Yahoo

Rap Is Back in Hot 100 Top 40 After Two-Week Absence, Thanks to Megan Thee Stallion

For the back-to-back Billboard Hot 100 charts this year dated Oct. 25 and Nov. 1, no rap songs appeared in the top 40 — marking the first times since the Feb. 3, 1990 chart that the genre was totally ...
Black Enterprise

For the First Time In 35 Years, No Rap Songs Hit Top 40 On Billboard’s Hot 100

The highest-ranked rap song is Cardi B's "Safe" at number 44. Yes, you’ve read that correctly. There are no rap songs listed in the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. This has not occurred since 1990, ...
CNN

Are we living through a rap drought? The Billboard charts suggest we are

It feels like the Billboard charts could use a good rap beef right about now. That’s because, according to the publication, for the first time since 1990, there is no hip hop in the Top 40 of the ...
Rolling Stone

Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Luther’ Departs Hot 100, Leaving No Rap Songs in the Top 40 for First Time in 35 Years

The baton that has passed from one hip-hop hit to another for more than three decades has been dropped. Kendrick Lamar and SZA‘s hit single “Luther” departed the Billboard Hot 100 following rule ...
Variety

Taylor Swift Makes Hot 100 History With All 12 Songs From ‘Showgirl’ Occupying the Top 12 of the Singles Chart

No other artist has ever had every song from an album appear in an unbroken streak at the top of the Hot 10 — no skips. Swift had previously become the first and only artist ever to command all 10 ...
Billboard

Sombr Is No. 1 on Hot 100 Songwriters Chart: ‘Songwriting Is Where It All Began for Me’

Sombr, Sabrina Carpenter and Jack Antonoff are the only artists in the top 10 of both the Hot 100 Songwriters and Hot 100 Producers charts. By Xander Zellner Sombr has emerged as one of the hottest up ...
Billboard

Tom MacDonald’s Charlie Kirk Tribute Track Debuts on Billboard Hot 100 & Tops Digital Song Sales Chart

"Charlie" also reaches the top 10 on Hot Rap Songs. By Trevor Anderson Tom MacDonald’s “Charlie,” a tribute anthem to the late Charlie Kirk, climbs to No. 1 on Billboard’s Digital Song Sales chart ...
NPR

Radiohead re-charts on the Billboard Hot 100

OK, this week's Billboard charts are led by the usual hits from Morgan Wallen and the soundtrack to "KPop Demon Hunters." But a song from the 1990s has just made its chart debut 28 years later. NPR's ...
Philippine Daily Inquirer

‘Golden’ from ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ tops Billboard Hot 100 charts

“Golden,” one of the songs from “KPop Demon Hunters,” went up, up, up, after clinching the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, marking another shining moment for Netflix’s hit animated film. The ...
The Conversation

The ARIA charts are about to undergo a big change. It could be a boost for local artists

Catherine Strong has received funding from the Victorian Music Development Office. Ben Green receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Australasian Performing Right Association.
Taste of Country

Morgan Wallen Just Broke His Own Record on the ‘Billboard’ Hot 100 Charts

The numbers are in for Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem chart debut, and they are staggering. Fans who've kept up with Wallen's sky-high past chart success probably won't be too surprised to learn that ...