In reply to mc the place to be!!.

No one said that only black artists should qualify to place on the R&B charts. The history of R&B has seen a lot of non-black acts (Jon B., Robin Thicke, Teena Marie, Hall & Oats, etc., etc.) get embraced by R&B radio and thus chart there. The problem here is that this new system opens the floodgates to songs that are not R&B, or are quasi-R&B, charting based on general sales and streams. This week we already seeing that happening with RIhanna. That song has no business even being on the R&B charts, period...let alone #1.

If you're a real soul/R&B act who appeals to R&B fans, and gets substantial play on R&B stations, then I don't care if you're not white. But if you're Justin Bieber, who primarily targets & appeals to white/pop music fans, then I don't think you should be on the R&B charts with a pop song that has water down "urban" attributes. And that's exactly what's going to happen. R&B charts are for R&B music. Not for pretenders and artists who call themselves wanting to dabble in it, despite having next to no appeal with R&B fans.