As the first fall breezes start to drift across New York City, Billboard helped usher out the summer season with its annual R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players Week. On Wednesday (Sept. 3), Unfiltered Live ...

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

The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” leads Billboard’s 100-position Top Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs of the 21st Century retrospective.

In 2020, Kelly Rowland released the song “Coffee” as an ode to black women. She described it by saying “I just wanted it to ...

Drake leads Billboard's 100-position Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the 21st Century retrospective. Below, find a breakdown of the 2000-24 top 10. By Trevor Anderson Drake dominates the competition as the ...

Nashville’s fall concert scene is stacked with hip-hop heavyweights and soulful R&B artists. Here are the must-see shows ...

At some point this century, all of the R&B heartthrobs had to make an adjustment. There's no pinpointing the exact moment, but you can see the gears in motion in 2012, when hip-hop's influence on ...

Billboard's inaugural African Rookie of the Year singer joins Amazon Music's signature developing artist program.

Welcome to The State of R&B, ESSENCE’s look at the past, present and future of rhythm and blues. In this piece, ESSENCE editor Rivéa Ruff reports on the blending of hip-hop and R&B. Since the ...

Cardi B’s Am I the Drama? takes the No. 1 spot on this week’s Billboard 200 ...

Rumors of a possible relationship between Drake and Taylor Swift started circulating a few weeks ago, and the reaction on social media was swift and merciless. Now The Sun, a British newspaper known ...