The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. It’s a new single-year record, up 9.6 percent from 2024, which ...

The singer-songwriter has become one of the most popular musicians in America without much changing his no-frills approach.

Smallwood died at the age of 77 from complications of kidney failure on Tuesday, December 30, 2025.

Plus, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Maverick City Music and Ye finish big. By Russ Penuell CeCe Winans made noise again atop Billboard’s 2025 year-end Top Gospel Artists chart, crowning the list for a second ...

Ahead of the full reveal on Dec. 9 – after the Billboard 2025 No. 1s Livestream hosted by Druski – check out a pair of year-end Christian & gospel top 10s. By Keith Caulfield All of Billboard’s 2025 ...

A Mississippi-based creator has found himself at the center of a new debate in the Gospel world—one that blends technology, tradition, and a whole lot of chart success. Solomon Ray, an AI-generated ...

What happens when music fans discover their new go-to praise and worship song, only for the song to be made by an AI-artist? That’s the feeling some gospel fans are having as Solomon Ray, an ...

Ray is the first AI artist to have the No. 1 album and song on any iTunes chart. What happens when music fans discover their new go-to praise and worship song, only for the song to be made by an ...

Let’s be real: you’ve probably been fooled once (or twice) when you were riding in the backseat of your grandmother‘s Buick on the way to church when an unsuspecting jam came through the car’s ...

Inspired in part by a book she published last year, the singer and songwriter reveals more of herself on “Tasha,” an album blending gospel and pop. By Robert M. Marovich “Tasha,” the new album from ...

Nigerian gospel artiste Tomi Kehinde Folayan, popularly known as Tomi Folayan, continues his remarkable ascent in the music industry as his single “Saluting Twale” receives a prominent feature from ...

American Idol winner Jamal Roberts debuts at No. 1 on two Billboard charts with “Heal,” while his older gospel tune “He’s Preparing Me” also enters the top five. ATLANTA, GEORGIA - MAY 28: Singer ...