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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]
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.
Mariah Carey amassed the most number-one hits (14 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (60 weeks) during the 1990s. Carey is also the only artist to spend at least one week at the summit of the chart in each year of the decade.
The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson.
[1] [2] Prior to the addition of the chart, hip hop music had been profiled in the magazine's "The Rhythm & the Blues" column and disco-related sections, while some rap records made appearances on the related Hot Black Singles chart. [3] The inaugural number-one single on Hot Rap Singles was "Self Destruction" by the Stop the Violence Movement. [4]
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. As disco gave way to the 'urban contemporary' format at the outset of the 1980s, quiet storm expanded beyond radio to emerge as a broad catchall super-genre."
The Boys is the eponymous second album from American R&B group Suns of Light (originally known as the Boys), released in September 18, 1990 () via Motown Records. [1] Although L.A. Reid and Babyface produced 3 songs on their debut album Messages from the Boys , instead one song is produced by Daryl Simmons and Kayo , who were a part of the ...
Issue date Song Artist(s) January 2 "I Will Always Love You" † Whitney Houston: January 9 January 16 January 23 January 30 February 6 February 13 February 20 "Hip Hop Hooray" ...