Teyana Taylor’s Escape Room marks a self-directed return that centers personal storytelling and creative control. Daniel Caesar, Fridayy, and Summer Walker each released albums that expanded the ...

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 ...

Sade reaches a new milestone as The Best of Sade climbs into the top 10 on Billboard's Top R&B Albums chart for the first time. Sade on stage during the Live Aid concert held in London. The 1985 ...

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.

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 ...

'The Best of Sade' combines pop, jazz, and R&B to create classic tracks led by lead singer Sade Adu.

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 ...

It’s been a relatively slow year for new music releases so far, but May has been packed with standout albums and singles that you should check out, no matter your taste. Here are some of the best. The ...

The band, who have ruled the Contemporary Jazz and Jazz Album charts, have not released a new album since their ...

In many ways, R&B music is like reggae or other highly specialized genres of music that are ultimately more about feeling ...

Gospel superstar Marvin Sapp is going secular — if only for a few songs. His new mini-album is called "If I Were an R&B Singer." MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: By the time Marvin Sapp was 10 years old, he was ...

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 ...