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Originally posted by snke205
Usher's "Climax" is doing well right now.....maybe not top 10, but top 50......and even though its got some electro elements, its R&B for the most part. Top 50 for an R&B record is big these days. Also, there were a couple of other songs that did well like "There Goes My Baby". I can't think of another R&B song that has done this well in a while (R&B meaning something that sounds like Joe, Tyrese, Boyz II Men, Donell Jones, etc.). Usher is usually one of the only people you see on the charts with a record like this. Back when R&B was mainstream, Usher ran the charts with 8701 and his other albums, so his records still do well today.
A dance record may not work for Jay Sean- Do you Remember did well, but 2012 just wasn't that popular and Hit the Lights wasn't promoted well enough. However, he may be still be able to pull it off with "I'm All Yours", but it has to bring something different to the table because dance music is fading away.
Adele, Kelly Clarkson, and Bruno Mars are all pop, not R&B. Some of the other big songs fall into other categories (not sure what category "We are Young" falls into, I guess it could be pop). He needs something like that - something that is pop, like a Bruno Mars song or something completely different, like "We Are Young", or an emotional song similar to something Adele would put out. This is why "War" or "Lights Off" would've done well.
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Yes, a pure R&B track isn't likely to do well, but it's not like Jay's R&B songs weren't ever leaning towards pop.
Do You Remember was a flop. Peaking at #10 and free falling off the charts is flopping. Dance music definitely hasn't faded, but he can't pull it off. Hit the Lights was embarrassing, especially the music video.
I never said that they were R&B, but Adele can be considered to be something along the lines of soul or jazz. If her songs were sung by a black woman, no one would think otherwise. And I don't think "We Are Young" is standard pop; "pop" is anything popular anyway, not a specific genre. Anyway the point was making a dance track isn't required to make a hit, especially when it's garbage like Hit the Lights.