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98 relations: African Americans, African-American music, Akon, AllMusic, Atlanta, BBC News, Billboard (magazine), Billboard charts, Billboard Hot 100, CBS News, Chicago, Chicano rap, Chris Brown, Ciara, CNN, Contemporary hit radio, Contemporary R&B, Crossover music, Dallas, Dance music, Disc jockey, Disco, Drop It Like It's Hot, Electronic dance music, Flo Rida, Frankie Crocker, Freestyle music, George Floyd protests, Goodies (song), Gospel music, Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album, Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album, Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance, Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album, Grammy Awards, Hey Ya!, Hip hop music, Hispanic and Latino Americans, House music, Jazz, KDAY, KISS-FM, KJLH, KMEL, KPRS, KPWR, KRNB, Latin hip hop, Latin music, Lean Back, ... Expand index (48 more) »
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African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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African-American music
African-American music is a broad term covering a diverse range of musical genres largely developed by African Americans and their culture.
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Akon
Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam (born April 16, 1973), known mononymously as Akon, is a Senegalese-American singer, songwriter, record producer, and businessman.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
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Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
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Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
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Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere.
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Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.
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Chicago
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.
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Chicano rap
Chicano rap is a subgenre of hip hop that embodies aspects of the Mexican American or Chicano culture.
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Chris Brown
Christopher Maurice Brown (born May 5, 1989) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor.
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Ciara
Ciara Princess Wilson (Harris; born October 25, 1985) is an American singer and songwriter.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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Contemporary hit radio
Contemporary hit radio (also known as CHR, contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format that is common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 music charts. Urban contemporary music and contemporary hit radio are radio formats.
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Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B (or simply R&B) is a popular music genre that combines rhythm and blues with elements of pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music. Urban contemporary music and Contemporary R&B are rhythm and blues genres.
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Crossover music
Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers who appeal to different types of audiences.
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Dallas
Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.
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Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.
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Disc jockey
A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience.
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Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.
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Drop It Like It's Hot
"Drop It Like It's Hot" is a song by American rapper Snoop Dogg featuring fellow American singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams.
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Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.
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Flo Rida
Tramar Lacel Dillard (born September 16, 1979), better known by his stage name Flo Rida, is an American rapper and singer.
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Frankie Crocker
Frankie "Hollywood" Crocker (December 18, 1937 – October 21, 2000) was an American disc jockey, VH-1 VJ, TV host and actor.
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Freestyle music
Freestyle, or Latin freestyleKlanten, Robert (1995).
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George Floyd protests
The George Floyd protests were a series of riots and demonstrations against police brutality that began in Minneapolis in the United States on May 26, 2020.
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Goodies (song)
"Goodies" is the debut single by American singer Ciara featuring rapper and Jive recording artist Petey Pablo for Ciara's debut studio album of the same name.
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Gospel music
Gospel music is a genre of Christian Music that spreads the word of God and a cornerstone of Christian media. Urban contemporary music and Gospel music are radio formats.
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Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album
The Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for releasing albums in the Latin pop genre.
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Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album
The Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album (until 2020: Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album) is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for releasing albums in the Latin rock and/or alternative genres.
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Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance (awarded as Best Rap/Sung Collaboration until 2017, and Best Rap/Sung Performance from 2018 to 2020) is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality songs on which rappers and singers collaborate.
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Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album
The Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards to recording artists for quality works on albums in the urban contemporary subgenre within the R&B field.
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Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.
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Hey Ya!
"Hey Ya!" is a song by American hip hop duo Outkast, performed by its member André 3000, who wrote and produced the song.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community. Urban contemporary music and hip hop music are radio formats.
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Hispanic and Latino Americans
Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.
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House music
House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. Urban contemporary music and Jazz are radio formats.
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KDAY
KDAY (93.5 FM, "93.5 KDAY") is a radio station that is licensed to Redondo Beach, California and serves the Greater Los Angeles area.
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KISS-FM
KISS-FM (99.5 MHz) is a commercial radio station in San Antonio, Texas.
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KJLH
KJLH (102.3 FM) is an urban adult contemporary radio station licensed to Compton, California and serving the Los Angeles area.
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KMEL
KMEL (106.1 FM) is an urban contemporary radio station that is licensed to San Francisco, California, serving the San Francisco Bay Area.
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KPRS
KPRS (103.3 FM) is an urban contemporary radio station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri.
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KPWR
KPWR (105.9 FM) – branded as Power 106 – is a commercial radio station in Los Angeles, California, broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area.
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KRNB
KRNB (105.7 FM), known on air as Smooth R&B 105.7, is an urban adult contemporary-formatted radio station in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex.
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Latin hip hop
Latin hip hop (also known as Latin rap) is hip hop music that is recorded by artists in the United States of Hispanic and Latino descent, along with Spanish-speaking countries in the Caribbean, North America, Central America, South America, and Spain.
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Latin music
Latin music (Portuguese and música latina) is a term used by the music industry as a catch-all category for various styles of music from Ibero-America, which encompasses Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the Latino population in Canada and the United States, as well as music that is sung in either Spanish and/or Portuguese. Urban contemporary music and latin music are radio formats.
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Lean Back
"Lean Back" is a song by American hip hop group Terror Squad.
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List of Caribbean music genres
Caribbean music genres are very diverse.
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Lists of Billboard number-one rhythm and blues hits
Linked here are Billboard magazine's number-one rhythm and blues hits.
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Marley Marl
Marlon Lu'Ree Williams (born September 30, 1962), better known by his stage name Marley Marl, is an American DJ, record producer, rapper and record label founder, primarily operating in hip hop music.
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Morning zoo
Morning zoo is a format of morning radio show common to English-language radio broadcasting.
