Overview
- The latest Hot 100 ends a roughly 35-year run of rap titles in the chart’s upper ranks, a streak that began in February 1990.
- Billboard’s updated recurrent policy triggered the exit of “Luther” after a 46-week run that included 13 weeks at No. 1.
- No rap tracks appear in the current top 40, with YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s “Shot Callin” the highest rap entry sitting just outside the threshold.
- Top 40 slots have been crowded by major pop releases, including all 12 tracks from Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl remaining on the chart.
- Industry figures cited in coverage place hip-hop’s market share near 24% this year, and commentators note the genre’s sound continues to shape pop and country even as fewer rap artists chart high.