New R&B Releases RD: October 2024 (Due December 8th)

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SHOOTER : 4
newpower : 4
#LisaRinna : 5
aerodynamite : 6
wrip : 6
.indulgecountry : 9

bat1990 : 11
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 11
Troublemaker : 12
HamedM1 💔 : 12

singingrulebritannia : 13
Exclusive : 14
kimberly : 15
Kelly's 10th Fan : 15
stallie : 15
jtd Thee Stallion : 16
Ty : 16
Soulsista : 17

Maryland singer/songwriter Alex Vaughn fleshed out a rough iPhone voice memo of a song about a relationship that had her "down bad" with her producer and the finished product, called Mirage, secured her a record deal with LVRN (home to 6LACK and Summer Walker). Her debut EP is expected sometime this summer.

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The harmony on "lame ass ninjas" is just... *chef's kiss*

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#13 (Movement)
singingrulebritannia : 14 ⬆️
aerodynamite : 13
.indulgecountry : 14
bat1990 : 13
HamedM1 💔 : 14
Exclusive : 14
Soulsista : 14
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 15
#LisaRinna : 14
kimberly : 14
newpower : 14
stallie : 14
jtd Thee Stallion : 14
Ty : 14
wrip : 14
Kelly's 10th Fan : 14
Troublemaker : 13

TEN top-10s for this one, including a top-2 vs. three bottom-3s.

[kimberly]

wait we have really cleared my 13, 15, 16, 17, 18?

up next better be my #14 then and that'll be a perfect bottom six.

[Kelly's 10th Fan]

If my results so far were a driver I would have been arrested for DUI. What kind of swerving around am I doing here?

Apr 25, 2022 21:00:09 GMT -5 kimberly said:

Apr 25, 2022 19:26:34 GMT -5 kimberly said:

well I'm CANCELLED. I'll take the perfect ranking though 🥴

There were still several men in this bottom 6! You are uncancelled.

I wanted to root for Truth Hurts but those lyrics were embarrassing.

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Troublemaker : 2
newpower : 6
bat1990 : 8
kimberly : 8
stallie : 8
Ty : 8
singingrulebritannia : 10
.indulgecountry : 10
#LisaRinna : 10
wrip : 10

aerodynamite : 12
Exclusive : 12

jtd Thee Stallion : 14
Soulsista : 14
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 15
HamedM1 💔 : 17
SHOOTER : 17
Kelly's 10th Fan : 17

Omar Apollo is a Mexican singer/songwriter who's garnered an independent following in both English and Latin music with over 50 million streams worldwide; he also garnered a pair of Latin Grammy nominations in 2021. Killing Me is included on his debut album, Ivory, released earlier this month.

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New R&B: March 2022 (Top-12)


Stolen Fruit (Tank and the Bangas)
Feels Like (Lucky Daye)
Cigarette (Yuna)
sorry (UMI)
Home Maker (Sudan Archives)
Iced Tea (Joyce Wrice x KAYTRANADA)

CYBAH (Syd feat. Lucky Daye)
Fair (Normani)
Whatever Simon Says (Mahalia)
Cardboard Box (FLO)
Leave You Alone (Ella Mai)
up at night (Kehlani feat. Justin Bieber)

[kimberly]

Apr 25, 2022 21:48:08 GMT -5 kimberly said:

wait we have really cleared my 13, 15, 16, 17, 18?

up next better be my #14 then and that'll be a perfect bottom six.

Apr 25, 2022 21:52:26 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

kimberly : 8

[jtd Thee Stallion]

Almost got all the mid out

[wrip]

Mirage out? I thought that was solid and would be treated better 😵‍💫 Omar and J Brown i’m not too surprised about, though i wish their songs did better

[HamedM1 💔]

Awesome we got rid of all the mediocre stuff right of the back

[Ty]

The Omar Apollo album is worth checking out.

Now I’m starting to worry about the Lucky Daye song. 😩

[#LisaRinna]

"Mirage" was great!

