Kehlani's "Folded" flies 14-7, following the release of new remixes. By Gary Trust Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” notches a fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, encompassing its entire ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sampling and remixing is at the very core of dance music culture. Genres like house, garage and ...

From Journey's early fusion-driven days to modern-era LPs with long-standing frontman Arnel Pineda, the band clearly aimed to set a tone with album-opening songs. More often than not, these tracks ...

For at least a decade now – since Billboard started counting music streams in its chart calculations in 2013, and probably before – the sound of pop music has been sharply bifurcated between the ...

A 20-year-old music producer whose career began in his Glasgow bedroom is in the running for a Grammy award. Despite being relatively unknown in his home country, Blair Ferguson has worked alongside ...

On her debut full-length, the Hanoi conceptualist sings of youthful heartache over glitched-out, sub-rattling beats. While post-TikTok attention spans have encouraged many bedroom artists to shorten ...

The best R&B artists could never be one-hit wonders because their voices carry on for decades. Their velvety-smooth vocals and lyrics that tug at your heartstrings have the power to outlast their ...

It’s official: Beyoncé has the most Grammy wins of all time. On Sunday night, she made history with four wins, bringing her career total to 32. Her “Renaissance” win for best dance/electronic album ...

Welcome to The State of R&B, ESSENCE’s look at the past, present and future of rhythm and blues. In this piece, ESSENCE editor Rivéa Ruff reports on the blending of hip-hop and R&B. Since the ...

Erykah Badu, executive producer of the forthcoming documentary about late jazz and R&B trumpeter Roy Hargrove, wastes no time in elaborating on the influence her collaborator and high school classmate ...