Wed, August 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM UTC Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artists, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs of the 21st Century recaps reflect performance on weekly charts dated Jan.

For more decade lists, see 100 Best Punk & Emo Albums of the 2010s. Vince Staples at Eaux Claires 2016 (more by Scotify) The 2010s already feel like a historic decade for both rap and R&B. The early ...

After a whirlwind rise, Dallas singer 4batz has released his debut mixtape, u made me a st4r. At some point this century, all of the R&B heartthrobs had to make an adjustment. There's no pinpointing ...

Pooh Shiesty enjoys an immediate welcome reception on Billboard ’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, as he collects his first No.

Rap and R&B have always been intertwined. As both prominent Black arts, many rappers and singers from both genres were taking off and occupying the same space in the 1990s, which carried on tradition ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED BY ...

The top songwriters Billboard Hot 100 and selective genre songs chart that utilize the Hot 100 formula (blending streaming, airplay and download sales data). Rankings are based on accumulated weekly ...

Editor's Note: This post was originally published in March 2020 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. Last weekend, Drake released “When To Say When,” an introspective track that utilized the ...

The red carpet at the annual BET Hip-Hop Awards was a curious shade of green this year: money green. It was fitting for the occasion, because nothing comes close to distilling hip-hop's evolution over ...

My sports fandom started early. I was in single digits, 8 or 9 and had a poster of Eric Dickerson on my wall. My love for sports was there already and even at a young age I was fully aware. But sports ...

Last year, it felt like almost every heavy hitter in hip hop released something new. This year, that was less the case (though there were still a handful of heavy hitters), but there was still no ...

To read more about the background of the list and my thoughts on making it, check out the introduction to my rankings. Without further ado, here are #10-1 of my top 100 hip-hop/rap albums of the 2010s ...