All the time I listened to Omar Apollo I kept thinking about Phaedra Yes I am like that.

[bat1990]

The Tank and J. Brown song is better if you imaging they're singing to each other instead of women (ignoring the word "Girl" in the lyrics) :kii:

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Apr 26, 2022 2:27:24 GMT -5 Ty said:

Now I’m starting to worry about the Lucky Daye song. 😩

If that gets robbed this rd deserves to canned I fear

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#12 (Movement)
singingrulebritannia : 12 ⬆️
aerodynamite : 12
.indulgecountry : 11
bat1990 : 12
HamedM1 💔 : 12
Exclusive : 12
Soulsista : 13
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 13
#LisaRinna : 12
kimberly : 12
newpower : 13
stallie : 12
jtd Thee Stallion : 12
Ty : 12
wrip : 12
Kelly's 10th Fan : 12
Troublemaker : 12

Anyone here or do I go get Taco Tuesday wasted? 5th-lowest SD; only three people ranked it bottom-5.

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#LisaRinna : 3
aerodynamite : 4
Ty : 5
stallie : 6
.indulgecountry : 7
Troublemaker : 8
jtd Thee Stallion : 8
HamedM1 💔 : 9
kimberly : 10
Kelly's 10th Fan : 10

bat1990 : 12
singingrulebritannia : 12
wrip : 12
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 13
SHOOTER : 13

newpower : 14
Soulsista : 15
Exclusive : 17

Cigarette is taken from Y1, the first of five EPs being released throughout the year that will culminate in Yuna's fifth studio album.

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#11 (Movement)
singingrulebritannia : 13 ⬇️
aerodynamite : 14
.indulgecountry : 13
bat1990 : 14
HamedM1 💔 : 13
Exclusive : 13
Soulsista : 12
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 12
#LisaRinna : 13
kimberly : 11
newpower : 11
stallie : 11
jtd Thee Stallion : 11
Ty : 9
wrip : 11
Kelly's 10th Fan : 11
Troublemaker : 11

Right in the middle of the SD spectrum, it came up 2 points shy of a top-10 finish (the five bottom-5s didn't help).

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newpower : 2
.indulgecountry : 3
Ty : 4
kimberly : 6
Troublemaker : 7
HamedM1 💔 : 7
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 9
#LisaRinna : 9
jtd Thee Stallion : 10
Soulsista : 10
stallie : 10

SHOOTER : 12
Exclusive : 13

aerodynamite : 14
singingrulebritannia : 14
Kelly's 10th Fan : 14
wrip : 15
bat1990 : 16

Whatever Simon Says is Mahalia's first entry to miss the top-10; both Whenever You're Ready and Roadside finished at #8 in their respective months. This marks the fifth standalone single she's released since her 2020 Isolation Tapes EP. No word on when her sophomore album is expected to drop.

[newpower]

Mahalia was my favorite discovery.

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#10 (Movement)
singingrulebritannia : 4 ⬆️
aerodynamite : 2
.indulgecountry : 4
bat1990 : 3
HamedM1 💔 : 2
Exclusive : 2
Soulsista : 2
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 6
#LisaRinna : 8
kimberly : 9
newpower : 9
stallie : 10
jtd Thee Stallion : 9
Ty : 11
wrip : 10
Kelly's 10th Fan : 10
Troublemaker : 10

HIGHEST SD! Two people ranked it the worst song here while one person ranked it the best.

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aerodynamite : 1
bat1990 : 2
singingrulebritannia : 2
wrip : 2
Exclusive : 6
HamedM1 💔 : 6
jtd Thee Stallion : 6
Soulsista : 6
SHOOTER : 7

newpower : 11
Kelly's 10th Fan : 13

kimberly : 14
Ty : 14
.indulgecountry : 15
Troublemaker : 16
#LisaRinna : 17
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 18
stallie : 18

Sudan Archives is an L.A. via Ohio singer/songwriter/violinist that has been releasing music for half-a-decade under the iconic Stones Throw label. Home Maker is the lead single from her sophomore album set for release later this year.

