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 ...

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

Thanks to some newly implemented rules, there's a surge of fresh faces in the top 10 Billboard charts. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson has our report.

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.

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