Hip-hop and rap have been driving culture in the U.S. for almost four decades now, especially in America. So why are these ...

Hip-Hop on Pause? Not One Rap Song in Billboard’s Top 40 for the First Time Since 1990 For the first time since February 1990, no rap songs are in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40. This happened after ...

For two weeks in a row, rap has been absent from the Billboard Hot 100's top 40. It's been 35 years since the genre ranked ...

The last time no rap songs lingered in the top 40 slots was the first week of February in 1990, when Biz Markie ’s hit “Just ...

The last rap song in the top 40 was Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “ Luther ,” which spent 13 weeks at No. 1, and became both artists’ highest-charting, longest-running hit at 46 total weeks. But Billboard ...

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 ...

Spotify's new listening stats weekly charts show your recent favorite songs and artists – like a small version of its annual ...

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. The long-running hit “Luther” by SZA and Kendrick ...

The SZA-assisted hit topped the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for 13 weeks, but its potential successors in the genre were either nixed following rule changes or appear below Number 40 ...