New R&B Releases RD: September 2024 (Due November 10th)

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#23 (Movement)

back2blk : 24
singingrulebritannia : 25
Soulsista : 23
wavey. : 21
Ty : 22
wrip : 22
jtd Thee Stallion : 21
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 23
stallie : 23
HamedM1 💔 : 22
.indulgecountry : 23
Troublemaker : 23
Kanenrá:ke : 23
LBTrocks : 23

#23 is another collaboration and on the higher end of the SD spectrum. Another pair of top-10 rankings were given but #1s remain safe.

[back2blk]

These songs I am never gonna hear again. Bye lol

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wavey. : 4
HamedM1 💔 : 6

jtd Thee Stallion : 11
LBTrocks : 12
wrip : 14
Soulsista : 15
.indulgecountry : 19
Kanenrá:ke : 20

Amnesia
singingrulebritannia : 21
back2blk : 22
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 22
stallie : 23
Troublemaker : 24
SHOOTER : 24
Ty : 25

Memories, which samples Silk's 1993 classic Freak Me, was the first single issued from dvsn and Ty Dolla $ign's collaborative mixtape Cheers to the Best Memories which dropped last month.

“We were just in the studio going through everything and trying to pick the first song. [Nineteen]85 pulled out the laptop, and we came across this beat that 40 sent a while ago and Daniel always loved it. I went in the booth, I went crazy, Daniel went in there and went crazy, and we have this song, which is one of my favorites.” - Ty Dolla Sign (Apple Music, August 2021)

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#22 (Movement)

back2blk : 16
singingrulebritannia : 21
Soulsista : 18
wavey. : 18
Ty : 20
wrip : 19
jtd Thee Stallion : 19
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 20
stallie : 21
HamedM1 💔 : 21
.indulgecountry : 21
Troublemaker : 21
Kanenrá:ke : 22
LBTrocks : 22

#22 has the 5th-lowest SD and our most top-10 rankings yet (4).

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.indulgecountry : 10
Soulsista : 10
wavey. : 10
wrip : 10
SHOOTER : 13
LBTrocks : 17
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 18
Troublemaker : 19
HamedM1 💔 : 19
jtd Thee Stallion : 19
back2blk : 20

Osteoporosis
Kanenrá:ke : 21
stallie : 21
singingrulebritannia : 23
Ty : 23

BluPrint is a supergroup formed by BET temporarily comprised of Nivea, Irish and LeMisha from 702, Aubrey from Danity Kane, Fallon and Felisha from Cherish, Shamari from Blaque, Kiely from 3LW and Pam from Total (who has since left the group to pursue a Gospel career).

[Ty]

Lol @ my #1 left before my #25

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#21 (Movement)

back2blk : 23
singingrulebritannia : 22
Soulsista : 22
wavey. : 24
Ty : 25
wrip : 24
jtd Thee Stallion : 24
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 22
stallie : 22
HamedM1 💔 : 23
.indulgecountry : 22
Troublemaker : 22
Kanenrá:ke : 21
LBTrocks : 21

Ladies take another hit at #21. 6th-lowest SD with, again, just a pair of top-10 rankings.

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🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 4
Kanenrá:ke : 10
.indulgecountry : 12
HamedM1 💔 : 14
jtd Thee Stallion : 15
wavey. : 15
singingrulebritannia : 16
back2blk : 18
stallie : 18
wrip : 19
LBTrocks : 20

Girl, Bye!
Troublemaker : 21
Soulsista : 21
Ty : 22
SHOOTER : 25

Bexk, Lilac X and Korahjay a.k.a. BLK are Toronto's hottest new girl group hoping to capitalize on the fame of their viral hit Got It (which received an assist from Fatman Scoop that helped propel it to over 1m streams). Their debut EP, Girl Magic, dropped last month.

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#20 (Movement)

back2blk : 20
singingrulebritannia : 19
Soulsista : 16
wavey. : 20
Ty : 17
wrip : 18
jtd Thee Stallion : 17
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 18
stallie : 18
HamedM1 💔 : 19
.indulgecountry : 19
Troublemaker : 20
Kanenrá:ke : 20
LBTrocks : 20

This collaboration has the 4th-lowest SD and, yet again, just a pair of top-10 rankings.

