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The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songschartranks the most popular R&Band hip hopsongs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard. Rankings are based on a measure of radio airplay, sales data, and streaming activity.[1] The chart had 100 positions but was shortened to 50 positions in October 2012. [2][3]
Hot Rap Songs is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard which ranks the most popular hip hop songs in the United States. With hip hop having greatly increased in mainstream popularity in the late 1980s, Billboard introduced the chart in their March 11, 1989 issue under the name Hot Rap Singles.
Hot R&B Songs. Hot R&B Songs is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States. It lists the 25 most popular R&B songs, calculated weekly by airplay on rhythmic and urban radio stations, digital download sales and streaming data. [ 1] It was established on October 11, 2012, as a way to highlight "the differences between pure R&B and ...
Hot Rap Songs is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard that ranks the most popular hip hop songs in the United States. 77 songs topped Hot Rap Songs in the 2010s. The first number-one song of the decade was "Empire State of Mind" by Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys. [ 1] In 2012, Drake broke the record for the most Hot ...
It was hard for R&B artists of the era to sell their music or even have their music heard because of the rise of hip-hop, but some adopted a "hip-hop" image, were marketed as such, and often featured rappers on their songs. In 1990, Billboard reintroduced R&B to categorize all of Black popular music other than hip-hop. [109]
Hip hop as music and culture formed during the 1970s in New York City. As expressed by Mark D. Naison of Fordham University, "Hip hop was born multicultural", gaining influences from African American and Anglo-Caribbean musical traditions, as well as African American and Latin American dancing traditions. [ 47]
The Billboard R&B chart is today known as the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. History [ edit ] From May 22, 1948 to October 13, 1958, multiple charts were published, which explains the overlap in the dates of the charts.
List of number-one R&B/hip-hop songs of 2021 (U.S.) This page lists the songs that reached number-one on the overall Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, the R&B Songs chart (which was created in 2012), and the Hot Rap Songs chart in 2021. The R&B Songs and Rap Songs charts partly serve as distillations of the overall R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.