The devil is in the details. An AI-generated Christian artist named Solomon Ray has taken the gospel music world by storm after topping the iTunes and Billboard charts with his album “Faithful Soul.” ...

Songs credited to an artist named Solomon Ray entered iTunes’ Top 100 Christian and gospel albums chart last week — but the hits weren’t created by a human. Ray’s voice, lyrics and persona were ...

Popular Christian artist Forrest Frank is warning his followers that the top-performing Christian artist on the iTunes charts was created by artificial intelligence, expressing concerns about the ...

What happens when music fans discover their new go-to praise and worship song, only for the song to be made by an AI-artist? That’s the feeling some gospel fans are having as Solomon Ray, an ...

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, ...

Starting in the late ’70s, hip-hop and rap ascended through popular culture, mostly in America but also in other countries. Then, in 1990, a breakthrough. Hip-hop and rap tracks began infiltrating the ...

From Dove and GRAMMY-nominated artists to chart-topping storytellers, this year’s panel represents the very best in Christian songwriting and artistry. Learn more about our judges below! At just 23, ...

The Mary Couts Burnett Library pictured on the campus of Texas Christian University, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025, in Fort Worth. Elías Valverde II / Staff Photographer Texas Christian University’s College ...

For the back-to-back Billboard Hot 100 charts this year dated Oct. 25 and Nov. 1, no rap songs appeared in the top 40 — marking the first times since the Feb. 3, 1990 chart that the genre was totally ...

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: On last week's Billboard Hot 100, there were no rap songs in the top 40.