R&B is dead. Of course, black women arent going to be as prominent on the charts.
Back in the 90s, R&B was mainstream and electropop was underground.
Now the opposite has happened.
I suspect in the next couple of years, R&B will come back with a vengeance though and EDM will start fading

Ace, the decade isn't even halfway over . Let's wait until we reach 2019 to say anything!

Hot 100 I agree, but I don't think it was anywhere near as intense on pop radio.

I know, but after 3 years you'd expect more than 2...

I hate how unbalanced the charts were. I remember once there was an all-black top 10, which was also very unfair. You don't get this in the UK, you do get styles of genres dominating at certain times still, but there's always SOME dance/hip hop/alternative/etc. hits every year. It's not like it seems to be in the US where one genre blanket dominates for a few years.

Yeah, on pop radio they've been playing dance-pop the whole time, even during 2002-2005. The difference was that the chart was VERY airplay dominated in those years, and the dance-pop songs weren't crossing over to other formats like they do today, so they couldn't do well on the Hot 100. But a song that's on urban, rhythmic and pop at the same time like Yeah! or something gets 150 million AI or whatever, an easy #1.

People look at the Hot 100 from those years, and they think pop radio were playing nothing but urban music, but that's not true. They probably played about 30% urban music, it was still mainly pop and pop-rock they were playing, just they didn't get represented on the Hot 100 since they were the ONLY ones playing it.

Oh well, hopefully Alicia Keys can get top 10.

Scary but at least they had the genre chart before. Now the RnB girls would not even be able to get top 10 on the RnB charts because it is basically the Hot 100 now.

Didn't beyonce have a #1 smash with irreplaceable in 2005? Can someone define what a decade is in this scenario? The last 10 years or from 2000 until 2010?

Yeah exactly. A good number of those Top 10s didn't get substantial pop airplay, if any.

I'm thinking Ace is talking the past few years so far - 2010-2012.

and that's ****in' tragic considering that just prior to the 21st century there were many black women (even outside of pop music) with top10 hits in the hot 100

Not all black women are African American. Like Rihanna.

It's interesting how no mainstream female black artists bar Rihanna and Nicki have done dance music - didn't black females used to OWN dance music in the 80's/90's? Donna, Janet, Sonique, CeCe Peniston, Crystal Waters, Shannon, etc.

R&B is dead. And pop/top 40 formats hardly play urban music as much as they used to

Black artists just aren't getting played on the radio.

Maybe it's because of the economy and state of the music industry. Very few people are buying and record companies+radios probably wanna play it safe and promote artists they know will sell and appeal to a larger demographic: white people.

None of the black girls have sold out to the dance pop bangwagon besides them 2 and Kelly Rowland so it's not surprising

It's not because they're black, it's because of their genre, stop talking like it's different to be black/white.

Azealia is coming I guess.
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This is probably the lowest percentage for any decade since the 1950s.

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