The exit of “luther” reignites the contentious debate of rap’s commercial decline in 2025. While this theory is supported by ...

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 ...

TikTok has collaborated with Billboard to launch its first-ever Top 50 Chart, with Sexyy Red debuting at No. 1. The TikTok Billboard Top 50 Chart launched on Thursday (Sept. 14), and will serve as a ...

For the first time since 1990, the Top 40 of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart is completely devoid of any hip-hop and/or rap songs. ...

At 20, Dom Okon has made history with his fourth album Mystified, debuting at #34 on the UK iTunes Pop Chart. Known as “The King of Instrumental Pop,” he’s now the youngest American artist with four ...

Hip-hop, though a uniquely American art form, has spread across the world as a tool for social change. The genre has been the voice of various generations demanding social change and even revolution: ...

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 ...

A genre essential, Jonathan Abrams tells the story of five decades of hip-hop using over three hundred interviews conducted over three years with the DJs, executives, producers, and artists who both ...

For the first time since 1990, the Top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 chart is completely devoid of any hip-hop and/or rap songs.