ByrdWire Top 10 Music Chart The ByrdWire Top 10 September 11 2023LW TW TITLE ARTIST2 1 Saturday Mike Decole4 2 I Can't Call It Helen Bruner & Terry Jones1 3 Verbalize Jeopardy Stokley ft Snoop Dogg3 4 So Much Better Joe7 5 Never ... Read More...
SUCH “All I Want” SUCH Returns with the Sensual... "All I Want" Impacting R&B Radio Now! SUCH "All I Want Video Follow Such: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram Contact: Ken Wilson at wilson.ken@m... Read More...
The Nelson George Mixtape: (What Happened To) Black Concert Promoters? The concerns of black radio were even more intense within the ranks of black concert promoters. From the post- World War II period onward small black promoters, often working with booking agencies focused on ... Read More...
The Nelson George Mixtape: Is It Black or Urban Radio? Since its invention in the 1940s black oriented radio had been the chief vehicles for promoting all forms of black music, from R&B to jazz, gospel to funk. For much of its history these stations had bee... Read More...
The Nelson George Mixtape: R&B World Circa 1979 & the Black Music Association If you had no skin in the game, were not even conceived or simply wish to help yourself…..read…take notes and read more while remembering that what you are about to read IS history. Thank you, Nelson Georg... Read More...
Mary J. Blige and 50 Cent Ink ABC TV Deal ABC has given a put pilot order to a musical comedy series that boasts Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Mary J. Blige among its executive producers. Titled “Family Affair,” the single-camera series fol... Read More...
The Funky Demise of Black Bands , Part IV : Beat Junkies- DJs, Sampling, Singers & Trap Just when you thought it had come to an end, Mr. George ,once again, does not disappoint as he continues his series on the demise of legendary Black bands. This series chronicles an important portion of music ... Read More...
The Nelson George Mixtape: Funky Demise of Black Band Culture, Part 2 The second section of a long essay about popular black music and bands examines, “where have the black bands gone?” Basically, into the 21st century black bands have become irrelevant to production... Read More...
Tracy J Teams With Rosa Veleno and G. White For Sexy Flow Jam CAUTION: Grooving to "Steady" by Tracy J featuring Rosa Veleno may cause baby making! This seductive banger is produced by G. White. It's a summer smash just for the grown and sexy and will find its home... Read More...
‘Urban Music’ Under Fire as Senior Execs Voice Unease Over the Widely-Used Term Is the music industry completely okay with the use of ‘urban’ as a catch-all term to describe all the different denominations of hip-hop and R&B? In a word, no. Read more from Music Business Worldwide.... Read More...