Nearly three years after releasing her last album, Beauty Marks, and a few standalone singles, Ciara confirmed her next album is coming down the pike. At a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit launch event celebrating her stunning cover, the multi-talented entertainer revealed the status of her upcoming eighth studio effort. “I’m actually finished with my album, which…
T-Pain and Kehlani share a gold award from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). “I Like Dat,” released as a standalone collaboration last May, has been certified gold with more than 500,000 equivalent units sold. The achievement marked a couple of notable firsts for the rapper-turnt-sanga. It’s T-Pain’s first certified release under his imprint, Nappy Boy…
K. Michelle’s current single “Scooch” has checked in at No. 10 on the R&B radio chart. The make-out jam is the singer-songwriter’s first song to fill a top 10 position since the New Edition-inspired “The Rain” in February 2020. Released days ahead of Valentine’s Day, “Scooch” marked a direct yearning in K. Michelle’s voice that…
Fresh off the release of her Letter To Ur Ex EP, Mahalia teams with Rated R&B to premiere her “In The Club” acoustic performance. “There’s definitely something really beautiful and intimate about a guitar and a voice. I still have parts of my live show where that’s all it is,” Mahalia tells Rated R&B. Filmed somewhere…
Music collective Maverick City and gospel legend Kirk Franklin have teamed up to raise awareness about mass incarceration in America. Their upcoming collaborative album, Kingdom Book One, will release June 17 via Tribl Records and Fo Yo Soul Entertainment/RCA Inspiration. Ahead of the album’s release, they have shared the title track. “Thine is the Kingdom /…
Mahalia is back. The Grammy-nominated singer has released her new EP, Letter To Ur Ex, via Atlantic Records. The five-track project includes the previously released songs “Whatever Simon Says,” “In The Club” and the title track. On “Forever,” produced by GRADES, Mahalia shows how devoted she is when she’s in a relationship but isn’t interested in…
The Shindellas have returned with their new summertime anthem, “BBQs & Body Rolls Intro.” Written and produced by Louis York (Chuck Harmony and Claude Kelly), “BBQs & Body Rolls Intro” hears the trio harmonizing over a sweltering backdrop as they get reacquainted with having a social life. “The sun is heating up / Brown liquor…
Ravyn Lenae’s moment is now. The emerging singer-songwriter has released her debut album, Hypnos, her first project since 2018’s Crush EP. Hypnos is left-field R&B at its best, consisting of 16 songs, four of which have cameos from other artists of the same caliber. Those upstarts include Steve Lacy, Fousheé, Smino and Mereba. The first featured…
You can count on one hand how many albums Maxwell has released in his faithful music tenure, which is now in its fourth decade. Think back to April 2, 1996. The irony of a 23-year-old Maxwell releasing Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite, his glorious debut album, on the birthday of one of his biggest influences Marvin…
Nick Cannon has many jobs, from hosting VH1’s Wild ‘n Out to hosting Fox’s The Masked Singer, among others. The common thread between the gigs is music. So it is not surprising that the multi-hyphenate would release an album mixing his comedic charm and vocal prowess and featuring some of the biggest names in music…