Hip-hop is yet to have a number one album in 2023, and new rap albums are struggling to compete both with other genres and older rap records.

Hip-hop was one of the first genres to fully embrace streaming, giving it an edge on the charts with fans repeatedly streaming songs.

50 Chart-Topping Hip-Hop Artists Who Became Entrepreneurs In honor of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, a spotlight on 50 artists with major business ventures.

While much of the discourse has been around topping the Albums chart, hip-hop’s drought goes deeper than Number Ones. Based on chart data on the most consumed albums for the first half of 2023 ...

These days, you don't need to know how to sing, rap, or play an instrument to end up on the Billboard Hot 100. Just ask DJ Khaled.

Hip-hop's veteran superstars, like Kendrick Lamar, have led a resurgent 2024, but which younger artists will carry the torch for the genre's future?

A week after Kendrick Lamar joined a select club of artists upon replacing himself at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, the rapper stands in a class of his own by becoming the ...

R&B/hip-hop, however, dominated streams -- 30 percent of streams came from the genre, whereas rock only took 18 percent. Country still lags in streams, taking only a 5.6 percent share of volume.

Hip-hop impresario Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' latest invention laid claim to the top spot in the album charts Wednesday, leading a diverse array of strong new releases that unseated all but one of ...

Lil Uzi Vert, XXXTentacion, Kendrick Lamar, Kodak Black and Logic all show how popular hip-hop is in this country by owning the top 10 this week.

Still, the data is irrefutable: fewer newer hip-hop artists topped the charts this year than at the beginning of the streaming era in the mid-to-late 2010s.