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Crossover Is Complete: New Billboard Charts Complete A 30+ Year Process
According to Billboard: Billboard unveils new methodology today for the long-standing Hot Country Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Latin Songs charts. Each receive a major consumer-influenced face-lift, as digital download sales (tracked by Nielsen SoundScan) and streaming data (tracked … Continue reading
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Tagged Billboard, black music, consolidation, crossover, hip hop, media consolidation, Michael Jackson, R&B, Rihanna
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Russell Simmons and His Delusions of a Post-Racial World
My thoughts on Russell Simmons’ piece in The Hollywood Reporter.
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Posted in Film, Music
Tagged 2050, advertising industry, Alyssa Rosenberg, black cool, black films, black music, black people, black self-hatred, deracinated, deracination, Diggy, Eddie Murphy, Frank Sinatra, Hollywood, James Roday, Justin Bieber, majority minority country, media consolidation, Mexican, Michael Jackson, Michael Trevino, music industry, post-racial, Russell Simmons, Sammy Davis Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, stereotype, The Help, white people, white redemption
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