There’s one thing you can say about 2025 musically: it was a very good year for R&B. After years of naysayers pronouncing R&B dead or irrelevant, the genre yielded a welcome embarrassment of riches ...

Topped by Rosalía’s multilingual, ultra-ambitious Lux, here are the best albums of the year as voted for by 30 Guardian music writers ...

Last week, Billboard's R&B/hip-hop team shared our nominee predictions in three of the five R&B categories for the 68th annual Grammy Awards: best R&B performance, best traditional R&B performance and ...

2025 saw the R&B genre vault back into the mainstream, with multiple songs charting on the Billboard Hot 100 through the summer and the fall. Kehlani's "Folded", Mariah the Scientist's "Burning Blue", ...

Young, hot stars like Leon Thomas, Givēon, and Coco Jones put a distinctly old-school touch on their music and were rewarded with nominations in the general Best R&B Album category. It makes the race ...

Sade reaches a new milestone as The Best of Sade climbs into the top 10 on Billboard's Top R&B Albums chart for the first time. Sade on stage during the Live Aid concert held in London. The 1985 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. As 2025 draws to a close, Metacritic has unveiled its annual rankings ...

She was a member of the influential rap collective, then the alt-R&B hitmakers – but struggled to find her own voice. Now, after realising she ‘didn’t like anybody else’s beats’, she’s finally made a ...