For the second year in a row, Shaboozey ‘s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” was the most-played song on TouchTunes jukeboxes.

Some serious money. As 2025 slowly draws to a lose, any and all year-end charts are rolling out, thanks to Billboard, Spotify, Apple Music and more. Over the course of the past ten or so days, we’ve s ...

Technically, Up My Standards is a mixtape, but it sounds more like one long radio freestyle. The only moments where Philly’s ...

Here are Pitchfork’s 40 best rap songs of 2025. Check out all of Pitchfork’s 2025 wrap-up coverage here. When Wham ( Lil Baby ...

As we hit the close of the first major chapter of the 21st century, these are the DJs who defined the year in dance music ...

LAS VEGAS — There’s no Juan Soto in this free agent market, and certainly no Shohei Ohtani. The list is without an all-time great for the first time in three years, but it does contain a clear No. 1 ...

Starting in the late ’70s, hip-hop and rap ascended through popular culture, mostly in America but also in other countries. Then, in 1990, a breakthrough. Hip-hop and rap tracks began infiltrating the ...

For the past couple of weeks, there’s been a lot of chatter about a lack of rap songs in the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Since the publication changed the rules to promote more movement on ...

It’s going to take some time to rebuild the 35-year streak that was broken when updates to the Billboard Hot 100 rules led to the departure of Kendrick Lamar and SZA‘s “Luther,” leaving the Top 40 ...

Megan Thee Stallion has brought rap back to the US top 40 following a two-week absence, which marked the first time the genre hadn’t featured on the chart since 1990. The 2024 collaborative track was ...

As Rolling Stone reports, the collaborative track was removed from the run-down after 46 weeks, during which the song spent 13 weeks at Number One. ‘Luther’ was still a top 40 hit at the time, landing ...

For the back-to-back Billboard Hot 100 charts this year dated Oct. 25 and Nov. 1, no rap songs appeared in the top 40 — marking the first times since the Feb. 3, 1990 chart that the genre was totally ...