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Podcast: Halftime Chat RnB Podcast With Nnamdi Okoye
Episode: E16: Halftime Chat with Jay King: Timex Social Club, Club Nouveau, the Music Industry, Black Owned & More
Description: King starting the independent record label JAY Records to release the Timex Social Club hit ‘Rumors’ and ushered in the biggest selling single of 1986 (3.5 million copies) and becoming the #1 R&B single on the Billboard Charts. With a Top 10 single on the Billboard Pop charts for over 56 weeks, King watched his life change as his music became an unprecedented hit. What he’d produced was history-making, as nobody had before taken an R&B song from an indie label to such heights.
Such moves from a 24 year old entrepreneur made the year 1986 even more memorable, as he quickly...