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Mr. Magic
John "Mr.
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Murder of George Floyd
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black American man, was murdered in Minneapolis by Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old white police officer.
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Ne-Yo
Shaffer Chimere Smith (born October 18, 1979), known professionally as Ne-Yo, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, and record producer.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Scherzinger (born Nicole Prascovia Elikolani Valiente on June 29, 1978) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and television personality.
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Nielsen Audio
Nielsen Audio (formerly Arbitron) is a consumer research company in the United States that collects listener data on radio broadcasting audiences.
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Nigger
In the English language, nigger is a racial slur directed at black people.
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Outkast
Outkast (sometimes written as OutKast) was an American hip hop duo formed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1992, consisting of rappers Big Boi (Antwan Patton) and André 3000 (André Benjamin, formerly known as Dré).
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Phonograph record
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), a vinyl record (for later varieties only), or simply a record or vinyl is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.
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Pitbull (rapper)
Armando Christian Pérez (born January 15, 1981), known professionally as Pitbull, is an American rapper and singer.
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Pop rap
Pop rap (also known as pop hip-hop, pop hop, hip pop, melodic hip-hop or melodic rap) is a genre of music fusing the rhythm-based lyricism of hip-hop music with pop music's preference for melodious vocals and catchy tunes emphasizing on pop like productions and structure.
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Program director
In service industries, such as education, a program manager or program director researches, plans, develops and implements one or more of the firm's professional services.
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Quiet storm
Quiet storm is a radio format and genre of R&B, performed in a smooth, romantic, jazz-influenced style. Urban contemporary music and Quiet storm are radio formats.
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Radio format
A radio format or programming format (not to be confused with broadcast programming) describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. Urban contemporary music and radio format are radio formats.
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Reggae
Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
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Reggaeton
Reggaeton, is a modern style of popular music that originated in Puerto Rico during the late 1990s.
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Republic Records
Republic Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group (UMG).
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Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.
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Rhythmic contemporary
Rhythmic contemporary, also known as Rhythmic Top 40, Rhythmic CHR or rhythmic crossover, is a primarily American music-radio format that includes a mix of EDM, upbeat rhythmic pop, hip hop and upbeat R&B hits. Urban contemporary music and rhythmic contemporary are radio formats.
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Rihanna
Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer and businesswoman.
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Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg (previously Snoop Doggy Dogg and briefly Snoop Lion), is an American rapper, record producer, and actor.
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Soca music
Soca music is a genre of music defined by Lord Shorty, its inventor, as the "Soul of Calypso", which has influences of African and East Indian rhythms.
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Soul music
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Urban contemporary music and Soul music are radio formats and rhythm and blues genres.
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Terror Squad (group)
Terror Squad was an American hip hop collective that was first established in 1998.
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The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average print circulation in 2022 of 65,369.
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The Recording Academy
The Recording Academy (formally the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences; abbreviated NARAS) is an American learned academy of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other musical professionals.
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The Village Voice
The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.
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Trey Songz
Tremaine Aldon Neverson (born November 28, 1984), known professionally as Trey Songz, is an American singer, rapper and actor.
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Tyler, the Creator
Tyler Gregory Okonma (born March 6, 1991), known professionally as Tyler, the Creator, is an American rapper, singer, record producer, and fashion designer.
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University of Delaware
The University of Delaware (colloquially known as UD, UDel, or Delaware) is a privately governed, state-assisted land-grant research university located in Newark, Delaware.
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Urban adult contemporary
Urban adult contemporary, often abbreviated as urban AC or UAC, (also known as adult R&B) is the name for a format of radio music, similar to an urban contemporary format. Urban contemporary music and urban adult contemporary are radio formats.
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Urban contemporary gospel
Urban/contemporary gospel is a modern subgenre of gospel music.
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Usher (musician)
Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978), known mononymously as Usher, is an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.
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Village Voice Media
Village Voice Media or VVM is a newspaper company.
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WBLS
WBLS (107.5 MHz) is an urban adult contemporary formatted FM radio station, licensed to New York, New York.
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WEPN-FM
WEPN-FM (98.7 MHz) branded ESPN New York, is a sports radio station licensed to New York, New York.
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WFSH-FM
WFSH-FM (104.7 MHz) is a radio station licensed to Athens, Georgia, and serving Metro Atlanta.
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Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, film producer, and philanthropist.
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WMMS
WMMS (100.7 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio, commonly identified as "The Buzzard".
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WQHT
WQHT (97.1 FM, Hot 97) is a commercial radio station, licensed to New York, New York, which broadcasts an urban contemporary music format.
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WRKS
WRKS (105.9 FM, "The Zone") is a radio station licensed to Pickens, Mississippi, although its studio is located in Ridgeland, Mississippi.
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WUFL (FM)
WUFL (93.1 MHz) is an FM radio station licensed to Detroit, Michigan.
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WVAZ
WVAZ (102.7 FM, "V103") is an urban adult contemporary radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan area and Northwest Indiana.
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WVEE
WVEE (103.3 FM) – branded as V-103 – is a commercial radio station in Atlanta, Georgia.
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See also
Rhythm and blues genres
- Boogaloo
- Boogie (genre)
- British rhythm and blues
- Christian R&B
- Contemporary R&B
- Doo-wop
- Funk
- Smooth R&B
- Soul music
- Swamp pop
- Urban contemporary music
References
Also known as 1980s urban contemporary, 1980s urban contemporary music, Black pop, Contemporary urban, J-Urban, Mainstream Urban, Urban (music genre), Urban Contemporary, Urban Contemporary Hit Radio, Urban Pop, Urban Top 40, Urban adult hits, Urban beat, Urban contemporary radio, Urban contemporary radio format, Urban music, Urban radio.