How Ledisi, Tamia and more longtime stars survive in an era of young, shape-shifting R&B
1 R&B album with 2015’s “Love Life.”“What’s amazing is that 20-some odd years after my first album, I got my first No. So you have to keep an entire marketing plan to push a record because traditional R&B is not a streaming genre. “I'm known for core R&B and streaming has never been a space catered to traditional R&B,” he says. Marcus OwensTamia’s latest single, “Leave It Smokin,” like Tank’s “When We,” proved to be a rare smash on R&B radio. “R&B is the only genre where there’s this idea that success means giving up R&B.
Source: Los Angeles Times December 14, 2018 11:05 UTC
