Tuesday, November 04, 2025

Hip Hop Back on the Billboard Top 40 Chart


Last week Hip Hop music disappeared from the Billboard Top 40 Chart for the first time since 1990 [click here if you missed that].

Now Hip Hop is back on the Top 40 chart with Megan Thee Stallion's 'Lover Girl...'

For the back-to-back Billboard Hot 100 charts this year dated Oct. 25 and Nov. 1, no rap songs appeared in the top 40 — marking the first times since the Feb. 3, 1990 chart that the genre was totally absent from that region. That two-week drought comes to an end this week, thanks to Megan Thee Stallion.
Megan’s new love song “Lover Girl” debuts at No. 38 on the Nov. 8 Hot 100, marking the first rap song (defined by Billboard as a song deemed eligible for ranking on our Hot Rap Songs listing) to reach the chart’s top 40 since Kendrick and SZA’s “Luther” spent its 44th (and to date, final) week on the listing dated Oct. 18. Following that chart, the song fell into recurrent status in the chart, as a result of recently introduced rules updating and speeding up the Hot 100’s recurrent policy.
“Lover Girl” bows with 8.5 million official U.S. streams, 1.5 million in radio airplay audience and 5,000 sold in the week ending Oct. 30, according to Luminate.


11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hip Hop was Saved by trashy song

Anonymous said...

I know Billy holiday is spinning in her casket. Lover boy was her song and it did sound like this rubbish.

Anonymous said...

Butt Naked Wins Again.

Anonymous said...

I don’t let my daughter listen to this trash. In my house she is the poster child for what not to be in life. Money surely is not everything. Love life live.

Anonymous said...

Soooo. What you saying is…
WAP brought hip hop back.

Anonymous said...

HH is trash now. They have talked every body part and position there is. What's left to say? LOLO

Anonymous said...

Jay bought that Billboard spot...No cap! Ain't nobody listening to that bullshttt!!

Anonymous said...

All that hype and Cardi's album had no hits.

Anonymous said...

Meg makes "The Lover Girl"
Drake made "The Lover Boy"
No originality

Anonymous said...

When will be being classy be back in style/

Anonymous said...

Love Megan. Hate that trashy song. If Megan trying to be Ayeasha Curry when she grows up she better start showing some class.

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