Rolling Stone

Hip-Hop Has Slid on the Charts. YouTube’s Exit Will Only Make it Worse. Is That a Bad Thing?

Billboard’s latest change, and YouTube’s subsequent action, point to a more structural issue. Perhaps rap isn’t any less popular than it’s been in the past, and it is in fact our units of measurement ...
Billboard

BigXthaPlug Goes ‘All the Way’ for First No. 1 on Hot Rap Songs — And He Scored Another Chart First

The country-rap collaboration, which features Bailey Zimmerman, is the first song to rule both the Hot Country Songs & Hot Rap Songs charts. By Trevor Anderson BigXthaPlug lights up Billboard’s charts ...
Rolling Stone

Hip-Hop Is Topping the Charts Again — If You’re Over 30

With just under four months left in 2024, there have already been more hip-hop songs to top Billboard‘s Hot 100 Songs (and as many rap albums on the 200 albums chart) than in all of 2023, the sign of ...
Billboard

The Top Producers of the 21st Century on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart

Here's who produced the most No. 1s on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in the first quarter of the century, as part of Billboard's yearlong retrospective. After wrapping the last century on a high note that ...