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 ...

Billboard's recent change in threshold for songs to remain in the top 40 of the Hot 100 list booted Kendrick Lamar and SZA's ...

While this could’ve opened up the playing field for other rap songs to rise, there are other factors at play. For instance, ...

The Alchemist has weighed in on rap's historic absence from the Billboard Hot 100's Top 40. After 35 years straight of rap ...

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Following Tame Impala's third Billboard 200 top five album Deadbeat, Billboard is rounding up 13 rap songs that sample Kevin Parker's psychedelic outfit.

This has not occurred since 1990, when Cold Chillin’ Re cords artist Biz Markie reached No. 29 in February 1990 with “Just a ...

The Billboard Hot 100 has no rap songs in the top 40 for the first time in 35 years after Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "luther" ...

For the first time in 35 years, not a single rap song cracked Billboard’s Top 40. Kendrick’s “Luther” fell off — and ...

For the first time since February 1990, the Billboard Hot 100 ’s top 40 section contained zero rap songs on the chart dated ...