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Contemporary R&B. Contemporary R&B (or simply R&B) is a popular music genre that combines rhythm and blues with elements of pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music . The genre features a distinctive record production style and a smooth, lush style of vocal arrangement. Electronic influences and the use of hip hop or dance -inspired beats ...
The song "One Sweet Day", performed by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, spent 16 weeks on top of the chart and became the longest-running number-one song in history, until surpassed in 2019 by "Old Town Road". Janet Jackson earned six number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1990s. Whitney Houston 's cover of "I Will Always Love ...
The producer Quincy Jones (pictured in 1997) had three number ones with various featured vocalists. The British singer Lisa Stansfield (pictured in 2014) topped the chart for the first time in 1990. [10] Johnny Gill (pictured in 1998) was one of five former members of the group New Edition to reach number one in 1990. Tony! Toni! Toné! Tony! Toni!
Early 1990s, U.S. Derivative forms. Neo soul. Hip hop soul is a subgenre of contemporary R&B music, most popular during the early and mid 1990s, [1] which fuses R&B or soul singing with hip hop musical production. [1] The subgenre had evolved from a previous R&B subgenre, new jack swing, [2] which had incorporated hip-hop influences into R&B ...
grammy.com. The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album was an Honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, [1] to recording artists for quality works on albums in the contemporary R&B music genre. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony ...
Indicates best-charting R&B single of 1997 [1] Issue Date Song Artist Ref. January 4 "I Believe I Can Fly" ... 1997 in music; List of number-one R&B hits (United States)
v. t. e. Popular music in the 1990s saw the continuation of teen pop and dance-pop trends which had emerged in the 1970s and 1980s. Furthermore, hip hop grew and continued to be highly successful in the decade, with the continuation of the genre's golden age. Aside from rap, reggae, contemporary R&B, and urban music in general remained popular ...
DRS (band) DRS ( Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) was an American contemporary R&B group from Sacramento, California. Their biggest success was the hit single, "Gangsta Lean" (which spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart), [2] [3] from the album Gangsta Lean. It was released under Hammer's talent company, Roll Wit It Entertainment.