On our just-published year-end Hot 100 chart, 11 of the top 12 songs were released before 2025, and over half of them even ...

You might have heard your parents complaining that 'they don't make songs like they used to'. A study has confirmed it really ...

Each of a dozen people on our team — critics, podcast hosts, editors and Tiny Desk producers … sometimes all of the above — ...

Michael Jackson wasn’t just the King of Pop-he was also a gifted songwriter who penned hits for some of the biggest names in ...

Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1990s, I listened to soul singer-turned-R&B sex symbol Teddy Pendergrass and other artists who defined the Sound of Philadelphia. Now, as a professor of ethnic ...

Joe Thomas, better known as Joe, the quintessential 1990s American R&B crooner, best known for a string of soulful romantic classics, returns to Nairobi for an eagerly awaited concert tonight, more ...

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, ...

Xania Monet’s voice has reached millions, yet few know she is an artificial intelligence creation. While Monet was created by technology, the woman behind the mysterious singer is very much human, as ...

“The shining star of our family has dimmed his light for us in this life … After a prolonged and courageous battle with cancer, we are heartbroken to announce that Michael D’Angelo Archer, known to ...

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, ...

After hitting No. 1 with “Voodoo,” the genre-melding 2000 album that he promoted with a risqué music video, he vanished for more than a decade. D’Angelo in 2000. He found fame with an innovative, ...