The news may indicate a dip in rap’s dominance in mainstream music, but the music publication has also changed its ...

Hip-hop radio veterans Mastermind and Jay Smooth, along with music industry academic Michelle Santosuosso, discuss what this ...

As one long-running hip-hop smash goes recurrent on the chart, the Hot 100's top 40 does not boast a single rap song, ending ...

"The lack of rap songs in the Hot 100’s top 40 is the latest sign of a recent dip in rap’s commercial dominance," Billboard ...

"Rap music is still all over the top 40; it's just not being made by rappers," Stereogum's Tom Breihan observed in a column ...

The current US Top 30 has no songs that could be officially described as rap or hip-hop – for the first time since 1990. That ...

Hip-hop and rap have been driving culture in the U.S. for almost four decades now, especially in America. So why are these ...

While this could’ve opened up the playing field for other rap songs to rise, there are other factors at play. For instance, ...

For the first time, Billboard's Hot 100 Top 40 doesn't feature a single rap song. Is this due to changing listener ...

Billboard's recent change in threshold for songs to remain in the top 40 of the Hot 100 list booted Kendrick Lamar and SZA's ...

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: ...