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Originally posted by FutureHive
rock music is too white. it will never be in style unless black ppl **** with it
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Back in the early 2000s, mainstream radio offered listeners a much bigger variety of music. Rock and Urban both shared the airwaves and spots on the album charts through 2005. While artists like Usher and Ashanti are remembered for ruling the charts then, you'll also find Nickelback, Three Doors Down, Puddle Of Mudd, Staind, Green Day, Linkin Park, and many others were either just behind and/or occasionally slightly ahead. "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" was one of the first songs to top Digital Songs after BB began fully implementing download data into the Hot 100.
Also, Lil Wayne, Kid Cudi, and several other black artists have dabbled into Rock music in recent years. Disturbed's The Sound Of Silence selling over 1.1 million downloads in a down market, and spending almost a year in the ITunes Top 100 shows there's still a market there. It's altogether possible more than one genre could share 2017. Mainstream radio needs to go outside of the box to broaden back open its playlists.