The Weeknd’s “Hurry Up Tomorrow” is the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with a staggering 490,500 equivalent album units, making it the biggest debut of 2025. That marks the largest week for any ...
The Weeknd is back in action, leading a batch of new-music releases that includes titles from Lil Durk, All That Remains, Hunxho, Ohio’s Klassic Kloudhead and ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Weeknd’s Hurry Up Tomorrow album — as well as ...
The end of the year means so many different things, but for the music lovers, it’s always been “list season.” If you’re among ...
As happens with most music genres, reports of R&B's demise have always been underconsidered and premature. Still, the question's recurrence lately has hinted at broader concerns about its evolutionary ...
The best winter albums match the moment when December's frenzy of social activity subsides and real hibernation hours kick in ...
This year's best albums include Bad Bunny's "Debí Tirar Más Fotos," Lily Allen's "West End Girl," and Addison Rae's ...
In 2025, R&B fans had plenty to look forward to. We might not have received full albums from heavyweights like Kehlani and Chris Brown — who held us down with singles such as “Folded” and “ It Depends ...
There’s a famous “Peanuts” cartoon panel, long circulated as a meme among music nerds, in which the Schroeder character, bearing armloads of LP, explains to Lucy, “Buying records cheers me up… ...