The year 2025’s standout tracks reflected shifts in sound, storytelling, and digital influence. Kehlani, Clipse, and Doechii each brought unique perspectives that resonated across platforms. These ...

Chris Brown, Summer Walker, and other R&B acts served up the most-streamed songs of the year. As part of iHeartRadio's Rewind, which debuts today, December 4, Brown and Walker made the Top 5 R&B ...

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 ...

Kendrick Lamar earned Billboard’s 2025 R&B/Hip Hop Artist of the Year title after a year of record-breaking success. His single “luther” featuring SZA broke records with a 23-week run at No. 1 on the ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

Summer Walker continues her chart dominance as her third studio album, Finally Over It, scores the largest debut for an R&B album by a woman in 2025. The project opens at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 ...