VIBE Calls Sam Smith The Ruler Of Soul Music

[Dr. Acula]

I don't know why y'all are so concerned with any one else's opinion other than yours. It's been repeated several times before, award shows don't matter, neither does the popular opinion, yet you all still sit on your phones or at your computers or laptops and complain.

I haven't even listened to this guys music before, but I think I've heard a clip of his song "stand by me" on the radio.

There's plenty of musicians, but like most people that live their lives following popular opinion, you don't know any of them, but you still complain. This is the year of supporting music that requires no label nor heavy radio promotion, but y'all ignore it. Why? Because black people are pitiful like every other race and seek attention and recognition, feeling as if no contribution is existed if it isn't recognized.

Why am I explaining this to grown ass men?




^That's good music, come to Portland and you'll hear stuff like this everyday.

Had to come back to this thread and give you daps for this recommendation.

By the way, the folks who act like they care this dude is gay, I'll assume you're not trolling. I don't care about that as it relates to music. Hell I listen to elton john, luther vandross, and queen for the music not their sexual orientation.

 

[No1]

My point is that black people aren't buying music in general, not simply soul music. The concert point may be anecdotal but think about it this way: if you went to a Badu concert in the 90s the crowd would be a lot blacker than it is today. Same with The Roots, although in that case it's understandable because they've become more mainstream. The point is that traditionally black genres are driven by white dollars. Ultimately it boils down to supply and demand. Music sales are down overall across the board but the younger demographic continues to be run by white female $.



The label issue is tied directly to sales though. Labels aren't pushing new black soul or r&b artists because white artists have a higher sales probability. Demographics play a big part obviously. But ultimately everything is run by money, and right now I don't see many independent artists coming up with a large black fanbase, before hopping into the mainstream field. They start out aiming for the mainstream field, and it's harder to do when you don't have a base of support. That's the point of the Motown comparison: those artists had a BASE of black fans, and everything else was built on that, like a springboard.

In terms of black soul, Daniel Caeser is dope. Moreso in the Frank Ocean r&b feel than pure soul.

Fair enough, but record labels started going towards ring tones and singles awhile ago. My point was simply this:

Bruno Mars edged out Rihanna as the most pirated artist of 2013, according to figures released by data analysis firm Musicmetric. Mars finished the year with nearly 5.8 million downloads to Rihanna's 5.4 million. Daft Punk was a distant third with 4.2 million downloads. Justin Timberlake with 3.9 million downloads and Flo Rida with 3.5 million downloads round out the top five.

Musicmetric's numbers represent albums and tracks downloaded using BitTorrent, a protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing that enables the transfer of large files. The company says a typical breakdown of BitTorrent traffic for musicians is 70% albums and 30% tracks.

1 Bruno Mars, 5,783,556
2 Rihanna, 5,414,166
3 Daft Punk, 4,212,361
4 Justin Timberlake, 3,930,185
5 Flo Rida, 3,470,825
6 Kanye West, 3,199,969
7 Eminem, 3,176,122
8 Jay Z, 3,171,358
9 Drake, 3,139,408
10 Pitbull, 3,138,308
11 One Direction, 2,920,445
12 Maroon 5, 2,857,652
13 Zedd, 2,828,764
14 Nicki Minaj, 2,681,177
15 Adele, 2,594,275
16 Avicii, 2,562,151
17 David Guetta, 2,441,235
18 Linkin Park, 2,352,385
19 Pharrell Williams, 2,336,996
20 Katy Perry, 2,318,740

Basically, all popular music is heavily downloaded. Taylor Swift will top 2014 and 2015 or come close. It cuts across genres and races. NO ONE, not just black, NO ONE buys music unless they heavily fukk with an artist and the artists we are exposed to are mostly wack or have niche audiences. @Always-Right Liggins this is what I was getting at the other day