With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims to highlight some of the best and most interesting new sounds across R&B and hip-hop — from ...

The Boy Is Mine Tour hit Kaseya Center with powerhouse vocals, guest stars, and a heartfelt tribute to Whitney Houston.

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

These forgotten songs from 1997 might have slipped your mind, but they were all the rage back in the late 1990s.

THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR STREAMED R&B SONGS (AUDIO AND VIDEO) ON LEADING DIGITAL MUSIC SERVICES, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE. click to see more K.A.Parrish, D.Knight, A ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED BY ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...

For two decades, Ciara has commanded attention—not merely through her hypnotic vocal runs and gravity-defying choreography, but through an aesthetic metamorphosis that continues to captivate. As the ...

The R&B world was rocked this week by the news that legendary singer D’Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 51. From icons to stars gone far too young, it has been a ...

Legendary R&B singler D'Angelo died Tuesday after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his family confirmed in a statement. He was 51 years old. Has a case for best song The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, ...

One of the cool things about R&B is hearing how the sound seems to constantly change from the previous decade. The 1980s was no different. It was an era that was moving away from the disco sound of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Rocket Arena will host four living music legends on Sunday, Oct. 5, uniting to give fans an evening of classic songs sung by beloved voices Iconic R&B and pop singers Chaka Khan, ...