In addition to the album's win, 13 of its tracks crash onto the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, led by the Drake teamup "Mr ...

Pooh Shiesty enjoys an immediate welcome reception on Billboard 's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, as he collects his first No. 1 with the debut of "FDO" atop the list dated Dec. 27. The comeback single ...

Ironic, then, that such a shift seems to have been ushered in by a death — not of R&B proper, mind you, but of one of its greatest modern pacesetters: The Weeknd. Since 2011, the persona inhabited by ...

Legendary R&B singer D’Angelo died on Oct. 14. He was 51. TMZ reported that the singer’s death came after a battle with ...

Here is a recap of Billboard Boxscore's top 10 R&B tours of 2025, featuring Leon Bridges, The Weeknd, and more. By Eric ...

Decades before Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” dominated the charts, another Black woman from Texas transcended genres with her hit ...

F or the first time in his career, Kendrick Lamar reigns as Billboard ’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the year, storming to the 2025 crown. The superstar rapper claims the throne in his 13th time on the ...

R&B singer Alexander O’Neal and his wife, Cynthia, were hospitalized after a fire destroyed their Burnsville apartment early Dec. 5, just hours after the musician was released from a nearly two-week ...

Carl Carlton, a hitmaking funk and R&B singer from Detroit, has died. He was 72. Carlton’s son Carlton Hudgens II announced ...

Welcome to The State of R&B, ESSENCE’s look at the past, present and future of rhythm and blues. In this piece, writer Jaelani Turner-Williams addresses claims that today’s R&B is too sexual. R&B’s ...