Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artists, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs of the 21st Century recaps reflect ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Eminem’s The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) celebrates one ...

Last week, Billboard’s R&B/hip-hop team shared our nominee predictions in three of the five R&B categories for the 68th annual Grammy Awards: best R&B performance, best traditional R&B performance and ...

These 10 R&B albums defined the genre in 2025, from heartbreak anthems to bold debuts. Discover the year’s most essential ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Kendrick Lamar’s singles may be slipping, but all four of his ...

Let the sunshine in: After a decade of chilly trap beats and freaky club tales, the tide is turning on the genre's dominant sound. R&B has died many hypothetical deaths, with just as many premortem ...

Mariah The Scientist just hit a career milestone, earning her very first No. 1 album. Her latest release, Hearts Sold Separately, has claimed the top spot on Billboard’s Top R&B Albums chart for the ...

Will GloRilla’s next album be an R&B affair? That’s the suggestion made by the Memphis rapper on social media. In a short but interesting post on X on Nov. 19, GloRilla said: “& I will be doing an R&B ...

Dijon Duenas, who performs mononymously as Dijon, was one of 2025's breakout voices, both as a collaborator for R&B-leaning pop stars and an artist in his own right. (Yana Yatsuk) Ironic, then, that ...

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 ...