Discussion: Music industry only allows two black women to dominate?

Ethereal

Only four black women have gone top 20 this decade. There was a time when this wasn't an issue. We've had so many black female artists and groups dominating at the same time in the 90s and early 2000s. For the past few years only two black female soloists have been dominating - Beyoncé and Rihanna. Many have tried to break out (Tinashe, Tori Kelly, Sevyn, Justine Skye and Amber Riley). They've unfortunately had no real luck with reaching the heights Beyoncé and Rihanna reached with their first two efforts.

Why?

jacklovesyou1

I'm guessing you want the answer to be racism?

At the end of the day the gp buys music they enjoy.. most black female singers usually go down an urban route whilst white pop singers usually go poppy.. It could be down to racism but I hardly doubt it?

HandsToMyself

Tori Kelly is black?

Ethereal

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Originally posted by jacklovesyou1

I'm guessing you want the answer to be racism?

At the end of the day the gp buys music they enjoy.. most black female singers usually go down an urban route whilst white pop singers usually go poppy.. It could be down to racism but I hardly doubt it?

Yes, but if you look at what's on radio now, most of the songs are rhythmic sonically and influenced by urban music.

LeonaLewisThunder

There's no racism in the music industry. never was (at least for the last 30 years)

perfectlover

There's Nicki too

OpenBacardi

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They've unfortunately had no real luck with reaching the heights Beyoncé and Rihanna reached with their first two efforts.

I know what you're saying but most white female artists won't reach those heights either. And why is Nicki Minaj not being mentioned as if her success has been mediocre?

Ethereal

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Originally posted by perfectlover

There's Nicki too

I love Nicki but she has yet to prove that she has the power that Beyoncé and Rihanna have. Everything these women touch turns to gold. Even their buzz singles are out here scraping platinum certifications easily

Aiyan

I don't know

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But it's not just the music industry, the whole industry is like that. If you have one successful bankable black actor/actress, you can be sure that you're going to see that same actor in every movies with a major "black" role for a while before the next actor/actress shows up and the previous one fades away.

And then you have 10 white actors who literally looks the same to cover the lead roles.

Kisuke

Cause, the industry is racist.

Jude

Don't worry, Nicki is coming with Side To Side!

SebaMonster

If that's your standard for success, then it makes sense that there are only two.

Ethereal

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Originally posted by SebaMonster

If that's your standard for success, then it makes sense that there are only two.

I love Ariana Grande but she's one of the only female soloists in the last five years to break out. But people like Tinashe are struggling.

Ash12345

There's only like 6 main popgirls right now

Bey
Tay
Adele
Gaga
Katy
Rih

could include nicki and britney also but wouldn't change much
33% black despite only like 15% of the US being black

Pecinta Mariah

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Only four black women have gone top 20 this decade.

Mariah has 2 songs went top 20 this decade, does she count?

stevyy

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Originally posted by Pecinta Mariah

Mariah has 2 songs went top 20 this decade, does she count?

shh.. atrl thinks mariah stopped recording music in 1994.

Hilly

The answer is pretty obvious

Dark XXX

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Originally posted by HandsToMyself

Tori Kelly is black?

She's half-black apparently and do you see her dominating the music industry? No.

Dark XXX

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Originally posted by LeonaLewisThunder

There's no racism in the music industry. never was (at least for the last 30 years)

Um yes there is. There is racism in all industries. Don't be so delusional.

Bey Admired

Erm, it's pretty simple.

In the late 90's/early 2000's, the 'in' thing was R&B music. Then it became about pure pop and dance music. We are slowly moving back into R&B music being the popular thing.

Beyonce managed to succeed throughout the pop-period because of B'Day and I Am, 2 generally very pop albums with little influences of R&B.

A lot of black females don't do pop or dance music, it's that simple. You had many black females singing R&B claiming that pop radio wouldn't play them but they'd play Adele. Erm, well pop radio is not playing R&B music right now, what do you expect? RITD, SLY, and SFTTR all had very pop tendencies that were very influenced by soul.

Erm, I hope I explained that well enough