R&B icon Don Bryant, who died Dec. 26, had returned to the spotlight in recent years with releases that earned him his first ...

Black artists have contributed to the most vital Christmas music of our time through soulful classics and energetic R&B ...

Dec. 24 is a date that stands out in hip-hop and R&B for many reasons. To start, Young Zee was born on this day in 1970. He’s ...

Since 1913, Billboard has charted the top-selling and most popular songs across the world. In that time, hundreds of artists have topped what has become ...

Decades before Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” dominated the charts, another Black woman from Texas transcended genres with her hit ...

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 ...

Pac earns a surprise modern hit as “Hit ’Em Up” debuts on a Billboard chart, adding another posthumous milestone to the ...

Only three songs held the #1 spot for two weeks or less, and six held it for five weeks or more. I think there are eight good ...

Below, in alphabetical order, is a list, compiled by Billboard charts data analyst Russ Penuell, of the artists who reached ...

Tiwa Savage is the kind of personality who you can feel enter a room seconds before you actually see them. It's not just the ...

Carl Carlton, the voice behind 'Everlasting Love' and 'She's a Bad Mama Jama,' dies at 72. A soul and funk legend remembered.

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 ...