10 Songs That Celebrate the Sound of Philadelphia
If the Eagles won the Super Bowl, then the next Amplifier playlist would be made up entirely of songs by artists from Philadelphia. The football gods upheld their end of this bargain — in case you ...
Chris Brown Reaches 100 Weeks at No. 1 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay Chart
Chris Brown scores a historic milestone on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, becoming the second artist to reach 100 cumulative weeks at No. 1 on the radio ranking, across 11 No. 1 songs in his ...
SiriusXM Celebrates Black History Month With the ‘Billboard Top 500 R&B Countdown'
The limited engagement Billboard Top 500 R&B Countdown will air on-demand on the SiriusXM app from today through March 3, as ...
The Late Irv Gotti Personified the Highs and Lows of Genius
The loss of Irv Gotti, who died last week at the age of 54, is immense. The Hollis, Queens native was a relic from an era when being a hip-hop multi-hyphenate wasn’t about diversifying your portfolio ...
Remembering new jack swing: Bobby Brown, Boyz II Men, Guy dominated 'mix of everything that was great about Black culture'
"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...