Why aren’t black listeners supporting new R&B artists with potential?

[Optimus Prime]

all the greatest R&B ever made is already available at your fingertips
there was this story earlier this year reporting that most music being played these days is old music.
Stranger Things made a 40 year old song #1 in the world for a couple of weeks.

Is Old Music Killing New Music?

Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Ol’Otis]

... "No dikk is making me stupid"

That’s another thing
I can’t listen to female r&b artist today
Mary, Faith, Anita etc didn’t have this type of crassness in their music

 

[CrimsonTider]

If they not talking about building a community, why do we care.

Fake deep

 

[CrimsonTider]

Modern day R&B don't hit the same as it did in the 90s and 2000s

this sounds like prime baduh

 

[Canada Goose]

this sounds like prime baduh

Yeah, this song was dope.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Don’t nobody care about that girl.

She’s depressing and desperate.

We got decades of R&B to listen to.

Thread. Streaming has literally opened up thousands of records we don’t even know exist during times of actual quality control.

 

[NatiboyB]

If you been in the music game as long as she has and your selling point is still “potential”,
then maybe your potential ain’t all that.


Show me the hits

At a certain point just like with anything else potential needs to turn into production otherwise it’s just wasted resources.

 

[010101]

new r&b artist don't have star personalities*

 

[Hey_zeus]

I like Ari but i didn't even know this was out. She really not a star like that.

 

[Buddy]

Don’t nobody care about that girl.

She’s depressing and desperate.

We got decades of R&B to listen to.

I do, fukk you
I mean I haven't heard it... Didn't really have any intentions either

but the girl can sing

And she's finer than people try to play

 

[DEAD7]

this generation don’t listen to r&b.

 

[RickyDiBiase]

new r&b artist don't have star personalities*

That doesn't mean anything

 

[Un-AmericanDreamer]

They need to study The Weeknd What does he do to put out so many big hits?

He doesn't make rnb music.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

It’s the lyrical content and the target audience.

Then you have r&b artists that sign to rap labels or have rap management teams.


Which is why SZA hasn’t dropped a new album yet.

 

[Dynamite James]

He doesn't make rnb music.

He doesn’t really but this was smooth though