Wed, August 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM UTC Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artists, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs of the 21st Century recaps reflect performance on weekly charts dated Jan.

Sometimes the best new R&B can be hard to find, but there are plenty of great rhythm-and-blues tunes to get into if you have the time to sift through the hundreds of newly released songs every week.

R&B may not dominate the charts like it once did, but the genre is far from fading into the background. In fact, 2024 brought a plethora of smooth slow jams, infectious dance tracks, heartfelt love ...

Despite a late start — he didn’t reach Billboard’s charts until 2009 — Drake sprinted to the lead through a prolific schedule of album releases and an avalanche of hit songs, both on his own and with ...

Chris Brown, Summer Walker, and other R&B acts served up the most-streamed songs of the year. As part of iHeartRadio's Rewind ...

These two powerhouse vocalists were absolutely made to make music together. “Back Together Again” is a collaboration between soul-disco icons Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, released in 1980.

Ranking is based on an artist's chart performance on the Hot R&B Songs, Top R&B Albums and Boxscore touring revenue click to see more Send us a tip using our anonymous form. A daily briefing on what ...

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, ...