Music

10 years ago, love songs by black artists become harder to find on the year-end chart

20 years ago, chart-toppers from Whitney, Brandy and Mariah Carey meant nearly half the songs by black artists were love songs

30 years ago, the popularity of Milli Vanilli meant more than half the songs by black artists on the pop chart were for lovers

40 years ago in the Earth, Wind & Fire era, about half the black artists on the year-end pop chart were singing love songs

50 years ago, love songs made up the majority of titles by black artists on the pop charts

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