With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims to highlight some of the best and most interesting new sounds across R&B and hip-hop — from ...

Dave and Tems unite in Lagos for the stunning "Raindance" video. The track climbs to #3 UK and dominates global charts as ...

A$AP Rocky's first full-length album in eight years, “Don’t Be Dumb,” and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reuniting in Netflix’s ...

The Trump administration says it is focused on protecting unaccompanied migrant children. It imposed strict new background ...

Variety's writers pick the 50 best concerts of 2025, including Beyonce, David Byrne, Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar and SZA, Paul ...

We lost many actors this year, including Val Kilmer, Michael Madsen, Loretta Swit, Diane Ladd, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Michelle Trachtenberg, and musical legends including reggae artist Jimmy Cliff ...

Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, ...

On our just-published year-end Hot 100 chart, 11 of the top 12 songs were released before 2025, and over half of them even hit their peak on the listing for the first time in 2024. So cluttered was ...

Our staff's favorite albums from the year that was.

“The shining star of our family has dimmed his light for us in this life … After a prolonged and courageous battle with cancer, we are heartbroken to announce that Michael D’Angelo Archer, known to ...

D'Angelo, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and producer whose retro R&B sound epitomized the neo-soul movement of the mid-'90s, has died following a battle with cancer. He was 51. The singer, born ...