About r/rnb
In its own words:
For any and all discussions, music, and news concerning R&B/Soul — past, present, and future. Share your thoughts and favorite songs! 🎶 🎤
Community guide
r/rnb (#673, about 1.6 million subscribers) — For any and all discussions, music, and news concerning R&B/Soul — past, present, and future. Share your thoughts and favorite songs! 🎶 🎤 A recent sample averaged 43 posts a day (~56% video, ~16% text, ~14% image). Its public rules include: Title formatting: Artist - Song; No Hate Speech; Posts must be relevant to the R&B/Soul music scene.; Avoid reposted songs for 30 days; Link to the music or article you're sharing!.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and ads are limited—read those rules before linking your own work. Low-effort memes/empty shitposts are often removed—add real context. Civility rules are enforced; personal attacks get removed.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rule list—not merely a larger sibling community. The public rule list is long enough that skimming all entries once beats assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Search before reposting common clips/questions. Avoid clickbait titles. Common flairs include: DISCUSSION 💭, 90s, 00s, PERFORMANCE 🎤.
The community was created on Jan 28, 2011, which makes it 15 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 398 subscribers (+0.03%). It sits just behind r/beermoney (#673) and ahead of r/CreditCards (#675) in our ranking.
What sets r/rnb apart
Compared with other large communities, r/rnb leans heavily on videos (56% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 4%). Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (16:00 UTC) sees about 14.5× as many posts as the quietest (08:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/rnb climbed from 1,567,491 to 1,571,334 subscribers (+3.8K, +0.25%). That is about 75 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/rnb this week
What the community upvoted most over the last seven days, as ranked by Reddit (collected Nov 7, 2026).
- Tyrese Performs an Impromptu Rendition of Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come' at Keisha Lance Bottoms' Election Victory Ceremony in Atlantau/CC-Blue · Nov 4 · video
- Can anyone else hear it?u/battleangel1999 · Nov 7 · video
- CFDA Fashion Awards 2026u/ata3121 · Nov 4 · gallery
- Anybody else listen to Joss Stone?u/Morphin_Grid_1999 · Nov 4 · image
- Mariah Carey Announces “IT’S TIMEEEE” to Celebrate Christmas 2026 🎄🎉u/Ok_Resident_5022 · Nov 1 · video
- WE DID IT YA’LL!!!! 🌊 💙u/DammitNotAgain05 · Nov 4 · video
- Mary J. Blige snaps on a heckling audience member 😂u/Dapper_Cockroach_622 · Nov 3 · video
- The System - Don't Disturb This Grooveu/_Blaque · Nov 1 · video
- Toni Braxton - How Many Waysu/_Blaque · Nov 6 · video
- Has ‘Real’ R&B Become Obsolete?u/MysteriousTop6502 · Nov 1 · image
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/rnb, from 2024 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.
- This made me smile so hard. 😁u/Consistent_Edge9211 · Mar 7, 2026 · video
- Willow Smith performing "Wait a Minute" tonight in L.A.u/LA-SKYLINE · Oct 11, 2026 · video
- when your mama's a bad mama jama 😭😭😭u/stabbinU · Jul 16, 2025 · video
- Anika Noni Rose (dressed as Princess Tiana), Brandy (dressed as Cinderella), Halle Bailey (dressed as Ariel) • Disneyland, 2026u/Ok_Resident_5022 · Aug 15, 2026 · image
- Rest In Peace to D'Angelo and Angieu/bside313 · Oct 14, 2025 · gallery
- He's a reincarnated Soul Train dancer! 🙌u/Sno0pyBo0 · Dec 9, 2025 · video
- NBA star Donovan Mitchell officially ties the knot with R&B artist CoCo Jonesu/FaradayDeshawn · Aug 2, 2026 · video
- Damnu/Big-Explanation-831 · Sep 24, 2024 · image
- Someone sang the SpongeBob theme song in R&B style at a baseball game. Pretty fire if you ask me 🤣🤣🔥🔥u/TokyoAvalanche04 · Jul 2, 2026 · video
- The kids gon be alright! 😍👏🏽u/Sno0pyBo0 · Nov 18, 2025 · video
What r/rnb talks about
Across 291 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “song”, “music”, “album”, “love” and “mariah”. Other frequent themes are video, carey, songs, albums, michael and official. Recurring phrases include “mariah carey”, “music video”, “official music” and “chris brown”. By format, 56% are videos, 16% are text posts and 14% are images.
Popular post flairs: DISCUSSION 💭 (72), 90s (40), 00s (22), PERFORMANCE 🎤 (20), 20s (20), 80s (19).
Activity and best time to post
r/rnb gets about 43 new posts a day. The public archive holds 100,585 posts and 1,024,266 comments in total, about 10.2 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Thursday (52 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (30). Posting peaks around 16:00 UTC and is lowest around 08:00 UTC.
Rules of r/rnb
The moderators of r/rnb list 10 rules. In short:
- Title formatting: Artist - Song
- No Hate Speech
- Posts must be relevant to the R&B/Soul music scene.
- Avoid reposted songs for 30 days
- Link to the music or article you're sharing!
- No astroturfing
- No Harassment
- No Spamming and/or Stanning
- No low-effort, hastily-written or AI content
- CiCi's Rule - Don't be weird or gross
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/rnb and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/rnb have?
r/rnb has 1,571,334 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #674 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 3,843 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
How old is r/rnb?
r/rnb was created on Jan 28, 2011, so it has been around for 15 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Feb 17, 2011.
How active is r/rnb?
Very active: r/rnb gets about 43 new posts a day (average of the last week). Over its lifetime the archive counts 100,585 posts and 1,024,266 comments. In a sample of 291 recent posts we counted 158 different authors.
When is r/rnb most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Thursday and the quietest Wednesday, and most posts arrive around 16:00 UTC, with the fewest around 08:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/rnb about?
The community describes itself as: “For any and all discussions, music, and news concerning R&B/Soul — past, present, and future. Share your thoughts and favorite songs! 🎶 🎤” Recent post titles often mention song, music, album, love and mariah. Most posts are videos (56%).
Is r/rnb safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/rnb as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/rnb?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/rnb accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “Title formatting: Artist - Song”; “No Hate Speech”; “Posts must be relevant to the R&B/Soul music scene.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/rnb?
Communities with similar topics include r/nintendo (2.4M), r/Music (38.6M), r/billieeilish (1.2M), r/hiphopheads (5.5M) and r/mashups (1.3M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/rnb.