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" ...

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 ...

The Alchemist has weighed in on rap's historic absence from the Billboard Hot 100's Top 40.

Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays ...

The Contenders is a midweek column that looks at artists aiming for the top of the Billboard charts, and the strategies behind their efforts. This week, for the upcoming Billboard Hot 100 dated Nov. 1 ...

Five wildly different acts debut in the top 10 of the Billboard albums chart this week, including Mariah Carey, Olivia Dean, ...

This week featuring Spiritual Cramp ft. Sharon Van Etten, Sleaford Mods ft. Gwendoline Christie & Big Special, US Girls, ...

Welcome to the 35th Songs of the Week of 2025. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Dom Gourlay, Matt the Raven, Nick Roseblade, Issa Nasatir, and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide what should ...

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

At Paste Music, we’re listening to so many new tunes on any given day, we barely have any time to listen to each other. Nevertheless, every week we can swing it, we take stock of the previous seven ...