Billboard's special salute to Black Music Month continues its rollout with the next 25 artists on our all-time top 75 list.

It’s Black Music Month, and Billboard, the music biz bible, has come up with its list of the 75 best R&B artists of all time. Our own Prince ranked No. 7.

Summer Walker made it clear she is not impressed with how R&B sounds today. On the red carpet at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 7, 2025, she stopped to talk with Complex and gave her honest ...

Baker was one of Atlantic Records' first big success stories, with a series of hits in the 1950s, including "Bumblebee" and "Jim Dandy." She died in 1997. Originally broadcast in 1991.