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

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

For the first time since February 1990, the Billboard Hot 100 ’s top 40 section contained zero rap songs on the chart dated ...

The last time the Hot 100 had zero rap songs in the top 40 was Feb. 2, 1990, when Biz Markie's "Just a Friend " reached No. 41. That single would jump to No. 29 the following week, sparking a 35-year, ...

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 ...

Billboard Hot 100 has no rap songs in the Top 40 for the first time since 1990 following rule changes that knocked Kendrick Lamar from the chart.

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 ...

A week after claiming the top 12 spots — all from her new album, The Life of a Showgirl — Swift still holds eight of the top ...

Welcome to the 34th Songs of the Week of 2025. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Mark Moody, Matt the Raven, and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over ...

There's no need to rush through this list of 40 sexy country songs. Which Artists Have the Sexiest Songs in Country Music? Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson and Faith Hill are a few artists representing the ...

There’s an array of colors, shapes and forms in the list below of the Top 40 Drug Songs, just as it is with the substances themselves. You’ll find celebrations, experimental insights and cautionary ...

John Lennon had a knack for stand-alone Top 40 songs. As the following countdown shows, five of his 14 trips to Billboard’s main singles chart weren’t originally part of any original album. Included ...