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 ...

Max Martin is one of Taylor Swift’s favorite collaborators — as on her soon-to-be blockbuster The Life of a Showgirl, where he and Shellback co-produced and co-wrote the whole album. Martin, 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 ...

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.

As boy band legend has it, Chris Kirkpatrick was passed over when since-disgraced music manager Lou Pearlman put together that other five-guy singing group Backstreet Boys. Devastated, the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X ‘NSync is saying “Bye Bye Bye” to a reunion — at least for now. The iconic boy band had been ...