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 ...

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 ...

For the first time in more than three decades, not a single rap song ranks among the 40 most popular tracks in America.

In September, the song, on Atlantic Records, became the longest-leading hit ever on Billboard ’s Pop Airplay chart, running ...

Metallica began unknowingly working toward this record with “Until It Sleeps” in 1996. They sent two more singles to No. 1 on the chart before the turn of the century. “Hero of the Day,” the second ...

Music trends over the last 10 years have one thing in common: a tendency toward nostalgia and an undeniably retro bent, both in music currently being created and through older songs that have been ...

Billboard has revised its system of removing songs from the Hot 100 singles chart once they've gotten too old to qualify as ...

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, ...