Opinion

Hip-Hop Misses Top 40 for the First Time in 35 Years — But Every New Taylor Swift Song Made the Chart

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.

Pop Goes Hip-Hop: Take Rap’s “Exit” From Billboard’s Top 40 With A Grain Of Salt

The highest appearance by a hip-hop song is YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s “Shot Callin,” at No. 44. Yet in 1990, hip-hop was still in its keeping-it-real phase. Biz’s pop chart ascendence (rap’s ...

For The First Time in 35 Years, There Are No Rap Songs in the Hot 100 Top 40

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

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

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

Rap falls off the Billboard Top 40 for the first time in 35 years — here’s what’s behind the drop

The news may indicate a dip in rap’s dominance in mainstream music, but the music publication has also changed its ...
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There Are No Rap Songs In The Top 40 For The First Time In 35 Years

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

13 Rap Songs That Sample Tame Impala

Following Tame Impala's third Billboard 200 top five album Deadbeat, Billboard is rounding up 13 rap songs that sample Kevin Parker's psychedelic outfit. By Heran Mamo Travis Scott‘s recent co-sign of ...

Her son was killed by a bullet in Chicago. Now, his memory lives on in song

A Chicago Symphony Orchestra program pairs musicians with grieving mothers to create original songs in honor of Chicagoans ...

Only 30 songs in history have debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed there — here they all are

Only a handful of No. 1 hits have arrived in the chart's top spot. But holding that position for a second week is even rarer.

Vintage Chicago Tribune: The city’s centenarians — notable Chicagoans who lived to be 100 or older

Chicago says goodbye today to Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, a nun who became a national sports icon for her work as chaplain ...
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Pitchfork ranked 5 Louisiana rap albums among the greatest of all time. See who made the list.

New Orleans and Louisiana have left an indelible mark on rap music as the home state of some of the genre's biggest stars and most iconic record labels. Five albums by Louisiana artists were selected ...