Each week, new releases from R&B/Hip Hop are selected to go head to head, with one weekly winner. The winners will then go up against future weekly winners later in the year at the end of each quarter and then again at the end of the year to determine the ultimate winner of 2026.

The results for last week are as follows;

01 Joji - Last Of A Dying Breed [05]

02 Ari Lennox - High Key [04]

03 Cleo Sol - Nothing Is Impossible With You [02]

03 Fredo - Runnin [02]

05 Flo Milli - Flo Jackson [01]

05 Joyce Wrice - Break Me In [01]

05 M Huncho - Championship [01]

08 Pozer - Money And Power [00]

08 Spice - Soft Girl Era [00]

08 Wizkid & Asake - Turbulence! [00]

Here is this weeks playlist / selection to vote for;

Hall Of Fame: 2026 Winners

Week 01: Joji - LOVE YOU LESS

Week 02: Bruno Mars - I Just Might

Week 03: Leigh-Anne, Valiant & Rvssian - Most Wanted

Week 04: Joji - Last Of A Dying Breed

Gone with Pia Mia this week!

I was surprised at how... not great Professor Green sounded on The Masked Singer, but then I heard this new song and he really is just that bad now

Labrinth. I liked Debbie's song 'Rain' from a couple of years ago, noting the title's theme here.

Bellah + Destin Conrad and AJ Tracey + Blade Brown & Carns Hill for me!

My personal rankings for Week 5;

1. Fredo, Burna Boy & Steel Banglez – Birthday

2. Pia Mia – Underneath

3. Don Toliver – Body

4. Tinchy Stryder & Kojo Funds – Pick Pick

5. Professor Green & Zdot – No Management

6. Labrinth – Debris

7. Sasha Keable – tell me what you want

8. AJ Tracey, Blade Brown & Carns Hill – Ibiza

9. Debbie – The Rain Isn't Over

10. Bellah & DESTIN CONRAD – Typical

1. AJ Tracey, Blade Brown & Carns Hill - Ibiza

2. Fredo, Burna Boy & Steel Banglez - Birthday

3. Don Toliver - Body

4. Sasha Keable - tell me what you want

5. Bellah & DESTIN CONRAD - Typical

6. Pia Mia - Underneath

7. Debbie - The Rain Isn't Over

8. Tinchy Stryder & Kojo Funds - Pick Pick

9. Labrinth - Debris

10. Professor Green & Zdot - No Management

Another banger from AJ and by far the best song this week!

1 AJ Tracey

2 Don Toliver

3 Professor Green

4 Bellah

5 Labrinth

6 Debbie

7 Pia Mia

8 Tinchy Stryder

9 Sasha Keable

10 Fredo

A top 3 of bangers there, I had low expectations for the Professor Green song but he actually sounds pretty good over a legit grime instrumental, even if he is kind of just copying the flow from Dave's 'Clash'. The Bellah song had a pretty nice vibe to it as well, next two songs were both decent but then not really feeling the rest of the list, the Pia Mia song I see appears to just be a very belated streaming release of a near decade old song and you can definitely tell, new music from Tinchy Stryder was sadly not as unexpectedly compelling as Professor Green's and the last two are just complete snoozefests (with the Fredo song having some pretty jarring lyrics to boot).

Any more last minute votes before I post results and do next poll??