After watching women MCs spar for pole position in hip-hop over the last few years, in June 2024, Billboard put together its ...

Taste of Country said many more country stars such as Shania Twain, Reba McEntire, Billy Ray Cyrus, Doug Stone, Shelby Lynne, ...

Country music had another banner year with superstars and newer artists reaching new pinnacles, while behind the scenes saw major shifts in executive talent.

Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1990s, I listened to soul singer-turned-R&B sex symbol Teddy Pendergrass and other artists ...

Rihanna's Anti reaches 500 weeks on the Billboard 200, becoming the first album by a Black solo female musician to make it to ...

Throughout history, Black women have given us some amazing music, and many of those great songs have come in the most beautiful packaging – iconic album covers which showcase museum-worthy artwork. If ...

A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...

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With her third studio album “Finally Over It” debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 this week, Summer Walker not only secured the biggest R&B debut by a woman in 2025, but also chalked up her fourth ...

Karyn White, whose discography includes slow jams and a single called “Slow Down,” will hardly do so when she performs Friday ...

Elle Varner hooked listeners with Refill’s fiddle-driven R&B, blending vulnerability and groove into a timeless slow jam that ...

That stick-to-itiveness paid off in spades in 2025: Her new album, “The Art of Loving,” shot to the top of the album chart in ...