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A global, multilingual list of rhythm and blues and contemporary R&B musicians recognized via popular R&B genres as songwriters, instrumentalists, vocalists, mixing engineers, and for musical composition and record production.
George Michael was the only artist to achieve two year-end Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles in the 1980s. He achieved this with his songs " Faith " and " Careless Whisper ". He is one of two recording acts to achieve more than one year-end Billboard Hot 100 number-one single in the history of the chart, with the other being The Beatles ...
Artists in the electronic music genre included Yellow Magic Orchestra. The song "Hana" (1980) by Shoukichi Kina was a hit overseas, and sold 30 million copies. [88] Eiichi Ohtaki released A Long Vacation. [89] City pop, an adult-oriented genre with western influences of disco, funk, soft rock, and R&B also
Artist January 5: Off the Wall: Michael Jackson: January 12 January 19 January 26 February 2 February 9 February 16 February 23: The Whispers: The Whispers: March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 12 April 19: Light Up the Night: The Brothers Johnson: April 26 May 3: Go All the Way: The Isley Brothers: May 10 May 17 May 24 May ...
Billboard published a weekly chart in 1980 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and since 2005, has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. [1]
Diariocritico's 100 Best Albums of the 80s: #30 [215] June 4, 1984 () Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen Rock and roll; heartland rock; pop; Columbia: Rankings: June 25, 1984 () Purple Rain: Prince And The Revolution Pop; rock; R&B; funk-pop [216] psychedelia; Warner Bros. Soundtrack album Accolades: July 3, 1984 Zen Arcade: Hüsker Dü
This combination of R&B style and hip hop rhythms was termed new jack swing, and was applied to artists such as Bobby Brown, Keith Sweat, Guy, Jodeci, and Bell Biv DeVoe. Michael Jackson remained a prominent figure in the genre in the late 1980s, following the release of his album Bad (1987) which sold more than 6 million copies in the US in ...
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]