Itunes, Billboard, and the marginalization of black music and black audiences in America

xp you changed chart history!

haha well actually nevermind, i thought Train went missing from the chart the week after my piece ran but it was the same week, so i rescind my pretending to take credit. still, pretty interesting to see clear evidence of them not being so sure of themselves w/ some of these genre distinctions.

the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart was just downsized from top 40 to top 25 on the main Billboard site, which is not a big deal but another thing pissing me off

damn

"Adorn" is currently #10 on airplay and #71 on digital.

The highest it's gone on the latter is #49.

Overall airplay, not r&b airplay, if that needs clarification.

#10 on Radio Songs is actually uncommonly high for a recent R&B radio hit w/ minimal pop radio crossover too -- "Climax" was probably the next highest this year and it peaked at #16

serious lols at the cover of miranda lambert's "over you" from the voice being #3 on the country chart this week

oh god yeah i didn't even think about what talent shows are gonna do to these charts now

shd have a talent show/glee covers chart imo

"Diamonds" is still number one on the R&B Songs chart.

Has anyone heard this song on an R&B station?

yeah it has actually climbed up the R&B airplay chart over time, is at #13 now, i hear it here and there. the Kanye remix helped, too.

also "we are never ever getting back together" has 'made chart history' by breaking the record for longest run at #1 on country songs

wish we were discussing Herb Alpert's "Diamonds"

sorry, for solo females

"Gangnam Style" is now 17th on the Billboard Latin Airplay chart

yeah sometimes somewhat unexpected songs do pretty well on latin (adele and lmfao placed a number of singles on it recently)

also "we are never ever getting back together" has 'made chart history' by breaking the record for longest run at #1 on country songs

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one thing i love is that practically EVERY current country act's wiki page (besides Taylor's) now has Country Airplay added to its chart info to reflect the popularity of recent singles -- it's a shame fans of other genres whose charts got screwed with aren't as fired up about this as country fans.

"Thrift Shop" being in the top ten of the r&b chart is even more ridiculous than the "Diamonds" thing

It should be noted that after 13 weeks at the top of the roost, "Adorn" is the "greatest gainer" in r&b airplay.

it's also #10 on Radio Songs, which is easily the highest any R&B song has gotten w/o pop crossover all year ("Climax" got no higher than #16), so the extent of its playlist saturation is staggering.

billboard's year-end charts are out:

http://www.billboard.com/news/the-best-of-2012-the-year-in-music-1008045682.story#/news/the-best-of-2012-the-year-in-music-1008045682.story

as i'd hoped, they used the old methodology (pre-October changes) for the year-end genre charts:

http://www.billboard.com/news/the-best-of-2012-the-year-in-music-1008045682.story#/news/the-best-of-2012-the-year-in-music-1008045682.story?page=2

"Diamonds" obviously nowhere on the year-end R&B list

damn "love on top" was that big of a hit, huh

"lotus flower bomb" was the third biggest hit of THIS YEAR?

There was like a six- to eight-month period where I would turn on the radio and hear "Lotus Flower Bomb" within the first three songs.

I try not to speak of those days.

"Party" actually got airplay down here than LOT.

yeah "Lotus Flower Bomb" was pretty gigantic, and gotta remember these things go December to November, so things that broke wide late the previous year have an advantage (i'm betting in decade-end lists "Adorn" will triumph over "Lotus" easily)

R&B/hip-hop top 100 is 27% Young Money, 13% G.O.O.D. and 12% MMG

This can't be life.

(Wild Colonials reference.)

Only 16 of the r&b eoy top 100 made the Hot 100 eoy chart.

In 2002, there was a 48-song overlap, exactly 3x as many.

9-song overlap with eoy Rock chart (way up from i think 3 last year), and 14-song overlap with country

Via Danyel Smith/Andy Kellman:

http://madamenoire.com/247266/arbitron-sale-to-nielsen-could-be-good-news-for-urban-radio/

Songs with most weeks at number one on Billboard's R&B chart:

18. "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - Louis Jordan
15. "Be Without You" - Mary J. Blige
14. "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" - Deborah Cox
14. "We Belong Together" - Mariah Carey
14. "Blame It" - Jamie Foxx Feat. T-Pain
14. "Pretty Wings" - Maxwell
13. "Can't Be Friends" - Trey Songz
12. "Diamonds " - Rihanna
12. "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)" - Alicia Keys
12. "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" - Beyoncé
11. "Climax" - Usher

if the chart hadn't been changed in October, Miguel's "Adorn" would be on its 16th week at #1 (as it stands it only had 4 weeks). I'm pretty sure Rihanna will be dethroned in the next week or two...by Macklemore.

...........

I know this should have its own thread but man these changes have turned the rock chart into a dire melange of Of Lumineers And Mumfords

xp are you trying to imply this guy isn't keeping the block hot?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wdNofQxrfrk/UEAcCPiLXnI/AAAAAAAAC5w/qg00qrcI9Ho/s1600/Macklemore.jpg

I just listened to Macklemore & Ryan Lewis for the first time. Why did I think that was a good idea?

tbf the rock airplay charts are also a dire melange of Lumumfordeers, it's the Ed Sheerans and Phillip Phillipses that the download-dominated charts are bringing in

what the fuck is a lumineers anyway

The light that illumines the path for hipsterati

the whole "guitars are back on the charts! but only acoustic ones" thing is pretty surreal

I Like Lumineers and Mumfords

the whole "guitars are back on the charts! but only acoustic ones" thing is pretty surreal

fuck yes time to get paid

dude if you think you could troll the world by writing the next "Ho Hey" Top 40 folk pop blockbuster you should really go for it

TROLL BITCHES, GET MONEY

I'd be much more willing to give it a shot now than I would have been before there were baby clothes to buy but I'm long in the tooth. Gotta get me some Rob n Fab gone rustic stand-ins for my big-dollars Mumford heel turn