Chris Brown even before Rihanna was not as big world wide as Bruno. Trust me. Bruno has fans in the most remote parts of the world. I've met immigrants who only know him and Justin Bieber and couldn't tell me who Jay Z and Beyonce was.
Chris Brown was bigger amongst the black community and fans of black music because he's from the culture that's the only type of music he made. It was original and auhinetic. Even if he made more pop sounding songs he never sold out. Chris Brown is an R&B hiphop artist from day one.
Bruno began as a pop artist and he's been making Soul/Funk/R&B/Hip Hop/New Jack swing fusion music over the past years.
He might as well drop a Gospel album next
That said, imagine a Gospel album by Chris Brown. If he ever did that you know it would be cause good cause he probably grew up singing in the church like most African American R&B artists
Back to topic....
Bruno does one thing. Rehashes old hits and sounds black artists made famous already 10-20 years ago and makes them pop friendlyy for a new generation who either is too young to understand what he's doing or they're not black so they don't even know the source of what they're listening to. Or most simply don't care. A hit song is a hit song.
Bruno is like a good karaoke/cover band of popular black music. Not saying hes not talented (hes got a nice all black band working with him
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) or a hard worker either or that he can't make a different genre of music (filipino or puerto rican/spanish music) and have the same success, but right now he's following a format thats working. not all his success is fairly earned when you consider
Other more talented Black artists have been making better/genuine r&B music or even funk/soul music for years as well as new artist like Anderson Paak don't have the same level of success or easy path to worldwide success as Bruno.
Thats my point.