First Time ever! Billboard Hot top 10 are African-American artists

[underpants]

I'm not really a fan on any of these but I think this is cool.



http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifestyle/html/20031009T220000-0500_50103_OBS_AFRICAN_AMERICAN_ACTS_LEAD_THE_CHARGE_ON_BILLBOARD_HOT____.asp

African American acts lead the charge on Billboard Hot 100

FOR the first time since its inception in the 1950's, the Billboard Hot 100 chart's top 10 positions are dominated by black African American artistes. This unique feat occurred on the popular and respected chart listing for October.

1. Baby Boy- Beyonce/Sean Paul (currently #1 on the R&B chart)
2. Shake Ya Tail feather- Nelly, P Diddy and Murphy Lee
3. Get Low- Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz featuring the Ying Yang Twins (currently #1 on the Rap chart)
4. Right Thurr- Chingy (recent #1 on the Rap chart)
5. Frontin- Pharell featuring Jay-Z (a recent #1 on the R&B chart)
6. Damn- Young Bloodz featuring Lil Jon
7. PIMP- 50 Cent ( a recent #1 on the Rap chart)
8. Into You- Fabolous featuring Ashanti or Tamia
9. Stand Up- Ludacris featuring Shawna
10.Where is the Love- Black Eyed Peas (currently #1 in several countries around the world including the UK

[AntiCoup2K4]

1. It would be a lot cooler if...

any of the music on that list was worth a shit. :puke:

We ain't exactly talking Marvin Gaye, James Brown, and Aretha Franklin here.

[VermontDem2004]

2. Ludacris

I listened to a song in his new album where he just bashes Oh Really. That is pretty much all you have to do to make me a fan.

[Nevernose]

3. I've heard good things about The Black-Eyed Peas

So they might not be garbage (I don't know; I haven't heard them yet). The rest of that list is, indeed, puke-worthy. Whatever happened to MUSIC?

[scarlet_owl]

4. You know, I saw them on some late night show

and they were pretty good. This is coming from me-someone who does not keep up with new music. I prefer old folk, blues, and jazz, but I liked their message.

[BloodyWilliam]

13. I gotta agree. Sigh.

50 Cent is just a black Eminem. :evilgrin:

Eh, I honestly think hip-hop has gone downhill since Public Enemy and Run DMC's days. This current wave of rap is just mysoginistic bullshit.

Eh, give me jazz any day. Or soul. Dig it. :)

[Rich Hunt]

5. the times have changed, guys

Time to live in the future and appreciate today's artists.

I don't like all of them, either (I do like some of them), but if the truth be told, today's top 40 is better than ever, and it has been for about five years or so.

Even critics agree.

The problem is that a wider variety of music does not get played, not that Top 40 sucks.

The music just sounds different now, and people need to adjust.

[RandomKoolzip]

6. Ha Ha Ha. That's fuckin hilarious!

Just because something is "new" doesn't make it good. All that music listed above REALLY REALLY sucks. Compare any song by Bob Marley or James Carr to Chingy, and you tell me which sounds better to your ears. Face it, dymaxia, you are living in denial. Remember "New" Coke? "People need to adjust?" Just like we need to adjust to the new rules under the Bush Administration, right? No, fuck that, it sucks. Don't be brainwashed into accepting whatever shit the corporate media hands you just cause it's the "new" thing and all the kids are into it. Just remember what sounds so state of the art today will sound silly and outdated in ten years.

Today's top 40 is better than ever? Wow, how old are you?

Marvin Gaye, please come back and save us!!

[Rich Hunt]

10. I'm 35

And I have thousands and thousands of LPs, CDs and tapes in my collection.

There were tons of crappy, schmaltzy singles in the top 40 in the 60s, 70s, and especially the 80s.

And Beyonce is great.

[NightTrain]

20. Re: There were tons of crappy, schmaltzy singles in the 60s, 70s...

<<There were tons of crappy, schmaltzy singles in the top 40 in the 60s, 70s, and especially the 80s.>>

And I have the lion's share of them on old 45s. Hard to believe I ever liked any of that stuff! Thankfully, my tastes have matured.

