Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B is a music genre of R&B. Contemporary R&B mixes pop music, hip hop, funk, soul music and electronic music. Contemporary R&B is currently a dominate music genre for the Top 40 radios. Artists of this type of music includes, Beyoncé, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder, and Whitney Houston. Contemporary R&B became a popular music genre after the disco era in the 1980s. Contemporary R&B is an African American type of music, however, there has been other artists who are not African American that records contemporary R&B.