YouTube will no longer share its data with Billboard's charts. What does that mean for hip-hop, where huge young audiences use the platform?

From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the ...

For the past 30 years, Mariah Carey has dominated the Christmas season with “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Her reign, which appears to be never-ending, does not allow for a new song to take over ...

Renowned American rapper and songwriter Wiz Khalifa is grabbing headlines for all the wrong reasons. The musician is currently in legal soup after reports of him facing jail time in Romania have ...

Top 10 best rap songs of 2025: the most influential, innovative and culturally impactful tracks shaping modern hip-hop.

Mike Jones a local underground rapper signs autographs while promoting his first CD at the Music Depot store in Greenspoint ...

Now that we’ve talked about the best albums, songs, debuts, and EPs of 2025, it’s time to get even more granular and pay ...

Diana Ross scores her first hit on one Billboard chart after "Upside Down" was used in season five of Netflix's Stranger ...

Most notably, his explosive “BZRP Music Sessions Vol. 57” with Bizarrap reached No. 1 on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 ...

Kendrick Lamar has added another accolade to an already amazing year. Apple Music announced that “Not Like Us” is the most-streamed rap song on the platform in 2025. Although the record dropped on May ...

On this day in 2006, Virginia Beach’s own Clipse released the sophomore LP Hell Hath No Fury. Coming a whole four years after their celebrated, chart-topping debut Lord Willin’, Hell Hath No Fury did ...

During the week of October 25 through November 1, for the first time in 35 years, no rap songs appeared on Billboard’s top 40. For many, it signaled the death knell of hip-hop’s slow, but imminent, ...