[Spider Jerusalem]

15. I'm already living in the future, thanks.

Most of the new music I listen to (which tends to be rather obscure) is actually good, unlike the lowest-common-denominator commercialised CRAP that makes the charts. I have no problem with music that sounds different, but different is not always good, either.

[bleedingheart]

7. Great...Make me feel really old.. I don't recognize any of that music

I am soooo old....

I will now go back to listen to my Ella Fitzgerald...

[Paragon]

8. Boooo!

The only "artist" worth half a shit on there is The Peas.

This says a lot more about the directions that MTV and suburban culture have taken than about how good the acts are.

[Bossy Monkey]

9. This is so Last Week :)

Strange that it took the Jamaica Observer a week to pick up the story; Billboard already has a new Hot 100 out: http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/hot100.jsp

The only new artist on the Top 10 is 3 Doors Down, who on their website appear to be caucasian males. I'm as not au courant as anybody could be (ie "Those Nirvana kids are pretty good ain't they?")but I also think the all-African-American Top 10 is pretty cool, even if P. Diddy's on it. (You mean he actually makes records sometimes?)

[Kamika]

11. They all suck except beyonce

Im 21 and can say that

[DrWeird]

12. The Love Below/Speakerboxxx

Best album(s) in the last thirty years. Of any genre.

The reason that it's not on the list must be because it just came out.

[BloodyWilliam]

14. No Tupac???

Beyonce and Black Eyed Peas aren't too bad. 50 Cent sucks I gotta say.

But where the smeg is Tupac?

And for the record he is NOT dead. Dead men don't have movies, videos, and singles coming out every few months. He's released more albums since he got shot than before! :evilgrin:

I hear Tupac's gonna release his 9/11 memorial album soon.

[Kenneth ken]

16. I'm confused

" Into You- Fabolous featuring Ashanti or Tamia "
does no one know who was the guest singer? That's just bizarre.

***

that said, yay that the entire Top Ten were African-Americans for a week. Considering how many great African-American artists there have been over the years, and how much great music they have produced, it's about bloody time this happened - I'm only surprised it didn't happen numerous times in the mid-sixties. Motown, Stax, etc.

[Cosmic_Latte]

23. They both sang a version of "Into You"

with Fabolous, and both songs (are quite similar-sounding)and are on the playlist so I guess they just listed one so as not to create confusion. It was a little touch-up on Tamia's 1998 single.

And one thing, I like "Baby Boy"! :-)

[arwalden]

17. Never Heard Of ANY Of These Folks... Not Even ONE

guess I'm gettin old and un-cool.

-- Allen (where's my walker?)

[ProudGerman]

18. The top 10 was all black

[calm_blue_ocean]

19. Racism

I think there is some corporate racism going on here. I don't it is a good omen vis-a-vis racism or a good thing for music.

Edit: Message edited for clarity. Also, let me clarify that I don't think race is the main or primary factor in the crappiness of music these days. There are other factors that would still make the sales chart crappy even if there were no racism in the music industry. Anticipating another criticism: No slight on black musical artists -- black artists are a huge and welcome part of the musical scene as a whole. Public Enemy and NWA are my favorites. PE has been a big influence on my own lyricwriting. 1960s US jazz totally rocks.

[donotpassgo]

21. They are all overrated. The media industry just wants a black musician

be successful.

[NightTrain]

22. The last time anything like that happened...

...was in mid-1972, when African-Americans had the top five singles on the Hot 100 chart. Unfortunately, the #1 record that was Sammy Davis, Jr's horrendous "Candy Man."

[Red_Storm]

24. I guess.........

the state of music in the country is almost as bad as the political one.........

[calm_blue_ocean]

25. Link to Washington Post story on diversity on tv

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21336-2003Oct13.html

There seems to be different standards of diversity for TV and pop music chart.