Soul music charts
Soul music charts
Soul music is a product of gospel rhythm and blues; it grew in the late 1950′s in the United States. Individual singer with a traditional band in the background is the main features of soul music. Soul music developed with the secularization of gospel and urbanization of the R&B. artist like Sam Crooke, Ben E. King, Everly Brothers and Ray Charles mixed the rhythmic and catchy music of R&B with gospel vocals to create soul music. The origin of Soul music can be traced to Chicago, in Northern United states. It soon spread to other cities like Florence, New York, Memphis and Detroit and each city had its own style – connected to local gospel roots. In the 1960′s soul music gradually started getting popular in Europe and America. In a short period of time Righteous brothers and Blue eyed souls achieved great success because of enduring artists like James Brown and Aretha Franklin. In the early years of 1970 soul music began getting influenced and overshadowed by rock and in the latter part of the 1970 by disco. With disco losing its hold in the 80′s soul superstars like Michael Jackson and Prince composed danceable and vocally charged beats and dominated the soul music charts throughout the 80′s. Some of the female soul singers like Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston and Tina Turner gained immense popularity during this decade. Teenagers during this era were inspired by Motown, King Records and Stax. The music of soul artist like Mary Wells, Wilson Pickett, Aretha and James Brown were available on black radio station In the 90′s hair metal, alternative rock and gangsta rap dominated the charts. Now bands began to merger soul with hip hop. By the end of the 1990′s neo soul arose which was the result of soul and hip hop. Here is a list of hits from soul music charts. Aretha Franklin’s I never loved a man’, ‘Do right woman – Do right man’ and ‘Respect’ are regarded as the apogee of soul genre. They had topped the soul music charts in the year 1965. In the late 1960′s Stax artist Johnnie Taylor and Eddie Floyd made great contributions to soul music Johnnie Taylor’s ‘Who’s making love?’, ‘Jody’s got your girl and gone’ and ‘Disco Lady’ were some of his hits. Ray Charles who invented the soul genre too had strings of hits. The first one being, ‘I got a woman’ in the year 1954. Solomon Burke’s earliest songs like ‘Down in the valley’, Just out of reach’ and ‘Cry to me’ are regarded classics of this genre. It was the catchy rhythms of Soul music charts that kept the listener engrossed.
