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 ...

What makes an R&B album stand out to fans? Beyond a carefully curated tracklist that flows effortlessly from start to finish, true R&B fans desire a few key elements: stellar vocals, clever ...

There’s one thing you can say about 2025 musically: it was a very good year for R&B. After years of naysayers pronouncing R&B dead or irrelevant, the genre yielded a welcome embarrassment of riches ...

Baby Keem's new album, Ca$ino, is now his first No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Ten tracks hit the songs chart.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Kendrick Lamar dominates the Official Hip-Hop and R&B Albums chart ...

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 ...

Rolling Stone ranked the best R&B songs of the 21st century, and a 2004 Usher track received the No. 1 spot.

Here's a profound question for you. What does God sound like? Well, the musician Isaia Huron has given this a lot of thought. ISAIA HURON: He sounds like all things that make you perk up, all the ...

GloRilla has always made it her mission to push boundaries. Flipping classic songs can be risky, but she pulled it off with “WHATCHU KNO ABOUT ME”, a remix of Boosie’s “Wipe Me Down,” and fans ate it ...

Bad news GloRilla fans, but it seems like Glo’s recent announcement that she’d soon be dropping off an R&B album was much ado about nothing. A week after the “TGIF” rapper got her fans in a tizzy ...