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She was definitely more than a one hit wonder though. She had like 4 hits though and if anything her career got derailed by a bad single choice, not by other factors.

Falls in casket @ "white people music."

I think Rita Ora has said that she isn't black or mixed. She's Albanian

What about Beyonce? Do you think she is seen the same way or more toned down? Considering she dances more than Rihanna in a 'sexy' way but she doesn't really exude that attitude outside of her music. And also her last era wasn't too much like that.

Do you think maybe Aaliyah was a black artist that fitted the same way as Britney did? In being innocent?

Urban radio is for URBAN music. It's not only for black people, it's for EVERYBODY that makes urban music.

Adele and Eminem should get lots of airplay on urban radio, since they do black music. But they don't. They get ignored, because they're white. That's racist.

Eminem has had Lose Yourself and LTWYL and a few other songs do well on urban, but most of his songs get ignored.

And musical style this year for them is interesting. Trey Songz was left out in the cold till he switched it up. Alex got shot down cause she switched it up, D'Banj took AGES to get up with the awesome Oliver Twist.

The UK is even funnier (with females) than the US. Beverley Knight was paid DUST in my childhood. We only had Jamelia and Gabrielle succeeding. And the only big black female act Uk wise we've had (and I don't mean mixed race) is Alexandra, and she's had it hard in 2012.
It's just so irritating and odd too.

Bar Rihanna, Radio 1 don't really let a black female have none black influenced music on their B or A list (C list if they're lucky). I remember Bey had BTINH at C list before Glasto, and the week it smashed, they moved it to A list to look cool. Capital is even worse, they have to be generic to be played now (they really have changed recently), urban doesn't exist there.

Not to do with colour, but genres dominating at the moment. 80% of the top 5 artists of the 00s were black. Nothing shocking tbh. Not many black artist do pop or dance, even when they do, its labelled as R&B.

and that's so stupid! corporate trying to shove us back into a corner.

And it stayed at #1 for 5 weeks on airplay. But in the UK its way easier to get a top 10 hit also.

Urban is for that. But black artists rarely crossover. Berry Gordy had to PAY to get blacks on his label played. It should be for everybody. Adele tbh was pop with soul influenced hits (RITD). Same way pop is for popular songs. But y'all know it don't work like that. Look at Adorn, big hit, but they acted like it didn't exist. That song would've been #1 if pop let it crossover.

I remember when there were threads with people saying WFL had R&B/Urban influences.

Adorn is crossing over now though. They didn't send it for pop adds until recently

True. I was SMH at them. The shadiness. The ignored RTW too, it was almost top 10. A damn mess. I'm glad she had hits on radio. LOT took off by itself. I loved it. I didn't know it was at #1 for so long.

That's good. Why did they take so long though? They should've done it 2.5 months ago

People in here saying black women can't pull off EDM are really ignorant of history. The very foundation of modern dance/club music is rooted in black female singers.

Yeah, Capital FM is horrible with urban music. It's so sad. Since I remember when I was younger Galaxy played loads of it (by both white and black artists), but now it's just dance music they play (although they still do play a LOT of black artists, just nearly all the time it's with europop songs).

Radio 1 aren't too bad with urban music. They've got Frank Ocean, The Weeknd, Miguel and an urban song from Nicki on their playlsit atm. But Capital are awful. And even when you do see an urban song on their playlist, they hardly ever seem to play it.

The reason Radio 1 did that with Best Thing I Never Had was since it took off quicker than expected. It went straight to #1 on iTunes when the album was released. I'm sure it would've gone A-List anyway. Beyonce's singles last year did better in the UK than they did in the US.

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I think when it comes to come to artists who haven't charted on pop radio before, they're reluctant to send stuff out yet unless it does really well on another format first. They should have known though that the song had potential since Adorn was relatively reactive on iTunes. I mean it wasn't a huge sales hit or anything, but the fact that it has been in the Top 100 without pop airplay was pretty suprsing and should have been a clue to them