The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. It’s a new single-year record, up 9.6 percent from 2024, which ...

NEW YORK -- The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. It's a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024, ...

Bruno Mars, Jill Scott and Mandy, Indiana have new albums on the way, and a frantic tune from an anime film is No. 1 in Japan ...

The R&B world has had its share of heartbreak in 2025. And, sadly, another legend’s name has joined the list of those lost this year. As the clock quickly winds down and we approach 2026, the ...

In 2024, the song of the year was so undeniable and inescapable that we don’t even have to bother naming it. This year, the landscape is much trickier. Twenty twenty-five hasn’t produced a ...

Photos by Amy Sussman/Getty Images, Marleen Moise/Getty Images, Lester Cohen/Getty Images, Victor Boyko/Getty Images. The year 2025 began as a mess, and only got worse as time progressed. Everything ...

She ran. Adia didn’t answer the call. She didn’t initially answer the divine call from God to pursue ministry through music — though both were deeply ingrained in the family tree. Chester and Angela ...

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Photo screenshot: @WesosWorld YOUTUBE/ Chris Brown just co-signed JayDon 🔥🚨#ChrisBrown #Jaydon #Breezy #Usher #BreezyBowl JayDon just received the ultimate validation from one of R&B’s biggest stars ...

Summer Walker continues her chart dominance as her third studio album, Finally Over It, scores the largest debut for an R&B album by a woman in 2025. The project opens at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (TENNESSEE VALLEY LIVING) - On this edition of ‘Sounds of the Valley’, a Sparkman High School alum who is now a rising star in the Christian R&B world is in the spotlight! Christian R ...

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, ...