biggest R&B songs on urban radio 2011

yes, a lack of critical consensus is exactly why i find her empty lyrics and hammed-up rap style completely banal

no emptier than your average gun sounds/goon/post soulja boy rapper. she's a club rapper and she excels on fast dance beats - who else could tackle the "work them" beat like she did this year?

far away (but it's the full 7-minute album version that's really vibes, not the radio edit)

fwiw i heard the full 7-minute version on the radio a lot this year

i don't get 'sure thing' at all. idk. not very sexy, kind of country

― joey joe joe junior shabadoo, Thursday, December 29, 2011 5:33 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

i mean, its a solid song, i dont mean to make it sound like i hate it. just kinda there to me, seems a real random hit to be the board's landslide favorite

― joey joe joe junior shabadoo, Thursday, December 29, 2011 5:34 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

well, it's the #1 most played song on urban radio of the whole year, so it's not like some totally random minor hit, it was hugely hugely popular. also 'sexy' isn't really what it's going for and 'kind of country' is in the plus column.

happy perez ftw

anyway if you want proof that 2011 was better for R&B radio than 2010 you should compare this year's top 3 (sure thing/motivation/far away) to last year's top 3 (un-thinkable/there goes my baby/it kills me).

Motivation.

I'd like "Sure Thing" a lot more if he didn't do the "if I'm the (x), you could be the (x')" thing

yeah it's such a hacky tired construction to base the verses on, but imo the phrasing of the vocal performance makes it work better than it has a right to

The vocal melody and the subtle melancholy reminds me of Mario's "Let Me Love You."

it's definitely the kind of song that you just think is a pleasant trifle on first hearing but somehow a couple of months later you realise how much you love it

it's a ballad with a suppressed hysteria

yeah i dunno end of day i think the overall vibe just doesn't hit me like some other stuff does & i should probably chalk it up to genetics lol

this motivation (chicago juke remix) ft. kid sister is trash

lol'd at the lemme smang it reference tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQzR4qa_2TY&feature=related

the dj nephets mix without kid sister is p dope actually, but it's hella contextually reliant on the original

there have been a lot of dope remixes of "motivation"

yeah there have been tons, my fave is the DJ Extraordinaire remix... Jacques Greene's remix is dope too.

good to see everyone's been voting for "Party"

one of my favourite things about the kid sister remix isn't even kid sister, it's the beat switch-up. her verse is great though. HE ON THAT HUNDRED-METRE JACKIE JOYNER FLO-JO SHIIIT

although i'm always quite gratified when rappers namecheck athletes from sports i give a shit about

or just individual sports (ie proper sports) really

Where do you guys go to find album sales figures? I'm curious to see what kind of numbers these records did.

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