French R&B
French R&B is contemporary R&B sung in French, made mainly in France and closely linked to French hip hop.
It appeared in the early 1990s alongside French rap, had its first big hits in the mid-1990s and was at its most popular in the 2000s. Since the late 2010s it has merged into pop urbaine, a chart-leading French blend of R&B with afrobeats, zouk, trap and pop. Several of its well-known singers have family roots in Africa, and those influences set it apart from R&B in English.
Artists it is known for: Vitaa, Dadju, Aya Nakamura, Tayc.
- Family
- R&B & Soul
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- France, early 1990s
- Also called
- rnb français, r&b français
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,800 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have french r&b among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
French R&B artists
GIMS
Tiakola
Damso
Aya Nakamura
Hamza
Booba
SDM
Niska
L2B
GazoThe french r&b artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.