{"id":791709,"date":"2019-01-03T11:11:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T18:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=774424"},"modified":"2019-01-03T11:11:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T18:11:47","slug":"rb-may-not-have-a-king-but-it-gained-a-lot-of-fans-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/rb-may-not-have-a-king-but-it-gained-a-lot-of-fans-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"R&B May Not Have a King, But It Gained a Lot of Fans in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In December, the singer Jacquees<\/span> declared himself the \u201cKing of<\/span><\/a> R&B<\/a>\u201d for his generation, eliciting a string of dismissive reactions from luminaries like P. Diddy and Keith Sweat. The debate was silly: Not long ago, people were declaring R&B dead, and there is no pure singer right now putting up hits consistently enough for royalty status.<\/span> But the reaction to the debate was important \u2014 people cared, a lot, about R&B, in a way they hadn\u2019t for a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s also reflected in the new year-end report published on Thursday by BuzzAngle<\/a>, which tracks music consumption data:\u00a0<\/span>There was healthy growth in listening for both R&B songs and albums in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

The genre accounted for 11.2% of all track consumption in 2018, up from 9.5% in 2017. R&B\u2019s song listenership is expanding rapidly enough \u2014 up 19.7% between 2016 and 2017 \u2014 to outpace fast-growing Latin music and close quickly on rock. In fact, rock songs consumption plummeted from 19.8% in 2017 to 11.7% in 2018; if this pattern continues, that means that R&B songs may become the third most-popular by 2020, trailing only singles in rap and pop.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not just a singles market for R&B: The genre also accounted for 10.6% of all album consumption in 2018, up from 8.7% the year before. Statistics like that help genres achieve wider recognition. It\u2019s probably not a coincidence that two separate R&B albums, H.E.R.\u2019s<\/span> H.E.R.<\/span><\/em> and Janelle Monae\u2019s<\/span> Dirty Computer<\/span><\/em>, are in the running for Album of the Year at the 2019 Grammys<\/a>. The genre hasn\u2019t pushed two full-lengths into that category since Usher and Alicia Keys in 2005, back when the genre was a reliable commercial force.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so crazy how just a year or two ago, all the record companies were saying R&B is finished, encouraging younger artists not to sing R&B anymore,\u201d says Jeff Robinson, who once managed Alicia Keys and now manages H.E.R. \u201cPeople were telling me that in meetings, but I was going to these R&B shows full of people. And it\u2019s hard to deny when someone has a ton of streams: There\u2019s a market for it. Now it\u2019s R&B\u2019s turn. There\u2019s no talk about it being dead anymore.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In December, the singer Jacquees declared himself the \u201cKing of R&B\u201d for his generation, eliciting a string of dismissive reactions from luminaries like P. Diddy and Keith Sweat. The debate was silly: Not long ago, people were declaring R&B dead, and there is no pure singer right now putting up hits consistently enough for royalty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 23:52:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}