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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.
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
Quiet storm is a radio format and genre of R&B, performed in a smooth, romantic, jazz-influenced style. [1] It was named after the title song on Smokey Robinson's 1975 album A Quiet Storm. [2] The radio format was pioneered in 1976 by Melvin Lindsey, while he was an intern at the Washington, D.C. radio station WHUR-FM.
This list contains singers and groups who performed in the new jack swing (or swingbeat) [1] [2] style, a hybrid style popular from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s. [3] It developed as many previous music genres did, by combining elements of jazz, R&B, funk and hip hop. [4]
2022 Issue date Song Artist(s) Ref. January 1 "Daydreams" Randy Scott featuring Cindy Bradley [1]January 8 "Urban Troubadour" Phil Denny [2]January 15 [3]January 22
Lou Rawls – 'For What It's Worth" Maze – "Joy And Pain"; Timmy Thomas – "Why Can't We Live Together" The Isley Brothers – "That Lady"; Bobbi Humphrey – "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life"
Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart.
Furthermore, I question the assumption that smooth jazz is an unfortunate and unwelcomed evolutionary outcome of the jazz-fusion era. Instead, I argue that smooth jazz is a long-lived musical style that merits multi-disciplinary analyses of its origins, critical dialogues, performance practice, and reception." [3]