This entire decade, there have only been THREE black women in the Top 10 as Lead artists/Groups (Icona Pop, Rihanna & Nicki Minaj). Aside from those three, there have only been TWO black women in the top 10 as features in this decade: Janelle Monae, & Beyoncé.

Why are black girls flopping so hard?

because people has enough with those 3...

Because all the black females are R&B.

Alicia was close

I guess they have to adapt their music at the right time in the right way

Technically... it's like half of them :/

America is still racist

Because there aren't that many black girls making the electro/dance music that has been popular this decade. But now that pop music appears to be shifting back to more of an urban sound, I think we'll definitely see more of our girls at the top.

There are hardly any mainstream ones, and even less with pop.

The black girls who are pop directed (Rihanna, Nicki, Bey, etc.) are doing just fine.

This isn't true. There's plenty of black artists making electro music, they're just not smashing

Like who?

Dawn Richard had that album, Sevyn Streeter has a couple electro-R&B songs on her album, Brandy's album had one electro-R&B song on her album, Ciara's album had a handful, Keyshia Cole did an electronic song, Mary J Blige did it in 2011, Rihanna, Janelle Monae's entire sound falls under that, etc.

There's a lot more examples, those are just the main examples.

Seriously???

Wow, that's astonishing

There may be tinges of electro influence in some of their work, but I would never classify any of those women you mentioned (sans Rihanna) as anything other than R&B.

Clearly the sistas need to step their game up!

:gap toothed black girl gif:

Smh.. Everyone's flopping for people on ATRL now.

People are just over the stars that ATRL specifically fawn over.. they've moved on to new artists.

Because America doesn't care about music, they just want songs they can sing along with. And most Black Females sing with passion, which most Americans lack.

Rihanna had to do 2 Pop centered albums, GGGB and LOUD, just to get America to listen to her albums. Those two albums are her most successful while she's churned out 3 other absolutely amazing albums, the only songs that did well were her pop centered Rude Boy, We Found Love, and Where Have You Been. Diamonds was the first time a non pop Rihanna song with her at the lead did well IMO.

But look at Gaga, She did Pop centered albums TF/M then did BTW and even she lost the GP as soon as she started showcasing good material with meaning.