Who Was The Last Traditional R&B Artist to go Plat

[big_controversy]

no pop

No edm

No hip hop

Just traditional R&B

Was it Maxwell in 09

 

[satam55]

no pop

No edm

No hip hop

Just traditional R&B

Was it Maxwell in 09

Define Traditional R&B. Do you mean Contemporary R&B and/or Neosoul?

Don't forget the RIAA recently changed the rules so some albums recently went platinum like D'angelo's "Black Messiah".

 

[Dboy41]

Usher

 

[thaKEAF]

Maxwell is the correct answer. So it's been seven years.

 

[CHICAGOrilla]

Usher - Confessions

 

[HustlerOfVirginiA]

Maxwell is the correct answer. So it's been seven years.

BLACKsummers'night - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Canada Goose]

Trey Songz?

 

[Harry B]

What is traditional R&B? It's different in every decade, so do you mean 90s R&B sounding music?

Maxwell is soul/neo-soul first and then R&B, we might as well call Ariana Grande R&B if Maxwell isn't a neo soul artist.

I don't know why they call Justins 20/20 album a neo-soul album, I would call it "traditional R&B". Otherwise it would be Beyonce's "4" album that was released in 2011. She won "Best traditional R&B" for

 

[Harry B]

Look at the winners at the grammy's from 1999 to 2003, traditional R&B practically means old people making old music. Aretha Franklin won in 2005 for a cover of a 40 year old song that had been cover like 20 times. I.e. music for ^2. Seems like they upgraded the definition though.

Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[big_controversy]

All singing

No edm
No pop
No rap

Just a full length R&B album

Usher hasn't released a full R&B album since the follow up to Confessions

Beyoncé is an R&B/Pop artist...her music reflects that

So I do think Maxwell was the last to go plat

 

[TheRtist]

yea Beyonce is about to do it again this year

 

[big_controversy]

Beyonce is hybrid pop-r&b

 

[IllmaticDelta]

All singing

No edm
No pop
No rap

Just a full length R&B album

Usher hasn't released a full R&B album since the follow up to Confessions

Beyoncé is an R&B/Pop artist...her music reflects that

So I do think Maxwell was the last to go plat

all r&b is pop music..for the last time, POP is not an actual sound or genre

 

[MikeyC]

Ed Sheerhan, Rihanna, Weeknd, Drake, Adele, Sam Smith, Trey Songz

 

[big_controversy]

all r&b is pop music..for the last time, POP is not an actual sound or genre

R&B as I know it is soul music

Pop is popular formatted music