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 current US Top 30 has no songs that could be officially described as rap or hip-hop – for the first time since 1990. That ...

Michael Jackson's "Thriller" hits a streaming-era top 10 peak on the Hot 100 this Halloween season, despite having fewer streams than its 2024 peak.

Fifteen years into her Billboard chart career, Mariah Carey was still achieving firsts. In 2005, the superstar’s smash “We Belong Together” spent 14 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart ...

"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 published Thursday, Oct. 30. This article originally published at Rap music ...

What will be the No. 1 song of the summer of 2025? We begin making our way toward the answer, as Billboard's annual Songs of the Summer chart returns to Billboard.com. The 20-position Songs of the ...

For the first time, Billboard's Hot 100 Top 40 doesn't feature a single rap song. Is this due to changing listener preferences or recent rule changes?

Quincy Jones, the late legendary producer, songwriter and composer extraordinaire, returns to the top of a Billboard chart for the first time since his death on Nov. 3, 2024, thanks to his production ...

Few new pop sets this year have been either as hotly anticipated or as rapturously received as Spanish singer-songwriter ...

Here’s a ranked list of all artists who have spent 50 or more weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart.