R&B

R&B — rhythm and blues — is pop's soulful engine room: vocal-first music built on groove, intimacy and emotional candour, from classic soul through 90s slow jams to today's moody, trap-inflected variant. Its fingerprints are on nearly everything modern pop does with a voice.

Our R&B shelf currently features Hate That I Made You Love Me by Ariana Grande — an artist whose whole catalogue runs on R&B vocal technique, and whose 2026 single pairs conversational, low-register singing with trap-style percussion in the modern R&B-pop mould. As the collection grows, this page will gather the songs where the voice does the heavy lifting: runs, restraint and feeling over flash.