YouTube will no longer share its data with Billboard's charts. What does that mean for hip-hop, where huge young audiences use the platform?

Hip-hop has officially exited the upper echelon of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time in more than three decades. The top 40 of the iconic chart currently contains zero rap songs, marking ...

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - FEBRUARY 09: (L-R) SZA and Kendrick Lamar perform onstage during Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show at Caesars Superdome on February 09, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...

For the first time in more than three decades, not a single rap song ranks among the 40 most popular tracks in America. Last week's Billboard Hot 100 marked the end of a remarkable 35-year streak, ...

Or is there a deeper cultural shift in the works? Those are the sorts of questions permeating social media and music discourse after a shocking report surfaced that the Billboard charts are missing a ...

*The week of October 25, 2025, marked an unprecedented setback for hip-hop: according to The AV Club, no rap songs made the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40. Billboard links some of this change to new ...

For the first time in more than 35 years, no rap songs appear in the Billboard Hot 100's top 40. The streak came to an end on the chart dated Oct. 25, 2025, following the fall of Kendrick Lamar and ...

(CNN) — It feels like the Billboard charts could use a good rap beef right about now. That’s because, according to the publication, for the first time since 1990, there is no hip hop in the Top 40 of ...

F or the first time in his career, Kendrick Lamar reigns as Billboard ’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the year, storming to the ...