R&B originated in the 1940s as a term used by record companies to describe African American music that was becoming popular. It was a genre full of jazz-influenced music with strong beats that was marketed towards urban African American audiences. In 1948, R&B became an established genre when RCA Victor began marketing "Blues and Rhythm" music and Louis Jordan dominated the first R&B chart with three of his songs. Over time, R&B expanded its audience but still represents the music made originally by African Americans.

1. HISTORY OF R&B
• R&B stands for “Rhythm and Blues”
• Full of popular African-American music
• Originated from the 1940s
• Used by record companies to describe recordings marketed
to urban African Americans from the time where
urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy insistent beat
was becoming more popular.
• In 1948 RCA Victor marketed Black music as “Blues and
Rhythm”
• Louis Jordan dominated the first R&B Chart top five with three
of his songs.
• Jerry Wexler thought of the term “Rhythm and Blues” in 1948

2. • R&B these days is aimed at the demographic of young
people of the age 13-30 however there are people
outside that still do listen to R&B.
• R&B originally represented black people as it was made
by black people and was named race music.
• In this day and age R&B has many competitors from just
being male artists to now having female artists. However
the main competitors are other artists from other genres
as before it was looked on lightly to borrow someone’s
ideas and use samples of their songs but, today if that
happened the artist would want compensation or else
law suits would come into play.

3. • R&B can be found in many places in the media world.
For example there are TV channels specifically for R&B
music.
• Websites such as songlovers.com and channelaka.tv
• There are also applications from companies who supply
that music can be downloaded and listened these
include: DEFJAY, 98.8 KISS FM and many more.