Beyoncé, Frank Ocean, and SZA‘s songs have all las among the 100 Greatest R&B Songs of the 21st Century.
According to Rolling Stone, Queen Bey has delivered memorable tracks like “1+1” (No. 27) and “Dangerously in Love” (No. 3) as a solo artist, but she certainly did her part with “Cater 2 U” (No. 21) back in her Destiny’s Child days.
Meanwhile, ex-Odd Future‘s Frank Ocean came in at No. 6 with “Thinkin’ About You,” and SZA definitely was no slouch with “Snooze,” which got here in at No. 19. Ginuwine, Bruno Mars, and Mariah Carey all took spots on the listing, as effectively. The high spot, nevertheless, belonged to Usher, who shut all of it down with “Confessions Pt. 2.”
Check out the playlist of the Greatest R&B Songs of the 21st Century beneath.
Back in November, HipHopDX got here up with its personal listing of the highest R&B albums of 2023, with PinkPantheress coming in on the high spot.
On her anticipated debut album, Heaven Knows, PinkPantheress crafts her personal Shakespearean tragedy, however doesn’t fairly evolve from the themes or sounds of her previous work. She makes use of heaps of avant garde synths, digital dance, and percussion beats that add a shiny gloss to lyrics which contact on heavier themes of dying, love misplaced and unrequited, and grief.
In doing so, she brings to mild the darker sides of a younger soul trying to navigate heartbreak. It’s a poetic and dramatic compilation of breakup songs that may depart a listener dancing round their lounge whereas craving for his or her poisonous ex.
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SZA additionally made the listing along with her record-breaking sophomore album SOS.
While she delivered her second undertaking 5 years since her debut album CTRL, SZA didn’t go utterly lacking in motion throughout that point. She appeared on initiatives by Summer Walker, DJ Khaled, and Doja Cat, to call a number of.
However SOS was the primary time followers received to listen to her perspective on her absence and the whole lot that was happening in her world; not by means of Twitter interpretations, or he stated/she stated drama, direct from the supply.
The undertaking went on to eclipse milestones by the likes of Whitney Houston and Mary J. Blige, a with the hit single “Snooze” changing into the one tune to spend all of 2023 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
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