"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 ...

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 ...

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

Megan Thee Stallion's 'Lover Girl' debuts at Number 38 on the Billboard Hot 100, bringing rap back to the Top 40 after its 35 ...

For two weeks in a row, rap has been absent from the Billboard Hot 100's top 40. It's been 35 years since the genre ranked ...

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

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

For the first time in more than 35 years, no rap songs appeared in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40. This came after “ Luther,” ...

The Top 40 of the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart is without a rap song for the first time in 35 years, according to the outlet.

This has not occurred since 1990, when Cold Chillin’ Re cords artist Biz Markie reached No. 29 in February 1990 with “Just a ...

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