It's no secret Max Martin loves R&B, no wonder the correlation especially the mid-tempos.
Randy & The Gypsies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dZEsg5Q2TQ Perpetrators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-xh7JPpuOI Love ya honey
Janet Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAwaNWGLM0c Rhythm Nation
Solid Harmonie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXd69BShtrs Want you to want me
A lot of early Bsb/NSYNC hits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7ztgH0STBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyuRaIJ4mWA Definitely new-jack feeling to me. No-diggity influence!
Blackstreet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KL9mRus19o No diggity!
Just to name a few. Too many to list them all.