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 ...

Milo J was on a two-month vacation with his dad when puberty struck and caused his voice to deepen. He was 14 years old. Now, it’s that same voice—profound, calm, mature, and flooded with ...

Ahead of the full reveal on Dec. 9 — after the Billboard 2025 No. 1s Livestream, hosted by Druski — check out three R&B/hip-hop top 10s. By Keith Caulfield The full list of Billboard’s 2025 year-end ...

Another artificial intelligence artist has reached the top of the music charts. "Walk My Walk," a song from Breaking Rust, a computer-generated blues-country singer, landed at No. 1 on Billboard's ...

"Walk My Walk" by Breaking Rust is No. 1 on the 'Billboard' Country Digital Song Sales chart Jack Irvin has over five years of experience working in digital journalism, and he’s worked at PEOPLE since ...

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, ...

“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 ...

D'Angelo, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and producer whose retro R&B sound epitomized the neo-soul movement of the mid-'90s, has died following a battle with cancer. He was 51. The singer, born ...

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, ...

The 1970s was an interesting time in regard to how the masses chose to label music genres. During this decade, R&B was used as an all-encompassing term to group the styles of soul, funk, and disco.

“Autotune is AI baby, y’all just didn’t complain until it started writing better hooks than you,” one animal says. People got even more upset — some wrote editorials about it — and seemed to feel it ...

Huntr/x — Rumi, Mira and Zoey, better known as the “Kpop Demon Hunters” — didn’t just secure the honmoon. They became a global phenomenon, with a soundtrack full of hits and TikToks flooding your FYP.