For the first time since 1990, the Top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 chart is completely devoid of any hip-hop and/or rap songs.

"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 ...

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

Some songs don’t just top charts - they rewrite what music can be. They linger long after the last note fades, echoing in ...

But, while it still yields four of the week's top 10 songs, the album is starting to see its deeper cuts slide down to make ...

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

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 time the Hot 100 had zero rap songs in the top 40 was Feb. 2, 1990, when Biz Markie's "Just a Friend " reached No. 41. That single would jump to No. 29 the following week, sparking a 35-year, ...

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.

Elsewhere in the charts, Skye Newman could see her track FU & UF (13) off her latest EP SE9 Part 1 secure the rising star a ...

There are various reasons for this difference. In the early days of recorded music, songs tended to be about three minutes ...

In a period of creativity in the 1990s, Linda Ronstadt penned a song intended as a the perfect lullaby to send a baby off to ...