Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one singles

news together, and they explained as best as they could that she was going to have a brother or sister. They made sure to tell her before they announced the news on the reality show," a source told Hollywood Life. Kanye and Kim just celebrated their one-year anniversary last month, and the rapper didn't shy away from revealing his love for Kim on social media. "Kim, I'm so happy to be married to the girl of my dreams... I love you and Nori so much!!! I would find you in any lifetime," West wrote on

checked the billboard top 100 singles charts of each decade and chose artists who I think best represent the most popular music of each respective era. Join me as I take you on a trip through years of popular top charting music! Let’s start with the fifties. This is an exciting time for American pop culture in my opinion. War has ended and most of the world

Born on October 24th 1986 in Toronto Canada Aubrey Drake Graham was destined to become an important musical aspect of modern day hip hop culture. His father a former drummer of Jerry Lee Lewis greatly impacted Drakes coherent career as a rapper. Strangely enough Drake’s father is an African American Catholic and his mother is a Canadian Jew. Rapper, Drake identifies himself as an African American man because he is more deeply intertwined with this culture. Fans who represent this ethnic group are

Aubrey Drake Graham was born in Toronto, Ontario to the parents of Sandi Graham and Dennis Graham. Drake’s father is from Memphis, Tennessee, and Drake’s mother is a white Jewish Canadian. His parents divorced when he was only five years old. Looking back on his early life, Drake had lived two different lives because of his parents' separation; he lived in a very upper-class part of Toronto, and, when in Memphis, was told he was "the furthest thing from hood." He witnessed many life-changing experiences

rapper and record producer self-published the hit debut single – “Crank That” – in 2007 through his MySpace and later on the album, souljaboytellem.com. Soulja Boy’s, who was only sixteen years old at that time, song became a success, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks in the United States (Soulja). The song had every component that made it popular during this time, as the popularity of “traditional” hip hop, particularly rap and R&B, was declining – it was released through the internet

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Today we hear a lot about recordings of songs and albums going gold or platinum but how did those certifications start? What does it take to make an album “Gold” or “Platinum”? Well first we have to start out with who started the awards, and how they monitor them as well as what is measure for the certifications. Another thing to look at is who has received these certifications and what did they have to do to get them. Also, what is the billboard charts and what do they have to do with tracking music

born April 29, 1958 to a working class family in Gary, Indiana. His parents, Joe and Katherine had ten children and Michael Jackson was the eighth child. The Jackson family was very musically inclined. Michael’s father played guitar in a small R&B band, his mother sang frequently, and his brothers often sand and played with their father’s guitar (Biography on Michael Jackson, 2002). Michael Jackson was no exception to his family’s musical ability. At the age of four Joe Jackson pushed his

Covers versions are credited to be “one of the most important precedents for the rise of rock ‘n’ roll.” This “commercial and musical phenomenon” is the use of a previously recorded song that is either remade or reinterpreted by another group or artist. There is an argument that cover versions are employed by bands and artists in order to “cash in” on the success that the original version provided the original artist. However, as in all debates, there is a side that argues that cover versions

It reached number 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, resulting in her eighth most commercially successful song at the time. However, now in 2016, some debate may arise on which one of the singer’s songs is actually the most successful. Thirteen years after its original release, the song has regained an enormous amount of popularity due to the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, and the Power of