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Soulsista : 6
jtd Thee Stallion : 9

Ty : 11
Troublemaker : 13
SHOOTER : 14
.indulgecountry : 15
HamedM1 💔 : 18
wrip : 18
singingrulebritannia : 19
stallie : 19
wavey. : 19
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 20

Cubic Zirconia
back2blk : 21
LBTrocks : 21
Kanenrá:ke : 23

After mulling over retirement after the release of his 2019 album, 777, Lyfe Jennings linked up with Love & Hip-Hop Star and singer Amina Buddafly (formerly of R&B group Black Buddafly) for The Six Pack EP out now.

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#19 (Movement)

back2blk : 19
singingrulebritannia : 18
Soulsista : 12
wavey. : 19
Ty : 18
wrip : 20
jtd Thee Stallion : 20
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 19
stallie : 19
HamedM1 💔 : 20
.indulgecountry : 20
Troublemaker : 18
Kanenrá:ke : 19
LBTrocks : 19

Our last reveal of the night will take our second #1 loss out with it.

[back2blk]

Yes, my cheap ass jewels

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Soulsista : 1
Troublemaker : 8

.indulgecountry : 11
jtd Thee Stallion : 13
Kanenrá:ke : 14
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 14
stallie : 15
back2blk : 17
singingrulebritannia : 17
Ty : 17
LBTrocks : 18
SHOOTER : 18

Out of Gas
HamedM1 💔 : 23
wrip : 23
wavey. : 24

After a 20-year recording hiatus, After 7 returned in 2016 with their fourth album, Timeless, which produced five top-10 hits on Adult R&B. Extra Mile was a promo single from their latest album, Unfinished Business, which has produced yet another top-10 hit already (Bittersweet).

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New R&B: August 2021 (Top-18)

All I Need Is You
Break Her Heart for Me
Classic
Coastin'
Don't Play With My Heart
Ease My Mind

Foreign Things
Guilty
Listen 2 My Heartbeat
Love Is the New Black
Nasty Girl
Only You

Red Lights
Résumé
Somebody's Son
Woman
Worst
You Want My Love

[wrip]

Like half of these I didn’t care for too much so I’m pretty cool with these results so far

[Soulsista]

After 7 deserved better from y'all.

[🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲]

Sept 22, 2021 22:34:29 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

Bexk, Lilac X and Korahjay a.k.a. BLK are Toronto's hottest new girl group hoping to capitalize on the fame of their viral hit Got It (which received an assist from Fatman Scoop that helped propel it to over 1m streams). Their debut EP, Girl Magic, dropped last month.

I really like them. They remind me alot like TLC.

[kimberly]

the only song I know here is "Coastin" and I do love it a lot. didn't have the time to check out the rest unfortunately. will follow this one along and listen to the favorites. be back next month 😘

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#18 (Movement)

back2blk : 11
singingrulebritannia : 12
Soulsista : 9
wavey. : 8
Ty : 6
wrip : 12
jtd Thee Stallion : 12
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 15
stallie : 15
HamedM1 💔 : 17
.indulgecountry : 17
Troublemaker : 17
Kanenrá:ke : 17
LBTrocks : 18

Next 6 or nah?

The next two songs tied in points so I broke it based on highest rank. This gentleman received four top-10 rankings total (the highest being a top-3) and flirted with being a top-10 contender at one point. It also has the HIGHEST SD.

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Soulsista : 3
back2blk : 6
Ty : 6
Troublemaker : 10


wavey. : 11
singingrulebritannia : 15
Kanenrá:ke : 15
LBTrocks : 16
stallie : 16
jtd Thee Stallion : 17
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 19
SHOOTER : 19

Men.
.indulgecountry : 21
HamedM1 💔 : 22
wrip : 24

Woman was the fourth release ahead of Stokley's sophomore album, Sankofa, which finally dropped last Friday. It's a collaboration with Afrobeat star KiDi who is huge in his native home of Ghana (where he won their version of a Grammy for Album of the Year last year with his debut album Sugar).

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#17 (Movement)

back2blk : 7
singingrulebritannia : 3
Soulsista : 3
wavey. : 5
Ty : 3
wrip : 4
jtd Thee Stallion : 8
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 9
stallie : 13
HamedM1 💔 : 15
.indulgecountry : 16
Troublemaker : 15
Kanenrá:ke : 14
LBTrocks : 18

He was a top-3 contender at one point but y'all couldn't wait to drag him down! Sorry to this man.

Five top-10s (including a #1) weren't enough to keep him in the top-15.

