The superstar breaks from a tie with Future and The Temptations for the crown.

Tank, a veteran singer with a decade and a half of R&B hits, remembers the moment when rappers took over the airwaves. “Bone Thugs-n-Harmony are the Jesuses of melody rap,” he says. “What they did was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

From MPCs to FL Studio sessions, one thing remains consistent across generations of Hip Hop and R&B: The power of the sample. With that said, few eras have been mined more heavily than the 1980s. With ...

LGBTQ+ artists are breaking barriers and shaping the sound and culture of Hip-Hop and R&B. Artists like Queen Latifah, Janelle Monáe, and Frank Ocean have created space for open self-expression. These ...

The viral R&B or rap hit jetting up the Hot 100 has become so commonplace that New York called 2017 "the year hip-hop won the music business." But that depends on which part of the music business… By ...

During the late '80s and early parts of the '90s, R&B was dominated by the new jack swing era, with artists such as Janet Jackson, New Edition and Boyz II Men being some of the subgenre's most ...