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 ...

Megan Thee Stallion's 'Lover Girl' debuts at Number 38 on the Billboard Hot 100, bringing rap back to the Top 40 after its 35 ...

For the first time in more than three decades, not a single rap song ranks among the 40 most popular tracks in America.

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 ...

"Rap music is still all over the top 40; it's just not being made by rappers," Stereogum's Tom Breihan observed in a column ...

Since Drake’s debut, dozens of rapper like Doja Cat, Lil Yachty, and Young Thug have blurred the lines of pop music and rap ...

Billboard Hot 100 has no rap songs in the Top 40 for the first time since 1990 following rule changes that knocked Kendrick Lamar from the chart.

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 ...

For the first time in 35 years, there are no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40. The shift came after Kendrick Lamar ...

Billboard reports that “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,” while also pointing out that they made a rule change that ...

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