Billboard's recent change in threshold for songs to remain in the top 40 of the Hot 100 list booted Kendrick Lamar and SZA's ...

Megan Thee Stallion's 'Lover Girl' debuts at No. 38 on the Billboard Hot 100, bringing the top 40's two-week rap song drought to an end.

For two weeks in a row, rap has been absent from the Billboard Hot 100's top 40. It's been 35 years since the genre ranked ...

And, speaking of first-timers in the top 10, R&B singer-songwriter Daniel Caesar debuts on the Billboard 200 albums chart at ...

The Billboard Hot 100 has no rap songs in the top 40 for the first time in 35 years after Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "luther" ...

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 ...

The week of October 25, 2025, marked an unprecedented setback for hip-hop: according to The AV Club, no rap songs made the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40. The long-running hit “Luther” by SZA and Kendrick ...

Billboard reports that “the lack of rap songs in the Hot 100’s top 40 is the latest sign of a recent dip in rap’s commercial dominance,” while also pointing out that they made a rule change that ...

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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.