RagingLeonard t1_iy4nfoe wrote
Reply to comment by cdmat76 in People who think the Beatles are overrated ¿Why? by Huguirur
There's a difference between covering the music of black artists and pushing black artists out of the way. There is a solid argument that the rise of the British Invasion pushed black music out of the mainstream. It's a fact that Billboard resurrected the R&B chart a year after the Beatles' US debut.
I agree that a lot of white kids discovered the blues through UK rock bands, but it's not like John Lee Hooker was selling records anywhere near the levels of the Beatles, Stones, or Animals.
cdmat76 t1_iy58zbn wrote
Where did you see they did “put black artists out of the way” …? There were much more back artists in the pop charts in the late 60s and 70s compared to the 50s and early 60s. And the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Clapton, Mayall and all greatly helped in that direction by introducing that music to a larger audience and helped break the barriers between segregated audiences.
Regarding the R&B charts it was stopped late 63 because there was a disconnection with its initial target (yes mostly black people at the time): there were too many white artists in it due to the way music was labeled R&B (this was BEFORE British Invasion and Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show) and Billboard decided to stop it and revived it only early 65 with a revised formula intended to target more black artists. Beatles chart success had nothing to do with it from what I’ve read. And artists could be present on BOTH pop and R&B charts.
Seems to me you are rewriting history to support your argumentation. 🤔
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