[Ty]

"Woman" is an earworm! I love how Stokley experimented with different production styles.

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back2blk : 1
Troublemaker : 3
singingrulebritannia : 3
Ty : 3
Soulsista : 7

SHOOTER : 12
wrip : 13
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 17
Kanenrá:ke : 18

Prefers White
LBTrocks : 23
.indulgecountry : 23
wavey. : 23
jtd Thee Stallion : 24
HamedM1 💔 : 25
stallie : 25

Love Is the New Black is the title track to Anthony Hamilton's eighth album, and first independent release, out tomorrow. Originally conceived to be a modern protest album, once he recorded this song, Hamilton said he decided to pivot and focus on the range of emotions being experienced in today's climate and how love should still be the prevailing one.

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#16 (Movement)

back2blk : 12
singingrulebritannia : 11
Soulsista : 10
wavey. : 10
Ty : 11
wrip : 9
jtd Thee Stallion : 13
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 14
stallie : 12
HamedM1 💔 : 11
.indulgecountry : 14
Troublemaker : 16
Kanenrá:ke : 15
LBTrocks : 16

Even though it only earned two top-10 ranks (along with two bottom-5s), #16 also flirted with the top-10 and wound up beating Stokley and Anthony by two points. 3rd-lowest SD.

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wrip : 7
HamedM1 💔 : 10

back2blk : 11
singingrulebritannia : 11
Soulsista : 11
stallie : 11
Ty : 12
wavey. : 13
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 15
SHOOTER : 15
LBTrocks : 19
Kanenrá:ke : 19
Troublemaker : 20

Clearance Bin
.indulgecountry : 22
jtd Thee Stallion : 22

Adria Kain is a Toronto singer-songwriter who has opened for the likes of Questlove, BJ The Chicago Kid, Miguel & Ari Lennox and featured on projects by PARTYNEXTDOOR. Following her single from earlier in the year, Alone in Kenzo, she wrote Classic with hopes of creating more representation for queer women in R&B.

“I’ve recently entered the stage in my life where I finally feel like I can be completely free and whole within myself, especially as a queer, masculine-presenting black woman. I’ve also grown an even higher level of respect and appreciation for black women as a whole due to the simple fact that many of us hold a huge level of strength and perseverance that is unmatched and often unspoken. I wanted to create something not only for myself, but to help uplift and remind all black women that we are loved unconditionally regardless of experience and societal views, and to encourage the idea of continuing forward in all that we aim to do no matter what tries to interfere because we are classic examples of royalty and anything is a possibility. This video represents just that, two classic black women sharing special time together and uplifting one another in as many ways possible during a day in the city.” - Adria Kain (Classic press release, August 2021)

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#15 (Movement)

back2blk : 17
singingrulebritannia : 20
Soulsista : 21
wavey. : 22
Ty : 24
wrip : 23
jtd Thee Stallion : 23
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 21
stallie : 20
HamedM1 💔 : 18
.indulgecountry : 18
Troublemaker : 19
Kanenrá:ke : 18
LBTrocks : 15

Ladies take another hit with this song that earned a last-second boost and 9-point lead to finish inside the top-15. Four top-10s vs. three bottom-5s.

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LBTrocks : 2
Kanenrá:ke : 5
.indulgecountry : 6
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 9

HamedM1 💔 : 11
stallie : 12
back2blk : 13
jtd Thee Stallion : 14
wrip : 15
wavey. : 16
Soulsista : 17

Exonerated
SHOOTER : 21
Troublemaker : 22
singingrulebritannia : 22
Ty : 24

Lyrica Anderson's résumé as a songwriter runs long with credits on albums by the likes of Beyoncé, Demi Lovato, Chris Brown, Jennifer Hudson, BoA, and Tinashe. As a singer, she has six projects under her belt with Guilty being her first release since 2020's Bad Hair Day.

[🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲]

"Guilty" is a hot song.

[singingrulebritannia]

ACAB

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#14 (Movement)

back2blk : 22
singingrulebritannia : 16
Soulsista : 17
wavey. : 16
Ty : 16
wrip : 16
jtd Thee Stallion : 16
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 17
stallie : 16
HamedM1 💔 : 14
.indulgecountry : 13
Troublemaker : 13
Kanenrá:ke : 16
LBTrocks : 14

#14 has the most top-10s thus far (six) and two bottom-2s (including a #25).