Claude Kelly and Chuck Harmony have spent years helping shape major pop and R&B records. With Louis York's The Heart of the Matter now set for November 6, their own artist career moves back to the foreground.

Five albums that would each lead a normal Friday landed on the same one. Our listening order, and the reasoning behind it.

Carey reopened the Glitter story with a Rochelle Jordan remix, a confirmed October 30 reissue date and the album's first vinyl pressing in 25 years.

Steve Lacy's first headline run in four years covers 27 cities from Minneapolis on Sept. 27 to Vancouver on Nov. 30, with Radio City, Red Rocks and the Hollywood Bowl on the routing. Full dates, plus how a kid producing on an iPhone in Compton got here.

Copyright law hands every artist one chance to cancel a deal they signed decades ago. Here is the calendar, the trapdoor, and the fight over how much of the world comes back with it.

Seven years after “RNP” revealed their chemistry, Cordae and Anderson .Paak are finally turning one of hip-hop’s most natural recurring partnerships into a full album.

Janet Jackson will film a career-spanning concert movie in December marking forty years of Control. Inside the album, the chart records, the contracts, the 2004 fallout and the run that followed.

Ye spends almost the entire "OK" video as a corpse on a mortuary table. Don Toliver revives him, Bianca Censori built the room, and the release calendar is doing the rest.

Atlantic announced an Omarion album called Reasons in 2015 and never released it. Eleven years later the title belongs to him, and the video went out on his schedule.

Davido gave "Tell Everybody" a ballroom, a chandelier and a crown-shaped cap. Twelve songs from ORIADÉ charted the same week, and the one with the Grammy winner on it finished eleventh.

Eight new dates take The R&B Tour to 59 shows, and four of them are markets stadium tours skip. Columbia, South Carolina on a Thursday in October is the number worth reading.

Six weeks of AI settlements turned alleged theft into a revenue line. The money lands with rightsholders. Whether it reaches artists is a contract question.