Host Erykah Badu attends the 2016 Soul Train Music Awards at the Orleans Arena on November 6, 2016 in Las Vegas. The combination of rhythm and blues spurred the development of the culture and genre ...

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 ...

A group of young singer-songwriters have transformed the genre by looking backward, without getting stuck in the past. Here and below are seven of the many contemporary artists who are redefining and ...

Natural hair, Black-owned businesses, live music and a Caribbean takeover made Curlfest worth the trip to Randall’s Island. Consider this your head start for 2027. Nowadays, the relationship between ...

For many decades, going as far back as the 1940s, artists from the world of R&B couldn’t really claim mainstream success until they’d crossed over to Top 40 radio and the pop charts. This century, it ...

Billboard celebrates Black Music Month with list of the genre's legendary acts. What does it take to be considered one of the greatest R&B groups of all time? That’s the question at the heart of this ...

From Bell Biv DeVoe's New Jack Swing sound to Aaliyah's form of Electro-R&B: here are the 19 most influential R&B albums of the '90s and the various movements the respective albums inspired. DaShan ...

Music will take center stage this weekend at the third annual RnB Soul Picnic in High Point. WXII 12’s Kara Peters sat down with the event’s organizers, Ais York Almahdi and Dana East, to learn more ...

Billboard staff returns to the roundtable to break down some of R&B's brightest stars so far in 2026. R&B continues to have a vice grip on the music scene. The conversation about whether the genre has ...

This list contains many of the year’s best-selling acts and, track-for-track, it looks like a fairly representative cross-section of 2013 pop. Except it’s not pop—at least, not according to the ...

In 2015, the Weeknd went pop, the Internet went big and Janet Jackson went back to the duo that helped her explode in the Eighties. Leon Bridges and Kali Uchis breathed new life into vintage sounds ...