In November 2011, Ivan Barias was on a flight home to the East Coast from L.A., where he'd been working with Frank Ocean, or Miguel, or Justin Timberlake, or one of the other superstar singers for ...

Raphael Saadiq, contemporary R&B and soul music’s Renaissance man, has had his hands on many a celebratory song, from his own chart-topping singles with Tony! Toni! Toné! to tracks he produced or ...

Billboard has unveiled its most comprehensive ranking of R&B excellence, expanding from 35 to 75 entries in its definitive list of the greatest singers in the genre’s history. The publication’s latest ...

R&B is the epitome of musical resilience. First emerging in the late 1940s, the genre was initially categorized as “race music,” as Black artists tried to find their footing in a new genre that ...

R&B has always been a powerful vehicle for storytelling and cultural expression. Understanding the roots of modern R&B means ...

Mariah the Scientist & Ledisi also released strong projects in the category. By Gail Mitchell Last week, Billboard’s R&B/hip-hop team shared our nominee predictions in three of the five R&B categories ...

To people of a certain age, the 90s represent a peak in contemporary R&B. There were 80s-holdover superstars like Whitney Houston and Janet Jackson doing great stuff, the emergence of male vocal ...