New Edition

New Edition

They debuted in 1983 with there first album Candy Girl which included members singers Ralph Tresvant, Bobby Brown, Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins and Ronnie DeVoe. The album had many singles like “Candy Girl”, “Is This the End”, and “Popcorn Love” and “Jealous Girl”.

Their second album was named New Edition the album went double platinum. Their singles were “Cool It Now”, “Mr. Telephone Man”, “Lost In Love”, “My Secret (Didja Get It Yet?)”, and “Kind of Girls We Like”.

























Their third album was named All for Love. Their singles on this album are “Count Me Out”, “A Little Bit of Love (Is All It Takes)”, and “With You All the Way”.






















Their fourth album was a Christmas album entitled Christmas All over the World. This was the last album Bobby Brown was in.


















Their fifth album was Under the Blue Moon. The singles were “Earth Angel” and “Tears on My Pillow”. Johnny Gill replaced Bobby Brown on this album











Their sixth album was Heart Break. The singles were “If It Isn’t Love”, “N.E. Heartbreak”, and “Crucial”, “You’re Not My Kind of Girl”, “Can You Stand the Rain”, and “Boys to Me”. This was New Edition’s last album of the 80s

Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston











She first debuted in 1985 with her first album entitled Whitney Houston. It charted Billboard 200 at #120. She had 5 singles in this album.












Her second album was named in Whitney. It sold 9,920,000 albums. Her album on the charts was between 1 and 2.

Janet Jackson

Janet Jackson








She debuted in the 80s.
Her first CD Janet Jackson debuted in 1982 and 500,000 copies were sold.





In 1984 her second CD Dream Street was released and sold 400,000 copies were sold. This CD was 19 on the R&B Album Charts.






Her CD Control sold 100,000 copies. She had 6 singles on the album.








In 1989 her CD Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 sold 12,250,000 copies. The CD had 8 singles that ranked from 1-22 on many charts.

R&B Artists of the 80s

Contemoparay R&B began around the 80s. There were many people that began that movement like:

History Of R&B

R&B music began in United States right before World War II began in 1939. Africans began to move north and different musical styles were put together to make R&B

Early R&B:

• Blues is a part of R&B music and it began to be used in clubs in the 1950s Popular Blues singers at were like Nat King Cole and Charles Brown

Motown and Soul:

• The 1960s were marked by three main styles: 1. Chicago soul (influenced by gospel music); 2) Motown sound; and 3) southern soul. Each style had its own key features and musicians who made it popular.

Funk and Disco: I

• n the late 1960s funk was born and it changed the way people viewed black people Disco also developed during this time and rivaled funk's popularity.

Dance and Rap:

• Rap was developed in between the 1980s the 1990s Artists like Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, and Prince used dance moves from funk and other styles The first rap that was recorded was the Sugerhill "Rapper's Delight"
  

White people were attached to rap by Run DMC remake of Aeorsmith's song "Walk This Way"