Our staff's favorite songs from a year that confirmed that hip-hop and R&B were now at top 40's center, but also had plenty of great rock, country and dance-pop to go around. This week, Billboard is ...

Black women have long shaped the sound and soul of R&B music. Their voices—raw, emotional and unmatched—have given us ...

Some of the best funk songs of all time sound just as fresh as they did when they came out decades ago, which is beyond rare.

It’s 2005. George W. Bush is the president of the United States, Juicy Couture tracksuits and American Idol are all the rage, ...

Experience the top songs of 1987, from pop and rock to R&B and hip-hop, and enjoy the hits that made everyone sing and dance.

K nown for their romantic ballads and cheesy love songs, boy bands in musichave continued to grace our radio stations and the ...

Kali Uchis, Ari Lennox, Jessie Reyez, Coco Jones, Mahalia and more released some of the best R&B songs this past week.

The head of Def Jam talks us through the tracks that have shaped his musical tastes and played a part in his professional ...

Hip hop has been an incredibly influential way of storytelling and social commentary through music, leading the genre to be the epicenter of the most influential musical artists in the history of hip ...

John Lennon famously said that his song “All I’ve Got To Do” from 1963 was him “trying to be Smokey Robinson again.” Clearly, ...

LeBron James-themed songs have taken over the internet. Here's how the trend started, plus our favorite remixes.