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 ...

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 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, ...

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

For the first time in more than 35 years, no rap songs appear in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40. Kendrick Lamar’s “Luther” has dropped off the chart, ending an unbroken run that began in February 1990 ...

"The lack of rap songs in the Hot 100’s top 40 is the latest sign of a recent dip in rap’s commercial dominance," Billboard ...

The Alchemist has added his two cents on the topic that had Rap Twitter in a frenzy this week.

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

When you have to live in solitary for a year, with next to no contact with the outside world, how do you pass the time? Well, music is probably going to play a big part. And indeed it does in Apple ...

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