2025 ASCAP TOP RHYTHM & SOUL MUSIC AWARD WINNERS INCLUDE R&B/HIP-HOP AND RAP SONG OF THE YEAR "NOT LIKE US,"GOSPEL SONG OF THE YEAR "THAT'S MY KING," SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR OZ AND PUBLISHER OF THE ...

Drake has dominated the streaming era like few artists in music history. For over a decade, he’s worn the crown as Spotify’s most streamed rap artist, year after year. And in 2025, that trend hasn’t ...

Streaming data for rap’s “Big Three” — Kendrick Lamar, Drake and J. Cole — amid their clash How each diss track upped the ante and impacted the artists’ listener counts Why high-profile rap beefs make ...

The Hot 100 chart-topper crossed the 700 million stream mark. Doja Cat had a standout 2023. The Los Angeles-bred rapper/singer dropped her highly-anticipated fourth studio LP, Scarlet, on September 22 ...

On Thursday (Sept 14), Chart Data reported that Doja Cat broke the record, with Doja surpassing 65.7 million monthly listeners on the streaming platform. It appears that Doja beat out Nicki Minaj for ...

With just a couple of days to go until Thanksgiving, Billboard has released its year-end charts (the music industry, much like all those turkeys, pretty much dies with the holidays, so it is usually ...

As hip-hop celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, headlines swirled around its potentially diminishing force as a commercial juggernaut: The first half of the year didn’t see a rap song or album ...

If it seems like an unlikely pairing, think again: Country and rap have always had more in common than meets the eye. Both genres come from a tradition of being proud of where you come from, and both ...

In rap music, the guest feature is a sacred thing. It has many functions—it can be a way to introduce a new artist to the world, get a big name on a song by an up-and-coming artist who is in need of ...

While plenty of energy was spent this year debating whether or not rap was still at the forefront of pop culture as it reached its fiftieth anniversary, there was no shortage of exciting new music to ...