Billboard’s noticeable method, now that the original carping regarding category maps provides died off, is to try to simply waiting away a cultural pendulum swing right back into the black-based audio.

And you may four months for the 2014, brand new Roentgen&B/Hip-Rise graph wants a bit less pop music-skewed. An enormous reasons why brand new chart seemed very excessively light when you look at the 2013 are that Very hot 100 are itself most-light just last year- maybe not an individual lead black colored singer topped the latest pop chart most of the seasons . However, Pharrell Williams broke the latest drought history day, topping brand new Sizzling hot 100 which have “Happy”. Of course, as he’s Zero. step one thereon chart, he is and No. 1 towards the Hot R&B/Hip-Move Sounds. (more…)