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With nine number-one hits attained in the 1980s and 1990s, LL Cool J emerged as one of the most successful artists on the Billboard rap chart. Hot Rap Songs is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard which ranks the most popular hip hop songs in the United States.
24. Melle Mel – “White Lines (Don’t Do It)” (1983) New York’s rock underground was often intertwined with the city’s early hip-hop scene. One notable example is the no wave band Liquid ...
List of R&B musicians encompasses sub-genres such as urban-contemporary, doo wop, southern, neo-soul and soul, indie, alternative, country, rap, ska, funk, pop, rock, electronic and new jack swing fusions.
During the 1980s, George Michael scored four number-one singles as a solo artist, three with Wham! and one as a duet with Aretha Franklin. Olivia Newton-John 's " Physical " remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (10 weeks). #. Reached number one. Artist (s)
[39] [40] Hip hop scholar Michael Eric Dyson stated, "during the golden age of hip hop, from 1987 to 1993, Afrocentric and black nationalist rap were prominent", [41] and critic Scott Thill described the time as "the golden age of hip hop, the late '80s and early '90s when the form most capably fused the militancy of its Black Panther and Watts ...
B Wise; B Young; B-Legit; B-Lovee; B-Real; B-Tight; B'Flow; B. Cooper; B. Dolan; B. Smyth; B.G. B.G., the Prince of Rap; B.G. Knocc Out; B.o.B [1]; Baauer; Baba Saad ...
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]
List of best-selling music artists. The following list of best-selling music artists includes musical artists from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record sales worldwide. The sales figures are calculated based on the formula detailed below. The tables are listed with each artist's claimed sales figure (s) and ...