Billboard's R&B/hip-hop team reveals the talented players who made major impressions this year. ‘Tis the season again: to make a list, check it twice (and a couple more times for good measure) and ...

Ahead of the full reveal on Dec. 9 — after the Billboard 2025 No. 1s Livestream, hosted by Druski — check out three R&B/hip-hop top 10s. By Keith Caulfield The full list of Billboard’s 2025 year-end ...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...

Music always seems to elevate with each new decade and the 2010s was no different. During that time, streaming platforms like Apple, Spotify, SoundCloud, and Tidal truly changed the way music is ...

In today's music world, new R&B groups seem to be making a small resurgence, such as artists like Chloe x Halle, The Shindellas, and FLO. However, over three decades ago, fans had many groups they ...

It’s Black Music Month, and Billboard, the music biz bible, has come up with its list of the 75 best R&B artists of all time. Our own Prince ranked No. 7. Before we get into debates (how could Aretha ...

R. Kelly is serving his 30-year prison sentence as a result of his convictions on racketeering and sex trafficking charges Caroline Blair is a writer for PEOPLE. She has been writing about celebrities ...

The ongoing Sean Combs trial has captivated the nation with its lurid tales of his now-infamous “freak-offs.” But behind the salaciousness is an important point about the critical role that domestic ...

An American premiere on a hot-button social topic will be featured in the Santa Fe Opera’s 2026 season. Lili Elbe, by composer Tobias Picker and librettist Aryeh Lev Stollman, tells the true-life ...

Could London be the new hub for R&B? For years, music fans have wondered if R&B is doomed. Of course acts like Summer Walker and Victoria Monét continue to hold down the genre that’s so close to Black ...

Sometimes the best new R&B can be hard to find, but there are plenty of great rhythm-and-blues tunes to get into if you have the time to sift through the hundreds of newly released songs every week.

Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, a member of the all-female hip-hop trio The Sequence and known for the hit song “Wish I Didn’t Miss You,” was killed early Saturday in a car crash. She was 63.