R&B artists in the charts and their influence on the fans/ target audience

R&B music is very popular now a days with the youngsters. The R&B music artist above are very successful and their music is at the top in the charts and in addition to that they have had loads of number ones. There are other R&B music artist that are really successful and are also pretty high in the charts. Most teenagers consider R&B artists as their role model and they aspire to be like them. The way the music artists act and behave has lot of impact on the fans. The fans follow the fashion sense of their favourite music artists e.g. Rihanna dying her hair red. The artist need to be careful of have their behave and act as this affects the fans because if the music artist is taking drugs and betting up their partner, the fans would think its alright to take drugs and bet up other people. This would have a negative impact on the fans and they will copy the actions of the music artist thinking that its 'cool' to behave like that, e.g. Chris Brown and Rihanna.