Grammy-winning singer and producer Leon Thomas will receive the ASCAP Vanguard Award for his impact on modern R&B and ...

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 ...

Sometimes the best new R&B can be hard to find, but there are plenty of great rhythm-and-blues tunes to get into if you have the time to sift through the hundreds of newly released songs every week.

Ironic, then, that such a shift seems to have been ushered in by a death — not of R&B proper, mind you, but of one of its greatest modern pacesetters: The Weeknd. Since 2011, the persona inhabited by ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Tank was nervous after sending his manager a preview of “When We” — he’d never released a song that explicit. “He’s like, ‘You’re crazy, but it’s jammin’!’” the R&B singer recalled.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Behind every great R&B hit, there's often a complex web of songwriting, production, and artist selection. Songs are crafted with ...

(Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images; Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy; Bob King/Redferns; David Corio/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) What a difference 10 years can make.

Ne-Yo's latest country music quest caused concern before he even started out. The R&B star, born Shaffer Smith, had to work through a negative premonition about the Nashville music scene bestowed upon ...