hill" among other artists. Their second album It Takes Two was released in 1985. The album featured an answer record to the Mtume song "Juicy Fruit" called "Sugar Free". [5] It peaked at #13 on the Billboard R&B chart and #45 on the UK Singles Chart. [6]