Psychoniff
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I haven't pulled that up yet. I just ASSUMED it would be on there.I can't believe they did not include the Dangerous Album cover on their ''Best Album Cover of All Time''.
Even if this is going by hits, there's no way D'Angelo is more popular than The Spinners, Teddy Pendergrass, The Temptations, Freddie Jackson, Gap Band, Funkadelic, LTD/Jeffrey Osborne, Lou Rawls, George Benson, Deniece Williams, Johnnie Taylor, Louis Jordan, Ben E King, Jackie Wilson, Brook Benton, Ohio Players, New Edition, Teena Marie, Millie Jackson, Booker T & The MGs, Roberta Flack, War, The Dramatics, and many other acts.^^^Happy to see Smokey, Stevie, and Michael were the top 3.
D'Angelo? Maxwell? Erykah Badu? Usher? Out of around 80 years of R&B music, how did they make the list? It must have been compiled by neo soul fans. :rofl: No Isley Brothers, who've been around since the 1950s, but someone who was influenced by them (R. Kelly) is there. What I've noticed about the list is that most of these acts had some level of crossover success. There's many acts that were mainly known to the R&B audience and not the Top 40 pop audience like Tyrone Davis and Cameo.
Even if you only count newer acts, D'Angelo makes no sense. I'm pretty sure Rihanna, Boyz II Men, Sade, & Mariah Carey had more success on the R&B charts than him. And Sade rarely releases anything, lol. D'Angelo only has 3 studio albums in 20 years and there was a 14 year gap between the newest one in 2014 and the previous one. D'Angelo is mostly known for that nude music video.Like I said in this thread: http://www.mjjcommunity.com/forum/threads/136974-Billboard-Greatest-Of-All-Time-Michael-in-top-10 these Billboard charts published this week seem to disproportionately favour current acts. That's why you will see neo soul acts there but not the old (much bigger) legends of R&B. It is so on their other charts as well. In the greatest albums ever list they have 21 by Adele at #1, tons of Taylor Swift albums, Frozen soundtrack etc. - well just a disproportional amount of current acts in disproportionately high places IMO. My guess is that Billboard probably tries to appeal to current young fans, so they made up a scoring system that somehow favours these current acts.
He's on the list.The only major ones I felt they missed were Smokey Robinson