The Official Indie R&B Chart

TW  LW Artist Song Title Label Spin
1   2 Stokley Rare (No No No) Blu Raffe Ent 2544
2   1 Q Parker Keep On Loving Paramount Collective Ventures 2473
3   3 Charlie Wilson Keep Me In Love BMG 2290
4   4 Cecliy Wilborn I Need The Blues BlackGournd Records 2.0 2009
5   6 Cornell Carter Its Over Expansion Records 1956
6   7 Lalah Hathaway Mood For You Hathaway ENT None
7   9 The Colleagues Click Flash Colleagues Music None
8   8 Leela James Right On Time BMG None
9   11 Stephaine Mills Aint No Mountain High Enough CJM Music None
10   10 Michon Young All Around Perfect N/A None
11   13 Jeffrey Dennis When I Think Of You Powamm None
12   14 Eric Benet / India Aire Must Be Love JBR Creative None
13   15 Jace Wilder Keep Falling In Love Groove Nation / WMG None
14   16 Leon Thomas Dirt On Your Shoes Ezmny Records None
15   19 Kehlani Folded Atl Records None
16   12 Castella Hurt So Bad Castella Music None
17   17 Terri Green Project Let Your Love Flow Euro Musik None
18   20 Chantay Savage Still Mirrow Ball Recordings None
19   21 BAM Daydreamer Bay Area Musicians None
20   22 Johnny Britt Emotions J - Jams Records None
21   23 H'Atina Little Thingz H'ATina Music None
22   24 David A Tobin Troubadour Soul Kitchen None
23   28 Mindi Abair Fools Gold Pretty Good For a Girl None
24   29 Devon Howard Fall Into These Arms 313 ENT None
25   30 Mark Ronson Suzanne Sony None
26   15 Carvin Winans God Is Still Working On Me BlackGournd Records 2.0 None
26   27 Kirk Franklin Do It Again Fo Yo Soul Recordings None
27   18 Paul Randolph Dont take It Personal MariStarr None
28   25 Emmi Gotcha Back Platinum Vybe / The Orchard None
29   NE Jane Hancock Stare At me Death Row/gamma 281
30   NE KEM Give My Love UMG 277
31   EX Ashley Scott Always Expansion Records 177
32   EX Annie Tracy / Leon Thomas Catching Feelings Warner Records 141
33   EX Colton Frost Do What I Gotta Do NeedleTime Records 113
34   EX Syd Die For This Free Lunch Records 99
35   EX Skip Martin Lets Wait A While Sound Sucess 88
36   EX Carvin Winans Blessings BlackGournd Records 2.0 75
37   EX Nicholas Cole Ft Kenny Lattimore Love On It SincereSoul Records / Anderson Music Group 70
38   EX Tracy Hamlin Nothing Can Stop Me Now DMH Records, LLC 50
39   EX Amarie All I'd Ever Know Fasionably Early Records 46
40   EX Kevin Ross Spin Empire 38

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The Indie Artist of the week

Mindi Abair

During her remarkable 21-year recording career, saxophonist/vocalist Mindi Abair has garnered 2 GRAMMY nominations, recorded with some of the biggest names in music, and built a substantial following among jazz and blues audiences with her soaring melodies and powerhouse style. In 2014, Mindi received her first GRAMMY nomination in the Best Pop Instrumental Album category for Summer Horns with Dave Koz, Richard Elliot and Gerald Albright, followed by a 2015 GRAMMY nomination for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for her solo LP Wild Heart featuring the late Gregg Allman, Joe Perry, Trombone Shorty, Booker T. Jones, Keb’ Mo’, and Max Weinberg.

You might know her as the featured saxophonist on American Idol, sitting in with Paul Shaffer on The Late Show with David Letterman and The Roots on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, or from moonlighting on tour with Duran Duran or Aerosmith. As a solo artist, she has consistently topped the Billboard Contemporary Jazz and Blues charts. In 2018, Mindi Abair and The Boneshakers won 8 Independent Blues Awards including Artist of the Year, and an Independent Music Award for Best Blues Song Fan Award for “Pretty Good For A Girl” featuring Joe Bonamassa. They won the 2019 LA Critics Award for Best Holiday Album for All I Got For Christmas Is The Blues. And in 2019, 2020 and 2021 Mindi was nominated by the Blues Music Awards as the Best Instrumentalist: Horn.

Her new album Forever was released March 18, 2022 and debuted #1 on the current Contemporary Jazz Album Chart and features performances by Steve Perry, Rick Braun, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Bazilian and Raul Malo.

As creator, designer and owner, Mindi launched www.wineandjazz.com in 2019 as a lifestyle concept that brings together the worlds of wine and music through members-only exclusive wines paired with personally curated music playlists, label art and branded wine and music worldwide adventures and festivals.

Mindi wrote the book “How To Play Madison Square Garden – A Guide To Stage Performance” and served 10 years as an LA Chapter Governor, President and National Trustee for The Recording Academy.

Mindi has toured and/or recorded with: Aerosmith, Joe Bonamassa, Smokey Robinson, Joe Perry, Trombone Shorty, Booker T. Jones, Gregg Allman, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Fantastic Negrito, Waddy Wachtel, Bobby Rush, Keb’ Mo’, Teena Marie, Lee Ritenour, Adam Sandler, Duran Duran, Bill Champlin, Richard Elliott, Jimmy Webb, Max Weinberg, Dave Koz, Peter White, Gerald Albright, Mandy Moore, Lalah Hathaway and the Backstreet Boys.

 

 

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