Soul Sweep: December 1, 2012...

Welcome back....I'm up to part three of this week's "chart sweeps" of the latest songs making their way on to the weekly music charts at Billboard magazine, and now I'm up to the newest on R&B radio.

In another insult to the R&B community after corrupting the main "R&B/HipHop Songs" list to basically mirror the Hot 100 with crossover airplay from all genres included with the editors deciding what is "R&B" enough to make the chart, they've pared down the R&B/HipHop Airplay list for a second time, which had been 100 songs strong, then 75, and now only 50. Ridiculous. But I'd rather go with that than an "all-Rihanna all the time" list, so on that chart for the eleventh week at #1 is the superb "Adorn" by Miguel. And with the paring down of the list, nothing "debuts" this week. Grr...

On the Adult R&B (Urban AC) radio format list, "Adorn" is also at the top for a third week.

Rocketing in at #23 is Frank Ocean's totally Grammy-worthy "Thinking About You", which is #4 on the composite chart (as it makes a top-40 appearance as well at #35)...

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Eric Benet shuffles in at #34 with "News For You"...

finally, soft-jazz artist Brian Culbertson comes in at #37 with "You're My Music" featuring singer Noel Gourdin...

That's it for the soul side of the spectrum. I'll update the country chart in 90...