From iconic ballads to today’s newest chart-toppers, these songs have and will continue to define OPM for years to come ...

Legendary R&B singer D’Angelo died on Oct. 14. He was 51. TMZ reported that the singer’s death came after a battle with ...

Chris Brown, Summer Walker, and other R&B acts served up the most-streamed songs of the year.

Steve Cropper, guitarist for Booker T. & the MG's, Otis Redding, the Blues Brothers and many more, has died. He was 84.

R&B has never stayed in one lane — from Mary J. Blige’s hip-hop soul to today’s alternative sounds, it’s a story of evolution ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT R&B SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED BY MEDIABASE ...

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, ...

For two decades, Ciara has commanded attention—not merely through her hypnotic vocal runs and gravity-defying choreography, but through an aesthetic metamorphosis that continues to captivate. As the ...

One of the cool things about R&B is hearing how the sound seems to constantly change from the previous decade. The 1980s was no different. It was an era that was moving away from the disco sound of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Rocket Arena will host four living music legends on Sunday, Oct. 5, uniting to give fans an evening of classic songs sung by beloved voices Iconic R&B and pop singers Chaka Khan, ...

Let’s be real: you’ve probably been fooled once (or twice) when you were riding in the backseat of your grandmother‘s Buick on the way to church when an unsuspecting jam came through the car’s ...