"...if we were ranking videos, Home Maker would absolutely be #1 lmaooooooooo

bitch really went to her local discount furniture store for a video shoot. I'm gonna cry myself to sleep thinking about that one!" - Anon

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#9 (Movement)
singingrulebritannia : 8 ⬆️
aerodynamite : 7
.indulgecountry : 7
bat1990 : 5
HamedM1 💔 : 9
Exclusive : 10
Soulsista : 10
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 10
#LisaRinna : 10
kimberly : 10
newpower : 10
stallie : 9
jtd Thee Stallion : 10
Ty : 10
wrip : 9
Kelly's 10th Fan : 9
Troublemaker : 9

6th-highest SD. #1s remain safe but someone else finally loses their #18.

[singingrulebritannia]

Robberyyyyyy!

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singingrulebritannia : 3
stallie : 3
wrip : 3
kimberly : 4
#LisaRinna : 4
bat1990 : 5
Kelly's 10th Fan : 7
.indulgecountry : 8
aerodynamite : 9
Soulsista : 9
Ty : 9

Troublemaker : 11
SHOOTER : 11
newpower : 12
HamedM1 💔 : 13

jtd Thee Stallion : 15
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 17
Exclusive : 18

After taking home the win in January's RD with No ID, Tank and the Bangas secure a second top-10 finish with Stolen Fruit. Their third album, Red Balloon, drops May 13th.

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Apr 26, 2022 20:01:09 GMT -5 singingrulebritannia said:

Robberyyyyyy!

She finished higher than I expected tbh.

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#8 (Movement)
singingrulebritannia : 7 ⬆️
aerodynamite : 4
.indulgecountry : 9
bat1990 : 6
HamedM1 💔 : 6
Exclusive : 7
Soulsista : 7
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 7
#LisaRinna : 5
kimberly : 7
newpower : 3
stallie : 6
jtd Thee Stallion : 6
Ty : 7
wrip : 7
Kelly's 10th Fan : 7
Troublemaker : 8

5th-highest SD with four bottom-5s and another #1 loss occurring.

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newpower : 1
aerodynamite : 2
bat1990 : 4
HamedM1 💔 : 5
wrip : 5
singingrulebritannia : 6
#LisaRinna : 6
jtd Thee Stallion : 7
Soulsista : 7
Exclusive : 8
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 8
SHOOTER : 8
kimberly : 9

Kelly's 10th Fan : 11

stallie : 14
Troublemaker : 17
.indulgecountry : 17
Ty : 17

Syd secures her third top-10 finish with CYBAH following Fast Car at #5 and Right Track also finishing at #8. All three tracks can be found on her sophomore album, Broken Hearts Club, which is finally out now.

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#7 (Movement)
singingrulebritannia : 6 ⬆️
aerodynamite : 11
.indulgecountry : 10
bat1990 : 4
HamedM1 💔 : 4
Exclusive : 9
Soulsista : 9
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 4
#LisaRinna : 6
kimberly : 4
newpower : 7
stallie : 7
jtd Thee Stallion : 7
Ty : 8
wrip : 8
Kelly's 10th Fan : 8
Troublemaker : 7

2nd-highest SD. 19 points shy of a top-6 finish and taking out multiple #1s with it.

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bat1990 : 1
Troublemaker : 1
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 1
kimberly : 3
singingrulebritannia : 4
HamedM1 💔 : 4
.indulgecountry : 5
Kelly's 10th Fan : 5
Soulsista : 5
jtd Thee Stallion : 9
SHOOTER : 9

#LisaRinna : 13
stallie : 13

wrip : 14
Exclusive : 15
Ty : 15
aerodynamite : 16
newpower : 17

Kehlani comes up one slot short of matching with her previous #6 peak that Altar managed in the September rankdown; up at night is the second release from her third album, Blue Water Road, out this Friday!