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Neo soul (sometimes called progressive soul) [1] is a genre of popular music.As a term, it was coined by music industry entrepreneur Kedar Massenburg during the late 1990s to market and describe a style of music that emerged from soul and contemporary R&B.
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In the 2000s, each chart's "week ending" date was the Saturday of the following two weeks.
Stylistically, the collective's music has been variously described as neo soul, alternative hip hop, [2] progressive soul, [3] avant-garde, soul, conscious rap, and jazz fusion. [4] Their members often collaborated on each other's recordings, holding extensive and innovative sessions at Electric Lady Studios in New York, which produced several ...
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D'Angelo is considered a key pioneer of the neo-soul movement. In the mid-1990s, neo soul, which added 1970s soul influences to the hip hop soul blend, arose, led by artists such as D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, and Maxwell. Lauryn Hill and Missy Elliott further blurred the line between R&B and hip hop by recording both styles.
[22] [23] Blender ranked "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" number 454 on its list of the Top 500 Songs of the 80s–00s (2005), [citation needed] and Q included it on its list of the 1010 Songs You Must Own (2004). [citation needed] About.com writer Mark Edward Nero ranked it number 9 on his list of 20 Best R&B and Soul Songs of the 2000s decade. [24]
In Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (2003), writer Mark Anthony Neal cited the album as one of the most popular of neo soul recordings, along with Musiq Soulchild's Aijuswanaseing (2000) and India.Arie's Acoustic Soul (2001), that helped to redefine the boundaries and contours of black pop and R&B. [60] Maxwell in 1998