Two big winners defined the 67th annual Grammy awards night. Beyoncé finally won album of the year for Cowboy Carter, and ...

The album, released on a Wednesday for the rapper's 31st birthday, rockets after its first full tracking week.

The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

The year 2025 has been filled with cultural absurdities. Toothy plush dolls became one of the hottest and most elusive ...

Ahead of the full reveal on Dec. 9 — after the Billboard 2025 No. 1s Livestream, hosted by Druski — check out three R&B/hip-hop top 10s. By Keith Caulfield The full list of Billboard’s 2025 year-end ...

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, ...

Though, in most senses, the top of the charts is always the place to start in any commercial discussion of music, oftentimes we’ll eschew discussion of it, due in no small part to a 2025 buzzword: ...

Chris Brown doubles up on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart by occupying the top two spots of the radio ranking dated Nov. 8. The singer's "It Depends," featuring Bryson Tiller, rises 2-1, while ...

For the first time since 1990, the Top 40 of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart is completely devoid of any hip-hop and/or rap songs. “No rap songs appear in the top 40 on the Hot 100 for the first time since ...

The Billboard Hot 100 chart has long been seen as a measure of success for musicians across all genres, with placement on the list solidifying years of hard work. For the first time in 35 years, ...

*The week of October 25, 2025, marked an unprecedented setback for hip-hop: according to The AV Club, no rap songs made the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40. Billboard links some of this change to new ...