Billboard

American magazine

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rhythm and blues

  • Ike and Tina Turner
    In rhythm and blues

    …charts at the trade journal Billboard and found that the record companies issuing Black popular music considered the chart names then in use (Harlem Hit Parade, Sepia, Race) to be demeaning. The magazine changed the chart’s name in its June 17, 1949, issue, having used the term rhythm and blues

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world music

  • Ladysmith Black Mambazo
    In global music: Later developments

    …the influential American trade magazine Billboard introduced a world music chart. A year later the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences added a world music category to its Grammy Awards. Among the artists who benefited most from this new visibility were the Gipsy Kings, the French pop-flamenco group that…

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